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  • Hidden in plain sight.

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    “I’ve always loved creating space for conversations that matter.” Ed Cruikshank grew up between Liverpool and Manchester, trained as a cabinetmaker, then studied industrial design in London before spending over a decade working at LINLEY…

  • Why wouldn’t a community have their own app?!

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

    Tony O’Regan is the founder of the Wānaka App - locals’ trusted first digital port-of-call when it comes to regional news and events, and New Zealand’s first hyperlocal community news app.Nine years after he and wife Pip launched the App…

  • Everything’s interconnected.

    September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    “The way that nature works is beautiful irrespective of its visual appearance. Everything’s interconnected. Everything operates in cyclical flows that produce more beauty, and more life, and more vigour, and more joy.”Environmental artist…

  • S01E10: Jo Mills - Copywriter. The Outlet, Lake Wānaka

    August 23, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Jo Mills and I met up at The Outlet, the point where Lake Wānaka becomes Mata-Au / the Clutha River. Jo and her then-boyfriend Nick first lived together here, in a tiny crib that’s now part of the campground, and it’s where Nick proposed…

  • S01E09: Ed Leigh - Broadcaster & Producer. Wānaka

    August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 50 min

    "I pinch myself every day"We recorded this one sitting outside Ed Leigh’s home above Lake Wānaka’s Peninsula Bay. Bought as a bare section by Ed and his wife Sian back in 2019, they’ve built something that is, in his own words, the…

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  • S01E08: Carmen Hubber - Designer. Arrow Junction, Queenstown

    August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    A handshake kind of girlWhen Carmen Hubber’s daughter Ruby was born in 2003, she walked away from a senior interior design role at McKenzie & Willis, printed 200 business cards, and took Ruby’s pram cold-calling local businesses in…

  • S01E07: Laura Williamson - Writer. Dean’s Bank, Albert Town

    July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min

    Laura Williamson arrived in Wānaka the week of the big flood of 1999. The water had just receded, the high water mark was still visible on the supermarket walls, and her partner immediately found a job taking apart, cleaning, re-lubing…

  • S01E06: Ben Wallbank - Filmmaker. Tititea / Mt. Aspiring Lookout

    July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    The character traits that emerged so unexpectedly in the immediate aftermath of a car crash - the way he instinctively knew what to do, and how to do it - felt so deeply biologically anchored, they laid a career foundation that went…

  • S01E05: Jenny Chisholm - landscape painter. Glendhu Bay.

    June 23, 2026 · 59 min

    S01E05. Jenny Chisholm. Landscape painter.Landscape guides meJenny Chisholm was “unmade” for the first time at two weeks old. Offered up. Then chosen. Adopted into a Bay of Plenty farming family, the youngest of five, with free range of…

  • S01E04: Tony “Buzz” Burrows. Pendant light designer

    June 16, 2026 · 59 min

    S01E04: Tony “Buzz” Burrows. Pendant light designer The Universe Inside a Ping-Pong Ball  Tony Burrows is a designer and artist, former director of photography, and the man behind Central Otago’s Buzz Burrows lighting brand. After thirty…

  • S01E03: Siobháin Hooper - Celebrant and Poet

    June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Siobháin Hooper is a wedding celebrant and poet, and someone who has spent most of her adult life being very good at telling other people's stories.  In agencies, at Air New Zealand, and now helping happy couples tie the knot in Wānaka…

  • S01E02: Briar Hardy-Hesson - The Fruit Bowl Studio

    June 2, 2026 · 58 min

    Briar Hardy-Hesson is a maker, jeweller, and founding member of the Arté Collective in Luggate. She operates under the name Fruit Bowl Studio - a name chosen deliberately, so she could never be pinned down to just one thing. We sat outside…

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Exploring the transformations necessary in creative practice - the work behind the work. Big or small, the moments when we sometimes have to let go of what once worked and deal with what follows. theunmakingpodcast.substack.com