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

This is a really weird topic because...

I did put it in my book and quite a few people reached out to me and said, it's really weird, that's happened to me as well.

I've had a number of friends die at the hands of others.

And I did realise I wasn't completely an anomaly as I thought I was, but I'm still, statistically it's an anomaly, which is from the time I left New Zealand, within the first few months I had a very good friend of mine who had a hit and run and she died and I didn't know about that because my friends and my family decided not to tell me.

And I was very upset when I first found out that two years had passed before I actually knew.

I couldn't understand why she wasn't writing back to me the days of letters.

I thought, this is really weird, she's not writing.

And then through the time of travel, I got to meet a number of fabulous young women, travelling often in groups and people I became friends with or flattered with temporarily or end up working with.

And there was a, it just seemed to be a passion and they were all pretty much without exception, killed at the hands of somebody they were either seeing or an ex.

And that was really quite profound when you start to realise it.

And then I came back to New Zealand and the same thing happened.

And so some of the people had it happen when I was away and I didn't know about it until we had a friend from primary school and then we had friends.

And then most recently a business partner and an older woman, but she was brutally murdered just a few years ago in the same thing by someone that was close to her.

And I don't know how it is that it's happened in my life that that's happened so many times.

And strangely, it doesn't mean that I'm more aware of the people I surround myself with because I think I've got a really good sense of people.

So I've never had that sort of fear of I shouldn't trust people because I actually think you should trust people.

But it does make me realize that life can be taken from you at any time.

And I have had friends whose life had been cut short through illness or other situations.

And again, going back to my dad right now,

You know, you always assume that your life is going to be amazing and that the years ahead are going to be better and you're going to have a long life and you're going to have all these things.

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