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Wellington Hustle
Personal Trainer and Founder of Kaizen Fitness… Jordan Berry
Jordan is passionate about taking the holistic approach to personal training. He have you doing more than serious reps at the gym. Mental health and growth is a big part of Kaizen Fitness. Working out Why, What and Where you want to be. Then helping you put in place habits and goals to get you there.
Christine describes herself as person with a passion for trying new things, meeting new people and a creator of good change in the world.
Originally starting her career as a journalist, Christine moved into communications, gravitating towards social impact work. In June 2017, Christine left her permanent job as a communications manager without a plan. After a month or so of reflection an idea started to form. A social giving platform, to replace gift giving with donations to a good cause.
Meet Cathy De Jongh, a Human Resources veteran of 20 years based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Cathy now runs her own practice helping Human Resource Leaders have a more strategic approach to structuring their workforce and organisation. Cathy sees herself as an HR Architect. She works with a high level view of organisational team structures, fine tuning their workforce, ensuring maximum efficiency.
Cathy guides her client organisations to really focus on being strategic, matching company goals with their ideal future workforce.
As well as being a people strategist, facilitator, mentor and speaker, Cathy is also in the process of writing a book. ‘Making the Shift’ will be out November 2020 and is based around Cathy’s passion for a more strategic Human Resources world.
Cathy answers the Wellington Hustle interview project questions about her vision, setbacks, wanting to give up, traps, inspiration/motivation and breakthroughs.
Chris is the founder and host of the ‘Uncomfortable is Ok’ podcast. A show with over 200 interviews, discussing the uncomfortable.
Chris will tell you that living in a world with comfort at every turn is not helpful. By choosing to stay comfortable, we are significantly restricting our potential to do great things. Getting good at doing really uncomfortable and scary stuff can help make life exciting.
Chris also works as a physiotherapist, resilience trainer and coach, and is also just a 36 year old kiwi dude with family and dog.
Gillian describes herself as a social entrepreneur. She’s also a human resourses professional and the founder of My Kids Village.
Gillian’s passion project is to fix the disconnect between full-time working parents and the traditional 9-5 workplace.
My Kids Village is an online platform for parents to easily find local childcare options. Gillian fondly calls My Kids Village a sticky plaster. Put in place while she educates New Zealand’s companies on the benefits for a flexible work environment.
Felix is a founder of a company named Opoly. A tech startup with its sites set on disrupting Real Estate investing in New Zealand with the help of Blockchain technology and Crowd Funding. Not only is Felix part of Wellington’s startup scene, but he also co-organises one of the largest local meetup groups boasting 1200 members, Blockchain NZ.
Stevo will tell you that he’s no entrepreneur. But Stevo’s the director of Ocular. A company that he started 14 years ago, now boasting a staff of fifteen, including Boris, Ocular’s Embassadog.
Their website says “We don't work for clients, we work with partners.”
Ocular is the guide, helping partners discover or refine their particular voice, story or brand. Effectively connecting those partners to their customers using video, web and print.
“We’re not smart, not fancy, not cool. We’re honest”
Getrude describes herself as a social serial entrepreneur. Others have described her as ‘a vibrant bundle of African energy’.
Getrude’s latest passion is an empowerment conference with a big goal. HerStory, a social change project, aims to host 1000 conferences to empower, connect and create community for 1 million women world wide.
