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It feels like the country has sprung back into life with more cars on the road, people out and about, queues at K-mart and school starting.

What expectations did you have of yourself going into the lockdown? What surprised you about yourself? Now that we're nearly out the other side what wisdom have you picked up? What would you tell yourself 6 weeks ago?

Did you learn a new language, get fit, write a book or lie on the courch and watch netflix....no judgement, we're all different and experienced something pretty unique.

We started by talking with Shaun Robinson the CEO of the Mental Health Foundation.

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We celebrated Mums by giving away chocolates and hearing some great stories from listeners. We also chatted with singer/songwriter Julia Grace who had us in fits of laughter with stories of her Mum.

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On the Talk Sessions we talked about social media, how it has changed and evolved over time, how its use has developed during this lockdown period, influencers and their role, the Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Sousxie Wiles phenomenon and the future of social media.

We started by talking with Aki Ang from @thesleekavenue about her journey to becoming an influencer and where that has led her. We also chatted with social media commentator Dr Gavin Ellis with his thoughts as well.

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We commemorated ANZAC day recently and we want to keep the memories alive. On the Talk Sessions we asked for your family war stories.

We asked what have your parents or Grandparents told you about their experience of war. We also asked if you would sign up if our country faced a threat?

We started the night by talking with BJ Clark the National President of the RSA.

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On the Talk Sessions we talked about the time we first decided to say Yes to Jesus. It's Easter Sunday the biggest day on the Christian calendar, it's the day Jesus rose giving us eternal life, a new beginning.

We chatted with a few well known New Zealanders with their story, starting with Petra Bagust, Murray Thom, Clint Randall, Tim Wilson and Sophie Gray.

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Four days into a four week lockdown.....we asked how is everyone going? Let's share ideas of things we can do. We started by chatting with Rosie Devery who is the school of worship leading-coordinator for Pathways College in Tauranga and we asked about worship, specifically what is it?

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A special show remembering the mosque terror attacks a year on. Nerida, Andrew and Luke chatted with Mayor Liane Dalziel, Executive Pastor Sarah-Jane Peez and Bishop Peter Carroll. We also talked about the effects of COVID-19.

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This week we talked about charitable giving. What are the factors that motivate you to give your hard-earned money to an organisation? We started by chatting with Sue McCabe the Chief Exec of Philanthropy NZ and then heard from some great callers.

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Is Freedom of Speech under threat? What implications does that have for the christian community? This is in light of the Hannah Tamaki and the DWS drama, and also after a professor of philosophy who is coming to NZ in June. He was going to be presenting at SkyCity but they've just pulled the plug on hosting him after there were strong objections to his views this all raises a conversation about what's ok to say and what's not.

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