Simon fled Rwanda aged 16 in 1994 and never saw his home again. This is one of those really deep episodes where we really explore what it even means to be human and reflect on what is important in life.…
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 as work as a music journalist that meant she reviewed…
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 love of music before we turn to his early experiences…
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 what a social enterprise is, best legal structure options for…
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 Quaker roots) and growing up in a multilingual home. We…
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 talk about his childhood in Germany, what he learned from…
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 up in Canada, how she got into this field, what…
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 interview we talk about her own background and journey that…
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 for the people I was interviewing. I hope you enjoy…
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 Digital Journey. The aim is to ‘deliver digital projects and initiatives…
