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Today’s guest is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Voices of Hope, Genevieve Mora.

Genevieve is a remarkable young woman who spends a massive chunk of her life, her time, and her energy sharing her story because Voices of Hope believes in the power of sharing your lived experience to create positive change. She is an author, and co-created an app called 'Love your Kite' which aims to support people through their recovery from an Eating Disorder.

A truly beautiful soul helping the lives of so many - Genevieve's an absolute gem!
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Today’s guest is part of a very very small group of women here in Aotearoa.

Chelsea Roper - aka SheBuildsBro is a graphic designer turned carpenter - and makes up part of the 2.6 percent of tradies who are women. 

She got into a trade after she and her partner packed up and left Auckland for Queenstown, and she wanted to be able to help build their own home!

She uses her platform to encourage and educate other women to get amongst it, and is kicking down the doors and holding them open for others to come through, and we love that.

Chelsea also shares her story of recently battling Endometriosis.
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Today’s guest is someone at the helm of a brilliant student organisation we all know and love! The amazing mahi of the Student Volunteer Army has turned it into a nationally-recognised crisis response team, ever since thousands of students mobilised following the Christchurch Earthquakes.

Emily Byrne is the chief executive - and is with me this week. Her passion for helping others is pretty inspiring - from being a St John Badger as a kid to fostering 60 kittens over the years!
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Today’s guest is Campbell Johnstone.

He is the first openly gay All Black - after making the decision to come out on national television last year.

Since then, Campbell has become an amazing advocate for inclusion and diversity in sport. And, the title "first openly gay All Black" is one he's happy to sit with if it helps create change. 

It's also wedding year for Campbell and his fiancé Ben - find out what Campbell suggested for the wedding that's meant he's banned from organising it haha!

 
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Today’s guest is in my opinion - one of the coolest local body politicians you will find. And yes I said cool and politician in the same sentence!Richard Hills has been on Auckland Council since 2016 - he became the youngest person on council and lord knows we need more young people in local government!

You can actually hear the passion in his voice - he is genuinely in the job to make the city a better place - it's so lovely to hear!

Richard is one of the good ones, and I hope you enjoy listening to a lovely man with a brilliant heart as much as I did!
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Today’s guest is a man who knows a thing or two about putting a world class event on. Karl Budge is the man who made the ASB Classic a massive success, and an award-winning event, luring in massive names like Serena and Venus Williams. How he got them to come is absolutely fascinating!

Karl played a huge role in the success of the amazing Sail GP event in Ōtautahi last year - and has worked on a number of global sporting events.

All this from a kid that left school at 16, because he was a 'dreamer" and his dreams didn't quite work at school. A really really insightful conversation!
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