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Peta Mathias has never been very interested in standing still. At 76, she is still travelling between New Zealand and France, leading culinary adventures, running Supper Clubs, writing books and finding new reasons to say yes. From washing dishes in a Paris kitchen to owning a restaurant, becoming one of New Zealand’s best-known television food personalities and now releasing her 20th book, Peta has built a life around food, colour, curiosity and a considerable amount of courage. She joins me from her home in Uzès, in the South of France to talk about the risks that worked, the ones that didn’t, Dolly Parton, rejection, reinvention and why she has absolutely no intention of disappearing quietly into retirement.
Recipes from the Supper Club: A Ritual of Togetherness is out in October.
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New Zealand fashion is under pressure. But is the problem fast fashion, cash strapped consumers and offshore competition, or has parts of the industry simply stopped giving people what they want?In this episode, Annah and Sami get into the uncomfortable realities of fashion today: why we keep buying incredibly cheap clothing even when we know how it may have been produced, the extraordinary rise of secondhand, Shein and AliExpress copying designer product, and what the closure of Sylvester says about longevity and relevance in business. They also challenge the idea that New Zealand consumers or government should be responsible for keeping local fashion brands alive simply because they are local. After 35 years in fashion, Annah has seen the customer change dramatically. Some weeks, as much as 80% of her own company's sales can now come from accessories rather than clothing. So perhaps the bigger question isn't whether New Zealand fashion is broken. It's whether fashion businesses are changing fast enough to remain relevant.

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Sam Stubbs grew up knowing exactly what it felt like not to have money. Today, the company he founded manages billions. But Simplicity was built differently. It is a nonprofit, gives millions back into New Zealand communities and is investing heavily in housing, while Sam has some fascinating ideas about what business, wealth and success should actually be for. Annah talks with Sam about poverty, money, ambition, ageing, family, the inability to completely switch off, and why he believes New Zealanders could eventually have enough invested to fund our own future. This is much more than a conversation about KiwiSaver. It's about what happens when success stops being measured simply by how much you keep.

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Annah went to Norway and Scotland with one question: what happens when prison becomes more than simply somewhere we detain women? RAW independently funded the research, taking Annah inside Skien Women’s Prison in Norway and HMP Stirling in Scotland, two women’s prisons taking thought-leading approaches to detention. What she found was opportunity embedded into the day. Work. Education. Skills. Relationships. Responsibility. Normality. Time being used rather than simply served. Back in New Zealand, those observations became a 33,000-word discussion paper examining what could translate to Aotearoa and how it connects with 12 years of RAW experience. In this episode Annah is joined by her sister Rebecca Maxwell, RAW’s Clinical Operations Manager, to bring that conversation back to the Rangiora Women’s Unit at Waikeria, where RAW is already challenging what a day in prison could look like through Haea te Ata. This isn’t about making prison easy. It’s about asking what we want imprisonment to achieve. Because she’s coming out anyway. What opportunities will she have had before she walks out the gate?

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Frances Valintine left school early and didn’t make it to university until her 40s. She then went on to become one of New Zealand’s most influential voices in technology and education, building The Mind Lab, Tech Futures Lab and academyEX, and challenging some pretty entrenched ideas about when, where and how we’re supposed to learn. But this isn’t really a conversation about tech. It’s about what happens when we refuse to decide that we’ve learnt enough, met enough people, taken enough risks or had our most interesting years. Frances and I talk about education later in life, the damage many of us still carry from our school years, the people we surround ourselves with, loneliness, ageing, relevance and the extraordinary value of remaining curious. Frances is now taking those ideas into Love Heart, a new venture built around social learning and connection later in life. I’ve approached a similar challenge through Sisterhood Social, creating an interesting intersection between two women who believe our worlds should expand as we age, not quietly contract. And perhaps that’s the bigger question running through this episode: When did we decide getting older meant becoming less curious?

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