The Wao Podcast.

Welcome to our podcast featuring conversations with experts, speakers and panelists who have presented at the Wao Summit in Wānaka and Queenstown, New Zealand. Kindly produced by our partners at yBC.tv

Why release a podcast?

If you’ve attended a Wao Summit over the past few years, you’ll know that the caliber of people featured at this event is very high. Our aim is to help more people hear what they have to say, including positive, practical steps that we can all easily take to make a difference - to ourselves, our community and our planet.

Latest Episodes
Wao Podcast: Grassroots goodness: nourishing the community and empowering people with disabilities.
Wao Podcast: Grassroots goodness: nourishing the community and empowering people with disabilities.

When social enterprise helps multiple layers of people, gives training and employment to people with disabilities, and solves social problems all at once.

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Wao Podcast: Our shapeshifting population: navigating a positive future
Wao Podcast: Our shapeshifting population: navigating a positive future

If you are at all interested in how Aotearoa New Zealand is changing and where we are heading, this is an episode for you.

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Wao Podcast: The power of community collaboration: dark skies and fewer predators
Wao Podcast: The power of community collaboration: dark skies and fewer predators

Leslie shares her insights on community resilience, conservation efforts, and the importance of hopefulness in challenging times.

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“We need to know each other again, if we want to survive the future.”.

— Dr Leslie Van Gelder, archaeologist, writer and educator.

This podcast was made possible thanks to the dedication of our partners yBC.tv

Since 2005, yBC has been helping clients to be more relevant and trusted with the people who matter most to them. In recent years, they have specialised in helping clients to steal the show by delivering the most valued and impactful content in their field – and with stunning results.