April May Gems
April May, author and founder of April May Gems and mother of five, is passionate about sharing her stories to encourage and inspire others and to restore hearts that are in need of hope.
Episodes
July 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Have you ever just needed a special little something? Even an uplift to boost your faith or give you hope that Somebody up there actually cares? Maybe it wasn’t even anything major (or maybe it was) and suddenly, Whalah! Like a tap from a fairy godmothers wand, God shows up and blesses you big time. In fact, it hits you like a big surging wave of love and you feel like, if you looked up, you’d see God giving you a wink like, “Yep, ...
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June 17, 2025 • 32 mins
I hope my words are helpful to you today on this episode and bring you hope because you know sometimes, words can do the opposite. They can bring pain. They can be like arrows aimed right at our heart. They can penetrate and embed themselves and really, really hurt.
Tonight I wanna share the art of arrow bouncing.
I also ask the question: Do you think there’s a difference between hurt and offence? And: What do we do with these?
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Have you ever felt like you just wish you could go back, like in time and be re born? Like start life over? A ‘take two’ / try again? Make it all different. Better! Well, I have. As in, I have felt like that. So, I did. I started over. It was an actual event that happened and it was so significant I recorded the date and called it my second birth-day!
It was quite a wee while after my rebellious teen-aged years, when on any given ...
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May 20, 2025 • 28 mins
Wahanga rima tekau! That’s right, episode number 50 - celebrating the April May Gems Radio Show and Podcast JUBILEE!
To thank YOU for your support, I’d like to offer you the chance to WIN some 50th Episode celebration presents so be sure to tune in and have a listen to the 5.0 list of fave songs from the last 50 episodes, including one from the Extra Terrestrial episode, one from the epic ‘on location episode’ concert in Christch...
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May 6, 2025 • 30 mins
A few weeks ago I wrote two little words up on a huge whiteboard that was positioned on a wall, in a palliative care ward. Right in the middle of a bunch of quotes and nice sayings I wrote, just two small words. “Jesus sees.” The next day someone had rubbed those words out, from on that whiteboard. Only those two words. So, I wrote them up there again, and I continued to, every day that I walked onto that ward, until it stopped bei...
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April 22, 2025 • 34 mins
A few nights ago I had a dream. In the dream, a man by the name of Jules Riding (of whom I knew nothing about) was sitting across from me in the Fresh Fm Studios in Nelson. I woke up and emailed this Jules person and two days later, I was interviewing him, just hours before he shot off to Hokitika to begin his New Zealand Tour!
I had no idea he was a NZ household name, having produced 12 albums, two of which have been awarded 'Go...
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April 8, 2025 • 31 mins
“I hope it all works out.” “I hope I’m gonna be ok.” “I hope things get better...” - Sheesh, that all sounds like a ‘pie in the sky kinda hope’ to me. The truth is that sometimes things don’t work out, no matter how much we ‘hope’ for them to and sometimes things really don’t feel ok and ‘we’ don’t feel ok and sometimes things just don’t appear to get any better and even if they do, it can sometimes take a really long time and no ...
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March 25, 2025 • 27 mins
An old brown envelope...addressed to you! What do you do? Open it of course! Or in this case, I'll do the honours and I'll just let it be read out loud to you so you can hear the words and hopefully, let them soak in, to your heart and be blessed to know, just how loved you are. What about love after hurt? What if there is so much hurt in your past that your past can be symbolised as a monumental mountain that you know you could ne...
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Who on earth came up with the idea of a Worldwide International Day of Happiness? Well, I can tell you it was someone who was born into a circumstance that most of us would not likely wish for! The idea of this International Happiness Day was suggested however, to ‘increase’ happiness. - Go figure! Anyhow, the United Nations accepted the proposal and so now, it’s a thing! Celebrating happiness, all over the globe, every March. And ...
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On location for the PINK FLOYD Orchestrated World tour – ECLIPSE, in Christchurch NZ, I do declare faithful listener, that I “WISH YOU WERE HERE!”. I ask... “Have you become COMFORTABLY NUMB?” as I ponder the bricks that we build, that create THE WALL’s in our life, likely to protect our own hearts but that ultimately shut the very one that can heal it, out.
