In this eight part series, you will hear people share their stories of what they faced in their worlds, like Jane’s story and her battle with cancer. You will learn how to discover and develop your dreams, and how to identify the things that consistently seek to destroy your God given purpose.
I'm Carolyn Flemingates, I have two children Benjamin who is my youngest son. He's nearly 15, he has aspergers and ADD. Then I also have Rebecca she's my eldest daughter. She's just turned 18.
My name is Moses Waikato and this is my beautiful fiance Desaray Spears. And we have ten children amongst both of us. Never met a maori Moses, I thought they were all white out there.
Being a local midwife in South Auckland alot of the women I predominantly look after are really young mums. I walk into alot of houses that you just walk in and there are things broken everywhere.
It all started for me here in Otara. Born and bred here South Auckland and lived in a household of 15. I slept on the couch until the age of 13, there wasnt enough beds to go round, sometimes the floor.
I'm Amelia, i've been living in Auckland my whole life. I like to get out to the beach, like surfing, snowboarding, love people - that's why I've done my job. Left school 5th form and went straight into my apprenticeship.
Right up from the age of 14 to 21 years, I lived breathed triathlons. Swimming, biking, running waking up at 5.30am in the morning and just desiring to be a top athlete. That was really where it all started.
I run a public relations firm in Mount Eden, it's fantastic I really enjoy it. Every day is different, very busy lots of interesting clients and great colleagues. I'm also the mum of three boys, all pretty much grown up now.
Being a Tauranga boy and growing up outdoors alot, everything in my heart and everything I loved involved outdoors, involved a bit of adventure. Involved sort of pushing the limits of what we could do.
Yeah I'm a dad of two wonderful sons and a beautiful wife. Passionate as a coach and my sports and love coaching my sons and their mates. I coach a number of students in our area where my boys had gone to school.
I've always been into sport and fitness, it's always been something that's been a part of my life since I was a young boy so I can never see myself doing anything else. It's always been in my heart to own a gym.
I'd been married for 10 years and I was pregnant with our fourth child and had a bit of a marriage breakdown. My husband started being violent so I had to seperate from him when I was pregnant.
Well when Julian and I got married we were in our mid thirties and we thought we'd have kids one day, we'd wait a year, be married for a year and do all that. We got married in 2005 and within a month I had this overwhelming desire to reproduce.
Once it is an invite only website and we hold sales for designers, fashion designers in New Zealand and international brands as well. What started as fashion has now branched into a whole wide range of products.
Well it was quite cool, big first home and everything else. We figured we'd have kids in that home and everything and had a plan for paying it off. It was all going well and according to plan and then my brother came round.