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Jenny Morrell

Jenny Morrell

Jenny Morel is a New Zealand economist, venture capitalist (No 8 Ventures, Morel & Co) and host of The Morgo Podcast, championing NZ tech companies going global.

Jul 1, 2026

8:15
But you get quite a lot of people really interested in getting that support, that peer support, even if nothing else.
8:21
Yeah absolutely and and just that that knowledge and that information and guidance and sometimes just reassurance that they're doing the right thing and we often run sessions around that kind of rehab versus therapy and showing that even just those simple choices at home every day are a really essential part of that rehabilitation so yeah we we do offer um support groups that are specific to the carers and relatives we run them in each of our areas in colchester and benfleet and we also have recently introduced a carers group therapy session which is amazing it's run by one of our volunteers who is a clinical psychologist so we're really lucky to have her on board running that But we've recently in the last couple of years also introduced a five week education program for carers.
9:11
So that's funnily enough linking on to what you just said about them being forgotten.
9:15
Our program is actually called the Don't Forget About Me program.
9:19
So it's really highlighting that they play that essential part in that rehabilitation and care.
9:27
their lives are turned upside down just as much as everybody else's, if not more, actually, in that moment, especially in those acute stages.
9:34
So those five-week programmes really focus on potentially the change of role that they might not have chosen to take, the emotional consequences of that, but also that kind of resilience and what can I do? How do I look after myself in this moment as well as my loved ones? So those services have been so important.

6 MINS LATER

15:28
So, Jenny, what about the next 40 years? What is Hedway Essex going to be in whatever that will be 2066?

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