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This is a short book review of "New Power: How anyone can persuade, mobilize, and succeed in our chaotic connected age." By Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms.

For text of this review look here: https://theseeds.nz/new-power-book-review/

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Luke is a young entrepreneur and in this interview we hear about the challenges of setting up a new venture. We also find out about his life story and journey so far. I really enjoyed my conversation with Luke and learning about Vxt which is a software company revolutionising small business communications by providing affordable voice message management and automation tools. Seeds podcast is trying to build up an ecosystem of stories of journeys of people that we can learn from and so this is a welcome addition.

Video version of interview here: https://youtu.be/sBdWoFI6-0Q

From VXT website description: "Read your voicemail, forward to email automatically, and save multiple greetings with our intelligent inbox. Your time is precious so stop wasting it on traditional voicemail."

Website: https://www.vxt.co.nz/about

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A beautiful original song played on the piano by Matthew Goldsworthy which he performed live for the Impact Unconference last Friday 24 April.

It was too wonderful not to share with you all. The power of music to evoke memories and emotions.

Would love to get him in the studio to record with violin and cello in the background - contact me if you want to help make that happen.

Video of his full performance of other pieces as well (30 minutes - this is a video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOsPmeFOjas

His earlier interview on seeds describing Youth Arts New Zealand: http://seeds.libsyn.com/matthew-goldsworthy-on-youth-arts-nz

Matthew on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0s2Szbrbgr9YFh63FNVNyu

Matthew on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matthewgoldsworthy99

Other Impact Unconference videos: https://www.impactunconference.nz/videos

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This is the audio of part of the opening session at the virtual Impact Unconference held on 24 April 2020 where I shared about the context in which the conference was happening and asked some questions about 'what next'.

Full video of opening session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnL6mWDLHCE&t=1s

Videos of the IU: https://www.impactunconference.nz/videos

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Michael is New Zealand's premier speaking coach. We find out a lot about speaking in this interview - why we fear it and what can help. You will want to listen in on our conversation as I learned so much from his observations. We also hear about his early years (including in an orphanage) and leaving school very young and what led to being the speaker coach for people like Lilia Tarawa (over 9 million TEDX listens… and the fifth most viewed TEDx talk on the planet). I really appreciated Michael's vulnerability in sharing his story and also freely giving us so many tips and insights into the art of crafting a good talk!

Website https://www.michaelphilpott.co.nz/ (has links to resources mentioned in talk).

Video version of this interview: https://youtu.be/XHO2m7J-ots

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelphilpott/

Lilia Tarawa TedX talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7mBbXxJYA

Bio: Michael works with leaders, innovators, creative thinkers, change makers, disruptors, and inspirational individuals. He coaches CEOs, celebrities, sales executives, tech giants, best-selling authors, professors, PhDs, and start-up founders to achieve outstanding results from their keynote talks, investment pitches and formal presentations. ​Michael also coaches sales executives, like Stephen Pike from Williams Corporation, sell real estate value at over $700,000 from a 5-minute talk and start-up founders attract over a half a million dollars in funding from a 7-minute investment pitch whilst also winning 'Best pitch of the night' award in front of an audience of over 900 potential investors.

LINKS:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelphilpott/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thespeakercoachnz

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thespeakercoachnz/

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Jenny has spent decades working in Philanthropy in New Zealand. In this interview we hear about her childhood and some of the influences that shaped her, becoming a teacher, travelling overseas and what she learned in India, the work she did with organisations involved in Philanthropy including working with Sir Roy Mckenzie on setting up his personal foundation, being involved in the creation of Philanthropy New Zealand and leading the largest New Zealand community trust, Foundation North, from 2004 for 15 years. Throw in also leading Fulbright New Zealand (awarding academic scholarships) and being a trustee of other groups like the Vodafone Foundation and you'll see we touch on many topics. We also focus in on discussing what she has learned about developing effective strategy, what listening to communities really looks like, the role of philanthropy and what works and doesn't work. I really enjoyed this wide ranging conversation with Jenny and know you will as well.

Video version here: https://youtu.be/P5YJzaMQaWU

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-gill-onzm-15583b5/?originalSubdomain=nz

Glenn has had a variety of roles in social services and is currently helping ex prisoners with accomodation with The Salvation Army in Addington, and prior to that working with Stepping Stone with community mental health recovery. In this interview we find out about those initiatives but also hear about his cancer journey - from feeling a soreness on his tongue to having surgery just a few days after this interview was recorded.

Since recording this interview several months ago the good news is the cancer has not spread and Glenn's speech is adapting and returning to normal despite a large part of his tongue being removed.

Earlier short episode about being diagnosed early: http://seeds.libsyn.com/early-diagnosis-with-glen-dodson

On Addington Salvation Army: https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/shelter-storm

Stepping Stone: https://www.stepstone.org.nz

glenn_dodson@nzf.salvationarmy.org

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Ursula Cheer is the Dean of the Canterbury Law School. In this interview we find out about her life and the fact that she has really had three careers out of her law degree: as a lawyer, as an academic and working at Parliament - including as a speech writer for Geoffrey Palmer. We also find out about legal education now - and what it might look like in the future. I really enjoyed hearing about her life story and some of the insights about times in New Zealand's past when she was working in Wellington.

Canterbury Law School: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/law/

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Announcing the first New Zealand Virtual Impact Unconference on 24 April 2020. Collaboration is our future. This unconference wants to get us out of silos and encourage discussion and cross fertilisation across specialties.

Website: www.impactunconference.nz

The short version of its origins are simple: We were going to do an in person unconference in May 2020 in Christchurch for 300+. Plans were laid.

Then Covid-19 came and we pivoted - a lot! Now, it will be virtual. An unconference turns to the attendees and asks them to design the program. How? Well, at the first zoom event on Tuesday 21st April at noon there will be short lightning talks from key players in the areas of Arts, Environment, Tech, Business, Housing, Community etc to inspire us. Then you submit your session ideas for 30 minute slots – in other words, you might be the presenter! If chosen then that session gets allocated a time between 1-5pm on Friday 24th April within one of the zoom streams.

Visit the website for more.

Shamubeel is one of New Zealand's leading economists so this interview provides a fascinating insight into COVID-19 from an economic impact perspective. But we end up talking about a whole lot more than that - like what the crisis is revealing about us as humans and what it is that we might build the future on. Hint, it involves resilience, cooperation, learning from each other and taking care of the most vulnerable.

The video of this is here: https://youtu.be/Oipz7gIMo4E

I really enjoyed this interview and am sure you will as well.

Website: http://www.sense.partners/shamubeel-eaqub

The other episode on articulating values: https://theseeds.nz/dare-to-lead-book-review/

Community Finance which we mention: https://www.communityfinance.co.nz

Ākina which we mention: https://www.akina.org.nz and interview with Louise Aitken https://seeds.libsyn.com/louise-aitken-on-akina-social-enterprise-and-being-a-twin

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