Global leaders championing climate action

When we recorded this podcast, it was International Women's Day, Friday 8th March 2024 and we giggled over how we had both spent our day... working. A privledge for many women many years ago. This podcast series celebrates women from across the region of Marlborough, New Zealand who are leading their worlds as environmental guardians. Michelle Barry wears many hats as a student, as a researcher, a...

The ‘Stories of Dutch Ingenuity’ podcast series connects with diverse leaders, change makers and environmental guardians in The Netherlands. Foodvalley works with national and international partners on a global ambition: that by 2050 there must be tasty, healthy, affordable and sustainable food for ten billion people. Hear more about the role that Foodvalley plays on this journey.

We have the knowledge, we have the money, we have the solutions. Now we just need to implement them collectively to support in solving the climate challenges impacting the globe. In this podcast, Tim van Hattum shares more about what lead to his passion to be part of the change, a focus on student lead nature based challenges at the University, the activation of NL2120 with a consortium of 20 orga...

Karel grew up on a small regional farm in the Netherlands producing food for their local community, and in this podcast you will discover some of the facts of the current disfunction of our food systems and the some of the ideas on how Karel would love to see a localised, seasonal approach to our food system…. Similar to the way it was when he was a child. Karel is enthusiastic about developments...

Lior is committed to creating cities that make people smile and inspire people for a better urban future. As we know, we are living in challenging times and cities play a central role in the future of humankind and are hubs for positive change. They can foster sustainable presence and better futures. From moving people beyond A to B, through planning for cycling and walking to creating healthy cit...

Rio is someone who values equality and interpersonal connections, and has a deep respect for nature. She believes that only through working together, we can create a fair and sustainable future for ourselves and future generations. At Wageningen University and Research they are focused on empowering a new global generation of change makers with their involvement in innovative education, cutting ed...

Wouter is a social entrepreneur, visionary and change maker who recognises the importance of doing the inner work, reflection and exploration of self to support in the transformation of organisations from the inside out. With a strong focus on the regenerative economy, connecting to nature, living within the planetary boundaries and bringing business leaders and green change makers together to cre...

Wendy is a true environmental guardian from our wonderful Marlborough, New Zealand community activating, championing and sharing her knowledge on the things that she is passionate about. In this series of podcast we are celebrating environmental guardians from across the region.

This podcast series has been celebrating Environmental Guardians from all over Marlborough who are championing climate action, embedding bio- diversity into their worlds, and taking action on the things that are important to them. We are so grateful to have so many incredible women across our community who are meaningfully leading Marlborough to a climate positive future.

Dr. Kate Averill is an environmental guardian leading our community of Marlborough with a deep sense of values through her work at Inclusive Sustainable Development and on the Steering Committee for Climate Action Marlborough. Through restoration, regeneration, Intergenerational learning, collaborating and contributing, Kate has a deep sense of purpose and impact in our community.

In this podcast series we unpack Sophia’s world as an entrepreneur through the lense of the heroines journey to connect to who she is, the things that she is passionate about, what’s important to her, the experiences that have shaped and the actions that she would love to see entrepreneurs activate in their world.

In this podcast series we are celebrating female environmental guardians from across Marlborough who are working in diverse roles, on diverse projects with a collective mission. To be good ancestors for our future generations to thrive. As environmental guardians the work that these women do, and the teams that they lead are critical to enabling a BioDiverse ecosystem in our beloved community.

Aimee Blake, co founder Girls who Grow and Future Farmers NZ shares a beautifully crafted story for the future. Aimee has a true gift with words as a story teller.

Penny wears many a hat but in this podcast we explore the role that she plays in the community of Marlborough New Zealand as an environmental guardian through her work at Forest & Bird Marlborough and Te Hoiere Project. In this episode we explore her journey, her influences, her proudest moments and her simplistic vision to use as a guide and approach.

Mel grew up in Seattle and always dreamt of being a business woman but was living much more of a hippy lifestyle but wondered how she could blend both worlds. Since moving to New Zealand she has worked hard to keep both of her sides alive. Mel and co founder Niamh have recently launched Well Now, a platform to enable last minute appointment bookings for health and wellness… something women and par...

Born and raised in a small coastal village in South Africa, Bex has grown up as a lover of the outdoors and is rotating adventures in the mountains to the surf. The physical connection that she has through her adventures drives her deep passion through leadership and education and working together for a common goal through connected ecosystems. Bex has some strong calls for action from our communi...

Bev Doole is leading our new series of podcast celebrating environmental guardians in our Marlborough, New Zealand community.  As a former journalist, Bev is a curious woman, always asking lots of thought provoking questions and wanted to give nature its very own voice.  Through her mahi at Marlborough Environment Awards, Bev uses her journalism skills to uncover all sides of the story.  She has a...

Latesha spent her life being home schooled which gave her a lot of time to spend reading and read many great books about global entrepreneurs and their stories. So success for Tesh became about being an entrepreneur and to create financial abundance.  Today her life learnings and experiences have shaped and evolved her view of success to be more about how she feels and who she shows up to be...

Exploring the concept of holistic success and how we can transform societies thinking of what true success is and how we can show up as better versions of ourselves.

Michelle is a beautiful woman with a gift that she packages up as a parcel, gifting it to all the people that she works with.  Michelle has been working behind the scenes styling all of the women in our holistic success series for Marlborough Magazine but we really wanted to celebrate her, her work, her divine nature and how she makes a difference in the world of the people she connects with....

With an unwavering love for sauna, nurturing a long distance relationship and sparking creative ideas to plant her seeds in NZ, Marije moved to NZ with her first question to her now husband, ‘so where are all the saunas?’… for which he replied that if she wanted to use them she would need to create something herself.  And from that day she has stuck with the saying that you ‘need to build your win...

Creating a life fuelled by holistic success is an art and a craft to master but how we can start to change societies perception and culture that surrounds success to be more layered and multi dimensional to empower and enable more.

The evolution of holistic success through the lens of diverse, interesting and thought provoking women from Marlborough, New Zealand.

Through this series of podcasts we explore the concept of creating a life filled by holistic success. Many of us grew up with the idea that success could only be measured by financial and material possessions but as women and as mothers, and moving through different stages of life, we recognise that it is so much more than that.  Now to changing societies culture to align the variables.

Cassandra is an authentic, brave and courageous leader shining as a beacon of light in the world for her 4 daughters and team of young women at Trinity Employment, a recruitment and immigration specialist organisation in Canterbury.  When starting Trinity she realised that there was a lack of care and kindness in the industry and she was determined that there was another way.  Cassandra is passion...