Island Roots, Auckland Ways: Recent Episodes

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Longtime friends and children of South Auckland, Mariner Fagaiava, host of Flava Drive, and Allyssa Verner-Pula, emerging academic, are proud to present 'Island Roots, Auckland Ways'.

Both in their early 20s, they share a love of cheap eats, the club and are quiet comfortable with living at home.

Join them and special guests for weekly episodes covering everything from mental health, speaking your language and the highs and lows of life.

'Island Roots, Auckland Ways' is part of the Flava Podcast Network.

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Just us this week… with our last episode for… we don’t know how long.

Making Island Roots, Auckland Ways has been a labour of love. Even as recently as a few years ago, there were no podcasts that represented who we were as Pacific 20-somethings trying to find our way in the world. We hope this has been a safe space for you, as much it has for us. Until next time, alofa tele atu.

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This episode is sponsored by Diabetes NZ.

This week’s guests are Milan Moala & Susan Moala’eua.

Today is World Diabetes Day so Milan and Susan are breaking down a story we know is all too familiar for our aiga. The theme for this year’s Diabetes Action Month is ‘Don’t Sugar Coat Diabetes’. It’s important for y’all to know the symptoms, different types of diabetes there are and knowing there isn’t shame about living with this common condition.

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This week’s guest is Samoan singer and actor The Western Guide.

Boasting over 80-thousand TikTok followers, he’s all the rage with the kids after playing Demetrius in ‘Inky Pinky Ponky’. The Western Guide also has his hand in a successful country music career, while being heard daily on Niu FM’s night show. His warm, go-getter vibrations show no signs of slowing down.

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This week’s guest is Māori broadcaster and reo advocate Stacey Morrison.

We’d be here all day listing the TV and radio shows that our Stace has fronted, but she’s currently at Flava - back after launching the station 20 years ago. We take our chat even further to the What Now and Mai Time days. Above all, she is a proud wife and Mum. She lets us know there’s still time for us to create our dream families.

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This week’s guest is Tongan entrepreneur ‘Anau Mesui Henry.

Kava is shared ceremoniously across the Pacific but there haven’t quite been venues like Four Shells Kava Lounge to casually indulge in this cultural elixir. People can rock up on their own, in a group or gather on the fala. ‘Anau, who co-owns the lounge, brings her kumete to our fala as we chat about her journey.

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This week’s guest is Tongan singer Elena.

At only 18, she has two Pacific Music Awards nominations and two festivals under her belt. Elena was supported into living her dreams by very loving parents, transitioning early out of high school and into tertiary study. Raised in Roskill, the Central Okalani sister is shaking up the R&B scene with her fresh energy.

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This week’s guest is Māori broadcaster and comedian TimProvise.

We’re picking that there is no other interviewer more researched and gifted with the gab like Tim is. From Clendon to basketball coach to teacher to breakfast radio host, he now lives a relatively quiet life on his tūrangawaewae. As host of video series Bakery Run, he’s also tasted his fair share in flakey goodness.

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This week’s guest is Tongan comedian Opeti Vaka.

He lives in Foxton, a rural town tucked away in Manawatū - where there’s more fish and chip shops than Islanders. He did his first stand-up show in 2018 and in 2019, won the Wellington Raw Comedy Quest. Until Opeti reaches a point where he can comfortably live off comedy mahi, the grind’s on for his family.

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This week’s guest is Samoan siapo maker Doron Semu.

Once a declining practice, the ancient Pacific artform of barkcloth is being revived. Doron travelled to the motherland, learnt diligently from knowledge holders and teaching others upon his return. He and Allyssa also share what it was like to be each other’s soa in receiving the pe’a/malu.

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This week’s guests are Filiva’a and Joseph from band Shepherds Reign.

This band was born out of a South Auckland garage, has travelled as far as Norway and received millions of views. Recently the most nominated act at the Pacific Music Awards, Fili & Joe look back on crafting their niche - sharing their talents with the world. Genius to perform the siva tau underneath some metal!

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This week’s guest is Tongan entertainer Diamond Langi.

