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Anna Judge shares with us in this episode about founding Our Little Village and her experience creating that charity. The charity came from her experience with child birth and the challenges she faced as a mother. With the support of her family and guidance of a doctor, she made it through the challenges but was the experience inspired to start Our Little Village, the name for which is inspired from a comment by her doctor saying it takes a village to raise a child. With the charity up and running Anna is now working with others doing similar work and with support from Ronald McDonald house is well on their way to delivering packages to new mothers to support them with their needs.

Website: https://ourlittlevillage.org.nz

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Our-Little-Village-101645388329336/

Yoseph is one of the co-founders of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and was the first CEO as well. In this interview we talk about his childhood in Ethiopia, moving around Africa as a young person, studying in the United States and how he ended up in New Zealand. We also talk about the origins of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and the programme which brings into New Zealand entrepreneurs and investors on Global Impact Visas and now has 532 Fellows. I really enjoyed this interview and appreciated hearing more about Yoseph's background and life - if you like it too then check out www.theseeds.nz for a lot more interviews as well.

Edmund Hillary Fellowship: https://www.ehf.org

Yoseph on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yosephayele/

Jezza founded Makingtrax to make a difference and in this short excerpt we hear from him about some of his journey - if you don't go away feeling inspired by this then I will be very surprised!

Check him out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makingtrax.co.nz/

Website: https://www.makingtrax.co.nz/

Email: Jezza Williams

In this interview we hear from Adrian Palmer about his life and growing up, with his high school friends forming the band Supra which became ZED, what it was like to top charts and travel the World, returning to New Zealand and the origins of the Addington Coffee Coop. We also discuss Common Good Coffee which has been developed with Kind Cafe and Crave Cafe in Auckland. We also discuss how they approach business differently and the connection over with India. If you enjoy this then check out some of the other interviews in the back catalogue as there are more than 250.

Website: https://www.addingtoncoffee.org.nz/

Common Good Coffee: https://commongoodcoffee.nz/

ZED: https://www.facebook.com/thislittleempirenz/

Interview with Nigel Cottle on Crave cafe and Kind cafe in Auckland mentioned in this interview https://seeds.libsyn.com/nigel-cottle-on-crave-cafe

Some interviews go deeper than others and this is one of those - Elle Archer has had a very interesting life and she shares about her early years, being adopted, the role her parents played in her life, leaving school at age 14, lifelong learning and doing, making access to education accessible and te ao Māori. We also talk about Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch festival. I really enjoyed this conversation and am sure you will as well - if you do check out more interviews and content at www.theseeds.nz

Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch website (on May 10-16 2021) https://learningcitychristchurch.nz

Aukahatia tō waka | Tighten the bindings of your waka (so that) Kia kumea e te au | When pulled upon by the tides Kia puhia e te hau | And blown by the winds Ka huri noatia tō hoe | You can but turn your paddle (and) Ka aro tonutia kā whetū | Continue to heed the stars.

ChristchurchNZ https://www.christchurchnz.com

Rick has had a truly fascinating life, helping the Chatham Island Black Robins survive through 9 summers of work there, having a childhood lived in a variety of countries, working on creating a permaculture farm and co-founding Xtreme Zero Waste. We talk about all that and a lot more in this discussion - shout out to Craig Fisher for connecting us. If you enjoy this check out more at www.theseeds.nz

Website: http://xtremezerowaste.org.nz/

Charlie has had a fascinating life as a fashion photographer, running a contemporary art gallery in New York and travelling the world - what she saw on those trips led to her setting up Hello Future to work with adolescent refugees. But we start the conversation learning about Charlie's early years in Taiwan and what it was like to be sent aged 11 to the United States without being able to speak the language - how did that experience influence what she now works on? We also learn about her different experiences leading up to Hello Future as well as her experience of joining the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. If you enjoy this check out some other interviews at www.theseeds.nz

Website: http://www.charliegrosso.com/

Hello Future!: https://www.hellofuture.io/

To celebrate the 250th episode of seeds podcast this is a short talk I gave at the High School that I went to for about 60 Year 13 students reflecting on 15 things that I wish I had known when I was their age. Hope you enjoy this as it is applicable to me today still. For more information and interviews check out www.theseeds.nz

What I wish someone had told me when I was 17 sitting in your seat …

Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.

With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.

The value of . . .

Identity

Knowing who you are and letting that inform what you do. Ring the bell.

Your reputation – both offline and online.

Networks and staying in touch with others.

Being open to opportunities where others see a dead end.

Avoid letting fear shape your choices.

Growth

People who are dedicated and work hard are much 'luckier'.

Always aiming to exceed expectations. How can you add value?

'Wasted' time and being faithful with little.

Splitting tasks - and most anything, into three. Start, middle, end.

Everyone has a story – if you think they are not interesting, it's on you.

Experience

Learning from 'failure' and looking for the positive. Compost for the next idea.

Leading when you are not in charge. You always lead at least one person – yourself.

A long term perspective and "becoming the person you would like to meet".

Choose the less travelled path if there are two roads diverging.

Don't wish for a time machine. Move on.

Stay curious.

Steven Moe24 February 2021

Email [email protected]

Mark Longbottom has had a career working with for purpose organisations in the UK and New Zealand. In this interview we find out about his passion for England from a very young age, his life there working in the NFP sector and then the decision to move back to New Zealand. We also have a great discussion about starting a podcast as he set up his last year. Check out the links to that as well - see below. There is a lot more content at www.theseeds.nz

Heart Kids: https://heartkids.org.nz/

Purposely Podcast: https://www.purposelypodcast.com/

www.theseeds.nz for more.

Mark Bregman has had decades of experience as an innovator, worked in start-ups and venture capital investing and I interviewed him on Intellectual Capital. This was a live interview held as part of an Edmund Hillary Fellowship 'Huddle' event this week. Big thanks to those who put the event on from EHF and the Huddles crew.

The real value in a business is most often in its intellectual capital - how do you protect that? How do you develop it? When do you collaborate and when do you keep trade secrets? How do you interact with Universities which want to hold onto IP researchers create? What about indigenous knowledge – should that even be capable of being sold to others or does it perpetuate problems to bring a Western approach to 'ownership' of such IP? We will cover this and more during our fast paced interview style session where Mark Bregman (C7) will be sharing his decades of experience in IT, start-ups and venture capital investing with key learnings for NZ, through a conversation with Steven Moe (C7), a purpose focused lawyer helping start-ups/investors as well as the seeds podcast host.

Mark's Quidnet Ventures: https://www.quidnetventures.com/

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