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Business is Fcking HardAlexandra SangsterJoin Trevor for an inspiring conversation with Alexandra Sangster, the accidental entrepreneur who turned a university project into a thriving social enterprise. Discover Alexandra's journey from university student to founder. Sarjesa Tea is fueled by a deep commitment to social impact and community empowerment. In this episode, Alexandra shares candid insights into the challenges of entrepreneurship, the importance of purpose-driven business, and the lessons learned from navigating trademark issues and partnership dynamics. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned business owner, Alexandra's story will motivate you to pursue your passion with intention and resilience. Tune in to learn...
2025-08-0548 min
Not So Average#17 - Built on Purpose - Alexandra SangsterThis one’s for the dreamers building bold things with real heart.In this episode of Not So Avg., I sit down with Alexandra Sangster, founder of The Sarjesa Group and Owner of BUZZD Nutrition, who started a purpose-driven company while still in university. From day one, Alexandra has been focused on more than profit. She’s reshaping the future of manufacturing in Alberta, building supply chains that empower women, and selling goods that make a difference.We get into it all. The entrepreneurial highs and lows, focus on caus...
2025-04-181h 19
Startup To Scale199. Acquiring Buzzd - A Look Behind the Scenes In 2024, Sarjesa, founded by Alexandra Sangster announced that she acquired Buzzd Nutrition, a superfood creamer brand founded by Lauren and Alex Burrows. What’s really exciting is that Sarjesa is an emerging brand itself and co-manufactured the Buzzd product. I had a lot of questions for Alexandra about what it looks like for one emerging brand to acquire another, and we break down all the details in this episode. Startup to Scale is a podcast by Foodbevy, an online community to connect emerging food, beverage, and CPG founders to great resources and partners to g...
2024-12-0423 min
Progressive PodGaza Peace Pilgrims..Gaza Peace Pilgrims..pick up the cross and walk.
What does it mean to follow Jesus - is to embrace a life of suffering or is it to stand with all those who fight with all they have- for love
2024-02-2611 minProgressive PodAdvent 1 2023What does it mean to have revolutionary patience when the world is falling apart: Holding Gaza and the God at the Monastery.
2023-12-0410 minProgressive PodClimate strikes and false peaceWhy I'm not clapping my hands with joy about the Tuvalu visas and what it means to say no to a false peace.
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2023-11-2111 min
Progressive PodAll Souls SundayWhat would it be like to welcome grief in, to make a small bed for it and to know it would always be with you? What would it be like to actually believe that this life is not all there is...?
2023-11-2111 minProgressive PodFires, Floods, The Voice and IsraelThe story of falling down before false idols (golden calves, racist lies, capitalist cons) is as old as time...So where do we go from here, and what sort of God do we really believe in?
2023-10-1411 minProgressive PodWilderness Sunday: Glaciers and GodThe Thwaites Glacier is known as the Doomsday Glacier because it is melting at such a rapid rate and is as big as a small country. How do we turn towards what scares us...rather than away in the comfort of cynical collapse?
2023-09-2411 minProgressive PodBig tree down in the forest- The Tarkine, The Father and FaithA 3 meter tree is felled in the Tarkine.
St Paul recognises that the Holy Spirit is the one in whom we live and move and have our being...
and our hunger for The Father (and for elders) is ever with us...
2023-09-0610 min
Cue PlaybackYou are not a product - Episode 2 - Intervention and narrativeYou are not a product - Episode 2 - Intervention and narrative
Chris speaks with actor, performer and minister Alexandra Sangster about life in the public eye, finding support and meaning in community, and the role of faith and narrative in the world.
https://alexsangster.com.au/
https://melbourneplayback.com.au/
https://stkildasouthportunitingchurch.org.au/
https://melbourneprocesswork.com/team/alex-sangster
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762724/
2023-08-2850 minProgressive PodWalking On Water And Impossible ThingsWe all do impossible things..every single day. Jesus invites us to walk on water..do you have the courage to take the hand of those around you and dance on the waves together?
2023-08-1410 minProgressive PodA sower, a seed, the hottest day and Rachel CarsonHere in Naarm it's the bleak midwinter but all over the world we have reached a global temperature of 17 degrees. How can we be the reception soil that grows a people prepared to fight for our future?