Several years after featuring on Konecs’ smash hit ‘Lose My Mind’, she’s dropped her debut single. ‘Keep You Here’ is a love letter to her late father, who taught his daughter everything about music. Singing isn’t the only string to her bow - she acts, models and advocates fiercely for the culture.

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This week’s guests are pop-punk band MAYJUN.

In their early 20s, Jeremiah Fale, Elijah McPherson & Tivoli Levi have their sights set on storied music careers. The idea that Pacific peoples can make music other than reggae is still relatively uncharted, but the usos have risen to online acclaim. MAYJUN are deep into the making of their music with more of it to drop soon.

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This week’s guest is Samoan-Swedish broadcaster So’omalo Iteni Schwalger.

After serving as the night host on Niu FM, he jumped ship to RNZ where he is now the host of The TAHI. Recently, he was made a finalist for the NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award at the Taite Music Prize. So’o shares how dropping out of school set the trajectory for his successful career.

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This week's guest is Samoan photographer Geoffery Matautia a.k.a. Southsides.

His candid, community-centric style of portrait photography has landed him in major publications and brand campaigns. But this now fully fledged career was only a hobby once. Geoffery is always capturing others' stories, so we want to know - who is he, how has he gotten here and what keeps him going?

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This week’s guest is Samoan photographer Geoffery Matautia a.k.a. Southsides.

His candid, community-centric style of portrait photography has landed him in major publications and brand campaigns. But this now fully fledged career was only a hobby once. Geoffery is always capturing others’ stories, so we want to know - who is he, how has he gotten here and what keeps him going?

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This week’s guest is Māori comedian Kura Turuwhenua.

She doesn’t have to try to be funny, she just is. Kura’s mind is wonderfully abstract, allowing her to channel the lived and imaginative through her craft. Our mate shares how stand-up led her to recently sketch writing for Only In Aotearoa alongside an all wāhine team. Plus, she settles for us: hāngi or boil up?

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This week’s guest is Samoan teacher and influencer Samantha Richards.

With nearly 50 thousand TikTok followers, the classroom wizz shares what it’s like to work at school. The daughter of a Palagi dad and Samoan mum, Samantha herself is learning, about her Island roots. This involves a malaga to the motherland later this year honouring her late grandmother.

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In our biggest episode to-date, we interview Tongan singer Dinah Jane.

After selling tens of millions of records with Fifth Harmony, she’s now a commanding voice in the Polynesian music space. Dinah’s latest single ‘Road Less Travelled’ speaks to the lane of the industry which she says many expected her to take after being part of a girl group. She has been “crying for” this moment in her career. Mālō e ngāue lahi, Dinah Jane.

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This week’s guest is Samoan-Tongan entrepreneur Noeleen Tuala.

A simple desire to kit out her grandchildren with Pacific printed manchester turned into the business, PELE Baby. It’s a one stop shop for Nesian playmats, blankets and more. Despite some challenges on her journey, Noeleen encourages our inherently entrepreneurial peoples to unite so we can all eat.

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This week’s guest is Samoan actor Theo Dāvid.

From Manurewa to Ferndale, he plays Viliami To’a on iconic New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. As passionate thespians, Allyssa and the bro indulge on how hard it can be to be acting as someone else. Theo is a man who wants everyone to eat and says unfortunately that ain’t how it works in the industry.

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This week’s guest is Tongan-Samoan musician and broadcaster Charlie Pome’e.

Charlie says he was only pretending to be a radio host on Snapchat a few years ago when in 2023, he got the call up to trial for Flava Breakfast. Plus, what’s the real tea on BFT? And the Three Houses Down frontman recounts how his family band started with borrowed instruments and a dream.

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This week’s guest is Māori-Samoan entrepreneur Jordaan Tuitama a.k.a. Creative Taro.

Out of a need for clothes were stylish and able to fit his build, he began upcycling opshop finds. He’s made a side hustle of this hobby, recognising the kaitiakitanga in flipping already worn material that would’ve just been binned. But get a load of Jordaan’s life story. Teen dad, former gang member and thespian.

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This week’s guest is Samoan-Māori DJ Aysha Nanai-Leifi, a.k.a. Fallback.

