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People Inspired By Purpose - Purposely Podcast

Mark Longbottom

Business & Entrepreneuriat

Fréquence : 1 épisode/6j. Total Éps: 408

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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SHORT 'Business, Travel and Climate' Darrell Wade Founder of Intrepid Travel

dimanche 27 septembre 2026 • Durée 06:27

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 the company's success. Once you see the business that way, he says, climatechange stops being someone else's problem – every stakeholder you care about is affected, and the ripple goes further still. That's not just a responsibility, in his view, but an opportunity: to start conversations, find solutions andactually change behaviour, even if no single business can solve it alone.

He's wary of framing corporate giving as an obligationcompanies should feel guilty for not meeting. Instead, he argues structured philanthropy can genuinely benefit a business, and points to three reasons it works at Intrepid. It's aligned with the company's mission and values, sogiving back to destinations is simply logical. It deepens the traveller experience – pairing a trip with a local NGO working on an issue like human rights or the environment, matching donations dollar for dollar, and sending travellershome understanding the destination, not just its beaches. And it engages staff, many of whom fundraise, volunteer or give through payroll via the Intrepid Foundation – something Darrell believes makes them more engaged employees whostay longer.

Key themes

Seeing staff, travellers and suppliers as stakeholders inyour success

Climate change as a responsibility that ripples out to everystakeholder

Moving past guilt-based framing toward philanthropy thatbenefits the business

Matching traveller donations to local NGOs to deepen thetravel experience

Staff engagement through the Intrepid Foundation -fundraising, volunteering, payroll giving

Corporate giving as a loyalty and retention tool, not justgenerosity

This episode of Purposely is brought to you by Benevity and Trust Investment.

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#303 'Representing & Enabling Charity Leaders' Jane Ide, CEO at ACEVO

Saison 1 · Épisode 301

dimanche 20 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:09:24

SHORT 'Imperfect Action, Coaching and Learning to Back Yourself' Shruthi Vijayakumar

dimanche 13 septembre 2026 • Durée 03:59

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 came through what she now calls design thinking and agile practice – get something out,iterate, trust your collaborators to correct you, and be humble enough to be corrected. It was, she says, a reprogramming compared to how she'd operated in university or consulting, and it made the work faster, better, and far more impactful.

That same instinct carried her into coaching. In its trueform, she says, coaching isn't about telling people what to do – it's holding space and asking questions that bring out someone's own wisdom. She saw this play out in classrooms, where teachers asked children questions that surfacedtheir assumptions, prejudices and hopes, with striking effect. It was this – paired with her own interest in personal and spiritual development – that drew her into a field where she could do exactly that, full time.

Shruthi started training as a coach at 24, and admits theself-doubt was real. Her own first coach set her a challenge she was sure she'd nail: find three clients by the next call. She did it anyway, stretched and held accountable by someone who was willing to push her growth. That experienceof being walked through the discomfort by someone further along the path is one she still draws on, in different forms, today.

Key themes

Letting go of perfectionism in early career work

Design thinking and iteration over getting it right thefirst time

#302 'Building Community By Design', Simone Woodland, Co-founder, Circle Living

Saison 1 · Épisode 302

dimanche 6 septembre 2026 • Durée 45:20

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 them.

Originally from Bristol in the UK, Simone traces herinterest in community back to childhood, when her father ran street parties on their cul-de-sac to bring disconnected neighbours together. At 15 she helped build a house in a co-housing development in Bristol's St Werburgh's, an early,hands-on introduction to what community-built housing could look like.

She studied architecture in Brighton and completed a mastersin urban design and planning at Bristol University, but found the traditional architecture industry limiting. Her early career as a social entrepreneur started with Paper Arts, a platform she built for students to showcase their work, which grew into a gallery, studios and a printing service, and eventually into a training facility teaching enterprise skills to young people.

A trip around New Zealand's South Island in 2013 convincedSimone this was where she wanted to live. She moved through the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, joining its first cohort of global entrepreneurs focused on people and planet. That move led to Elemental Design and Build, a natural buildingcompany in the Tasman region working with materials like hemp, straw and earth, and eventually to the Takaka co-housing neighbourhood in Golden Bay. Simonetalks through how that first development came together: a 14 hectare piece of land secured with a 10 percent deposit, nine months to find the rest of the funding, and a model built on loans from future residents rather than a traditional developer structure.

