Every story shapes our shared history.
Authenticity Studio is a storytelling and oral history platform dedicated to documenting the lived experiences of people and communities across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Through meaningful conversations, we preserve stories of identity, culture, migration, resilience, leadership and transformation—one person, one community and one story at a time.
Essence + Truth + Clarity = Authenticity
Authenticity begins when we move beyond appearances and make space for the truth of who we are. Every story carries an essence. When that essence is expressed with truth and clarity, it allows people to be seen, heard and remembered.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung.
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself whose burden you're really carrying?
Sometimes the weight we carry isn't our own—it was picked up in childhood and quietly became part of who we thought we had to be. My latest blog explores that journey of recognising, releasing, and rediscovering ourselves.
Read: The Burdens We Were Never Meant to Carry Since Childhood. medium.com/@ivanseanyeo/the-burdens-we-were-never-…
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself whose burden you're really carrying?
Sometimes the weight we carry isn't our own—it was picked up in childhood and quietly became part of who we thought we had to be. My latest blog explores that journey of recognising, releasing, and rediscovering ourselves.
Read: The Burdens We Were Never Meant to Carry Since Childhood. medium.com/@ivanseanyeo/the-burdens-we-were-never-…
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After 50 podcast conversations, I noticed a powerful pattern: many women spoke of mothers and grandmothers who transformed the opportunities they were denied into love, encouragement and freedom for the next generation.
Their legacy offers something from which we can all learn—especially men.
Read my latest reflection:
After 50 Conversations: A Lineage of Women Passing Love and Humanity Forward
How mothers and grandmothers transformed the opportunities they were denied into love, encouragement and freedom for the next generation.
ivanseanyeo.medium.com/after-50-conversations-a-li…
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One year ago, I started this journey with a simple belief: every person's story deserves to be heard.
Today, we've reached 100,000 subscribers.
Behind this milestone are countless hours of recording, editing, posting, and preparing a new podcast every single week. There were many moments when I wondered if anyone was listening or whether it would ever lead anywhere. But I kept going because I believed that every story matters, and each conversation has the power to touch someone's life.
Over the past year, more than 40 incredible guests have generously shared their stories, wisdom, insights, and lived experiences. Their openness is what has made this community what it is today.
This milestone doesn't belong to me alone. It belongs to every guest who trusted me with their story, every subscriber who watched, listened, shared, commented, and encouraged me to keep going, and everyone who believed in what I was trying to build.
Reaching 100,000 subscribers is a wonderful achievement, but what means even more is knowing that together we've created a space where authentic conversations can inspire, connect, and remind people that they are not alone.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. This is your achievement as much as it is mine.
Here's to many more stories, many more conversations, and continuing to celebrate the people who make our communities richer through their experiences.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
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Will Sean ever find the courage to truly express how he feels about Amory? Despite his past, will he finally let go of his fear and allow himself to feel again? Watch the story of a boy with a big red heart, who finally meets someone who helps him hear his own heartbeat. Available on YouTube https://youtu.be/odAb26UmYLo?si=rpFoB...
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A young boy had long since stopped believing in love. Disappointment had quietly hardened his heart, and he carried that quiet doubt with him wherever he went. Then, by pure chance, he met someone he never expected—someone whose presence alone began to soften what he thought was beyond repair. In a single, heartfelt moment, everything shifted, changing the course of his life in ways he could have never imagined.
Episode 3 is now live on YouTube https://youtu.be/iboc93I7JOM
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In Drowning in Loneliness, I reflect on how I built a life that looked complete from the outside — a career, a marriage, an identity — yet felt deeply disconnected within. I realised that nothing was false, but I had slowly drifted away from my true self by living through borrowed expectations.
This piece is about dismantling that old structure, choosing honesty, and beginning the journey back to who I truly am. It is not just about loneliness, but about rediscovering my essence, my spirituality, my joy, and learning to live more authentically from the inside out. Full blog post medium.com/@ivanseanyeo/drowning-in-loneliness-05c…
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A Boy with a Big Red Heart is a story drawn from my own upbringing — a life shaped by being told that who I was, at my core, was somehow wrong. It is a quiet reflection on a childhood marked by denial and the steady discouragement of simply being authentic. In simple terms, it reveals how a child slowly reshapes himself after hearing, again and again, that his natural way of being is not acceptable. Part Two is now available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPvJz...
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2026 began with my very first guest, Shelwin Khan. Thank you for stepping into Authenticity Studio and courageously sharing your story—an honest conversation on identity, mental health, addiction, recovery, and the losses along the way. I can’t wait for the world to hear this.
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It has been an enormous task to clean the house. This involved getting rid of over 100 pot plants—selling some, giving some away, and planting others—as well as decluttering the house and clearing out junk stored underneath it. The work was physically demanding and required many long hours just to reach a basic level of order. I had never done any gardening before, and for the first time in my life, I spent many hours at it. What remains now is further clearing and tidying, and this is only the garden.
Some of the photos shown are from before the work began, and from stages where the clearing had not yet been completed. The aim is to have the house on the market soon. It will be a private sale, and I am handling the video and social media marketing campaign myself. If I can’t manage this on my own, what kind of digital content creator would I be?
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