Global leaders championing climate action

Holistic Success Series through the lens of diverse, authentic, creative, brave and courageous women from across Marlborough, New Zealand.

Martina shares the evolution of how the idea of success has changed and evolved for her over the years, to now as a doctor, mother, wife and business owner.

In this podcast we explore the journey of life and how our views of success change over the decades in working towards creating a holistically successful life that encompasses multi dimensions beyond the traditional focuses of wealth, materialism and accolades. Aimee Pickles has always had a strong focus on health and well-being as a path to creating happiness, independence and living a comfortabl...

Finn describes himself as an adventurer (first and foremost) and a deep nature frother who has spent a big part of his life chasing epic adventures. With the other part focused studying all over the world, launching diverse and unique entrepreneurial ventures and now whilst doing his PhD at Deakin University, leading the environmental and sustainability initiatives at Lake Hawea Station, New Zeala...

Becks Smith is a passionate life long learner and is always looking for new opportunities to grow. Becks launched The Whole Story during lockdown in 2020 when she reimagined an alternate future which addresses sustainability, connecting people and facilitating positive change. Juggling her role as a mother with a young family, a career, farming business and the many hats that go with each she alwa...

As a proud New Zealander (with deep Dutch roots), Maegan Blom is a savvy, authentic and aspiring young leader.  Hailing from an entrepreneurial family, Maegen grew up on a dairy farm in Southland, New Zealand, before her family moved to Marlbourgh after buying Mills Bay Mussels.  Maegan has spent the last few years studying Agricultural Business and Food Marketing, whilst working to find a deep se...

Eve is a young, educated, passionate leader who describes herself as unapologetically loud and opinionated, curiously acquiring knowledge and discovering life skills through a broad spectrum of interests.  Eve grew up on a dairy farm on the North Island of New Zealand, with many of her life skills coming from learning to horse ride, caring for horses and the entrepreneurial skills needed to m...

In this podcast series, we explore the idea of holistic success through the lens of womens lives from all over New Zealand and how this notion has changed considerably over time from their early years, their 20's and 30's and now as mother's, business women, entrepreneurs and leaders. Through story telling and sharing, the art of building meaningful lives, activating micro - moments for a successf...

Dr Libby is a world renowned author, entrepreneur and speaker armed with abundant knowledge, scientific research and a true desire to help others recover their energy and vitality, Dr Libby empowers and inspires people to take charge of their health and happiness. In this podcast, we explore her life's work and impact through the lens of Meaningful Leadership exploring purpose, belonging, personal...

With an overhanging guilt of single use everything, the world has woken up to realise that through our changes of behaviours we can all contribute to making a positive impact. Helen and her co founder of EcoSplat Reusable Water Balloons recognised a need and demand for change and still being able to enjoy the fun of water balloons but without the negative environmental contribution. Through experi...

Kim feels privileged with the work that she does at MYOB, one of the fastest growing businesses, a business that shapes a big part of who she is. Knowing that community is a central part of connection and that it is within communities and business that fuel you, Kim reflects on the waves of life and how important communities, connection and family have been to making her the woman she is today. Ki...

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As an entrepreneur, Bridgette is driven and determined to change the stigma in New Zealand about divorce and separation, and has founded Equal Exes to support couples and their families through divorce coaching. Bridgette draws on her personal experience of being in a verbally abusive, controlling and manipulative marriage, before leaving the marriage but completely unprepared for what lay ahead....

As the naughty bright kid at school, Vicki always knew that a traditional life path wasn't going to be for her and was prompted by someone sharing that life should just be FUN.... and to just enjoy it. This set her on the path of becoming a super yacht chef for 30 years, embracing her love of starting small businesses, studying natural medicine, and valuing her freedom and health to launch iWalkWa...

Sarah Vickers is a spiritual being, a registered nurse and holistic health practitioner... what a wonderful and diverse mix.  Sarah is focused on living life to the full with health, heart and spirit aligned. She believes that for her to be the best version of herself it begins each day with a combination of mindful practice through meditation, restorative yin practice and daily gratitude.&nb...

Sarah Wilson is an author, entrepreneur, change maker and most importantly a climate activist.  When describing who she is the first word that appeared was a nomad, but ultimately a woman striving to her most meaningful life’s work but with the knowing of never arriving. Now that is the art of living. But it wasn't all light and happiness, and recalls some of her darkest days, anxiety and the...

Lani is an adventurer at heart with a strong desire to see an equitable society and is forever exploring whats possible. She admits that one of her biggest hurdles and challenges has been herself with expectations and barriers and has had to learn to get out of her own way to create the path of her life that is fuelled by purpose. A key secret for her has been in reflective practice, deep thought...

Lisa is an adventurer, a boundary pusher, challenging the status quo who founded an adventure travel company - Crooked Compass to share the world with fellow adventurers to get off the beaten track, connect through cultural exchanges and engage with diminishing tribes. The past 18 months has been a series of pivots, twists and turns but in true entrepreneurial spirit Lisa has been able to read bet...

As a lover and supporter of small businesses, after many years at The Icehouse, Andy fell into building a platform during 2020 lockdown that would support small businesses with advice and support to get through challenging situations.  Today this wonderful organisation is known as Manaaki which brings together over 330 advisors and thousands of small businesses to support and have a positive...

Caroleen Moise was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and grew up fascinated by the creativity of writing poetry, watching films and acting to grow into a life as a filmmaker with some of her recent work Defying all Odds , Trouble and We love Paleo. She believes that creativity can be applied to so many things and not just the arts and really is the ability to think outside the square through cre...

12 years ago, Sebastian Terry lost a great friend, had started a business, had begun navigating a university degree and decided to throw it all in and focus on his pursuit of living a happy life. What began as a list of 100things that Seb travelled the world experiencing including Delivering a Strangers baby, Living on a Deserted island for a week, Marrying a stranger has evolved 12 years on to a...

Julie Demsey is a recovering people pleaser, living life on her own terms, ex Silicon Valley, life long learning woman who landed in Australia on a mission to work with individuals on their mindset to have a positive impact. Julie has a habit of saying YES to things that feel scary or are unknown and saying NO to things that no longer serve her. A potent potion to enabling a prosperous, full and m...

Phoebe jokes that her and her husband have been given the life sentence of being immersed into the world of fashion, knowing that there have been incredible highs, all time lows but ultimately through the lows have enabled new opportunities to see life through a different lens. Through this vulnerable, honest and humble interview, Phoebes pinpoints two pivotal moments of bravery and courage in bei...

Andi Lew is a best selling author & wellness expert presenter and has recently published a book, "Connected - a paradigm shift in how we view health". Andi has always been inspired to live a better quality of life and really does walk the talk to holistic health and from a place of love. Although Andi has been knocked down quite a few times she has always stood back up to fight, but from a pla...

Jo Burston describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur after waking up at 27 to realise that she needed a serious career as she had some audacious financial goals. Years later after winning an award, Jo returned to her junior and high schools in Sydney to connect and learn directly from students about what they envisioned as an "entrepreneur" which was a catalyst in activating her entrepreneur...