WHAT’S LUCK GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Louise Chunn’s surname would be familiar to any student of New Zealand music history – her brothers Geoff and Mike formed part of Split Enz – but what she hopes her children will learn from her own story is “not everything is going to be great all the time, and you don’t know where your opportunities might come from”.
Chunn’s tale weaves together a charmed Auckland childhood, a stellar 30-year career in glossy magazines in the UK and an unexpected pivot in her late fifties. Out of her own experience of therapy, and the rising demand for such help in an uncertain world, she’s now head of an internet start-up – while, as she says, looking “nothing like Mark Zuckerberg”.
“When I look back at the bigging-up of the editors, the way we were all set up against each other, it now seems laughable.”
“The media has been hugely disrupted by the internet. And in a way, what I’ve done is go to what has caused the disruption, which is working online.”
Chunn was the first female editor of University of Auckland student magazine , then landed a gig at the , which was probably the only time her name helped her
