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Hosted by Annika Stricker · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 37 episodes
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"How to Make It Work" is a local radio show and podcast sharing real stories of people who’ve found creative, remote, or unconventional ways to build a working life in Raglan. From online businesses to freelance careers, we dive into how people make it work—for their lifestyle, their income, and their community.
Annika Stricker hosts How To Make It Work, a business show with 37 episodes published.
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is buy a one-way ticket. After a series of life-changing losses in her mid-twenties, Hannah Long packed her life into a backpack and set off to explore the world alone. Now she has
What if making it work isn't about pushing harder, but learning when to go with the flow? This week, I sit down with Raglan surf legend Daniel Kereopa. From surfing some of the biggest waves in Aotearoa to running a surf
What if your job didn’t tie you to one place? Christie Whitehouse traded a traditional path in biomedical science for a fully remote career as a freelance medical writer. Now, she’s travelling across New Zealand, working
From freezing cold waves in Massachusetts to the world-class lefts of Raglan, and now helping others catch their first wave. If you’ve ever dreamed of building a life around what you love: this one’s for you. In this epi
She turned Raglan into a novel, and a creative path into a real career. In this episode of How to Make It Work, I sit down with local author Sarah Johnson to talk about her new young adult novel Not A Babe, set right her
Print is supposed to be dead, so why is this magazine growing? In this episode, I sit down with Michael Andrew, the owner and editor of On the Land, an independent print magazine telling the stories of people living clos
From asking "what is wrong" to asking "what is strong!" In this episode, I sit down with clinical psychologist Annick Janson to talk about what it really takes to turn research into real-world impact, and why she’s bring
What happens when an artist steps up to engage a whole creative community? In this episode, I talk with artist, and educator Ruth Hickman-Goodall who is the new Arts Coordinator at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre galle
Sometimes the path to helping others begins with your own healing. In this episode, I talk with Tennille Ziegler, an Ayurvedic health counsellor in Raglan who specialises in supporting women, especially mothers in the po
Standing out online has never been harder, and that’s exactly where Matriarch Media comes in. In this episode, I sit down with Emma and Kate, the founders of Raglan-based marketing agency Matriarch Media. Together they h
What if women have been training the wrong way all along? In this episode, I sit down with Esther Keown, co-founder of Femmi, a platform designing training specifically for women and their physiology. After growing up as
What if making it work meant stitching together multiple dreams at once? In this episode of How to Make It Work, I sit down with Philippa Perry a.k.a. Pip the designer behind Pippin’s Apparel, a Raglan-based clothing bra
From somersaults to spreadsheets, this is what making circus work really looks like. In this episode of How to Make It Work, I talk with Evelyn Coulson, co-founder and manager of Black Sheep Circus Entertainment. From to
What if the little things we often miss are actually the ones that matter most. On this week’s How to Make It Work, I talk with Russell Higginbotham, aka Ru or Captured_by_RU, a photographer who captures the fleeting, ho
What if your work could grow beauty for people, for the environment, and even for animals? In this episode of How to Make It Work, I chat with Stina Svensson, the creative force behind Sprout Gardener. Stina has built a
Some people carve waves, others carve careers between data points and deadlines. Bruci does both! In this episode of How to Make It Work, I sit down with Bruci Schiavinato Jordão, a Laser Scanning Specialist and BIM Mode
Some people learn how to surf, others build a whole community around it. In this episode, I chat to Nina Nouk, certified surf coach and founder of The Dames Surf Club, a thriving non-profit dedicated to helping women gai
Feeling stuck in old patterns? In this episode, coach and NLP trainer Stephanie Philp breaks down what it really takes to change your mind — and keep the change. We talk intuition, neuroscience, authenticity, and the bus
What does it really take to make a living from art—consistently, sustainably, and without losing the love for creating? In this episode of How to Make It Work, Raglan artist Miranda Jane Caird opens up about the business
Ready to break the burnout cycle? Start with your body, not your calendar. In this episode, I talk to chiropractor, nervous system strategist, and the powerhouse behind Wild Coast Collective — Dr. Kiri Walden. We dive in
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How To Make It Work is hosted by Annika Stricker. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 37 episodes.
How To Make It Work has published 37 episodes.
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