I also ask if you believe that “IF YOU DON’T EAT YOUR MEAT, YOU CAN'T HA...
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February 11, 2025 • 30 mins
Coming to you on location in HOKITIKA on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, for their Annual Living Waters Music Festival, I share a few 'fun facts' about radio on yet another annual celebration – The International Day of Radio aka "World Radio Day!". For example ... Have you ever wondered what a Brooklyn navy yard’s wireless operator (who was copying morse code one day) heard through his headphones, when the very f...
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January 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Do you feel like you’re living under a cloud of gloom? Like there’s a big blackness lingering over you? Well, don’t lose hope. There's some wonderful wise words that were written long ago that can be like a life-line to you, if you let them. They were for Xander Stok, a Dutch man who ‘once upon a time’ (and up until just a few years ago) was living it up as a very famous musician in a devilish, rock and roll, dream life as front ma...
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January 14, 2025 • 27 mins
What are Russel Brand, Justin Bieber and Bear Grylls doing on my news feed? And why would I personally telephone18 politicians? I mean, are there any good, honest, trustworthy politicians out there, speaking up for the people? And here’s a thought – If you sponsor a child, does your money even get to them?
Tonight’s episode is a bit of a continuation of the last one where I hope to encourage you to seek out politicians, organisat...
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December 31, 2024 • 26 mins
Wars, rumours of wars, economic crisis and unrests around the world, personal and financial hardships, stress and mental illness at an all-time high, confused and angry kids, controversial curriculums in schools, heightened crime, constant government changes, protests, Artificial Intelligence, radical offence, people being cancelled... Are you curbed to the idea that this life, in 2025 is NOT a great time to be alive? Well, I thin...
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December 17, 2024 • 31 mins
Long-gone are the days when “Get your stocking out” meant to pull out the biggest sock you could find, from inside your undies drawer, ready to wake up on Christmas morning with an orange stuffed in the toe part, plus a red netted bag of nuts that you couldn’t really eat unless you had a nutcracker (or muscles that no six-year-old had), a few lollies and some coins and one special light up or moving toy of some description.
Gone a...
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December 3, 2024 • 31 mins
Meet my mentor - Sherlie, from a town way down, in the deep south-west of Australia (though ‘home’ is always New Zealand!) Sherlie, once upon a time, had “no goals, no thought of God, ample money, a couple of properties, was indulging in all sorts of adventures, parties and world travel and ticked all the ‘happy, fun’ boxes but, she shares, there was a void, an empty feeling inside of her that even new age meetings, that were full ...
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November 19, 2024 • 33 mins
Was Michael Jackson even real? How do you know? Were there witnesses? In the midst of the tall palm trees on the sunny location of Townsville QLD, I chat to a boy named Troy. Troy came from a crazy, dysfunctional, abusive childhood and by age 14 had attended 13 schools, felt neglected, rejected, friendless and angry and was diagnosed with a neurological condition which led him on to a life of drugs and crime.
By age 16 he was jai...
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November 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Today, in the sunny location of Townsville QLD, I get to have a good old Aussie chin-wag with a true blue Australian male about men and tears, on this episode titled “Big Boys Don’t Cry.” I guess I’m asking the questions – Do big boys cry? Do we as a society, let them? I mean, is it really allowed or is it taboo, even frowned upon? Do we suddenly consider, “Oh my goodness my big strong man is actually a weakling,” if he admits he “...
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October 22, 2024 • 30 mins
There's nothing quite like sitting down with your family or friends, or even all by yourself, curling up on your couch with a bowl full of popcorn and some Maltesers and really enjoying a feel good movie that warms your heart. No full-on swearing or awkward sex scenes, just wholesome inspiration and maybe even a dose of hope. That’s what this episode is all about – reviewing a handful of these kinds of movies.
There are some war ...
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October 8, 2024 • 29 mins
Dreams. You know how they're usually chaotic, nothing really makes sense, people act super weird and everything is just really bizarre, with crazy stuff going on, and when you wake up its like, “Ahh ... What the heck did I just watch”... right?
Well this was different! I actually dreamed an entire, fully comprehensible 'cartoon' and it's being created into an actual book right now. It stars a kind and loving, Master Goldsmith who...
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