2023-07-1611 minProgressive PodFertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up?Fertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up? by Alexandra Sangster
2023-06-2211 minProgressive PodAscension Day 2023A truck collides with a bus.
Jesus rises..up, up, up.
Its Ascension Day again and we are asking the big questions..where is God when the world goes dark?
2023-05-2214 minProgressive PodMeditation on Hope: Anzac Day and the Road to EmmausOur government is spending big arming for war with nuclear submarines. Have we lost hope in peace? And how can HOPE be restored?
2023-04-2014 min
Progressive PodPalm Sunday 2023Making radical change is hard but we all have to do it..stepping through the many thresholds of our lives..today Jesus rides through the Beautiful Gate and nothing can ever be the same again...what gateway will you step through this Easter?
2023-04-0208 minProgressive PodAlex Podcast - It Was A Dark And Stormy NightThe Man. Born Blind: Intergenerational Trauma and new ending to an old tale... John 9: 1 - 41
2023-03-1510 min
Foodpreneur with Chelsea Ford#57 Overcoming Failure as a FoodpreneurSend us a textAs Foodpreneurs (and in life in general), you'll experience many moments you might think of failures. Whether it's getting a 'no' from a retail buyer you've been communicating with for months, to a major piece of equipment failing right before fulfilling a big order, to thinking your entire business is a failure. These moments will test you, but if you change your mindset around what a failure is, they need not break you (and often can be a catalyst for something greater).This month we celebrate International Women's Day a...
2023-03-0859 minProgressive PodTransfiguration Feb 2023Transfiguration doesn't just happen...You have to climb the mountain first...and moments shot through with glory..they are all around us..in Newtown, in a Bondi Mall, in St Kilda and in your heart
2023-02-2107 min2023-02-1411 min
Progressive PodSalt and Adani and the Reckoning (Biggest con in corporate history)What is the cost of being the Salt for the world?
Where do you see everyday examples of Salt in action?
And what does it mean to hold the powerful to account...
2023-02-0511 min
Progressive PodCassius Turvey, his Mum and the Christ Child: Christmas Day 2023 PodcastWhere did you experience the incarnation this year? When where the moments were God broke thru and made a manger in your heart?
2022-12-2312 minProgressive PodAnzac Day and the ShepherdA Royal Commission has finally been announced into suicide amongst ADF soldiers and veterans. The shepherd god has always been a political metaphor..what is it calling us towards today...?
2021-05-0308 minProgressive PodGod of the Rainbow: First UCA Transgender Minister inductedThe Ethiopian Eunuch is probably our first LGBQTI convert...yet over 2000 years later some in our church still struggle to welcome diversity. Acts 8:26-40
2021-05-0309 min
2021-04-2507 min
Progressive PodEaster SundayThe Angel says: Do not be afraid
and yet
we live in terrifying times
How can we believe in resurrection when we are still hiding in the tomb?
2020-04-1509 min
Progressive PodGood FridayThis is not a Good Day, this is not a day where we get to race from the tomb and meet our loved one on the road. This is a day of doing the work
of grieving...
2020-04-1509 min
Progressive PodCorona: The highway man of fear and the casual racism is as old as a woman standing alone at a well.The Woman at the Well stands in isolation and Jesus stands with her. How can we be present to each other during this pandemic,
not give in to tribal prejudice and love one another across the borders of quarantine?
2020-03-1310 min
Progressive PodTransfiguration: The murder of Hannah Baxter and her children and the telling of the truth.The murder of Hannah Baxter and the outrage at police and media response and the subsequent standing down of a leading Queensland policeman shows that Transfiguration:
radical change and truth shining through..
is happening all around us
2020-03-1310 min
Progressive PodBlessed are the Owl and the Lyrebird: Beatitudes todayThousands of animals and birds are facing extinction because of the fires. And so we mourn...does this mean we are blessed?
2020-01-3108 min
Progressive PodThe elevator pitch and the bushfire spin.The Australian Goverment has run with the apathy mandate given to it by the Australian voters...maybe the Bushfires will wake us up.
