Matt Eller shares the Challenges of the NZ Arts Industry through Covid-19...
Matt Eller is an Auckland based Theatre Technician and Audio Engineer, having spent the majority of his career in theatre, working as a Technical Operator & Sound Designer for various companies and theatres in NZ.
He shifted his focus to live audio engineering when he moved to Auckland in 2015 and started working with the Modern Māori Quartet as their primary sound engineer and later, as their Road Manager.
Matt teamed up with Alice Canton and started the podcast ‘Going Off Script’, where they talk to people involved in the arts about their work and what is going on in the industry.
In 2020, just prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, he started a new business called ‘Evoke Audio’, a music production and audio post-production company. Give their creativity and skills, they quickly modified their processes and continued to meet their deadlines while ensuring their top-notch service.
The cessation of the Arts industry as the government restrictions came into force, place a lot of his friends as freelance contractors in a very unsure place workwise. However true to the Arts, they were adaptable and created opportunities to push their talents from the comfort of their homes.
Matt’s Top Tips for these challenging times are:
1. The Arts Industry is an important, almost vital, part of our community
2. Support NZ Artists in whichever way you can!
3. Find the fun in exercise (he mentions how he has maintained a good frame of mind)
4. Not lose the close-knit sense of community that we have developed through Covid
A great interview with a young, motivated, and talented entrepreneur with a flair for all things Audio!
All ways to see more of Matt Eller:
The Podcast of ‘Going Off Script’ can be found on Spotify & Podcast App
Instagram @ellerfella and @evokeaudionz
Facebook Matt Eller Evoke Audio
Website www.evokeaudio.xyz
Go check out his skills!
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With a passion for the environment, this Midwife shares her views of Covid...
Today we meet with Sekita-Ra Mennie, an incredible earthly soul that has walked in the shoes of many different roles on this planet.
She has worked alongside people with disabilities in Scotland, worked on the Greenpeace ships in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, been a Care Worker in New Zealand, operated as a sea-kayak guide in the Abel Tasman area, put people through challenging times as an Outward Bound Instructor and is now a fully fledged Midwife!
WOW!
Sekita-Ra is an inspirational woman who guides people through their challenges to achieve successes for themselves!
Her Top Tips as we come towards the end of Lockdown:
1. Work out what ‘Your Needs’ are as compared to ‘Your Wants’
2. Use this time to Recalibrate Your Life
3. Try Journaling and sharing one thing each with your partner
4. Ask for Help if You Need it
Sekita - Ra recommends that if you have had a baby in April, that you go look up the Facebook April Babies as it provides a nurturing and supportive network, with practical tips, links, questions and answers and a bunch of mums and midwives on their page to help you out!
Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
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You Have Permission to Not Get it Right during Covid…
Penny Cheketri is a Primary school teacher and Karate Instructor originally from Johannesburg, South Africa and has been living in New Zealand for the past 15 yrs.
She runs the Cheketri Karate Club Dojos in South and East Auckland and has been teaching karate to kids and adults for the past 30 years! And might I add, been really instrumental with me gaining a lot of the medals in my background…
Penny has been working throughout the lockdown period in both her roles of teacher and sensei, incredible at a time as challenging as these!
Top Tips retrospectively from our chat:
1. Count Your Blessings
2. Have a Structure to Your Day
3. Just Let it Happen as it Happens with Schooling at Home
4. Keep up a Good Level of Activity
5. Take the Pressure Off Yourself
When lock down is over, all her Karate classes will commence in some shape and form for all ages at 5 different locations throughout South and East Auckland!
So if you are interested in trying something new and getting coached by someone as QUALIFIED as Penny is in Karate, you can get hold of her either through her page Cheketri Karate Club or her website www.cheketrikarate.com.
Age is not a factor! Give it a go!
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Tapping Into The Healing Path of the Raven and Wolf through Covid...
Today we meet with Waya all the way from Nashville Tennessee!
Waya is an intuitive medium, channelling energy from the spiritual realm to help people with their spiritual journey of growth and enlightenment.
She is of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Scandanavian and Italian descent and describes herself as a universal soul who has experienced many paths and have found truth in many forms.
Waya created her page @theHealingPathoftheRaven&Wolf six years ago after her divorce, is dedicated to spiritual growth, healing, enlightenment, and awakening. She speaks to her followers through sharing her personal and spiritual struggles, her heart ache, and her joys as she heals her own spirit.
Top Tips from our Conversation today:
1. Take time to answer the question of ‘What is Important to Me Right Now?’
2. Take time to answer the question of ‘Who is Important to Me Right Now?’
3. Start to see the Value in People who Work for You.
4. Ground Yourself, Get Outside, Touch the Earth, Cleanse your Space and Do Your Meditations.
If you want to connect with Waya, you can find her on www.wayashealingpath.com and book in a phone or video 1-on-1 with her, and catch her daily messages on her page @theHealingPathoftheRaven&Wolf!
