Frances Valintine

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Between Two Beers Podcast · Futurist Frances Valintine: NZ's Looming Demographic Crisis & the Future of Work · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

And I became obsessive with books that were on anything to do with the world.

You know, I was just curious.

I remember I was given a book about windmills once and any other person, you know, 11 years old being given a book on windmills would have been like, and it was a black and white textbook with black and white photographs.

And I was deeply fascinated.

kind of interested in how windmills worked.

So it was just this really strange time.

So anyhow, that's what I did.

I left and then my world really became big.

And the more I saw, the more I travelled, the more I met people, the more I met different people, different points of views, different religions, different kind of concepts, history, education, the more I was like, wow, I just want more of this.

And so, you know, I think that was the beginning of, you know, the monster.

I don't really think about risk of the way other people do.

And my only thing I ever worry about is the people I love from a risk point of view.

Like if someone's unwell, you know, then I'm very caring, you know, very supportive and will be there.

But risk in terms of things for me, financial risk or personal risk, I sort of don't see that.

I sort of take it on this, I'm on a journey, I'm on this planet.

go for it.

And actually, I will say to students, you know, I still teach in postgraduate programs within my institute with Academy X. I teach regularly and I'll say to them, and these are adult students with the average age of 45.

So these are, you know, people who are grown up.

And I'll say, you know, like if you just have those bad days and you remember, if you sort of imagine yourself lifting out off the earth until you're out sitting out in space and you're looking at this little world, the earth floating around in the galaxy and

And you realise that we are so insignificant in the scheme of a galaxy.

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