2020-01-1410 min
Progressive PodAboriginal boy locked up, naked. Man found in tombs, naked......We all know the story of the man filled with brokenness, hiding in the graveyard...thank god we don't treat people like that anymore...do we...?
2019-06-2512 minProgressive PodA New Heaven And A New Earth: Bob Hawke and the lighthouse.Post election we are left standing on the edge of possibility...Bob Hawke was a lighthouse leader who helped save the Tarkine..what will our new PM do? Every age needs lighthouse leaders...and each of us have a prat to play in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth...
2019-05-2209 minProgressive PodGood Spirit EasterCome listen to Archie Roach and the Whale Man as they live out a the story of the light in the dark.
Know what it is to surge up from below....
and find out how the very earth
needs resurrection.
2019-05-2213 min
Progressive PodI Was Going Too Talk To You Today About AshTwo wee boys sitting on a couch in NZ, losing their lives to hatred.
The recognition that we are all but dust and ashes.
And grace.
Always grace.
2019-04-1511 min
Progressive PodA Few Weeks Ago I Had The Honour Of Presiding At A FuneralWhen was the last time someone did a beautiful thing for you?
When did you last do something beautiful for the other....?
A story of a swagman, a sister and love.
2019-04-1511 min
Progressive PodThere Are Only Two Feelings: Love and Fear and New ZealandHow do we tell a story of light when the darkness rises up with such overwhelming force.....White supremacy and the power of love.
2019-04-1514 min
Progressive PodIm Thinking About Light Now: Transfiguration and George PellGeorge Pell..who here does not feel like weeping?
Pity, justice and holy hope.
2019-03-1614 min
Progressive PodBreaking Patterns in Broken relationshipsJoseph gets what he has coming...doesn't he?
An ancient story of trauma and forgiveness and about how the holy spirit can help break the cycle...
2019-03-1614 min
Progressive PodHow the big bang and every tear ever wept..are all connectedThis Christmas we go back to stardust and we remind each other that for the OK people to simply be OK is no longer OK...it is a dereliction of duty
2019-01-0313 min
Progressive PodCommunity: and how it makes everything possible.Angels are all around us, in the most unexpected of places...and sometimes, like with Mary long ago, they give us the courage to be the Braveheart of the world...
2019-01-0313 min
Progressive PodScene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For MixdownScene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For Mixdown by Alexandra Sangster
2018-12-1901 min
Progressive PodScene 2 - The Room Is Small MixdownScene 2 - The Room Is Small Mixdown by Alexandra Sangster
2018-12-1902 min
Progressive PodYou upon that great height - the old man in the alleyYou upon that great height - the old man in the alley by Alexandra Sangster
2018-12-1902 min
2018-12-1901 min
Progressive PodAsking for help....We struggle to admit vulnerability yet the world only changes when we ask each other for help....
2018-11-1912 min
Progressive PodWe remember the dead and invest in weapons to murder the future...100 year anniversary of the 'Great war' and Australia invests in memorials and weapons while our returned soldiers fight the goverment for compensation....and meanwhile the wildflowers grow
2018-11-1914 min
Progressive PodHumanity SundayHave we come to the end of the holocene and entered the age of the Anthropocene? What would it mean to become servants rather than masters of creation? And what can we learn from the love of 'Silent Spring'?
2018-09-2014 min
Progressive PodSky SundayBreath - we all need it- but why do we focus on the first and the last and pay so little attention to the ones in between?
How do we help each other to truly learn how to breathe.....?
2018-09-2013 min
Progressive PodWhat can we learn from the Lindworm Myth?Four more women murdered and its time to look at the darkness within. What does St Paul tell us about interconnection and being 'the body'?
2018-08-1611 min
Progressive PodMarriage Equality and the Uniting Church: Lets make history people!Its a terrible thing, to be lonely, to feel that you have no home. But God tells us that we are all part of the one family...we are all beloved, we are all equal...
2018-07-2612 min
Progressive PodHow do we bind the strongman?How do we bind the strong man... and who is he anyway? Devil, empire or shadow self....whichever you choose... there is work to be done.
2018-07-0410 min
Progressive PodTime to stand up in the boatTime to stand up in the boat: fighting trump’s evil regime.. we can do this together.
