This Curious Life

On a mission to bring movement to her community, Eve Southan started a free fitness class on Saturday mornings. Health and wellness have since turned into her full-time business. Eve and her husband Jas run Life in Motion, providing a variety of exercise options and wellness ideas in-person or through virtual at-home sessions. Listen to hear her wellness philosophy and how an idea + lots of hard work can turn make things happen. 

Learn more about Life in Motion at www.lifeinmotion.co.nz/

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Michelle started working in the charity sector in Scotland at the young age of 15 during a very difficult time in her life. Her passion for supporting a cause, particularly helping children, has carried her to where she sits today as the Executive Director for the Fundraising Institute of New Zealand (FINZ).

In this episode Michelle shares insight into the challenges of fundraising, busts some charity myths and encourages everyone to follow their passion and give generously. 

Michelle is an incredibly dynamic, caring and intelligent woman and I'm grateful for the time she carved out to speak to me.

Enjoy the episode!

Learn more about FINZ at www.finz.org.nz/

After an inspiring session down the rabbit hole of YouTube (we've all been there!), Em has become an enthusiastic metal detectorist. You'll find her at the beach or at a park with her metal detector in hand looking for lost treasures. 

In this episode, Em talks about what she listens for to find those lost treasures, the science behind the sound and how to be a tidy detectorist - leaving the land just as it was before her and her team got there. 

Special note, Em also created the illustration artwork for this podcast. She is a super talented young woman in many things. 

Music for This Curious Life created and performed by Hayley Fordyce, logo by Nicole Miller Professional Creative and Terri Rosenstock is your host. 

Our next episode will feature Hayley Fordyce talking about music. 

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A lifelong skateboarder and snowboarder, Sebastian Grodd took standing sideways to the sea about a decade ago and hasn't looked back. He says finding surfing has changed his life. He's had epic days on the water, but is forever learning how to be better. He's also had a close encounter with a shark!

Listen to Seb and I talk about his surfing passion. 

Kids - if you don't know the movie Point Break, you may want to look it up now as it's referenced more than once. 

Music for This Curious Life created and performed by Hayley Fordyce, artwork by Em Siemonek, logo by Nicole Miller Professional Creative and Terri Rosenstock is your host. 

Our next episode will feature Em Siemonek talking about metal detecting. 

In this episode I talk to Jonathan Hornsby about his travels through nearly 50 countries and to six of the seven continents. 

We chat about amazing animals encounters during an African safari, the beauty of Norway, a Sound of Music tour in Austria, volunteering at an orphanage near Johannesburg and much more. 

You can see many photos from his travels at www.jonathanhornsby.com. 

Music for This Curious Life created and performed by Hayley Fordyce, artwork by Em Siemonek, logo by Nicole Miller Professional Creative and Terri Rosenstock is your host. 

Our next episode will feature Sebastian Grodd talking about his adventures in surfing. 

Thanks for listening!

Hello, world! I am incredibly excited to launch This Curious Life!

This Curious Life is a podcast featuring interviews with people who have interesting lives, professions or hobbies.

Starting a podcast is something I have been dreaming about for a long time. In fact I started working on a podcast way back in 2005 that never actually got released. It's been a long time coming.

I love audio. I used to work in radio and studied broadcast journalism along with communications at uni. My interview style aspiration is to be a cross between Terry Gross and Graham Norton. If you know both of these people we will be instant friends.

I suppose with the homage to This American Life in the title I should also aspire for a bit of Ira Glass as well. And my favourite podcast is Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me so let’s add a splash of Peter Sagal. This is getting out of hand. Perhaps I should say a cross between a chat show and NPR.

Why “This Curious Life”? Well, for one, I am curious about everything. I'm an observer and a collector of random information. For two, some people say I’ve led an interesting life myself – they may even say a curious one. I'm originally from the States (grew up in Minnesota, spent a few years in New England) and have lived in Wellington, New Zealand since 2014. 

I'm surrounded by some amazing people who come from all over the world and many different walks of life. The idea of the show is to showcase these people by chatting with them about their passions and experiences. Because, well, why not. Everyone has a story to tell, and I'm giving them a platform to share it. Plus I get to play with audio editing software, which makes me a happy nerd. 

Each episode will be about 20-40 minutes long. The music for the show is created by the super talented Hayley Fordyce who I expect to be famous someday. Em Siemonek has created the fantastic artwork. She, too, will be famous. And I, Terri Rosenstock, will be your host. I likely won't be very famous. 

I hope you listen and I hope you like it!

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