Identity
Inspired by Rwandan Refugee Simon Mbonyinshuti. Your identity stripped awayin a gunshot moment.Carrying with you only your name.Clinging to it as you hid in the dark,under beds, under chairs,emerging from…
Dr Sharon McIver on interviewing music icons like Radiohead and founding social enterprise ‘Our Daily Waste’
Dr Sharon McIver founded social enterprise ‘Our Daily Waste’ and in this conversation we talk about her entrepreneurial journey. Before getting to that though we discuss her childhood as well…
Reuben Bijl on designing apps and co-founding Smudge
Reuben is a co-founder and Managing Director of Smudge which has been developing apps since the iPhone first came out. In this interview we start with a discussion about his…
Bonus: Start-up key issues (structures for social enterprises, governance, key documents, IP and other common questions…)
To celebrate getting to 15,000 listens this “Legal Mashup” is a bonus episode recorded at XCHC recently. In this I presented along with Kris Morrison about key start-up issues including…
Dave Lane on Free and Open Source Software
Dave Lane is an advocate for open source software and is the President of the NZ Open Source Society. In this interview we talk about his early years (including his…
Philipp Sültrop on rockets, endurance races and surviving cancer
Philipp is researching fuel use in rockets at the University of Canterbury looking in particular at rocket flight mechanics and control in collaboration with Rocket Lab. In this interview we…
What social enterprises in Aotearoa can learn from Māoritanga
Social enterprise is a global phenomenon but, write Steven Moe and Wayne Tukiri (Tainui, Ngāti Whaawhaakia), New Zealand should be using Māori cultural practices to better understand what social enterprise is…
Professor Julia Rucklidge on diet and mental health
Professor Julia Rucklidge has been researching the link between diet, nutrients and mental health and in this interview we talk about that work. We also discuss her childhood and background growing…
Zoë Hector on deaf children and her social enterprise to help them ‘Talk Town’
Zoë Hector (nee Haws) founded social enterprise ‘Talk Town’ after she had worked as a teacher aide and saw deaf children left out of games on the playground. In this…
Bonus episode: “The moment things changed . . .”
This is a bonus compilation episode to celebrate getting to 52 interviews looking back through some of the conversations to pull out short extracts of “the moment” when something changed…
Organisational resilience: surfing through turbulent times
A profile of podcast guest Dr John Vargo, Idealog, August 2018: In this piece I reflected on the Seeds Podcast interview with John and what he had to say about resilience.
Stuart Dillon-Roberts on social enterprise Digital Journey
Only a few social enterprises that I meet are focused on the digital and online world – so it was refreshing to talk with Stuart Dillon-Roberts who founded social enterprise…
