Josh

"The trip was going as well as Heatley and Katherine had hoped and there was another new beginning when Katherine learned she was expecting their fourth child. They rented a large home outside London but, wanting to be in Maui for the birth of their new baby, they headed back to the United States. They went first to New York where, on 9 September 2001, the family went to the top of the World Trade Center, celebrating Sophie’s tenth birthday with a spectacular view of Manhattan and beyond. The following day they flew to Maui and on 11 September, like the rest of the world, they sat transfixed and disbelieving in front of their television watching the World Trade Center, on whose viewing platform they had stood just 48 hours earlier, collapse in terrifying explosions of rubble. Their fourth child, Josh, was born in Honolulu six weeks later."

"Back on the island, Heatley has brought his son Josh and some of Josh’s friends up from Auckland. They head off to play pool, though if Josh was with only his father, they would most likely first play chess. No chance for a competition slides by the pair. If they swim in the surf, they compete to see who can bodysurf furthest up the beach. They are keen on poker. In their Auckland house, at Maui and here on Moturua, chessboards are always set. Josh maintains in his head a lifetime tally of thousands of chess games with his father. The wins are, for now, slightly in his father’s favour. Cut-throat competition is the norm between Heatley and his sons. The Takapuna house where the children grew up had a tennis court adjoining the neighbour’s property. Ben, the eldest of the four children, recalls his brothers, his father and him playing tennis. ‘And, hell, those poor people next door! The moment we’re on the tennis court it’s all on, all of us yelling and all of us arguing because each of us wants to win.’ More often than not, the matches would end with two people not talking to each other. ‘But the next day, we’d put it behind us and do it over again.’ His sister is competitive too, he says, but displays it differently."

"His eldest and youngest children, Ben and Josh, share Heatley’s interest in finance and investment. However, there is potential difficulty for children following the same career path as a successful parent. Perhaps, being the eldest, the risk of living in his father’s shadow weighs most on Ben. For as long as he can remember, Ben has been interested in the commercial world but is conscious that at 27 his father was already floating Rainbow Corporation. ‘It sometimes makes me feel as though I’ve achieved very little by comparison,’ says Ben, who is gradually becoming more involved in managing some of the family’s investments. ‘Dad comes across very confidently in a business environment. He has everything under control and is impressive to watch. But from my observations, success in the business world can sometimes be a result of a deep insecurity or a sense of not being good enough. Business becomes the channel through which some people choose to prove their worth. So, on the face of it, yes, he is confident and we kids are too, but we’ve still got our fair share of insecurities.’"