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People Inspired By Purpose - Purposely Podcast

Mark Longbottom

Speaking with people of purpose, those making the world a better place People Inspired By Purpose - Purposely Podcast amplifies the stories of inspirational people from across the Globe, philanthropy leaders, founders and CEO"s of nonprofits, charities, for purpose business leaders as well social entrepreneurs. They are often inspired by their own experiences. Join the Purposely team www.purposelypodcast.com

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01:01:30

#304 'You're All Fundraisers' Emily Trevail & Emily...

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2026/10/04

Welcoming Emily Trevail and Emily Murdoch, the duo behind Empower Fundraising, to Purposely Podcast.Empower Fundraising is a Christchurch-based consultancy helping charities make fundraising clear, achievable and built to last. It started with a podcast.Emily and Emily launched Dear Donors to fill a gap they saw in the sector: plenty of polished campaign case studies, but not enough real stories from the people doing the work. A few months in, working together was going so well that they turned it

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00:06:27

SHORT 'Business, Travel and Climate' Darrell Wade...

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2026/09/27

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, Intrepid Travelco-founder Darrell Wade joins us on why he sees everyone from staff to travellers as stakeholders in the business, why climate became impossible to look away from, and why corporate giving works best when it's good for thebusiness too. Darrell traces it back to how Intrepid was built. Whatstarted as two shareholders quickly became a business where travellers, staff, suppliers, hoteliers and transport partners were all treated as stakeholders in

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01:09:24

#303 'Representing & Enabling Charity Leaders' Jane...

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2026/09/20

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00:03:59

SHORT 'Imperfect Action, Coaching and Learning to...

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2026/09/13

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, coach and facilitatorShruthi Vijayakumar joins us on why perfect is the enemy of good, what coaching really looks like in practice, and the moment she had to learn to back herself. Shruthi's first big lesson came early and came hard: don'tlet perfection be the enemy of good. Drafting curriculum as a young, startup market employee, she felt the full weight of imposter syndrome, chasing a version of "right" that didn't need to exist. The shift

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00:45:20

#302 'Building Community By Design', Simone Woodland,...

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2026/09/06

Welcoming Simone Woodland, Co-founder of Circle Living, toPurposely Podcast. Simone is an architect and the co-founder of Circle Living,a people-first property development company building intergenerational, community-led neighbourhoods across New Zealand, with developments underway inWellington, Christchurch and Nelson. The idea is simple but not common in mainstream housing: design homes so people have their own privacy, while making it easy to connect with the people living around

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00:53:54

#301 'Building A Travel Company Around Purpose',...

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2026/08/30

Welcoming Darrell Wade to Purposely Podcast. Darrell co-founded Intrepid Travel, one of the largestadventure travel companies in the world and a certified B Corp, built on the idea that travel should give something back to the places it touches. He is also Chair of Philanthropy Australia, the peak body working to build a strongerculture of giving across the country. The idea for Intrepid came together in 1988, on a nine monthoverland trip across Africa in a converted truck with a group of friends,

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00:04:09

SHORT 'Funding Innovation For Impact' Liz Gibbs CEO...

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2026/08/23

In this Purposely Short, we revisit a four-minute segment from our full conversation with Liz Gibbs on how mission-driven organisations can fund and invest in innovation to grow their social impact.Liz points to examples like Eli Care to show what it takes for charities, social enterprises and philanthropic investors to move beyond one-off grants and take an investment-minded approach that still stays true to mission. She talks through how capital can be structured and partnered, so it supports good

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00:35:39

#300 'Working for Foundations, Advising Charities on...

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2026/08/16

Welcoming Tara Arnold back to Purposely Podcast. Tara is a fundraising consultant, engaged by grant making charities including Unbound Philanthropy and Lloyds Bank Foundation to help small and mid sized nonprofits strengthen their income generation. This is her second appearance this year on the show, following an earlier conversation about her work in grant making at Sharegift, and this time the focus turns to what she sees from inside the charities she supports.Tara works through a funder plus

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00:06:57

SHORT 'When Giving Became Part of the Advice' Simon...

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2026/08/09

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we are back with SimonBowden, Head of Philanthropic Services at Forsyth Barr, on why investment firms are bringing philanthropy into the advisory relationship, and what that means in practice. Simon explains that demand from clients is a big part ofwhat is driving the shift. Generational wealth transfer is bringing people into the conversation who have a strong interest in how their money affects the world around them. Holistic financial advice, the kind that

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00:45:11

#299 'Resource Follows Vision', Shruthi Vijayakumar,...

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2026/08/02

Welcoming Shruthi Vijay Kumar, coach, facilitator andeducator based in Aotearoa New Zealand, to Purposely Podcast. Shruthi works with leaders and organisations trying to shiftfrom extractive to more regenerative ways of working. She draws on indigenous, eastern and western knowledge traditions to do it. She holds an MBA from Oxford, has worked with the World Economic Forum, taught at AUT, and foundedthe Fire Circle, a space for cross-cultural wisdom bringing together indigenous elders from around

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00:07:36

SHORT 'Two Weeks from Closing' Helen Hughes CEO...

