Design on Purpose

Hannah Darling is a singer and songwriter whose music is not easily classified, dancing over time signature and through dimensions, and somehow still while performing present to feel as if she holds you.

In this episode Hannah shares with us her story and her gift in transforming the tragedy’s of life into light and releasing them through art and poetry. We talk about creativity, the beauty of life, sadness and loss and how we come back home to our humanity through doing “the work” and our willingness to commit to our own healing.

Charlotte Ivey is a truth seeking clinical naturopath specialising in mental health.

In this episode we explore the holistic nature of health; from the importance of healthy stools, clean eating, nature connection, genetics, heavy metal detoxification and more. If you’re interested in improving your health or perhaps are experiencing symptoms of imbalance, Charlotte shares her perspective on how to neutralise the many stressors of the modern environment and shares traditional medicines that have proven to enhance human function for thousands of years.

In this episode we welcome Gera Marimanke to the podcast. Gera is a Chilean born medicine man, who’s spent his life following many the sacred wisdom traditions of Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and North America.

Gera shares how we can unlearn the destructive ways of humanity and embrace indigenous perspectives through deepening our connection with great spirit, sacred ceremony and plant medicines.

Gera explains the importance of spoken traditions, initiation and following strong linages of wisdom. Listen to the entire episode to hear Gera’s powerful message and traditional Lakota songs.

Mariana Lennert is an Amazonian Business Woman who works as a female business mentor, helping women to step into their power. In this episode Mariana shares her unique approach to business which involves designing business cadence around moon cycles. This approach to business really shifts perceptions on business and female entrepreneurship and how honouring our humanness and the sacredness of our bodies empowers us to sep up in all aspects of our lives.

In this episode we are blessed to have our first guest, our producer, Nelson Ferreira. We are always so pumped after catching up with Nelson. His attitude, work ethic and good vibes are so infectious. Nelson talks to us about maximising life, getting after it and his dedication to improving himself by carefully crafting the environment around him and taking the stance of radical self responsibility.

In this episode we share our white belt journeys with Jiu Jitsu and the valuable lessons we have learned about life, business and problem solving through this martial art. This practice has dramatically changed our approach in the studio, our ability to manage stress and has formed a family of beautiful friendships and connections which have helped us in our confidence and leveraging our talents to start this podcast.

Enjoy this episode and get yourself to an academy to start your white belt journey, It’s never too late to start.

Oss!

In this episode we talk about one of the WordPlay Studio Values, ‘Give more than you take’. This value is one close to our hearts and directly influences the type of work we take on in our studio. We talk about the planet, our environment and how shaping our environment shapes us as humans. We can live in a relation to our environment and respect her as an autonomous being, leaving things better than we found them and how regenerative mindset through relating to our environment ultimately leads to abundance for all.

We go deep on the MG Taylor Axiom, “You can’t get there from here but you can get here from there”. This axiom inspires thought on how we approach designing the path to a possible future. It’s about going over there, to the future, creating it and then designing the way to bring a little bit more of there here each day. We talk about the potential of humanity to meet and participate in dreaming the dream to design our future rather than leaving it in the hands of others who may have a very different take on what our future becomes.

We caught our first NFT! 🎣

In this episode we share our fishing tale of how we caught the freshest of Cray, The Emerald Loyal Lobster from Gary Vee’s 'Vee Friends, Series 2.' We were not going to be missing out on this one!

We share why the lobster has become an important symbol of transformation and growth and why this loveable crustacean has become our company totem. It means a lot for us to have collected this incredible treasure and brought the lobster home to its true home, The WordPlay Studio Lobster Shack. We will be holding onto this catch!

How often do you miss opportunities because you are so caught in making something perfect that you miss the boat?

In this episode we explore this important axiom and how we work in short, sharp intensive iterations with feedback loops and let go of work early on. We share our hard lessons as self confessed perfectionists and explain how embracing imperfection leads to better design.