The Antidote to Tall Poppy Syndrome

A real community for entrepreneurs who dare to think bigger, push boundaries, and refuse to be cut down.Success shouldn't be something you have to apologize for. The Messenger Community is here to challenge the culture of Tall Poppy Syndrome—the idea that ambitious people should be cut down for rising above the rest.This is a space for builders, risk-takers, and game-changers to support each other, share hard-won lessons, and hold each other accountable.Hosted by Kenyon Clarke, but not as a guru—just as a fellow messenger.This isn't about empty motivation or recycled advice. It's about real conversations, shared experiences, and collective growth. Because the entrepreneur's journey is tough enough without going it alone.If you're ready for a judgment-free space to learn, build, and connect, welcome to the Messenger Community.

Stop overthinking.
Make 2025 the year you take action.

Who is the Messenger Community For?

Wherever you are on your journey, this is a no-nonsense community for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.

A place to learn, grow, and connect that provides real opportunities for growth, service, and accountability.

Break Through the Barriers to Your Freedom

Why MESSENGER?This is your momentStop overthinking. Start building.
Make 2025 the year you take action

Getting Started & Laying the Foundation

  • Getting Started – Taking the leap and setting up your business.

  • Raising Capital – Securing the funding you need to grow.

  • Your Network is Your Net Worth – Leveraging relationships to unlock opportunities.

  • Resilience and Mindset – The mental game of entrepreneurship.

Scaling & Growth

  • Searching for Scale – Growing beyond survival mode.

  • Hiring and Retaining Top Talent – Building a team that drives success.

  • The 80:20 rule and weeding out the deadwood for high performance.

  • Building a Culture of Success – Creating an environment where your organisation thrives.

  • Managing Your Relationship with Staff – Leadership, motivation, and accountability.

  • Your Evolving Role as a Business Owner – Shifting from operator to leader to governance.

Systems, Strategy & Performance

  • You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Measure – The power of data-driven decision-making.

  • Information Systems and Technology – Leveraging tech for efficiency and scale.

  • The Rule of Big Numbers – Thinking like a high-growth entrepreneur.

  • Governance, Leadership, and Management – Structuring your business for long-term success.

  • Your Professional Team – Assembling the right advisors and partners.

Advanced Strategies for Creating and Protecting Value

  • Acquisitions – Growing through strategic takeovers.

  • M&A and Capital Markets – Understanding exits, liquidity, and funding options.

  • International Structuring & Offshore Investment – Protecting wealth and assets beyond borders.

  • What to Do When a Recession Hits – Crisis-proofing your business.

  • Ripping off the band aid and making the tough calls.

When Everything Goes Wrong – How to Rebuild

  • Crisis Leadership & Damage Control – What to do when things go catastrophically wrong—navigating lawsuits, financial loss, reputation damage, or business failure.

  • Mindset of Resilience – How to handle loss, shame, and setbacks while maintaining your confidence, focus, and energy.

  • Rebuilding Your Business & Reputation – How to craft a comeback strategy, re-establish trust, and turn failures into new opportunities.

  • Using Your Network to Bounce Back – Identifying key relationships that can help you rebuild faster—mentors, investors, past clients, and new partners.

  • Financial Recovery & Asset Protection – How to recover financially, protect what you still have, and secure your future stability.

  • Starting Again with Experience – Lessons learned from failure and how to build smarter, leaner, and stronger the next time around.

  • Beyond Business – Creating Legacy & Impact

  • Service and Contribution – Using your journey—both successes and failures—to create a greater impact beyond business.

If you want early access to MESSENGER Community, register your interest, and you'll have the chance to join our inner circle with priority access at the LAUNCH PRICE.

