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Tonight our guest is Dr. Liz Hardy, the founder of SimpliTeach.com . Liz helps online teachers overcome what she calls the Big Hairy Beasts of the job. She believes the secret is to work smarter rather than harder, and she shares many ways of doing just that. We have conducted an interview with Liz. Your mantra is “helping teachers work smarter rather than harder”. How did that come about? Online teachers are often dealing with much bigger classes than in face-to-face teaching. The higher student numbers mean there’s a lot more work to grade, and a never-ending flood of student emails to answer. If you don’t have some solid strategies in place for handling these challenges, pretty soon you’re completely swamped. It feels like you’re being swept away in a tidal wave of work that’s much more powerful than you are! So it’s my mission to help online teachers deal with overwhelm and overwork, and find smart ways to get those endless, crashing waves of work back unde...

Designertech is a tech company based in Auckland, NZ that has a software product called EVA Receptionist . The product is a Visitor Management system that allows visitors/contractors/staff to sign in and out of a business. It frees up time for traditional receptionists who would normally have to deal with arriving and departing visitors, so that receptionists can focus on more value adding tasks. What does the traditional ‘Receptionist’ role encompass and how has it evolved over the last decade? Traditionally, the title receptionist was attributed to the person who is employed by a company to receive or greet any visitors, patients, contractors, couriers or clients and answer telephone calls. Most receptionists possess attentiveness, initiative, loyalty, maturity, respect for confidentiality and discretion, a positive attitude and dependability – these attributes make receptionists great candidates for doing other important tasks within a company, and that is why the increa...

Tonight our guest is Jake, aka Ikspliz!t . He was born in NZ but lived most of his life in Aussie. He set a goal on NYE 2016 to get his first Record Deal. Jake signed 4 contracts so far. His latest EP - MethOD - just got signed to MT-Musik. Who inspires you the most for your music? Inspiration: Would have to come from so many area's/times in my life it's hard to pinpoint. Number 1 would be Pink Floyd as to me, they are the sound of my childhood. The depth of emotion they portray is 2nd to none, their sound is literally my hero. The passion their music took to create and my memories as a child growing up through happy and sad times always plays back as a Pink Floyd song. Thankfully my parents loved good music! How do you describe your music? I describe my music as current feelings being put into sound as i find it hard to communicate with people through talking. I've been through a lot of traumatizing events over the last couple of years and this has turne...

Shaun Barratt is the founder and director of Salt Recruitment Limited, an HR recruiting company that specializes in digital recruiting and is responsible for a number of key innovations that have allowed it to offer such a comprehensive range of services. In 2003, Mr. Barratt opened Salt’s Auckland, New Zealand, office with the goal of providing highly personalized recruitment services capable of addressing each individual client's unique needs and distinctive challenges.   Mr. Barratt’s company now boasts a strong international presence, as Salt Recruitment Limited has enjoyed immense growth over the past 13 years. The company is able to claim offices in New York, London, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Sydney, in addition to its original operational base in Auckland, New Zealand. The global success achieved by Salt Recruitment illustrates the potency of Mr. Barratt’s entrepreneurial vision, not to mention his irrepressible enthusiasm and tireless work ethic....

Gwendolyn Taunton/ Gwendolyn Toynton - is a writer and have written on a variety of topics, prose, horror fiction, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mythology, paganism and philosophy. She has been awarded for literary excellence in 2009 in New Zealand. We have conducted an interview with her What were your achievements in the writing field? How did you feel upon receiving the literary award? I have an extensive history in regards to writing. The first item I had published was my poem ‘Love Under Will’ in the ‘New Zealand Collection of Poetry and Prose 2002’. Following this I abandoned poetry and fiction for a long time, concentrating instead on topics such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism, Shamanism, Mythology and Philosophy. In 2005 I decided to collate my works into a periodical which was titled ‘Primordial Traditions’ – named after a term in Perennial Philosophy. Most of the content was initially written by me and the best articles were later assembled into a book entitled ‘The...