Like LL Cool J said, she’s on the ones and twos to have you dippin’ it and doin’ it well. She’s bumped shoulders with him. Oh, and Tyler The Creator. An ardent representative of Nesian artistic flair, she has taken to the world stage in America and Asia. We love brown women being bosses like her.

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This week’s guest is Samoan content creator Zarya Ioka.

An influencer fastly on the rise, she was vlogging for fun before there was a word for it. If being married with two children wasn’t already a juggle, she decided to study medicine. Zarya tells us how she does it all, has advice for the young, brown mamas and rebukes Maz’s West Auckland slander.

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This week’s guest is Samoan-Māori singer Jordyn With A Why.

A child of two proud cultures, she shares the journey of accepting both into her life with equal love. She shares about her own children and being a māmā. Jordyn is a woman of incredible strength, opening up about her why. Plus, she fights her case for pani popo being the best Samoan dessert.

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This week’s guest is Samoan activist Aigagalefili Fepulea’i-Tapua’i.

She is a daughter of Samoa and South Auckland. An award-winning poet, orator and activist. Formerly the head girl of Aorere College, Fili rose to prominence as a fierce advocate for our communities. We converse over the many kaupapa she stands for and frankly, why you listening should give a damn.

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This week’s guest is Māori musician Greatsouth.

In the final instalment of our NZ Music Month series, the brother is an alt-rock artist from Papakura. We really dismantle the idea that every Southside singer is automatically hip-hop or R&B. He sheds light on his 2023 single ‘Popstar in Manix’ and walks us through the big batch of new waiata soon to be dropped.

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This week’s guest is Samoan performing artist Pati AF.

In 2020, she set the music space aflush in its thinking around Pasifika femininity. She went onto curate Ka’a: The Concert Experience - a safe space for fafine and tagata MVPFAFF+ to dream without bounds. Unapologetically herself, Pati was a hoot to have around our laulau. Talk “too” much, laugh “too” loud? Dis fa u, boo.

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This week’s guest is Samoan songstress Spdrtwnbby.

We continue our celebration of Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa with this up and coming R&B teine. After finishing a music degree in university, she released her debut single ‘Pixel Pixie’ - giving fresh off the boat feminine. As Spdrtwnbby establishes a name for herself in the industry, she tells us what it’s like on the real.

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This week’s guest is Māori social media sensation Myshaan.

His song ‘Sway’ has surpassed the magic million streams, a song he says has a strong spiritual influence. A returned Mormon missionary, he talks more to his relationship with God. Myshaan’s also got the inside scoop on working with Dinah Jane. Expect lots of singing. It’s giving Hairspray.

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This week’s guest is Māori businesswoman Mihi Sorensen.

Not even 30 yet - she’s a qualified lawyer, homeowner and runs her own pakihi. For those of us brown peeps trying to navigate the white world, Mihi tells of her unconventional path to success. She shows us how to build the life of our dreams through one easy step - knowing your worth.

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This week’s guest is Samoan-Māori content creator Serenity Sola.

Long before y’all started doing TikTok dances, she and her sister Lina started ‘Keeping Up With The Solas’ on Facebook. Whatchu know about influencing? These days, Serenity takes her vlogging camera to the gym. She's lost 40 kilos on a journey to better health. Sissy shares her weight loss secrets with us.

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This week’s guest is journalist Toleafoa John Campbell.

It only makes sense that he’s the first Palagi on our podcast, because of his fierce advocacy over many years for Pasifika. We talk the 2009 Samoa tsunami, the phrase ‘skuxx’ and how he got his suafa matai. And Toleafoa whose own show ‘Campbell Live’ was axed, discusses this uncertain time for news in Aotearoa.

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This week's guest is Cook Islands RnB artist Sam V.

He burst onto the music scene as a teenager, likened as New Zealand's answer to Justin Bieber. Sam has recently returned from the land of sex & drugs & rock & roll, with stories to prove it. From that experience, began the conversation around tall poppy syndrome. It really do be our own.

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This week’s guests are broadcasting duo Sia Petelo & Henry Hohenberger.

