Patricia Allan was born in 1938 and so we get to learn from her life on this episode - she got her doctorate when she was close to 80 years old! We also hear about her memories of the end of World War 2, how she travelled to Europe back when you did that by boat, moving to work in Pakistan, deciding to get married within a week, raising 4 children, spirituality and finding meaning, serving in the Church as an Anglican priest, and writing her PHD on 'The Once and Future Cathedral’ ... and falling in love and geting married a second time.

If you enjoy interviews like this then why not check out the almost 400 others on seeds podcast at www.theseeds.nz

More on her life: https://anglicanwomen.nz/patricia-allan-pathways-to-a-ph-d/

Patsy Bass founded the Reefton Distilling Co and it is one of a number of businesses which are adding to the community feel of West Coast town Reefton. Its also her home town, so In this episode we talk about her childhood there, what it is like, coal mining of her Father and why she started the business and the plans for the future. If you enjoy this then why not check out the other episodes of Seeds in the back catalogue as there are hundreds there.

Website: https://www.reeftondistillingco.com/pages/our-team

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Patsy's bio: "Patsy was born in Reefton and returned in 2018 after a successful career in Human Resources, Change, Project and General Management to contribute to the revitalisation of her home town. She attributes roles with Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Outward Bound New Zealand and some of New Zealand’s largest cooperative and not for profit organisations, with leading her back home to create a business with an intergenerational focus."

This episode is a short reflection in response to a listener's questions about how I use my time and how I choose projects. If it helps your thinking why not share the link, so others can see the content as well and benefit from it?

This is also a written article here https://theseeds.nz/articles/on-using-time-being-efficient-and-choosing-projects/

If you want to have access to more on this topic, I’ve also written on similar things in these posts:

• On being efficient and some tips on that are over here https://theseeds.nz/articles/on-being-efficient/

• On what we are building with our lives and how we should aspire to grand things – the vision to construct a cathedral not just a wall https://theseeds.nz/articles/what-is-your-cathedral/

• A reflection on 10 lessons I have learned that I wish my younger self had known https://seeds.libsyn.com/10-lessons-learned

• A recent episode of seeds on weaving in creativity into all of your life that I presented at my former high school to 55 students aged 16 https://theseeds.nz/podcast/weaving-creativity-into-all-of-your-life/

Impact Investing legal opinion mentioned in the episode https://www.parryfield.com/impact-investing-information-hub/

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