Why Covid-19 has seen more people taking the leap into self-employment

Each week the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's the rise in self-employed New Zealanders, and how to do it with more success. Hosted by Frances Cook.<br /><br />What do you do when you lose your job, through no fault of your own, but because the world has gone into meltdown? <br /><br />Well, for a certain slice of New Zealanders, the answer seems to be that you create your own job. <br /><br />It makes sense, because what do you really have to lose now? If you can’t find someone else to give you an opportunity, then maybe you can make your own instead? <br /><br />And you certainly can, particularly if you take the approach of repackaging the skills you used in your old job, and using them in a new way for the strange new normal we find ourselves in. <br /><br />On this week's Cooking the Books I talked to Hnry CEO James Fuller.<br /><br />If you have a question about this podcast, or question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/</a> Instagram here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/</a> and Twitter here <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/FrancesCook</a>