Kiwi Flees – Looking Back, Looking Out

Rather than catching up with an offshore Kiwi Flee this week, for episode 15 I invited a former colleague and now friend, Sam Prescott, to take over the hosting duties, helping me unpick what I’ve seen, heard, and learned since launching the pod.

This was a high-risk moment for me. Sam’s a Co-Director of communications consultancy Sixteenth Letter and is one of the sharper tacks in the toolbox. He’s a successful and seasoned communications professional, a writer (do check out his Slow Comms newsletter on Substack), editor, and former video games journo. And as you’ll hear from his opening gambit, he enjoys giving me a push by ambushing me with a great question straight out of the gate. I should have seen this coming!

So far, Kiwi Flees has connected with Kiwis in England, Wales, Cyprus, Japan, the US, Poland, France, Italy, and one just off the high seas. They’ve included an actor, writers, a sports leader, an academic, a lawyer, a podcaster, a trade facilitator, a songwriter, a sailor, a publisher, a photographer, an innovation guru, a film industry veteran, a franchise owner, and a social enterprise creator.

Across those conversations, some themes have started to emerge. This episode explores them.

This is neither a greatest hits episode nor a glossy success parade. It’s more of a pause at the halfway-ish mark to ask what Kiwi Flees might really be about.

My thanks to Sam for joining me and asking sharp questions – for which he mostly had better answers than me – and for letting me think aloud about the valuable and valued tribe that has exported itself from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Please join me in a fortnight when normal service resumes.