Amy Marsden on Whānau, Children and Te Mapua
Amy Marsden is a co-founder of Te Mapua which translates as “the precious children” and works to provide camps and other activities for kids in need. In this interview we…
Whānau
Inspired by Amy Marsden. My dictionary is lacking this wordfor it means more to youthan it has to me.I thought it meant ‘family’Yet you describe a web of connectionsrunning deep…
Joanna Pidgeon on Women in the Law
Joanna is the President of the Auckland District Law Society. She is also the founder of Pidgeon Law in Auckland which is a boutique property and commercial law firm. She…
Jonathan Lee on Photography as Art
Jonathan Lee is a professional photographer who has traveled the world taking photos and through them telling amazing stories. In doing this he often supports social enterprises and other great…
Light Painting
Inspired by photographer Jonathan Lee. Your eye isthe camera. Your heart isthe lens. Your mind isthe focus. Look out for the lightthat sliver of time, that fragile crystalline momentthat will reveala…
Blastoff: what do New Zealand’s new space laws mean for other emergent technologies?
A key characteristic of so-called ‘exponential technologies’ is that they change what is possible extremely quickly – and it can be fascinating to observe how fast or slowly governments react.…
Ben Atkinson on finding your purpose and founding social enterprise ‘Fill Their Lunchbox’
Ben set up the social enterprise Fill Their Lunchbox and in this episode shares his journey. We learn about his childhood and hard times during high school, losing a friend…
Catherine Brown with a Funder’s perspective on social enterprises
Growing up in an international family that spanned the globe, working as a lawyer before starting to work for a variety of charities particularly in the health sector and then…
Mark Prain on Sir Edmund Hillary
Traveling the country at 11 as a boy soprano, studying acting and working as a professional actor and then working internationally as an opera singer before becoming an activist with…
Moving Mountains
Inspired by Mark Prain, who knew Sir Edmund Hillary, and how they came up with a new venture together. Mountains cast long shadows across the land,those who conquer them even…
John Hammond on choosing life
On falling in love at first sight, the impact of a friend passing in your 20s, a lifelong love of skiing and travel, co-founding a marketing agency, deciding to retire…
Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom on Space
Growing up in the Philippines with dreams of Space and interplanetary travel, how a scholarship to the International Space University in France has led to a unique career as an…
