Why We Say Yes Locally

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Often people ask us to be involved with various community events. And more often than not, we do say yes. And I'm excited to have James today to talk about all the wonderful things that he's doing in the community apart from line dancing.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Hello, James. I just watched the line dancing because it's um, you know, I wasn't drinking and it didn't look like fun if you're not drinking. But yes, no, it's what a cool part of this role is getting involved in some of these things, especially if you have a particular interest in in whatever the thing is.

Sponsoring Cycling And Lawn Bowls

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So I've I've been sponsoring Road Cycling, Campbell Road Cycling Club, who do a lot of cool stuff. And I I'm also participating in the events, but I've also we had this great opportunity or experience recently where we sponsored the Real Maddy Lawn Bowling Club, where they had a a junior bowls tournament a couple of weekends ago. So Rebecca and I sponsored Mike Perro Mortgages sponsored that tournament, and we and all these players from all over Wellington came and played in this tournament.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

I never knew that Think would be this big.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

It was it was a it was really well ran, it was really well organized, um, you know, it was catered, and we sort of got to talk to a whole lot of different players and things like that. We got to talk at the presentation, I got to hand out all the prizes, uh it was it was really interesting. And you know, I say junior, when I say junior lawn bowls, I thought when I first heard that word, because I'm sponsoring because I do a lot of reverse mortgages, so I'm looking to sponsor activities that are for older people. I don't know if that makes sense, but anyway, so when I heard the word, oh, this is a junior lawn bowling tournament.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

I just imagined children playing.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

I don't know if this is gonna work for me, but no juniors in lawn bowls means your first five years of bowling. So you can be, you know, in your 60s or 70s and be a junior bowler. Okay. Um, but you know, we had all walks, you know, all age groups from all over the place. So and that's good for the mortgage side of things as well. So that was really cool. We really loved that. So Real Maddy, so I've got my promotion board up there at the Real Maddy

Junior Bowls Is Not Kids

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Bowls Club.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Um can we do a giveaway? I'm gonna do it on the spot now. So for those that are listening, and if you live in Carperty, find a billboard with James's face on it outside of some of the bowling clubs. Yep. He just gave you a hint where. And if you send us a photo, if you send me a photo, I'll give you a bottle of my wine.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

And if you don't drink wine, we'll give you a journal. And if you don't like a journal, we'll find you something. But send us a photo, I would love to see that because I feel like James, you do actually really cool stuff in the community because the money that we sponsor, and it sounds awful, you know, from one side when people go, oh, sponsors, but the money that we provide

Billboard Photo Giveaway Challenge

SPEAKER_01 3:04

as sponsors goes to to those clubs. Oh, they do, yeah. Benefits the people that part of those clubs.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Yep. And we've got a you know, and Mike Perrot is very supportive of that kind of Mike Perro Mortgages is very supportive of that kind of thing. And look, it's not like I go along there and I'm go and talk to people while they're bodies. By the way, do you want a reverse mortgage? You know, I don't I don't even think I talked about reverse mortgages once the whole time I was there, to be honest. It's just being there and being present because often sponsors they sponsor things and that and they're not there. Whereas we sort of made an effort to be there most of the time and be do we watched a bit of Lawn Bowls, and you know, I really look forward to we'll probably do that with all the bowl local bowling clubs.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Now, can I just reverse it for a second here? Because you talked about cycling and you are fundraising for some something cool as well yourself.

Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Goal

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Keep forgetting about that.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

So actually, James needs some sponsors. Right. So can we drop you a line for that? James, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Okay, so I am raising money for uh Lake Tapo hospice. What I'm trying to do is I'm doing the Lake Tapo cycle challenge. I have done it before, but what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to do my best time, which is more challenging because of the long COVID thing. So I have to be really careful about how I train because it's a 160 kilometre cycle event.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

How long does it take?

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Well, I'm aiming to do under four and a half hours. So my previous best time is say something like 4.33 or.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

So you cycle for four hours and a half non-stop.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

A lot of people are sort of six, seven hours.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Non-stop.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

Oh my god, I don't think I can even drive that long w without stopping.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yeah, well, yeah. You no, we don't stop. No, we might just grab a bottle as you go past or whatever. Yeah, so do eat. Yeah, no, we take because in our cycle clothes, we've got little pockets in the back of our my shirts that you just pull out.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Uh, those that are listening and don't see this on video, he's actually trying to show me where the pockets are. Yes, so we've got pockets on the sides.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

We've got pockets and we've got water bottles in our bikes.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

So so I'd probably carry Saddle for three bottles.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

I'm holding up a three sign, by the way.

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He's holding straight fingers up.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

I'm not getting the idea, am I? So you you tend to Yeah, no, you carry what you need for the whole event.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

So how much money do you hope to raise?

SPEAKER_00 5:29

I think we're aiming for about ten thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

How much have you raised so far?