2018-07-0411 min
Progressive PodPentecost and the day the holy spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies HospitalPentecost and the day the Holy Spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies Hospital.
2018-06-1908 min
Progressive PodElder Abuse Awareness DayIt was World Elder Abuse awareness day and Australia denies our eldest refugee on Nauru palliative care…can we learn to be like the mustard tree, can we shelter the vulnerable in our branches?
2018-06-1909 min
Progressive PodTim Winton, Toxic Masculinity and God as GardenerTim Winton, Toxic Masculinity and God as Gardener.
How we must be the gardener for each other...as well as the vine.
2018-05-0211 min
Progressive PodI Saw The Spirit Leaving The Body - Easter 2018I Saw The Spirit Leaving The Body - Easter 2018 by Alexandra Sangster
2018-04-0410 min
Progressive PodSmashing temples, smashing gun lobby's and changing the world....Once upon a time there was an angry young man....
What can we learn from righteous rage and speaking truth to power?
What can we learn from theatre kids in America as they stand up and name their truth?
What can we do with our own feelings of helplessness and rage?
2018-03-0810 min
Progressive PodAll Souls and EuthanasiaAll Souls invites us to remember and let go…but what are the proposed euthanasia laws asking us to do?
2017-11-1611 min
Progressive PodSame Sex marriage, The continuous Reformation and the Mystical Christ.500 years since Luther nailed his truth to the door. So what have we gained and what have we lost....and what needs reforming still? UCA Clergy weep as our church refuses to take a stand on marriage equality and rabbi's and buddists lock on at the Adani Blockade. The Reformation goes on....
2017-11-1609 min
Progressive PodExodus and the psychotic god of our own projectionsAmerican gun massacres and the dark fears hidden in the hearts of Australia: how does ancient story speak to us today?
2017-10-1910 minProgressive PodWhy We Must Vote YesWhat does St Paul have to offer us in this world of diminishment and hatred?
And what is being talked about at the monkey bars of Melbourne's primary schools?
2017-09-1012 min2017-08-3008 min2017-08-3006 minProgressive PodOlive and Ash: Occupied land and going home...What are we to do with a world that justifies occupation and violence based on a literal interpretation of sacred text?
2017-08-2310 minProgressive PodKneel - 65,000 years of God with us….Discovery in cave brings the Mirrar people home and Jacob gives hope to those of us who struggle.
2017-07-2610 min2017-07-2609 min
Progressive PodExileWhy do we need to seperate ourselves by going up, or our or away?
Whats does it mean when the box of air becomes the box of fire?
And how do we respond as people of faith to the Greenfell Tower Tragedy…?
2017-07-0510 minProgressive PodMy Friend Is DyingWhat does it mean to stand on the waters edge and let go of all we carry?
Why do we still keep close our interpretations of biblical text which lead to violence and separation...?
2017-06-1508 minProgressive PodFace Terror in a Lonely WorldWhat is the source of terror? What does Universalism have to say in response and how does the Trinity heal our world....
2017-06-1509 min
Progressive PodLent 1: Abortion Ships and Royal CommisionsWhat do we do with all this darkness...?
King David said 'Yes'.
Jesus said 'No'.
What do we say....?
Image: Karsten Würth https://unsplash.com/@inf1783
2017-03-0513 min
Progressive PodThe Tyrant and the Hope...Blessed are they who mourn...What happens when the Tyrant takes over?
How can we imagine there is blessing in grief?
And what has a massacre in Melbourne and Trump's battle cry have in common?
2017-01-3110 min
2016-12-2610 min
Progressive PodStay Alert: The power of our leaders cannot be underestimatedWhite Ribbon day...A cat on the road...and Jesus tells us to Keep watch: Welcome to Advent!
2016-11-3007 min
Progressive PodTrump and Triumph and the better song to sing....In the Gospel of Luke Jesus tells us that "It's all coming down".
But whose tower is really tumbling and how do we not lose heart?
2016-11-1407 minProgressive PodExploring psychic numbing and the choice of painThere are 10 lepers and all are healed but only one is made
well....When have you chosen the path of pain so that you too made be
made whole again?
2016-10-1708 min