#301 'Building A Travel Company Around Purpose', Darrell Wade, Co-founder, Intrepid Travel & Chair, Philanthropy Australia

dimanche 30 août 2026 • Durée 53:54

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, including his now wife Anna and university mate Geoff “Manch” Manchester. Back in Australia, a good job with a strong salary was on offer. Darrell was ready to take it and put the travel company idea aside, until Anna told him he would be a pain in the ass unless he started the business. He did, expecting a 90 percent chance of failure.

The company was bootstrapped on 20,000 dollars between the two founders, and the first five years were lean. Darrell talks candidly about the slow build, the early days running the entire business from a single desk while Manch led trips in Thailand, and the gradual shift from a lifestyle choice into a genuine company with a plan.

A significant turning point came in 2011, when Intrepid solda 60 percent stake to Tui Group. Darrell describes the decision and the four years that followed as oil and water. The cultures were fundamentally incompatible, growth stalled, and in 2015 the founders unwound the deal. Within a month of separating, the business was growing again. He is direct about whathe took from it: financial logic is not enough if the culture does not hold together.

Darrell also talks about the moment his thinking on climatechanged. Reading Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers on a family safari in Botswana, not long after Intrepid had won an award for responsible tourism, he realised the company was not the environmental good guy he thought it was. Hedescribes it plainly: they were part of the problem. That reckoning shaped Intrepid's climate work from there on, including taking the entire office and a thousand travellers to see An Inconvenient Truth.

SHORT 'Funding Innovation For Impact' Liz Gibbs CEO Burnett Foundation

dimanche 23 août 2026 • Durée 04:09

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 causes now while helping build sustainable, impact-led enterprises for the future.

This one is useful for charity leaders, impact investors and funders working out where philanthropy, investment and innovation meet.

Key themes

• Why more funders are looking to invest in innovation and commercial models, not just rely on one-off grants

• What Eli Care shows about blending commercial discipline with social mission

• The capital and partnerships needed to back early-stage, impact-focused ventures

• What boards and leadership teams should weigh up on risk, return and mission

• How funding strategy can build long-term, community-level impact, not just short-term outputs

This episode of Purposely is brought to you by Benevity and Trust Investments

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#300 'Working for Foundations, Advising Charities on Fundraising', Tara Arnold, Fundraising Consultant

Saison 1 · Épisode 300

dimanche 16 août 2026 • Durée 35:39

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 model, where a grant comes bundled with an offer of consultancy support. With Unbound, that support is light touch and opt in, a follow up email after a grant is confirmed. With Lloyds, charities apply directly for up to six days of support across fundraising, finance, volunteering or governance. In both cases Tara is usually introduced at CEO or director level, working on strategy rather than day to day delivery, and she starts every relationship by listening before she advises.

Much of the conversation centres on income diversification. Tara describes charities that dip into difficulty because they lean on a single funding stream, often grants, and never build anything alongside it. She talks through practical, lowcost ways to test new approaches, from a five minute ask at the end of an online event to reviewing untapped supporter bases the charity has never directly asked for money. She is blunt about the discomfort many charities feelaround fundraising itself, describing organisations with long term, loyal supporters who have simply never been asked to give.

A recurring theme is the mismatch between expectation and resourcing. Tara has seen new fundraisers hired with no budget and an unspoken expectation that they raise their own salary in year one. She calls it insanity, and argues that if acharity cannot answer a straightforward question about budget and culture in an interview, that is a warning sign for any fundraiser considering the role. She also flags basics that get missed constantly, including no reserves policy, nofundraiser on the board, and donors thanked late or not at all.

The conversation closes on stewardship, the unglamorous work of keeping donors and funders engaged after the money lands. Tara's examples are small and human, athirty second video from a charity worker, a short case study, a one line thank you email. None of it costs much. All of it, she says, is what actually keeps funding relationships alive.

