Hello, welcome to We need to Talk.

It's great to have you with us for the special Christmas Gift Guide, and today we're talking about experiences which are such a cool prize or present because I feel like you get it on Christmas Day, but then you get to have it another day as well.

And I'm a major thespian.

I love a good show and if you're not into the show world, you need to get there because it is just so feel good.

And we have a plethora of options coming in twenty twenty six.

So I'm going to kick it off by telling you about the Rocky Horror And we have such a strong link to the Rocky Horror Picture Show here in New Zealand.

I went to it as a young girl, which was probably a bit inappropriate when I think about it.

Back in the day.

I loved it and the movie is gray ever since.

Richard O'Brien, he is part of it, bringing this UK West End cast back to New Zealand.

So it's outrageous, it's bold, it's got our so many songs that you know, like the Time Warp and if you want to have a look at that Coast Breakfast Jason Sam and I did our own very special rendition of that one is Franken Furder and all of the things.

So sixty nine dollars.

These tickets start at which I thought was pretty good, and you can get those at ticket Master.

This is a show I think that is probably more appropriate for younger audiences than Rocky Horror, and I will be buying this one for my girls and Juliet.

Now, this is being put on by gen T Productions, who brought us shows like Priscilla and Matilda.

It's in April and Auckland and it's in May and Wellington.

You can get tickets at Ticketmaster, dot co, dot NZ one hundred and seventeen dollars.

Now, I personally know the director of this, Hamish Moat.

He is fabulous, so expect the dance to be phenomenal.

I also went to the show in Sydney earlier this year, and I tell you what, it is a show you are going to love.

Think of all of the nineties anthems, Think Pink, Britney Spears, Katie Perry, Back Street Boys, West Life, mix in a bit of hip hop, and mix in the story of Romeo and Juliet.

But it's after if Juliet didn't die, What would she have done next?

It's very very modern with a nod to the past.

And I loved it and I know that my kids will love her, and I think you will too.

The Mail Robin Show.

You know Mel Robins.

She's a hit podcaster and she talks very philosophically about life and health.

She's coming to New Zealand.

I only just recently discovered this on the twentieth and twenty first of March.

The tickets are pricey three hundred and fifty bucks, but I feel like her show would be super well received, so that's an option too.

As I said, hamish More, that director who is doing and Juliet.

He is also the director and choreographer for Matilda Wellington.

Now you might remember my daughter played Matilda and my other little one was in it too, But they played those characters in Matilda Auckland.

It was a sellout at the Bruce Mason Theater, so you can expect exactly the same quality in Wellington because this is the guy and charge and you will love all the moves.

One hundred dollars the tickets start at and I know that well Antonians get behind it.

I actually think it would be a good idea for a gift if you're outside of Wellington too, to make a trip out of it.

I took my girls on a girl's weekend from Auckland to Wellington for Mum and Mia and we just had the best weekend.

You can go along the Wellington waterfront, you can go and visit to Papa.

That's free by the way for New Zealanders.

So I would make it a weekend with the kids.

And lastly in the experiences.

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And increasingly in our workplaces we're being asked to not only speak in front of our colleagues, but host panels.

I know my sister she has to host panel discussions all the time at work.

How to speak well on zoom, what to where.

All of those things are wrapped into this online communication course and you can find that at Tonystreet dot com.