SPEAKER_00 5:32

I don't know if I I think I've raised very much at all because what I've been doing is focusing on the train. I've been so busy doing the training because it's quite hard to train for. I haven't I haven't been pro I haven't been promoting promoting my fundraising.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

I'm gonna drop a link in this episode for people that want to sponsor. So please follow and um help out James whether it's $1 or $20. Yeah, absolutely.

Fundraising For Hospice After Loss

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Would really appreciate because another part of it, which is really, really special, the reason he's doing it is because Oh, that's right.

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So my mum passed away November 28th last year, and the Lake Taupo hospice were just phenomenal with looking after mum in our own in her own home in the months leading up to her passing away. So uh, and as it turns out, November 28th, one year on from mum's passing is the Lake Taupo cycle challenge. So it's exactly one year anniversary of my mum's death.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

So it just gave me goosebumps. Yeah, every time you said it gives me goosebumps because how bizarre to for you to go, okay, I'm gonna try to find a way to sponsor like PowerPoint Hospice, fundraise some money, I'm gonna do this challenge, and then you realize it falls on the anniversary of your mum.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Yeah, it's just gonna be I had the you know the thing is it's gonna be an interesting day because I'm not sure how this is gonna impact me, but you know Well, you're gonna have the I think, I think personally, because I'm a woo-woo person, for those that know me, I think your mum will be there supporting you and giving you that extra speed under your wings.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

And I think once you get through it, once you get through the race, yeah, then you'll go, oh, all the emotions will come flooding in.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

I have I've I haven't had much time time to really think about it, but you know, I'm gonna have a lot of family there, and I've even got a a nephew, I think, that's gonna be supporting, gonna be riding half of it or a hundred K of it. So a lot of people are stepping up.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

So for those that want to sponsor James in his in his quest, please donate us a couple of dollars and all of the profits go to Lake Hospice.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Yep, absolutely. Lake Taupa Hospice. Lake Taupa Hospice. We can put I can send you, I'll flick you the link so that you can put it in there.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

We'll embed it with this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

And it shows you all my training that I've been doing, even though I haven't been talking about it. You can see everything that I'm doing.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

And I mean you you had to lose some weight as well for that to fit back into your gear.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

I'm still not quite there. I've dropped five kgs from 84 to about 79.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Well, you're gonna be catching up to my weight to my height. Oh, really? Weight, weight.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

I'd like to need to catch up with your height and your weight. Uh but yeah, the problem with my cycling gear is I was quite a lot skinnier when I was when I was previously cycling. So yeah, I'm looking a bit I don't look great in my cycling gear at the moment.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

So all right. We'll get people to pay for to see those photos as well. Super sexy. So, James, you're supporting cycling clubs in here in Carpeti, you're supporting the bowling clubs, and is there anything else that we're doing that's fun?

What Events We Will Be At

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Oh, I think that that this I am sort of looking at putting my own little cycling team together for a Mike Piero Mortgages cycling team.

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Don't look at me, I cannot cycle. I'll be terrible.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

So we've got that's looking quite promising. So those are the two areas that the lawn bowling and cycling, the two main ones to begin with. I have got a third one that that I'm seriously considering, but I'll I'll uh I'll announce that when when that goes. Sure. Yeah, I don't wanna. It's the same for lawn bowling. I'm slowly going doing all the lawn bowling clubs in the area.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

You'll be a professional son before we'll we're gonna play.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

We're absolutely gonna play, Rebecca and I, because then we can go to the tournaments because it's it looks like it's fun to play.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

Oh, I used to love lawn bowls. I actually want to get into that as well.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

You can be our third, we need a third person for our team. I can be your third. I can be a third. We can be a thruple. Still my clients that was funny.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Now, in terms of um, what else do we have coming up? Is we actually have Capital Women's Expo coming up. Oh, yeah, where I'm I believe we're one of the sponsors. I don't even know which one it is, whether it's silver, gold, bronze, I don't know. Yeah, I never keep up with those things because for me it's not about the colour of sponsorship, it's about the reason. Yeah, and Capture Women's Expo, they actually do quite cool stuff, and supporting women's has always been a big thing for me. Now we're also going to be present at the Wellington home show next month. And we also have Capitol Food Fair coming up.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

So there's a lot of stuff that we love to get involved within the community. And I think this is just a timely reminder for our listeners. If you are looking to find us and talk to us, and I love those, you know, moments where people come up to me and go, Oh my god, I've been listening to your podcast. Thank you so much for this. You know, can you do more of this or less of that or whatever? So please, please, please come and find us at those events and say hello to us. So this episode has really been about the human side of what we do and why we do it.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

I think I'm gonna be doing some presentations as well at that home and garden show somehow. I don't know how I got roped into that, but hey, we get we get a 20 minute segment each day.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

So And you're a natural.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Give it a crack.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Beautiful. James, thank you so much for sharing all of these wonderful things, and I can't wait to see how your cycling goes.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Thank you very much.