{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a7a3151c399196b515e6d40/6a9faf95ee3716e8a3d7da2a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"I moved house 17 times before I turned 22 | Paula Bennett","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a7a3151c399196b515e6d40/1788850577247-2007edf8-bbfe-4a51-bde2-bff7a027dcc7.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Paula Bennett was five when she started sitting out the front of her parents’ dairy in Kinloch, chatting to every customer who came in. By six or seven she was pedalling grocery deliveries to elderly locals who’d feed her home baking in return. Host Vanessa Williams sits down with the former Deputy Prime Minister for a conversation that runs from that tiny, five-or six-hundred-person Taupo village through seventeen house moves before she turned twenty-two, a baby at seventeen and the shame that came with it, and a first home at nineteen with no working oven for seven months. Paula talks candidly about using moving house as an escape hatch in her twenties, the rest home dishwashing job that pointed her towards university and then fifteen years in politics, and the dinner table joke from John Key that eventually led her to Bayleys. </p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Highlights</strong></h3><ul><li>Growing up living above her parents’ Kinloch dairy on the shores of Lake Taupo, a village of five or six hundred people; at five she’d sit out the front chatting to every customer who came in, and by six or seven was pedalling a bike basket of groceries to elderly locals who’d bake her something in return.</li><li>Moved house seventeen times by the time she was twenty-two, and says she later used moving as an escape hatch in her twenties, \"fresh start, move house,\" whenever life wasn't going right.</li><li>Grew up at a strictly patriarchal dinner table where she couldn't speak until spoken to and watched her brothers get freedoms she never did; that \"innate sense of unfairness\" is what turned her into a feminist.</li><li>Had a baby at seventeen as a solo mum in 1987, wasn't allowed to see her daughter's ultrasound scan in case she still chose adoption.</li><li>A move to Auckland after her brother's death became her reinvention: washing dishes at a rest home surrounded by professional women who told her the alternative was minimum wage and struggle, and who pushed her towards a university degree in policy.</li><li>Fifteen years in politics, including serving as Deputy Prime Minister, ended with a dinner table joke from John Key, \"who's going to employ Paula?\", that led her to Bayleys, where she now works in client engagement and strategic advisory.</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Guest bio</h3><p>In November 2020, Paula Bennett joined Bayleys in the commercial division. Paula has been promoted to National Director of Customer Engagement and Advisory. She leads Bayleys' engagement with select corporate, government, large developer and private wealth clients, excelling in building relationships, understanding client needs and tailoring a property plan across Bayleys' offerings, including transacting large property deals. Paula is also integral in supporting leadership across women in commercial property.</p><p>During her 15-year career in politics, Paula Bennett served as Deputy Prime Minister and a Cabinet minister with portfolios including social development, associate finance, state services, police and local government. She is currently Director of Strategic Advisory at Bayleys Real Estate, Pharmac Board Chair and Board Chair of Sea Cleaners. Paula has a podcast with the NZ Herald, now in its 9th season. Paula is Māori, with Tainui ancestry.</p><p><br></p><h3>Host bio</h3><p>Vanessa Williams is General Manager – Customer at realestate.co.nz, New Zealand's longest-standing property portal. She's one of two voices behind The New Zealand Property Report, realestate.co.nz's monthly read on the market, alternating as spokesperson with CEO Sarah Wood, and she's the resident property expert on Frances Cook's Making Cents podcast. With more than a decade at the company, she's known for translating realestate.co.nz's own listings, stock and price data into practical guidance for buyers, sellers and renters.</p><h3><br></h3><h3>Links</h3><p>●\t<a href=\"https://www.bayleys.co.nz/paula-bennett\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bayleys.co.nz/paula-bennett</a>&nbsp;</p><p>●\t<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-bennett-56983886/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-bennett-56983886/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Follow \"It all starts here\" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart or YouTube so you don't miss the next one</p>","author_name":"realestate.co.nz"}