the me.vibes podcast · Tairāwhiti, NZ

Am I actually okay?

Honest conversations about work, tech, identity and modern life, minus the hustle narrative. For capable humans who are a bit tired of pretending they've got it all figured out.

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What we talk about

The stuff under the small talk.

✦Workwithout the hustle
✺Tech & AIand how we think
✦Identitywho you are off LinkedIn
✺Moneydignity, not shame
✦Modern lifethe messy middle
Episodes

Pull up a chair.

Real people, unpolished answers, and the questions nobody's asked them before.

New here? Start here

Scrolling, comparison and feeling "behind"

Episode one. I was nervous. It's about the quiet achievements that never make it onto LinkedIn, and why everyone else seems ahead while you're just trying to keep going.

Tech & AI
Amber Taylor
Indigenous systems designer
Before You Press Enter. AI governance, Indigenous knowledge and who actually owns our data.
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 Work
Theresa Wells
AI and digital leadership, GHD
Square wheels, cold water and what leading through AI change really looks like.
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 Money
Sasha Lockley
Money Sweetspot
Debt, shame and getting your financial dignity back.
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 Modern life
Shanti
Tatapouri
Knitting in the Dark. Hard seasons, starting again and building something beautiful anyway.
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 Identity
My son
Age seven, creative director of everything
Childhood creativity, and what grown-ups forget along the way.
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Guests

Two ways to talk.

Come and sit in my chair, or invite me to sit in yours.

Be a guest

Come on me.vibes

I'm not after a polished keynote. I'm after the thing you've never been asked about.

  • You've lived something, not just studied it
  • You're happy to be honest about the messy middle
  • Remote is fine, Gisborne coffee is better
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Book Maria

Have me on your show

Podcasts, panels, workshops and stages. Conversations I love having:

  • Why the quality of your thinking decides the quality of your AI
  • Comparison culture and feeling "behind" at work
  • Starting again twice: from Brazil to Auckland, then Auckland to Gisborne
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Your host

Hi, I'm Maria.

Brazilian by birth, Kiwi by choice. Ten years in Auckland, then five years ago I traded the motorway for the waves in Tairāwhiti and made Gisborne home. Mum, Master of Technological Futures, and someone who uses AI every single day while asking what it's doing to the way we think, work and grow.

The quality of your thinking decides the quality of your AI outputs. Everything else is noise.

me.vibes is where I slow down and ask the questions I actually care about, with people brave enough to answer them honestly.

If an episode hit a nerve

Feeling stuck is not a personality flaw.

Most people don't need a new personality. They need a process. Unstuck is my online course for when you know something has to change at work, but you've no idea what.

  1. Get clear on the kind of work that genuinely suits you
  2. Leave with a personal direction profile, not a vague vision board
  3. Swap decision paralysis for a practical next step
Get unstuck ↗
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