Bye Felicia!!
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Viewing Covid-19 as a Social Experiment to trigger the healing of our emotional pain…
Kim Knight was unable to work for ten years due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
During her long journey to seek answers, and after having tried over 250 therapies! She sold her house in a bid to enjoy one last trip to the USA before she was no longer able to travel. On that trip she finally found the answers she was looking for, the missing piece: unresolved emotional pain…
After learning and applying techniques to clear old emotional energy out of her body, she healed herself from all these conditions, and went on to train professionally in multiple emotional clearing techniques.
Since then she has helped hundreds of people self-heal without medication or supplements from inexplicable chronic pain and fatigue conditions. She is the founder of the Emotional Alchemy Academy, an organisation dedicated to giving people the tools to master their health and wellbeing.
Today she speaks with us as someone who lives alone and is generally quite happy with that, however the limiting social contact over these times is somewhat challenging and triggering past emotional pain during what she calls a ‘social experiment’.
Kim's top tips include:
1. Think about what other people need (physical, emotional)
2. Find something to do that you enjoy doing
3. Find something to love
4. Find something to look forward to
Watch to the end to discover the 5 things that we need to do each day to get through these times, as well as the 3 Steps to Change!
You can find out more about Kim Knight and the incredible work that she does and access a huge amount of free resources by heading over to www.emotionalalchemyacademy.com or to her page Kim Knight Health. Go do it now, you will not regret it!
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Living Her Impossible Dream through Adversity and Resilience!
If anyone had any experience with Resilience, it is Linda Rugg.
In her life, Linda has experienced sexual and physical abuse, lost her husband to suicide leaving her as a single mum at the age of 43, feeling completely abandoned, lacking confidence and incredibly insecure about what the future held for her.
Knowing that life had so much more to offer and not knowing where to start, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery and new beginnings, towards living her impossible dream!
During these earlier times of Covid, her impossible dream is being able to wake up each morning and being able to decide what to do with her day.
In her keynote speaking roles she explores resilience and shares the real-life strategies that she put into place to move forward in her life and shares the belief that after trauma and rejection, life not only goes on but it can also be radically transformed to find new joy and meaning.
Linda takes a moment to break down the concept of Resilience through Covid:
- There are different levels of Resilience
- Life is and can be tough
- There is Practical/ Physical Resilience and Emotional Resilience
Her top tips over Covid includes:
1. Stop comparing yourself to other people
2. Ask yourself what you can learn from this, ‘what can I change?’
3. Look at what you do have, not what you do not have
4. Keep talking to others, keep connected.
If you are interested in finding out more about Linda and Resilience, you can find her on www.lindarugg.com. Go and check out her website, click on her Resilience link, download her e-book and drop her a message to book her in to speak at your organisation!
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Music is a Universal Healer with Queen Shirl’e at the Mic!
South Auckland’s Queen Shirl'e aka QS is an experienced emcee, Artist and tutor with a Diploma in Education as well as a professional performing artist/ songwriter with 20 years’ experience.
QS has released 3 music EPs, 7 music videos and has just recently released her new song ‘Crazy Love’. Watch the video to find out more!
She has been featured in the Auckland Council magazine, on Stuff.co.nz and has had her music played on Coconut.tv, tpp.plus.co.nz AND has been listed on the official NZ Music Charts! Prior to lockdown, QS could also be found running classes for children in Mangere East and Otahuhu Libraries and in Glen Innes too.
She speaks from an artist’s perspective gaining creative space, expression and healing through her struggles and her art. She has embraced this time to work on a couple of movie scripts, on staying creative and wrapping up her new song that will now be a lyric video due to lockdown and people contact restrictions.
Top Tips from this video:
1. If things are getting overwhelming, just stop doing what you are doing and breathe
2. Change is Inevitable.
3. Music is a Universal Healer!
4. Stay in Your Bubble but reach out to people if you need them.
Queen Shirl’e mentions numerous online sites in this chat where musicians can go to for support through these challenging times.
I encourage you to support Queen Shirl’es music right NOW:
Facebook and Instagram pages: Queen Shirl'e
Performing Arts Page: Pathways to Performing Arts
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/queenshirle
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2F8wfWeaaa3yd6E13DVMeh
Thank you so much to this beautiful soul for chatting with me today!
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The Tides of Change are Upon Us, so How Do We Navigate the Storm?
Sarah Linton hails from the UK, having moved to New Zealand 3 years ago. Familiar with the Corporate world, and all the anxieties and stressors that come with it, Sarah found her passion for her current line of work by stepping out of it!
Driven to do additional training, she took her leadership and team development experience and moulded it into her coaching role now that takes her clients from a place of ‘driving and striving’ to a place of ‘thriving’!