SHORT 'When Giving Became Part of the Advice' Simon Bowden Head of Philanthropic Services at Forsyth Barr

dimanche 9 août 2026 • Durée 06:57

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 starts with what aperson actually cares about, naturally makes room for that conversation.

He talks through how firms like Forsyth Barr handle thepracticalities. A regular distribution to a charity is straightforward. When it comes to larger gifts or capital, partnerships with community foundations anddonor advised funds mean the money can keep working in perpetuity while the advisor stays involved. It is a model that works for the client, the advisor and the organisations being supported.

And when the giving conversation opens up, something elsehappens. Clients start talking about their values, what they care about, how their wealth was built and who they want to remember. Advisors who have known clients for years often come out of those conversations having learned thingsthey never knew. It deepens the relationship on both sides.

• Why investment firms are building philanthropicservices teams and what is driving client demand

• How donor advised funds and community foundations fitinto the advisory relationship

• Keeping capital working in perpetuity while supportinggood causes

• Generational wealth transfer and the shift in whatclients want from financial advice

• What opening up the giving conversation does for theadvisor-client relationship

This episode of Purposely is brought to you by Benevity and Trust Investments

#299 'Resource Follows Vision', Shruthi Vijayakumar, Coach, Facilitator and Founder, Fire Circle

Saison 1 · Épisode 299

dimanche 2 août 2026 • Durée 45:11

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 the world with leaders in business, education and community.

This conversation starts with pain. Shruthi was a highachiever who found her way into a blue chip consulting firm in Melbourne, only to be sat down by a senior partner and told her performance was not where it needed to be. She talks openly about what that did to her, the tears, thecollapse of external validation, and the long process of rebuilding a sense of worth that did not depend on how a company reviewed her every few months. Thatexperience, she says, set her free. Rather than waiting for conditions to change or for someone to give her permission, she left and went to India to work for a small education startup trying to reimagine curriculum throughstorytelling. It was, she says, the most aligned she had ever felt.

From there, a career took shape that sits at the intersection of inner work and outer impact. Shruthi trained as a coach fromher mid-twenties, drawn to a discipline that holds space for people to find their own answers rather than being told what to think. She is clear that the most important thing she has brought to that work is her own inner journey, including time in ashrams in India, with a mindfulness community in theCoromandel, and with spiritual teachers whose presence, she says, has helped her meet the grief and pain that clients bring.

The Fire Circle grew out of the COVID period, when Shruthiand three colleagues from Australia, New York and Arnhem Land asked what it would look like to elevate indigenous and pre-colonial wisdom in conversations about business, leadership and how to build back differently. The circle nowhas eight or nine elders from around the world. It has run online gatherings, retreats with climate leaders, and guest lectures at business schools. The animating idea is that nature is not one priority among many. It is the foundation on which everything else rests.

SHORT 'Two Weeks from Closing' Helen Hughes CEO Mountain Sanctuary

dimanche 26 juillet 2026 • Durée 07:36

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 month, masked by grant funding landing atirregular intervals. At its lowest point, there were two weeks of cash flow left. On top of that, Helen had inherited a team that had grown disconnected under a previous leader who was working remotely and part-time.

Her response was to go to media. She sat with her teamfirst, told them what she was about to do, and went public with the financial reality. It was not an easy call, and it was the right one. Philanthropic funders responded with around $250,000, which bought time and breathing room.But Helen was clear that a rescue was not a strategy. The sanctuary needed to stand on its own feet.

Since then, she has been building new revenue streamsalongside the core grant funding. Tourism is the biggest opportunity: 300 visitors a day at full capacity would bring in $3.5 to $4 million annually. An education programme now brings 6,000 students a year through the sanctuary,with global virtual tours being explored. On-site accommodation generates $40,000 a year through Airbnb. A native nursery, recently taken commercial, is expected to add $90,000 to $100,000 annually, growing rare trees most nurseries cannot access.

And then there is the biodiversity credit programme, builton work started by a previous CE and developed with Sean Weaver at Ecos. It is the only accredited programme within the International Biodiversity Credit Alliance, listed on a major international carbon trading platform within a weekof applying. The model turns the sanctuary's annual operating costs into priced units of conservation work that can be sold to the market. It is early days, but it is genuinely new ground.

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