This is Our Story

Episode 08: Leaving the nest

We are finally into the early adult years. This episode kicks off the chapter 'Branching Out' as we discuss Kieran's first year out of home. 
We also cover nerdy Christian olympic activities, more crushes, choosing careers, awkward living situations, uncomfortable social interactions, failing uni, being uncool at church, doing life alone, and much more.

Episode 07: Experiencing and dealing with trauma

This week comes with a warning: We get a bit deep as Briar shares a deeply personal and traumatic story from her teenage years. We also touch on some rather awkward early relationship experiences.
If this makes you feel uncomfortable, or triggered in any way, we encourage you to talk to someone who can help.
We also cover other lighter subjects: tales of brother sister warfare, bread fiddling, and music festivals.

Episode 06: Intermission - Remembering the good times

We bring on our first guest, Kieran's once-upon-a-time unrequited love Rachel, to help us remember more of the good times growing up in paradise/the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
We cover awkward crushes, orchard shenanigans, youth summer camps, retro computer games, mIRC, farm adventures, bangin' Christian tunes, terrible fashion, leaving church, going back 'home', insecurities and more.

Episode 05: Growing in the faith

The Teenage Years - Part Three
In our second installment of Story Time we discuss amazing New Zealand family holiday adventures. We then focus on church memories from our mid-late teen years: travelling youth group outreach events, awkward confessions, a heavenly language, money matters, flying planes, sibling warfare, and more.

Episode 04: Living in the church bubble

The Teenage Years - Part Two
We introduce a new segment, 'Story time' - an opportunity to share fun anecdotes from yesteryear, and this week we discuss favourite hobbies and pastimes. We also reflect on early church memories, youth group, 'sex ed' and more.

Episode 03: The indoctrination begins

The Teenage Years - Part One
We dive into the early teenage years: discipline by spoon, tiny Christian school life, bullying, the beginnings of the church journey, escaping the evils of secular music (the Backstreet Boys), and other random musings.

Episode 02: The Early Years

And so the journey begins! It's a wee bit of a long one as we reflect on the first ten years of our lives.
We chat growing up in the Far North of New Zealand, our earliest memories, farm life, dying country towns, race/class, family, adventuring, early school years, and more.

Episode 01: Who are we?

A short introduction to who we are alongside an explanation of what we hope to cover throughout this podcast series

Episode 00: An Introduction

The scene is set for our new and exciting project "This is Our Story".