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The Butters Podcast
by James Butters
Insights from honest conversations
Episodes
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78. Erin Polaschek
Episode 78 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Erin Polaschek. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps. Functional training is about functional movement, self-tuning, longevity, Phillip Beach, change your vibrations and then allow things to drop in, what we tell the universe…
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77. Brooke Roberts
Episode 77 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Brooke Roberts. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Being full of excitement, having a running accountability buddy, VO2 max, removing limiting beliefs, learning to live longer and with…
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76. Maddy West
Episode 76 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Maddy West. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Resilience and putting good things in place so that whatever happens in life you’ll be fine, Sharesies is an awesome place to work, not being...
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75. Rebecca Lauryssen
Episode 75 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Rebecca Lauryssen. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Given up for adoption, having amazing parents and an amazing nexus of culture, being nomadic, nourish to flourish, early morning...
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74. Ollie Maassen
Episode 74 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Ollie Maassen. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Living meaningfully, allegories for life in the bible, living as cooperative creatures, Pascal’s wager, morality as a construct based on...
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73. Sara Warnock
Episode 73 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Sara Warnock. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Parrhesia and speaking uncomfortable truths, teacher burnout, completing her PhD, finding a voice in academia, yoga as a framework to...
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72. Andy Alsop
Episode 72 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Andy Alsop. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Drug and alcohol addiction, Care NZ: https://www.carenz.co.nz/, undiagnosed ADHD and how Andy’s ADHD medication works in his case, dyslexia,...
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71. Kat Lintott
Episode 71 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Kat Lintott. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters Optimising sleep, the mental and physical identity shift after becoming a parent, good things take time and occur one step at a time, making...
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70. Ali Bahmad
Episode 70 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Ali Bahmad. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon: patreon.com/butters A career in cookery and as a cookery teacher in Wellington, Ali's garden being a connection to his family (Australia and Lebanon) and being...
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69. David James
Episode 69 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with David James. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon. Photography, learning to solve problems on the fly, an image junkie, “the hurty hurty in the heart”, order within chaos and chaos within order, learn to embrace...
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68. Michael Butters
Episode 68 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Michael Butters. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon. Our propensity to become addicted to things, the importance of collective responsibility, the abundance mindset and “if you feel like you have plenty, and…
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67. Amy Straw
Episode 67 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Amy Straw. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and here on Patreon. Maddy's dance experience (Funk Society), Amy reconnecting with dancing and realising she's always loved it, a journey of self-development and living life to...
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66. Ben Forman
Episode 66 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Ben Forman. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and here on Patreon. The 4 key topics floating around Ben's mind - energy, time, identity, and abundance, exploring different wellness modalities, tapping into your own energy…
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65. Jase Te Patu
Episode 65 of The Butters Podcast is my kōrero with Jase Te Patu. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and here on Patreon. An advocate for mental health and wellbeing through his company M3 (https://www.m3mindfulness.com/), the Ministry of Health report on people suffering from…
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64. Anna Edgington
Episode 64 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Anna Edgington aka edie. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon. Anna is a movement-oriented person, singing as a way of expressing herself, good emotions and chemicals from singing - the release of serotonin when...
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63. Uona Ponton
Episode 63 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Uona Ponton. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Having to self-catheterise to pass urine, learning to accept all parts of yourself, alternative methods to pain prevention, working in hospo, massage therapy…
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62. Luther Loach
Episode 62 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Luther Loach. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. The rollercoaster that is sales, Nude Pickles - Luther’s pickle passion project, working to live vs living to work and what happiness really is, Kate’s cool…
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61. Issey Thomson
Episode 61 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Issey Thomson. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Comparison is the thief of all joy, “I have no chill, my brain is always go go go”, being an active relaxer, checking Issey’s screen time, “going with the flow…
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60. Ben Cartwright
Episode 60 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Ben Cartwright. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Filing for bankruptcy, reflecting on who we really are, right vs wrong motivations, feeling free, if it was gone tomorrow would it actually matter? and more.…
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59. Ewan Clark
Episode 59 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with film and TV composer Ewan Clark. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Arranging music for orchestras, working with Alien Weaponry, Tiki Taane, and Ria Hall, working within set parameters can be super helpful for...
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58. Neha Goyal
Episode 58 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with my very good friend Neha Goyal. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. The connection between woman and gay men, live your best life, makeup as your daily transformative war paint, watching cartoons first thing in…
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57. Teri O’Neill
Episode 57 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Teri O’Neill. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The youngest city council member, don’t forget to vote in the local body elections before 8 October, being raised by strong women, challenging the rules...
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56. Corban Halcrow
Episode 56 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Corban Halcrow. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Kapiti Coffee Roasters, living an analogue life, losing a finger, and more. This conversation is made possible thanks to my patrons, and if you’re keen to…
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55. Yoan Jolly
Episode 55 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Yoan Jolly. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Photography, working at kowtow for 14 years, the important role that values play within an organisation, personal values based on communities we want to be part of...
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54. Alyce Lysaght
Episode 54 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Alyce Lysaght. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Identity, impatience, learning to be slow, finding fulfilment, you can’t pour from an empty cup, ‘Māori in Engineering’ (Alyce’s podcast), the important work…
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53. Dan Tideman
Episode 53 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Dan Tideman. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Music, Winnie-the-Pooh, Whiplash, Charlie Parker, WETA, Dungeons and Dragons, phone etiquette, technology, and more. Thank you to Heyday on Cuba Street in…
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52. Tory Whanau
Episode 52 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Tory Whanau. Available on all podcast apps, and on Patreon. Running for Mayor of Wellington, key values (people and planet) and bringing people on the journey, misogyny in politics, never look at the comments, online trollers, winning…
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51. Sian interviews Butters
Episode 51 of The Butters Podcast is a little different. This is my conversation with Sian-Louise Nelson, or more accurately, this is a conversation where Sian interviews me. Finding the essence of yourself, I love helping people, my podcast conversations are deliberately unscripted, I’m 1 of 13...
