Media Room
Welcome to my media room. Here you will find TV, Newspaper, Magazine and Radio clips and interviews about that blind woman. For even more blind woman stuff head over to Julie’s facebook page and “like” her!
Bryan Crump on Nights interviewed Julie about her trip to South and Central America in 2014, where along with her husband Ron they achieved their dream of visiting the Seven Wonders of the World.
Julie and two other Dunedin blind knitters got their needles out as part of a group project to knit beanies for premature babies at Dunedin Public Hospital. Not just any beanies though – they chose the colour of their local super rugby team, the Highlanders. See who turned up to help them hand the beanies over!
After visiting her fourth wonder of the world Julie got to talk with Nights Host Paul Brennan about her recent visit to the Taj Mahal in India.
Next Magazine – When the going gets tough.
Julie was asked by the Otago Daily Times to write about the best day of her life, you were not allowed to choose the day you got married or had a child. So see what Julie came up with.
Check this link to get to the Campbell Live episode covering the results so far, and the generosity of New Zealanders who supported the Small Creditors Sausage Sizzzle Fundraiser in the Octagon, Dunedin last night – 20 March 2012.
Click the link below to watch the Campbell Live episode that is completely dedicated to the Fundraising Sausage Sizzle for the ORFU Small Creditors that Campbell Live instigated.
Click the link above to hear
Julie talking to Jim Mora on
Afternoons on Tuesday 29 November 2011.
At the Terrace Bar & Grill Julie welcomed International Rugby visitors to her city of Dunedin. Watch this clip of her telling about how one wintry day in 2004, she got to referee a game of nude touch rugby.
Julie found herself invited back to referee her second game of nude touch rugby, watch this clip to see the coverage Close Up.
Julie got asked to referee another game of nude touch rugby, “why not!” Check out her photo and article covering the game between Fiji and the Nude Blacks in Dunedin.
Julie hit the front page of the “Escape pull-out” in the Christchurch Press. Read about her tales of China and how she got to walk on the great wall.
Last year, as part of celebrate diversity week held here in Dunedin, Mike Gourley from Radio NZ National interviewed Julie for their One in Five programme. This went to air on April 3 2011 and you can check it out here
This photo and caption were features in the Star Community Newspaper in Dunedin in the middle of March, 2011. It shows the 1000 truffles Julie and her team of volunteers made for the kids of Canterbury affected by the quake.
Check out the Star’s feature page showcasing all of Julie’s work including her ‘Why Not’ philosophy, her trip to the middle east in May 2011 and Operation Truffle.
Welcome to that blind woman’s Media Room! Here you can find recordings and articles of Julie in action. From appearing in her local paper to being on Campbell Live, you can find it all here.
Read about how Julie made her truffles in front of 185 Linwood pupils as part of an inspirational address to show them how to focus on what they could do, rather than what they could not.
Launching Operation Truffle at two Christchurch Intermediate schools in November 2010, this article talks about what’s inspired the project.
Hear all about Julie’s upcoming visit to Lynwood and Shirley Intermediates as part of Operation Truffle
Welcome to that blind woman’s Media Room! Here you can find recordings and articles of Julie in action. From appearing in her local paper to being on Campbell Live, you can find it all here.
When Julie was at home working on her computer she got two emails to say that Julie Biuso was talking about her with Jim Moira on Radio New Zealand. Check out what they were saying
Real Magazine caught up with Julie in her Kitchen recently – check her out making cinnamon rolls for her family.
When Julie was about to launch the Why Not Workplace Challenge the MARAFUN came along to help her. See what The Star wrote about saying “Why Not?” to the challenge of walking blind
Julie finally landed her long awaited interview with Radio NZ showhost Kim Hill. Listen to it here
As part of the international science festival Julie was involved in a dining in the dark event. Watch Nightlines coverage here
Outlook is the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind’s member publication. The autumn edition features Julie’s upcoming adventure to Egypt and Jordan. Find out why “it’s impossible not to love Julie Wood’s.”
When Julie became the first blind president of her BNI chapter (Business Networking International) she didn’t just lead this group of businesspeople, she also taught them how to network.
Check out what happened when Julie went to speak at the Otago Careers festival on 13th May 2010
Coming up in July as part of the International Science Festival is a blind dining experience at the Technique Restaurant at Otago Polytechnic. Read about it in this ODT article
Julie appeared in her local communitie paper just after the 13th anniversary of her blindness. Take a look at how she celebrated
Find out what it’s like being a blind sightseer in this fascinating article written by Jim Eagles at the New Zealand Herald
Julie was featured in the Otago Daily Times when she headed down to the Balclutha disability expo to do a cooking without looking demonstration. Read the article here
Julie was about to walk her 5th Half-Marathon in Dunedin when the Otago Daily Times caught up with her. To find out how she focusses on finishing what she sets out to do click on the following link.
Attitude came to town to film that blind woman – mother, author, coach and the cook who doesn’t look.
In November 2008 Julie appeared on Campbell Live while cooking without looking those bloody truffles again.
Julie has appeared in Her Magazine three times, a New Zealand publication celebrating the thinking woman – once to talk about her life as a blind woman and twice about her trip to Paris.
Hear this vibrant account of the Pie off of the century where Radio NZ’s Mike Gourley matches his cooking skills against the queen of cooking without looking, that blind woman Julie Woods