MUV Talks: Wellness
Event description
Join us in our next edition of MUV Talks dedicated to Wellness!
It is easy to get caught up in the business of being busy, especially as an entrepreneur. Because of this, sometimes we forget to look after ourselves and our wellness takes a backseat.
Our body is our vehicle. However, our mind is our engine. Each plays a critical role in our ability to perform well in our business and our life.
Come along to be inspired and to learn from seven humans about the ability to overcome challenges (physical and mental), strength, resiliency, and impact.
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What is MUV Talks?
Is a non-profit series focused on building capability and relationships within communities. What makes it special is that it is driven by the purpose of celebrating and empowering everyday people who are doing incredible things. We focus on sharing stories that may otherwise not be heard.
Each event consists of seven talks for seven minutes, from a diverse set of people with different experiences and points of view, talking about one common theme. Our unique approach to networking helps to create an energetic and friendly environment that guarantees an exceptional experience for our attendees.
Since November 2016 we have had been inspired by more than 100 speakers. You can check out the talks on our Youtube channel: http://bit.ly/MUVTalks-YouTube
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Introducing our speakers!
Kirsty Salisbury is a speaker, podcaster and coach who speaks straight from the heart. Her talks explore the topics of resilience, regrets, and how we can create opportunity through effective habits. She is engaging, inspiring and filled with passion in a way that connects at a personal level.
Through her own story of overcoming death and paralysis, Kirsty is inspiring many people to make meaningful change in their lives.
Today, Kirsty blends her experience as an established wellness professional, her private coaching business, and her research in the areas of resilience, habits, and long term happiness to help empower others with practical tools and strategies to embrace living at their best.
Through her podcasts ‘Let’s Talk Life Design’ ( www.letstalklifedesign.com ) and ‘Let’s Talk Near Death’ ( www.letstalkneardeath.com ), Kirsty connects with guests with practical steps and application to living a regretless life.
Dairne Burns is a mother of three young children, Founder of Hey Mama Movement, Director of Burns Construction, Marriage Celebrant and Children’s Book Author. Dairne has a long history in sport and teaching, most recently Managing of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Netball Team in the National League for the past three years and Managing the New Zealand Secondary Schools Netball Team in 2019. She holds a Diploma of Sport in Recreation, a Bachelor of Teaching (ECE) and has worked in and managed early childhood centres for over ten years. In 2019, Dairne founded Know No Bounds Charitable Trust, to obliterate boundaries in sport for children in Aotearoa.
Olivia Storm is a mental health doctor working in South Auckland with some of the most vulnerable and deprived people in our country. Olivia is deeply passionate about mental health particularly with Māori and Pacific young males with her aim to specialise in early psychosis or forensic psychiatry. She is the Founder and Director of The Smile Initiative; a social enterprise aimed at increasing awareness and education through practical skills to improve the mental health and well-being of New Zealanders, starting in the workplace. She is creating New Zealand’s first mental health first aid kit and developing New Zealand’s first Mental Health Tick.
Katrina Elton considers herself a master of reinvention and a big believer in following her gut and heart above all else.
She is a busy mum to three (5 and under), and co-owns a photography and media production agency "Many Talents Media”. Amongst all of that, Katrina is also studying for a yoga teacher qualification!
She attributes putting self love with mindfulness and yoga at the top of her priorities as how to overcome crises, and mental illnesses like PTSD. From her own experience, she is passionate about breaking the stigmas surrounding community issues like domestic violence and silence around mental illness.
Katrina will be talking about finding opportunities for growth amongst the most unfathomable of situations.
Becki Moss is a visual storyteller utilising both still and moving imagery to capture moments in time. Her work focuses on creating meaningful connections with the people she captures and she uses her work to share stories of communities that are often overlooked, helping people to feel seen, validated and heard.
Her debut public exhibition Queer Portraits of Auckland was held during Auckland Pride this year and she is currently working on a variety of ongoing projects including one on invisible chronic illnesses, a subject close to her heart as she lives with chronic kidney disease, endometriosis and depression.
Alexandra Bowmar has years of experience in research and university lecturing in
health, wellness and behaviour change and is accredited in mindfulness
facilitation.
Alexandra recognises information overload is leading to knowledge overwhelm and decision fatigue. She is motivated by the desire to drive wellbeing and success through hands-on action - because it takes action to get value from wisdom.
She is the founder of Crafting Wellness where wellness, innovation and productivity are learned through the process of hands-on creativity.
Natalie Coombe™ empowers women entrepreneurs, running client-serving businesses, to sort out their pricing so they can finally pay themselves what they're worth. For over 20 years, Natalie has delivered results for everyone from solopreneurs through to top international companies in London and Europe, including M&C Saatchi LIDA and Mindshare Worldwide, as well as working on brands such as Unilever, Dyson, American Express and Nike. She has been featured in the National Business Review, is a guest speaker in the She Owns It Members Club, was a Network NZ Best Start Up Finalist 2019 and is a Mentor and Facilitator for NZ Startup Bootcamp 2020. As a single-mum-by choice running her own online business Natalie understands first hand the challenges women entrepreneurs face when setting up and scaling their own business. Today Natalie works 1-on-1 and runs an online programme — How To Nail Your Pricing And Pay Yourself What You're Worth™ — teaching entrepreneurs how to pay themselves what they're worth, without burning out in the process.
Introducing our epic MC!
Colart Miles is the Managing Director of Collectively.nz and a Co-founder of Agile on the Beach NZ. He is a well-known innovation coach and a specialist in accelerated delivery practices such as Agile, Kanban and Lean. Colart is pursuing his passion for helping kiwi organizations to speed up innovation and to build a more sophisticated ecosystem.
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MUV Talks is made possible thanks to our amazing sponsors! THANK YOU!
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