Podcast with Nigel Lewis of Start UP Magazine

A Podcast hosted on International Dad featuring show hosts Scott Lancaster and co-hosts Eric Mooij and Stefan Korn from DIYFather.com.

Interview with Nigel Lewis, family man and co-founder of www.start-up.co.nz.


Stefan interviews Nigel Lewis, father of three and one of the founders of the recently launched "Start Up" Magazine which covers news and articles for entrepreneurs in New Zealand and beyond. Nigel talks about challenges and rewards of balancing family life with running your own business. Nigel shares a few of his tips for other fathers thinking about going into business.

Fatherhood and Business

I have no doubt that every father wants the best for his children, so we have to ask ourselves what does the "best" actually mean and what is it going to take to get there.

My Business partner and I started our first Business three years ago, we were enthusiastic, ambitious and at that stage had the support of our wives. We had nice offices, great staff, great clients, flash cars and Business was going well, that was until the collapse of the Finance industry. With creditors trying to kick our door down the pressure came on big time. At that stage I had two children aged 1 & 3.

In short the Business fell over and I was broken, we sold our house to fend off creditors, my marriage was suffering and my wife just gave birth to our third child. In that same week we found out that my father in law was diagnosed with cancer and had 4 weeks to live.