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2026/07/26

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we are back with HelenHughes, Chief Executive of Sanctuary Mountain Mangatautari, on what she found when she lifted the bonnet on one of New Zealand's most remarkable conservation organisations, and what she did about it. Helen was the seventh CE in twelve years when she arrived.Three months in, she started asking basic questions about how the place was funded, and the answers were not good. The sanctuary had been running at an operating loss of around $50,000 a

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00:40:59

#298 'Turning Unwanted Shares Into Grants for Good...

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2026/07/19

Welcoming back Tara Arnold, Head of Grant Making at ShareGift, to Purposely Podcast. Sharegift is a UK charity built around an idea most people have never heard of: collecting donated shareholdings that are too small to sell, pooling them together and distributing the proceeds to good causes. The model was created thirty years ago by founder Claire McIntosh, a stockbroker who noticed the waste sitting in small, unwanted share parcels. Today, a team of five has given away close to 70 million pounds,

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00:06:25

SHORT 'What It Really Takes to Run a Celebrity...

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2026/07/12

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we are back with Gary Stannett, CEO of the Rio Ferdinand Foundation, on the realities of setting up and running a charity attached to a famous name, and why getting it right matters far more than most people realise.Gary is direct about something the sector doesn't always say out loud: putting a well-known name on a charity is a brave thing to do. Charities are more publicly exposed than most organisations. Anyone can look up the finances, the governance, the

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00:52:07

#297 'Founding A For Purpose Distribution Business',...

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2026/07/05

Welcoming Dan Leverington, founder of The Ocelli Group, to Purposely Podcast.The Ocelli Group is a for-profit business built around a clear purpose: connecting organisations that need to do sustainability work with the right partners to deliver it. Dan sits in the middle, not as a consultant doing the work himself, but as a connector who understands both sides of the equation and knows how to bring them together. The name comes from the secondary visual system bees use to navigate by the sun. It is

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00:56:06

#296 'Empowering People to Thrive, Responding to...

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2026/06/28

Welcoming Kate Sclater, Head of Community Investment at Rātā Foundation, to Purposely Podcast. Rātā Foundation is one of twelve community trusts acrossAotearoa New Zealand, formed following the deregulation of the banking sector in the late 1980s. With a fund of around $700 million, it operates in perpetuity across Canterbury, Nelson Marlborough and the Chatham Islands, striving for an equitable and sustainable society under the kaitiakitanga of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Its name comes from the Southern

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00:05:58

SHORT 'Finding Purpose in Unlikely Places' Ned Wills...

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2026/06/21

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we’re back with NedWills, on an unexpected place his community engagement journey began, and what it taught him about ethics, incentives, and connecting elite sport to grassroots impact. Ned’s eyes were first opened to community work through anunlikely route: working in the oil industry in the early 2000s. Large infrastructure projects in unstable parts of the world meant companies had to invest heavily before seeing any return, which made getting community

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00:59:24

#295 'The Road to Zero HIV: 40 Years of Advocacy',...

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2026/06/14

Welcoming Liz Gibbs, CEO Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, to Purposely Podcast. Burnett Foundation is the organisation on a mission to get New Zealand to zero HIV transmission by 2030, while ensuring LGBTQ+ communities have the best possible health and wellbeing.The conversation starts with the foundation's origin story. Formerly the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, it was set up 40 years ago by three men, including Bruce Burnett, a New Zealander who returned home from San Francisco with HIV and chose

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00:10:45

SHORT 'Fund the Human, Not the Project' Rose Challies...

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2026/06/07

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we’re back with Rose Challies – founder and director of Terra Nova Foundation – on the uncomfortable truths about how philanthropy actually works, and what it would look like if funders finally put people at the centre.Rose has a view that cuts through a lot of the noise in this space: we’re not funding projects. We’ve never been funding projects. We’re funding humans to do change making. The sooner philanthropy gets honest about that, the sooner we’ll start

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00:44:39

#294 'Restoring Nature at Scale', Helen Hughes, Chief...

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2026/05/31

Welcoming Helen Hughes to Purposely Podcast, Chief Executive and Tai Oroni of Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, one of New Zealand's most remarkable conservation stories and the world's largest pest-proof fenced sanctuary, sitting in the Waikato near Cambridge.3363 hectares of restored native forest. 47 kilometres of predator-proof fencing. Kiwi, kokako, giant weta and hundreds of native species finding their footing again in a forest that had lost its voice. The ecological work at

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00:06:23

SHORT 'Making the Numbers Work for Small Charities'...

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2026/05/24

In this SHORT episode of Purposely, we’re back with Duncan Matthews – founder of Good Numbers – on funder reporting, the pain of being a volunteer treasurer, and why small charities deserve better tools.Duncan opens with a familiar frustration: tier four charities – those under $140,000 in annual expenditure – are everywhere in Aotearoa (around 15,000 on the charities register alone), yet virtually no software has been built with them in mind. Small in money, perhaps. But not small in impact.He

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