Better Business Better Life is hosted by EOS Implementer - Debra Chantry-Taylor
Better Business Better Life

Better Business Better Life

You've heard the saying happy wife, happy life. This not only applies to marriage but also to business leaders.

We go into business looking for more freedom, money and happiness. But before too long you find yourself working long hours, stressed, overwhelmed and feeling like your business has a grip on you.

From the outside things look good - you've got the car, house, wife, kids, bach and toys but how often do you get freedom to do what you truly love? And is your wife loving you or leaving you?

Learn from those who have built a life they truly love, through building a better business.

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Jan. 12, 2026

Justine Parsons: Finding Business Freedom Without Losing Yourself

In this episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor is joined by Justine Parsons, founder of Your VA and The Lever, to explore the pivotal shift from managing a business to truly leading one.
Jan. 5, 2026

Debra Chantry-Taylor: Start the Year Off Right: No More Broken New Year’s Resolutions

In this week’s episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor challenges the annual ritual of New Year’s resolutions and explains why most of them quietly collapse by February.
Dec. 29, 2025

Debra Chantry-Taylor: Use Your Holidays to Set Yourself Up for Success

In this holiday episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor tackles a familiar but rarely confronted reality for entrepreneurs: most don’t truly rest over the Christmas break, they simply pause while staying mentally tethered to work.
Dec. 22, 2025

Kerry Boulton: Steps to Make Your Business More Exit Ready

In this week’s episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor is joined by Kerry Boulton, an experienced exit planner, business coach, and investor, for a candid conversation about what really happens when business owners isn't exit ready.
Dec. 15, 2025

Debra Chantry-Taylor: Why Half EOS is Worse Than No EOS

In this week’s Better Business, Better Life podcast, Debra Chantry-Taylor delves into the costly consequences of half-committing to EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), revealing how partial implementation leads to confusion, trust issues, and stunted growth. Through real-life examples and stori…
Dec. 8, 2025

Owen Garrity: Inside the Journey of Scaling Without Investors

In this week’s episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor sits down with Owen Garrity, founder and lead creative of FPW Media, to explore his remarkable journey from professional photographer to leading a 50-person full-service agency, all without external investment.

About the Host

Debra Chantry-Taylor

EOS Implementer | Business & Leadership Coach | Family Business Advisor | Author | Speaker | Fur baby Mum

Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Professional EOS Implementer & licence holder for EOS Worldwide in New Zealand. She is passionate about Entrepreneurs living their best life... Because life is too short!

As a speaker Debra brings a room to life with her unique energy and experience from a management & leadership career spanning over 25 years. Someone that has both lived the high life, finding huge success with large privately owned companies, and the low life – having lost it all, not once but twice, in what she describes as some spectacular business train wrecks. And having had to put one of her businesses into receivership, she knows what it is like to constantly be awake at 2am, worrying about finances & staff.

Debra now uses these experiences, along with her formal qualifications in leadership, business administration & EOS, to help Entrepreneurial Business Owners lead their best lives. She’s been there and done that and now it’s time to help people do what they love, with people they love, while making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately & with time to pursue other passions.

As a podcast host, she listens intently to her guests & uses her experience to ask meaningful questions that will help the listeners.

Debra can truly transform an organisation, and that’s what gets leaders excited about when they’re in the same room as her. Her engaging keynotes and workshops help entrepreneurial business owners, and their leadership teams focus on solving the issues that keep them down, hold them back and tick them off.

As an EOS implementer, Debra is committed to helping leaders to get what they want and live a better life through creating a better business. Having worked with over 600 business owners and their leadership teams, and having led teams of hundreds herself, Debra is recognised as a leading business woman, as well as one of the top business and leadership coaches in New Zealand.

Reviews

Excellent interviewer

"Debra invited me to a conversation about the intersection of marriage and business. She listens and draws out the key points in a way that I haven’t experienced very often as a guest. Her passion for…"

Kathy Rushing | Oct. 16, 2025

Building a balanced business

"Debra gives a grounded view on building a business without giving up your whole life for it. I love the way she teaches a balanced way to grow which is system based too. Tune in for business and …"

Aidan Lee - FitRoots | Nov. 1, 2024

Very informative

"The guests always bring new insights and ways to help grow a business. Great for any business owner or manager hoping to make a bigger impact."

kgemmell78 | Sept. 22, 2023

Debra Is Awesome!

"I had a fabulous time on the podcast with Debra. She is a very bright and engaging host which makes the conversations she has feel effortless. She brings out the best in her guests and it makes for g…"

Kody Thompson | March 24, 2024

Outstanding conversation

"It was an extreme pleasure to be a guest on this podcast. Debra engaged so well with questions that both responded and continued the flow in an effortless way. Not only do I highly recommend the show…"

Richard Walsh | June 15, 2024