Reflecting on 2025 & Looking Ahead to 2026: Did Seamus Hit His Goals?
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Hey team, welcome to the latest episode of Accidental Business Owners. The premise of the show is that last year, Steve and I became full-time business owners, leaving our nine to fives to go all in on the podcast. And we thought it'd be interesting to document that journey. We also started working with a business and mindset coach, Di Foster, who you might remember as a B2B guest, and quickly realized that she was the perfect foil to help us work through all the highs and lows of running a business. This is a one-on-one with Dai and I, where we took the opportunity to review Steve's 2025 performance while he was away at the Icehouse Owner-Manager Programme. Hope he listens. Accidental Business Owners is brought to you by Icehouse.
Icehouse is a community for Kiwis wanting to take their business to the next level. Their practical programs, one-on-one business coaching and short workshops are designed specifically for people who own and manage their businesses and the leaders they back to get things done. To learn more, visit theicehouse.co.nz. And Steve and I are also now dressed by Barkers and we're stoked with the new partnership. To check out their range, you can go to barkersonline.co.nz. Enjoy.
Hey, Shay.
Welcome back to Hamilton Dye.
Oh, it's so good to be here. Beautiful day in Hamilton.
It always is. I don't know why people don't think it's a beautiful city.
I didn't say it wasn't a beautiful city. Yeah, you didn't say that. But it's an exceptionally beautiful day.
I did a Steve. I got on the defence real early.
You did. It's like calm the farm. I'm the one that walks around the country going, if I didn't live in Christchurch, I'd be living in the Tron.
Amen.
Are we allowed to call it the Tron? Is that still cool?
Does that show my age? No, I think it still plays. I think, yeah, I think the Tron works. People know what you're referring to.
Yeah, good job. So how are we feeling about 2025? You know, we're closing out on the year. What do you reckon? Has it been a big year?
Yeah, no, it's been a pretty big year. It's been a big year personally. It's been a big year professionally. Still a couple of twists to come, but yeah, no, house is sorted. Doc and I are stable. Everything's going good.
Excellent. So professionally, has the year gone the way you'd like it to have?
Yeah, I think we've consolidated where our position was at the start of the year. We're still in renewal conversations at the moment, but I don't think I've – well, no, I don't. I don't think. I know I haven't got the same level of angst that maybe I had this time last year where – It was a double change this time last year. We were leaving NZME. We were making a decision on where we were going, actually, whether we're going to stick with NZME, whether we're going to go with ACAST, who we're with at the moment. But we were also renewing our partnerships. And it felt at that moment like lots and lots of big decisions were needing to be made. And you know me, I'm a glass half empty kind of a guy. So I was already thinking the what if, worst case scenario.
I would have said realistic.
Yeah, okay. That's nice. That's a better way to frame it.
I think it's important to have – and I really wouldn't use – in your situation, I really wouldn't use the glass half full analogy because I think that you see what's not there or what's obvious that people are missing. And one of the things that I wanted to talk about today was that because I think it's really important at times to grab you to the side and go, Shay, in the past, you haven't necessarily voiced your thoughts – on what might be obvious that we're missing. So I think it's a really good time for us to have a chat about this year, kind of put it to bed, and then also just go, you know, on the work front, what's happened, but also let's look ahead to next year and where do you, you know, think things should land?
Because if we look back for two seconds, let's just roll back just a second. This time last year, you weren't full-time in the business.
That's true.
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