The Life

The Life is a BusinessDesk section for people with an appetite for living well, who like to celebrate the good things in life – whether that’s investing in your health and wellness or a weekend at a lodge. 

My Net Worth: Martin Stewart, CEO, SKY NZ
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My Net Worth: Martin Stewart, CEO, SKY NZ

Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our country’s top business and political people, in their own words.Martin Stewart joined Sky TV New Zealand as chief executive in February 2019, after gaining a wealth of media-sector experience in the U...

20 Nov 2020
Show your mettle - grey hair is the new black
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Show your mettle - grey hair is the new black

Lockdown gave us grey hair and made going to the hairdresser impossible – but there’s a silver lining to all this. Suddenly, silver hair is not just practical, it’s powerfully chic.If there’s an Olympics for hair, it’s silver, not gold, that’s winning the style race now. Take Chr...

Tara Barker 20 Nov 2020
Review: Maruia River Retreat - nature and nurture in a luxury setting
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Review: Maruia River Retreat - nature and nurture in a luxury setting

If you take the scenic route along State Highway 6 from Nelson, pass through the charming town of Murchison and take a left on to State Highway 65, you'll happen upon Lasse and Cristina Holopainen's Maruia River Retreat. This is a place of low expectation – not in terms o...

New order - Auckland's top 10 dining and drinking experiences
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New order - Auckland's top 10 dining and drinking experiences

This is an impossible list for a lot of reasons, but here’s one: we humans consume a lot of food. That means mealtimes have to be filled, over and over, day in and day out, leaving a lot of opportunity for culinary exploration. In food, variety is everything.My dining calendar is...

Jean Teng 13 Nov 2020