Sarah’s business ‘Tides of Change’ stems from the ebb and flow of life, acknowledging that we all have challenges that we have to navigate in our life, the storms that we may face. She looks at habit change and creating the right environment to take the right actions to live your best live to connect with your best joy!
Sarah’s Top Tips for these times are:
1. Take a step back and take some deep breaths for a few minutes.
2. List the things you can control and the things that you cannot.
3. Take the steps to get out of Fear and to move into a place where you can Act.
4. Embrace what is, and look for the Opportunity in Everything
If you would like to connect with Sarah, you can find her at www.tidesofchange.com or her page @tidesofchange or email her on contacttidesofchange@gmail.com and book in a 'catch up' coffee!
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Mental Health is Silent and Invisible, so how do we Unmask it?
This incredible video provides you the chance to participate in a rare raw, open conversation with Kurani Masters providing a deep insight into mental health, depression, suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Without too much of a lead in, Kurani and Laura enter into a frank discussion around Suicide and Self-Harm and how having the actual korero with people actually does more good than the perceived harm that we have come to believe it will do…
We are living in challenging times right now when there may well be a potential rise in mental health conditions amongst all of us.
This video aims to bring our awareness to this fact, and to invite us to open our eyes and our hearts to what may be going on for those around us... to take the mask off and to acknowledge the inner dialogue that we may have and to seek or offer help where we can.
Kurani Master’s Top Tips include:
1. Rembering that Mental Health is Invisible
2. Be kind to yourself (‘self-compassion’)
3. We see the world as we are, not as it is
4. Open the conversation, offer your genuine support, and allow the person to really feel that you are there for them
If you are seeking further insight into Kurani, you can find his book ‘Conversations with Darkness’ on Amazon.com under his pen name.
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A Strong Community Focus is What We Need Right Now!
From High School teacher to Community Advocate in South Auckland, Lance Watene is the voice for the community!
He spends his days ensuring that community needs are met through the various initiatives that are out there by getting down to ground level with the people who the projects are for and asking them for their opinions and feedback.
Pre-Covid and soon to be post-Covid, Lance is heavily involved in community sport too! He runs local Basketball and Touch modules for School-age Year 1’s all the way through to Adults and is well-known for the incredible work he does with involving families in sport.
If you or your child are interested in being a part of the magic that Lance brings to the courts and the fields, you can find him on:
- www.sporty.co.nz/papakurabearsbasketball
- www.sporty.co.nz/papakurajuniortouch
- www.sporty.co.nz/pukekohejuniortouch
Drop him an email and get on the waiting list for when lockdown ends!
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From Homeless to Heart Hero... Watch to Find Out More!
Trish Pemberton knows what a life of adversity is all about. She suffered child abuse from a really young age, was homeless, still endures Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, has been subjected to workplace bullying and to top it all off… a scare with Breast Cancer.
She brings to the conversation, the harsh reality of living on the streets with children during these challenging times, and sheds light on what they may be experiencing right now: fears, money, food, basic needs, a sense of pride, how to look after their family.
Trish takes on an incredibly grounded approach to life and to working from her heart to help others in need, while remembering too to honour Papatuanuku (our land) and the healing that she needs at this time.
Trish invites us all to ‘give a little’ and to think about those that are les fortunate than ourselves and asks us to think how how we can help not only during Covid times, but beyond too. She encourages us to use this time for reflection, to be grateful for all that we have and to do what we can to keep that personal touch with others.
Come join us for the next 35 minutes and hear all that Trish has to share xx
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Are you a Stressed-Out Professional Seeking Help?
Sue Alrashe is a UK-based Health, Wellness and Executive Coach who works with stressed-out professionals dealing with intense burnout, helping them to create balance in their lives so that they can do more of what they love!
She has worked within the Corporate Industry for 30 years and has been through similar challenges to her clients. When Covid-19 hit the UK, she was in the process of establishing herself and making a home ready to welcome her husband to join her from another country. Lockdown restrictions saw that placed on hold, leaving the pair thousands of miles apart over these challenging times.
Sue relates Stephen Covey’s model where he compares our Circle of Concern with our Circle of Influence on the stress-out professionals that she works with, but also to our communities as a whole during Covid.
She offers great insights into how to get to a space of being prepared to take onto the current challenges, looking at ourselves first instead of our situations, taking into account the various hats that we wear and then unravelling how we get our life back into balance.
Sue also offers some top tips on how to stay connected to loved ones overseas:
1. Keep contact through whatever means possible (Facebook, Zoom, Whatsapp etc)
2. Try for contact a couple of times each day
3. Manage any time differences for ease of both of you
To add to that on a more general note, she also recommends that you remember to ‘Be Informed, Not Inundated’, and to set your intentions each morning to maintain as high a level of positivity as possible remembering that we have all gotten through challenges before!
If you would like to contact Sue to see if she can help you improve your Circle of Influence in your life, to de-stress and to do more of what you love doing, you can do so through her page True2You Coaching or through her website true2you.uk.com.
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