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The Unmaking - Episode Zero · The Unmaking

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  SPEAKER_00: Kia ora te whānau and welcome to episode zero of The Unmaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: In early 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: I found myself towing an old horse float crammed with tools,
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  toys and other possessions accumulated during more than 20
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  years in Germany,
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  SPEAKER_00: heading south to begin a new life in an old stomping ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wanaka, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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  The journey oozed significance as I passed landmarks and drove
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  through towns unseen
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  SPEAKER_00: for over a quarter of a century.
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  I used that alone time to process a cocktail equal parts
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  liberation and grief,
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  SPEAKER_00: excitement and fear,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that drive south is where the idea for this podcast was hatched.
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  SPEAKER_00: With the benefit of time,
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  SPEAKER_00: distance and context,
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  I understood that walking away from all I'd built in Germany
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  wasn't retreat or
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  SPEAKER_00: failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the regeneration,
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  SPEAKER_00: the personal unmaking necessary for me to return not only to my country,
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  SPEAKER_00: but to myself.
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  Coming back down here felt less like starting over and more
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  like circling back as I
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  SPEAKER_00: realised that I'd had to let go of something that once fit my work,
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  that version of myself an entire life in order to create space
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  for what used to be
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  SPEAKER_00: and needed to come again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't my first unmaking,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's been by far the most seismic,
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  and it's the first time I've really tried to piece together
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  what it all means.
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  SPEAKER_00: Despite the real personal cost,
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  SPEAKER_00: I treasure what's come since,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I work on becoming more creative,
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  SPEAKER_00: authentic,
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  SPEAKER_00: and calmer in the face of uncertainty.
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  SPEAKER_00: This transformation is ongoing,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is part of the reason I'm making this podcast,
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  SPEAKER_00: to explore what it means to be in the middle of an unmaking,
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  SPEAKER_00: and to talk with others who are navigating similar terrains.
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  SPEAKER_00: That first horse float has since been resold,
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  SPEAKER_00: but over summer we converted its replacement Flo,
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  SPEAKER_00: a former rental float,
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  into a mobile recording studio as part of what we're building
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  at Naked and Curious.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be towing Flo to my guests,
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  SPEAKER_00: or to other locations of significance,
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  SPEAKER_00: to sit together within its time and space bending walls and see where our
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  SPEAKER_00: conversation takes us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be talking with people from all kinds of lives,
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  SPEAKER_00: some visibly creative,
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  SPEAKER_00: some less obviously so,
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  SPEAKER_00: but all of them have had to make something to move forward.
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  Some names you might recognise Others you won't know yet but
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  probably should We'll
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  SPEAKER_00: be digging into the moments where things started to shift The decisions,
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  SPEAKER_00: the doubts,
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  the risks and the turning points that don't usually make it
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  into people's public
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  SPEAKER_00: stories Changes might have been dramatic or they might have happened more
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  incrementally But The Unmaking's primary focus will essentially
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  be the work behind
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  SPEAKER_00: the work
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  episodes will run around an hour or so sometimes longer if
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  needed and I've decided
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  to build this in seasons rather than committing to an endless
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  production schedule
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  this somehow feels like a sustainable approach to making
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  something meaningful
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  season one will be 10 episodes launching in winter 2026 so if
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  you're in the middle
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  of your own unmaking you've been through one or you're curious
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  about people who
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  SPEAKER_00: choose the harder slower path this podcast is for you I'm John Bache
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  SPEAKER_00: This is The Unmaking Thanks for listening