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50. Pita Cammock
Episode 50 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Pita Cammock. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon. The benefits of fasting, asceticism, autophagy, and ayahuasca, Carl Jung said that the personality is made up of the persona (the person you project to others...
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49. Andrew Nelson
Episode 49 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Andrew Nelson. Available on all podcast apps, and on Patreon. Bulging disk injury, nerve flossing, accepting the reality, the slow road to recovery and learning to be patient, strategies to get out of one’s own head, the coin flip, and…
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48. Jordan Lee
Episode 48 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Jordan Lee. Available on all podcast apps, and on Patreon. Feel the fear and do it anyway, present vs future, using the Calm mediation app, the pros and cons of being a perfectionist, learning techniques through a life coach, manifesting…
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47. Oli Tripp
Episode 47 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Oli Tripp. Available on all podcast apps, and on Patreon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Brad Pitt, the difference between a movie star and an actor, what will Wellington look like in five years’ time, the legacy of Lamason, converting his bike into an eBike,...
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46. Tom Brotherstone
Episode 46 of The Butters Podcast is my second conversation with Tom Brotherstone, co-owner of the Awhi Yoga and Wellbeing studio in Wellington. (Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and on Patreon.) Running an Airbnb with Maddy, the open weekend at Awhi, the pros and cons of being…
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45. Ganesh Cherian
Episode 45 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Ganesh Cherian. On the topic of processing thoughts by talking things through. "An idea, until you can articulate it, it's not practical. Until somebody else can understand it, it's not particularly useful." “We’re all narratives. We’re…
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44. Maddy West
Episode 44 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with recruitment specialist, dance teacher, and sassy B, Maddy West. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. The benefits of doing therapy when nothing’s wrong, tools to use in everyday situations, the importance of...
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43. Sopheak Seng
Episode 43 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with creative director and stylist Sopheak Seng. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Time in hospital, a new outlook on life, used to being an active relaxer, learning to say no to things, FOMO vs JOMO, and more.…
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42. Juliet Thomborson
Episode 42 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Juliet Thomborson. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Personal pronouns and the differing prospectives on them, Juliet’s mum as a second-wave feminist, being bullied at school, the effects of…
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41. Hannah Blumhardt
Episode 41 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with zero waste life-styler and advocate, Hannah Blumhardt. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Hannah and Liam living without a rubbish bin since 2015 and how it changed their lives, it’s not about waste it’s about…
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40. Selwyn Andrews
Episode 40 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Selwyn Andrews. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Living with a waste activist, being continually challenged, a jack of all trades, the two Steve’s (Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak), open source vs proprietary…
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39. David Allen
Episode 39 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with DJ, actor, filmmaker, and creative, David Allen. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Dirty Burger, “fear stands in the way of an experience”, sheep’s balls, a blind museum, closing your eyes when a really good…
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38. Tom Brotherstone
Episode 38 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Tom Brotherstone, yoga teacher at Awhi Yoga and brown belt Brazilian Ju-Jitsu teacher at Mai Dojo. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Teaching yoga and Ju-Jitsu, learning through teaching, creating space for...
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37. Rory Moores
Episode 37 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with author Rory Moores. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Back again for take 3, Mel Gibson, Hulk Hogan, understanding things in their true context, the importance of constructive critique, Rory’s book ‘Office...
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35. Paul Wong
Episode 35 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Paul Wong, filmmaker and creative writer. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Just a heads up that because we were sitting out the back of Frank’s, there were the odd gusts of Wellington wind which the mic picked...
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33. Doug Gilbert
Episode 33 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Doug Gilbert, Senior Brand Manager for Light RTDs at Asahi. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Doug's ‘Beer With Me’ podcast, a generous serving of cream (for a long black) vs a poor fries-to-ketchup ratio,...
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32. Kane Mullen
Episode 32 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with conduct investigator, Kane Mullen. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Work as an investigator, always trying to keep an open mind and not assume anything, burner accounts on Twitter, sport is just sport, how...
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31. Lorenzo Lavatelli
Episode 31 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with visual effects artist, Lorenzo Lavatelli. The journey that led to working in visual effects, employing creative techniques to achieve realistic special effects, Elon Musk’s Neurolink brain chip, everything in moderation, Lorenzo 2.0, the...
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30. Dr Peter Parkes
Episode 30 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Dr Peter Parkes, architect and Director at Strategic Architecture. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. A dissident, a critique of post-modern architectural theory, people as active interpreters of spaces vs…
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29. Laura Saxon Jones
Episode 29 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Laura Saxon Jones, a fascinating human being, an amazing dancer, and a former member of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Red wine, smelly cheese, the Frenchman Jean…
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28. Sian-Louise Nelson
Episode 28 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with scenic artist and Scottish lassie, Sian-Louise Nelson. Prop painting on Outlaw King (Netflix, 2018), haggis neeps and tatties, mental health walks, sucking on baby wipes, extrovert, anxiety, and more. Special thanks to Leroy’s, where we…
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27. Dave Lamason
Episode 27 of The Butters Podcast is my conversation with Dave Lamason, owner of Lamason Brew Bar. Available now on all your favourite podcast apps, and Patreon. Master of None or Master of Many? Working as the tech and company trainer at Peoples Coffee, shout out to Dan Eves at ETCH…
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