Seeds

Levi shares some of his life journey so far as a young entrepreneur who has been involved in a few start-ups already and recently co-founded Partly.  We talk about that venture which builds software …

In this very short interview we chat with Stephen Penny who was on the show pre-Covid.  He told his life story then and in this episode we catch up on the topic of looking after ourselves and our men…

I interview a lot of people but seldom get the mic turned the other way round, so this wide ranging chat with Ian Harvey from Collective Intelligence for his podcast "Stuff that Matters Now" was a lo…

Michael went on many expeditions with Sir Edmund Hillary and was a friend of his for 50 years and has written an in-depth biography of his life.  In this interview we find out about how they first me…

Dr Angela Lim is one of the co-founders of Clearhead, and in this interview we find out about her childhood and life growing up in Malaysia and studying in Singapore before she moved to New Zealand. …

Mitchell shares his life journey in this episode with a focus on autonomous vehicles.  As the founder of Autonomous Consulting and the co-author with me of a paper on driverless cars I think you'll f…

Remember Captain Planet?  This cartoon celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.  This is an audio version of an article I wrote for The Spinoff.  The full text is here https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/…

Jeanette founded Power Pause to help raise awareness about Menopause.   For episode 233 we find out about her life growing up in Liverpool, transformative OE experiences, her career in Human Resource…

Menopause is still something of a taboo subject - we need to change that and in this short excerpt of the much longer conversation with Jeanette Kehoe-Perkinson on this topic we talk about this.  Be …

This live seeds panel discussion was held on 27 November 2020 and brought together a variety of experts to discuss some practical case studies on impact investing.

It ties in with the release of thi…

Scott Pearson has developed the Calm Pipe and in this interview we find out what that is and how it works.  We start by talking about his childhood, his career, travels overseas, what he learned from…

Nada co-founded Again Again and in this interview we find out all about the reusable coffee cup sharing system.  We start by hearing about her journey of entrepreneurship as this is the third busines…

Matt is the Sustainability Advisor at the University of Canterbury.  In this interview we learn about the upcoming Aotearoa SDG Summit Series as well as finding out about his life and the book he has…

This is a short excerpt of the conversation with Matt Morris where we talk about his book on gardens coming out shortly called "Common Ground: Garden Histories of Aotearoa".  If you enjoy this then c…

This is the full 7 hours of audio from the Conference held on 4 November 2020 called "Responding to COVID-19 – how might we #buildbackbetter?".

The 2020 Charity Law, Accounting, and Regulation Confer…

This is the audio of a session which I facilitated at the Charity Law, Accounting and Regulation conference held online on 4 November 2020.  In it Scott Moran, Craig Fisher and I discuss the practica…

Andrey has been studying uncertainty and in this interview we find out about how to make decisions, as well as what it was like growing up in the Soviet Union, studying in Germany, moving back to New…

Lan Pham deeply cares about our water and in this interview we learn about why.  From a childhood in Wellington we discuss growing up with multiple cultures, the power of cooking, how she started stu…

This is an excerpt of the much longer interview with Environment Canterbury Councillor Lan Pham to give you a snack size taste of what we talk about.  I hope you enjoy it and be watching out for the …

This is the audio of a zoom call I had with a group of people who want to know how to set up a podcast.  In it I describe why I think there is value in podcasting, key tips from my three years of doi…