Nine years ago, Maryam Matti was overweight and overwrought. Today, 29-year-old Maryam is transformed. She’s fit, toned and healthy, while...
Ari Seth Cohen created Advanced Style, a movie, a blog, and social media feed, which rocketed him, and many of the subjects he photographed, to fame. Colleen Heidemann is one of these women...
How did your past contribute to Kōkako? When I was seventeen, I got my first job as a pizza delivery boy. I had an amazing boss and over time worked my way up through the ranks to managing the stores. I was with this company right through university and it...
Dr Paul Wood is a compelling communicator, an author, a motivator and a mind trainer. He is also late for our call as he’s been double booked at the barbers but does politely message to let me know first. It’s just a few days into Aotearoa’s easing out of lockdown and into level 2, and his barber is, thankfully, clearly doing a roaring trade.
I shared a sparkling water with one such modern patron, Sonja Hawkins, co-founder of My Art, to find more about her heritage and how her love of art came to be.









