Unknown/Supplied Ollie Brazier, owner of Oxygen Media. This became my first lesson in business that to this day I still hold true. OPINION: After gaining a wealth of international experience working in offices for a multinational online publication company in Sydney, Toronto and Denver I left my comfy 9-5 job in Sydney and returned to Taupo, New Zealand with nothing but a vision. That vision would be to grow a property investment portfolio, so I threw every dollar I had into a vacant plot of land in Taupo. I soon realized, after being rejected by the bank (twice), I didn’t have any income and therefore couldn’t start building my first property.