Your Host: Kenyon Clarke

Career Hightlights

  • Development GDV: >$1.5billion

  • Capital raising: >$1billion

  • Homes & apartments developed: >2,300

  • Families housed: >10,000

  • Staff & Contractors employed: >1,200

  • Acquisitions: 3

  • Westpac finalist employer of the year 2023

  • Major Blues Sponsor 2022,2023 & 2024 🏆

Kenyon Clarke is a polarizing figure in the business world—a high-stakes entrepreneur who has built, lost, and rebuilt empires.At just 26 years old, he amassed a $102.5 million property empire and ventured into leveraged buyouts, acquiring large electrical businesses. But when the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) hit, his bankers—Halifax Bank of Scotland—collapsed, calling in their loans and wiping out everything he had built.Forced to start over, Kenyon and his wife, Charlotte, rebuilt from the ground up, turning DUVAL into one of New Zealand's largest private residential development companies, valued at $600 million.On August 2, 2024, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) raided Kenyon's home and business, placing DUVAL entities into interim receivership.Just 10 days later, bypassing the court process, New Zealand's Cabinet ordered the group into Statutory Management—an unprecedented move that Kenyon and his legal team argue was a gross overreach, carried out with unlawful warrants, negligence, and bad faith.Now, as a shareholder advocate, Kenyon is supporting legal action brought by more than 80% of DUVAL shareholders against the regulator, holding them accountable for what he believes to be one of the most egregious abuses of power in New Zealand's financial history.Kenyon's story is nothing short of extraordinary. Inside the Messenger Community, you'll get a front-row seat to his family's fight to rebuild, expose regulatory overreach, and challenge the establishment—all in real-time.

Community

  • Contributed and raised hundreds of thousands of dollarsfor the Du Val Foundation to provide for children in south Auckland.

  • Provided two full scholarships for Dio school for girls for deserving children.

  • Established men's mental health initiative for the construction sector, "solid ground".

  • Sponsored the Westpac rescue helicopter.

  • Mentored hundreds of young people on their entrepreneurship journey.

What You Get When You Join Messenger

The Messenger Community isn’t just another business group—it’s a real, unfiltered space for ambitious entrepreneurs who refuse to be held back.Whether you're starting, scaling, or rebuilding, here’s exactly what you get when you invest in Messenger:

🔥 Your Membership Includes 🔥

🚀 Weekly Community Calls & Q&A

Engage in high-level discussions with fellow entrepreneurs, get real answers to your toughest business challenges, and stay accountable to your goals.

💡 Community Forum

A dedicated space to connect, ask questions, and collaborate with like-minded business owners—without the noise and distractions of traditional social media.

🌎 Community Management

  • Messenger - Visionary leaders and torchbearers and podcast guests.

  • Herald - Teachers and trusted envoys who spread messages and support the mission of the community.

  • Envoy - A representative or emissary ensuring smooth communication and assisting with guidance.

  • Seeker - Representing a learner or aspirant, someone who is eager to absorb knowledge and grow.

📚 Subject-Specific Forums

Get direct access to focused discussions on key business areas like capital raising, scaling, leadership, governance, and international structuring.

⚖️ Justice Forum

Stay informed on the Clarke family’s fight for justice for DUVAL shareholders and gain insights into regulatory overreach, legal strategy, and financial protection.

🔹 Exclusive Weekly Video Updates:

  • The Legal Battle – Behind-the-scenes updates on the legal case against FMA & PwC, exposing regulatory failures and their impact on business.

  • Property Development Masterclass – Learn from the real-world collapse and rebuilding of a $600M business, and how to navigate risk, capital markets, and corporate governance.

  • Advocacy for a Royal Commission Inquiry – Get the inside story on the corrupt ties between the NZ government and PwC, and why it matters to every entrepreneur and investor.

🏗️ Building an Empire Forum

Watch the fastest comeback in NZ history. With less than $7,000 in the bank, we’re rebuilding a multi-million-dollar business empire—step by step, in real time.

🔹 Exclusive Weekly Video Updates:

  • Our Rebuild Story – Unfiltered insights into how we’re leveraging experience, strategy, and resilience to rise again.

  • Personal Reflections & Lessons – The raw truth about mindset, leadership, and rebuilding after catastrophic loss.

💎 Why Join Messenger?

This isn’t just content—it’s real-world experience in action. You’ll gain:✅ Firsthand lessons from high-stakes business battles.✅ A network of driven entrepreneurs who actually get it.✅ Access to exclusive insights on capital, governance, and global investment.✅ A front-row seat to the strategies behind a multi-million-dollar comeback.

This is your opportunity to learn, connect, and grow alongside people who refuse to be cut down.

🚀 Join Messenger today and start building your next level.

Stop overthinking.
Finally start taking action in 2025.

Thank you!

This is a space for builders, risk-takers, and game-changers to support each other, share hard-won lessons, and hold each other accountable.

I look forward to seeing you within the MESSENGER Community.

Kenyon Clarke