Kōnae ipurangi/ Podcasts
Podcasts stimulate different parts of the brain, forcing us to actively listen, especially if it's a topic we're truly interested in! Another great benefit of listening to podcasts is that you can learn new things. They’re immediate and you can engage anytime, on-call and whilst you're doing other tasks.
While we work on our cooooooool as TWK contribution, have a gander at the offerings below! We’re aware that there are already some brilliant wellness podcasts or podcasts created for and by arts practitioners, with evocative wellness/Hauora content OR BOTH! Take ya pick or let us know if you know of any others we can support!
Just Listen
Just Listen is a seven-part mental health podcast series, exploring how to support a person in serious and ongoing mental distress. Six New Zealanders and their support people share their mental health journey and challenges with journalist and host Juliette Sivertsen, with the final episode featuring an expert panel to discuss kindness, boundaries, mindfulness and self-care. These candid conversations aim to get people comfortable talking about mental health, to share stories of people living with a mental illness, and to discuss some of the helpful and not-so-helpful things some of us do and say when trying to help a person in distress. Together, we can work to better support people in our communities, and learn to just listen. Funded by the Mental Health Foundation of NZ, Like Minds Like Mine, supported by NZME.
Sound Salad
Join Kiwi actor, writer, director, and audiobook narrator Romy Hooper as she interviews those who work with all things spoken and all things heard. The bibliophiles, authors, publishers, engineers, historians, performers, and artists whose job it is to provide you with high-quality audio content are combined here. Seasoned and appropriately dressed, in Sound Salad.
Brought to you by Audiobooks NZ, NZs leading producer of audio content.
Crazy Grief
“After the death of my husband, grief hit me like a tsunami. I feared I was losing my mind. For the sake of my kids, I had to find a way to cope, but I didn't know how. My ideas about grief didn't match my experience and I was often told to move on. But I've discovered there is no moving on, only moving forward carrying our grief with us. Crazy Grief is as a safe space for real, unpolished, candid conversations about grief, and all the crazy stuff that comes with it. Because when we have to care for our kids while grieving the death of our life partner, we need all the encouragement we can get.”
Little Empire Network
Little Empire Podcasts was created by Tim Batt in 2017 as a way to get his very funny and talented friends who were not very tech savvy to share their voices online. The shows have collectively racked up millions of downloads, tens of thousands of fans from all over the world, and hosted dozens of live shows from Aotearoa New Zealand to London to Sydney to New York City. We love making podcasts. Check out the roster by clicking the following button!
Arts and Health Sothwest
The Arts & Health South West Podcasts are audio conversations with practitioners from around the South West(UK) about different areas of arts and health practice. A series that covers conversations from multiple arts perspectives, including applied theatre, storytelling, visual arts and poetry.
Showy Ovaries
In this podcast, Penny Ashton is on a voyage of discovery into the mysterious world of menopause. On the cusp of 50, she imagines her ovaries are about to retire and wants to know everything about it in advance. So what better way to navigate her moisture moving from inside her body to perspiring out her face than by talking to a series of wondrous women and owners of ovaries about their own journeys?
In this series of frank and funny interviews, she will learn about what to expect when expecting menopause straight from the mouths of the wise, but not wizened, pioneers of the Change and those who change adjacent. Siouxsie Wiles, Ali Mau, Pinky Agnew, Dr. Ella Henry, and Anjum Rahman are just some of the fabulously talented peeps who have said yes to being probed, verbally! Click the button, and join Penny and co!