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My conversation with Katherine started with Mountains and Nature, before we talked about her life, career and systems change.  This felt like a very grounded conversation as a result and I know you w…

This panel discussion was at the Community Housing Aotearoa Conference 2024: Growing Together – Sharing Our Knowledge, held in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Financing models for new affordable housing s…

Yesterday afternoon faciliatated a fascinating conversation with some amazing people at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance conference in Pōneke Wellington.  

Joining me were Rachel Brown (Sustainable Bus…

Advisory Boards and how they can help governance are the topic of this conversation with Louise Broekman.  We hear about founding the Advisory Board Centre and also hear about her background and lif…

James bring such a positive energy to every conversation so I enjoyed sitting down to talk with him.  We've known each other a while now so I liked hearing about his childhood and what has shaped him…

Alcohol - we do not talk about it much but perhaps we need to.  This is an excerpt of my much longer conversation with James Laughlin which will be released soon.  Make sure you listen in to that whe…

I recently did a LinkedIn post with some career advice and it had so many comments that were just gold I thought it would be nice to summarise all 40 of them here and make it into an episode so the w…

As well as Seeds podcast www.theseeds.nz I work as a lawyer helping purpose driven organisations and so try to put out helpful content that may educate and this episode is one of those – all about In…

Hannah has been involved with many initiatives ranging from the Student Volunteer Army during the Christchurch Earthquakes, Entre and startups Indigo & Iris, Little Yellow Bird and now Banqer.  

Hann…

This is a short excerpt of the longer conversation I had with Hannah Duder where we talked about her te reo Māori journey and discovering more about her whakapapa.  For generations in Aotearoa New Ze…

This is a short excerpt of the conversation I just had with Hannah Duder on whether there is one path in life - or is it more like braided rivers?  Be watching out for the full episode!

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Just facilitated this Community Networks Aotearoa national Zui (Zoom Hui) to discuss the findings of the 2024 State of the Sector Report.   Yuo can find out more and download it here https://www.com…

I recently sat down with Vincent Heeringa to talk about his career and life - we covered his early years and career as a journalist as well as his podcast 'This Climate Business' and many other initi…

I was on Vincent Heeringa's podcast "This Climate Business" recently and this is the audio from that.  If you like Seeds you might like to subscribe to his show too.  

Here is how Vincent described t…

Ever wondered about the origins of Twitter and the role of social media in movements?

I got the chance to sit down with Rabble (Evan Henshaw-Plath) who was there at the start as the first employee of…

How do our choices when shopping impact the planet?  Really enjoyed this conversation with Stine Smith about her entrepreneurial journey as a co-founder of Good Change which has a focus on cleaning p…

The word 'fun' describes this episode well - it was such a fun recording because Sarah and I talked about so many interesting topics and her life story and what has led her to pubish a new book calle…

I had a great conversation with Jono Brent about his life story - he was really open about things he has been through and I enjoyed learning about his journey.  It turned out we even grew up for a fe…

I was on Edwin Dandos' podcast "Rad Work" recently and this is the audio.  

You can find his show here https://open.spotify.com/show/5yJfzf9MFoExgsj0SMdRRA?si=6f122874f6954eaa 

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This was special because Michael was my teacher in high school - still working as a teacher today, he now teaches my children.  His focus today is on performing arts and drama and I really wanted to …