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  • 2 weeks ago | nowtolove.co.nz | Donna Fleming

    At 73, Alexa Lawrence is fitter than she’s ever been. She goes to the gym every weekday and walks, cycles or swims at the weekend. She’s done several of New Zealand’s notable cycle trails, like the Alps to Ocean in the South Island, which takes five days. Yet until she was 65, she’d never done any kind of regular exercise. “I’ve always turned my nose up at things like the Jane Fonda exercise craze and I’ve never played sports,” says Alexa.

  • 3 weeks ago | nowtolove.co.nz | Donna Fleming

    *Name has been changed. Jobseeker Annabel* reckons when prospective employers discover from her CV that she’s over 50, they say, “Nah, too old” and bin her applications. She’s been looking for a job for seven months and is frustrated that she’s missed out time after time, despite having a wide range of skills. “I need to work,” says Annabel, 56. “I’m on my own and it’s very tough financially – I’ve had to go to a foodbank, which was very distressing.

  • 1 month ago | oneroof.co.nz | Donna Fleming

    People told Kiwi Natalie Williams she was crazy when she revealed her plans to open an agency in Dubai selling residential developments to investors. But she ignored the naysayers and recently set up a business called Wealth Creators, which she hopes will give investors from New Zealand – and all over the world – the chance to make money on property in the booming emirate. Q: What did you do before real estate?

  • 1 month ago | nowtolove.co.nz | Donna Fleming

    It never ceases to amaze Ruth Shaw that people have travelled from all over New Zealand – and indeed, from around the world – to visit her in the three tiny bookshops she runs in the remote Southland settlement of Manapōuri. “People say, ‘It’s an honour to meet you,’ and I say, ‘I’m just Ruth – I’m nothing special,’” she tells. Her visitors disagree with that.

  • 1 month ago | oneroof.co.nz | Negotiation Grey Lynn |Donna Fleming

    When Alexandra Vincent Martelli launched her Auckland business as a buyer’s agent two years ago, it took a while for some people to get their heads around the concept of what she does. Alex describes it as taking the stress out of finding a home for her clients while helping to protect them against buying a dud or paying too much money. And no, it’s nothing like TV show Selling Sunset – she’s more like Location, Location, Location’s Kirstie Allsopp, she says.

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