Sometimes I hear back from people on how seeds podcast has had an impact on them. Feel free to send me your examples to encourage others! I am trying to collate some of those stories and comments here:
Love these podcasts, thank you! Richndeb Hallam
Hi Steven. I just found Seeds! Thank you so much – this will help me to reenergize and reset my need to make a difference. Katie
Such a delight to spend some time with Steven Moe recording a Seeds Podcast! Steven has such a gift for following curiosity and drawing out the meaning in a conversation. This tops the list of my favorite podcasts, and I highly recommend giving it a follow for a regular dose of insight and creative spark. Thank you for a truly joyful discussion, Steven. Natasha Zimmerman (Episode 125).
Really enjoyed catching up with Steven Moe to have a wide ranging discussion on some of the things I’m passionate about. Seeds Podcast is a fantastic platform that interviews incredible people doing awesome things in Ōtautahi so I feel very privileged to have been asked! Seriously. This is a life goal being a podcast fan! Subscribe to Seeds and get inspired about what’s going on in our city! Bridget Williams (episode 117)
Phenomenal stories from amazing people crafted by a gifted interviewer. Hamey Haim
Seeds podcast in the AM is my fav routine. Kate Spence
Always promoting 🙂 thanks for your help! Selwyn Creative Network
I can’t wait for all our grandkids to listen to this content in 60 years time. Tim Jones
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience, Steven! I was just thinking last week about the fabulous session you did at the unconference and had it on my list to look up the notes on it. Perfect timing! Sarah Bell
Love the quality of your work Seeds Podcast…it was quite eerie having Harv sounding like he was right inside your head! Your advice has been soooooo helpful Steven…. totally recommend your ‘podcast on podcasting’ and gear lists to anyone else contemplating getting behind the mic. Collective Intelligence NZ (who are starting their own podcast)
I’ve already had some wonderful feedback from a few people who have listened. Your efforts to highlight the stories of people doing good things for the community are so appreciated. Keep up the awesome mahi! Hannah McKnight
On the 28th of February at an impact lunch I sat next to am amazing young woman called Bel. We got to talking, shared their stories and decided to share their details. The following weekend we bumped into each other at a charity event and talked about seeing if we could work together on something. Bel was one of the first people I contacted after the events of the 15th of March when I was feeling compelled to make something of an idea for an initiative I had which is now called ‘Giving Seeds of Love’. Since then we have worked together on many aspects of the initiative from setting up the core values, running a workshop for Jane Goodall, handing out Seeded hearts alongside Who is Hussain? at the second school strike for climate, running a workshop and soccer skills session at Al Noor Mosque, to helping at the botanic gardens in order to get the plastic wrappers for the unity artwork. Giving Seeds of Love is a testament to the opportunities that the work that Steven and the Seeds Impact lunches has and what can grow from them.
Rebekah Parnham of Krama & Co
“What do you think a child is like and an adult is like?” “A child is like just a young person that just looks a bit different to adults, and kids are a bit shorter.” Do you remember what it’s like being 6? This podcast from Seeds Podcast skips the guessing and goes straight to a 6 year old, Isabel, to ask her what it’s like being 6 and what she thinks about the world around her! Children’s Commissioner NZ
Thank you so much for the podcast/interview that you organised for me to do. I actually quite enjoyed it! Dr Carolyn Cordery order”
“I also wanted to say that I am a big fan of Seeds, I came across it earlier this year and think it provides such a fantastic insight into the world of business and enterprise for good in Christchurch – I never knew there were so many wonderful people doing incredibly interesting and beneficial things right here, so thank-you for sharing their stories! It really helped me when I was looking at options to branch out from my previous career path (I am also a lawyer by training!) and I am sure it has helped many others as well…” Jessie Cross
“A few weeks ago, I sat down with Steven and had a solid, fun, recorded conversation on purpose and life. Steven recently published a legal handbook on social enterprises in New Zealand and has been doing interviews with entrepreneurs and social enterprises about their journeys on this podcast. Through mutual friends and overlapping circles we got connected quite quickly. I feel honored to have been invited to be on the podcast. The growing list of humans and their truly impressive set of accomplishments and contributions to earth and society are humbling. Steven masterfully guided the conversation from my childhood to teenager years as an immigrant, as he weaves into it his own story and aspirations, and we move into my university days and during that the exposure to the greater world, its beauty, its problems, my craft, and my finding of sometimes-often bumpy pathways that have taken me where I am currently. I told him it has been years since anyone has dug that deep to my past-history and the aspirations that have been part of my constant evolution, and it was truly an enlightening articulation/process for myself as well. After our interview/conversation, I have listened to several podcasts with other interviewees and have enjoyed their stories, lessons, and journeys. I am looking forward to soaking up some more! I can definitely recommend this podcast and hope that there is great value for you too.”
Jonathan Lee
“Oh my goodness! I started listening to this in the office this morning, thinking to have it running in the background while I filed some papers. Then, the first words had me sitting up straighter, Michelle discussing the importance of understanding vulnerability. It is NOT what I expected to hear, and I almost cried. So, saving it for later when I can give this my full attention. Thanks for creating yet another fabulous resource.” Briar
“I really enjoyed listening to this Podcast – there were some strong insights for me. Michelle’s comments about the role that parents have on influencing the future direction of their children particularly resonated. Kilmarnock sounds like a really fascinating and inspirational company. It is brilliant that it now competes on its own two feet in a sustainable way through its diverse customer base, well and truly demonstrating that an organisation can be a successful social enterprise without having to be a traditional “charity”. Well done Steven – you are made for this, asking some very thoughtful questions and deftly directing the conversation to draw out the themes of purpose behind social enterprise. Keep the podcasts coming.”
Ben Everett
Quotes about seeds
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. Ralph Waldo Emerson