Jaz Rule - Episode 31

Kia ora guys, welcome.

Morena, thank you so much for having me.

Stoked to be here.

I've never done anything like this before.

So very new, very exciting.

But yeah, thank you again for having me.

So yeah, let's jump straight into it.

So kia ora, I'm Jazz.

I have been a youth worker for many moons now.

I started off just volunteering at Presbyterian Support ages ago as a one-on-one youth support worker.

And then I fell in love with the practice so much and I went on to work in mental health with Emerge Aotearoa.

So I loved that as well.

I was on a wellbeing program for young people in their teens who had really complex mental health challenges that they were facing.

So, really tapped into creativity, which is something I absolutely love and I hold very close to my heart.

And yeah, I did that for a couple years and then just felt like I needed a bit of a change.

So, I got the job at the Kind Foundation and the 4C Centre as a youth worker there and also the 4C team lead.

So, yeah.

Yeah, kind of very broad and kind of random, but young people were always held at the core of everything that I was doing, and I knew that's what I wanted to do with my mahi.

So really grateful for the different experiences that I got.

And youth work aside...

Also a business owner, so I got my floristry certificate a couple years ago and started my own micro flower farm with my mum, growing flowers on our rural property and then cutting them, drying them, selling them at markets.

I did a few weddings.

Yeah, that kind of sums me up.

And for the listeners who can't see what she's wearing and embracing, this recording is done in winter, really cold.

But Jazz, when I saw her come in, she's wearing this bright yellow, like, you know, warm kind of energy and just kind of ecstatic.