A chance pairing for the two who couldn’t be more poles apart, has turned into a successful few years hosting ‘The Rush’ radio show. Sia & Henry ooze with a sibling-like sass that make for listening that is 1) funny and 2) painful for our audio guys who would’ve had a field day in the edit suite.

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This week, we remember our friend Fa’anana Efeso Collins.

Fa’anana was supposed to join us for a talanoa and we still intend to celebrate him. In this special episode, we reflect on his greatness, his journey in politics and the lasting legacies and lessons he leaves us with. Moe mai ra e te rangatira. Ia manuia lau malaga, Fa’anana Efeso Collins.

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This week’s guest is Gen ‘Ilolahia, co-founder of social media platform ‘The Moanan’.

A proud Tongan, Gen has been on a journey of learning all about his roots. This journey led him to co-founding ‘The Moanan’ with friend Laki Tiatia. Together, they share knowledge about the Pacific with those living away from the Islands who similarly, yearn a connection with the culture.

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This week’s guest is Māori broadcaster, actress and singer Alex King.

We welcome Alex back home to Flava, where her radio career kicked off. The daughter of comedian and mental health advocate Mike King, she tried to run away from the entertainment industry. An attempt short-lived as this thespian is made for the stage. Her biggest project yet - reclaiming Te Reo Māori.

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This week’s guest is Tongan actor and musician JP Foliaki.

Turning down a boujee corporate job offer was the risk JP Foliaki had to make if he was to reach his dreams. This risk paid off big time with our toko now of the Pacific’s most well-known performers. He reveals the boats he be rocking, the mental toll from playing some characters and why God’s got his back.

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And just like that, we've arrived to the end of our first season. Allyssa has a MAJOR surprise in store for Maz that you won't wanna miss. Plus, we read out what you love about South Auckland and the burning questions you've asked of us. What are our plans for the future? Do we actually hate each other?! We'll be back sometime soon but until then - toe feiloa'i, alofa tele atu x

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In our second to last chitty chat for the season, we treat you with an extremely dope guest in Indira. The Tongan/Fijian journalist is here to drop truth bombs.

Indira got married at a young age, had two children and divorced in the moments following her rise to fame as a reality TV contestant. She built a broadcasting career and now she's studying law? A testimony if you ever heard one.

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With an online following of more than half a million people, we're joined this week by a very famous guest. Lisa is known for her #mumlife vlogs but she takes us into life before TikTok stardom - growing up with drag king mums, getting pregnant at 21 and living in a garage. All those things are IRAW exclusives!

On top of all that, Lisa is a businesswoman and homeowner.

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Ua lelei tele le aso, a good day for some IRAW! It's Mental Health Awareness Week and we're joined on the fala by Samoan athlete Symone Tafuna'i. Known to family and friends as Symmy, she has been very open about her journey with depression and anxiety. After recently coming off medication, she says she's "thriving". Symmy shares how she got out of her lowest lows, thanks to therapy and tonnes of support from her village.

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Hands up if your parents didn't give you the birds and bees chat... okay... that's everyone so let's get into it on this episode! Like, Maz shares about his first time having sex. We go deep. No pun intended. Funny thing is you grow up and everyone's having their first kisses and boyfriends and girlfriends. Next thing you know, everyone is married. So we also talk about how you're actually not behind when it may seem like it. And to even out the seriousness, we yarn about those damn dating apps, red flags and our current crushes!

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This week we're joined by community weaver and finance expert, Latayvia Tualasea Tautai. We're asking and answering those uncomfortable questions: Should you really give your money to that funeral? How much money is in our bank accounts? And when will Allyssa finally get her licence? Malo lava sissy, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

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Another sis from le Southside on the poddy this week, comedian Courtney Dawson. Her career started in the Manurewa Rugby Clubrooms! Courtney's passion for performance as a teenager was put aside when she and her high school sweetheart welcomed a wee pepe.

A couple of years ago, she went full-time on the comedy gig and is lapping it up - recently scoring a show alongside Paddy Gower. She's frank about the fact none of this was planned. 'Ofas sissy for the phat katas!

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Nau mai anō - this week, we roll out the fala for Sammy Salsa. He's a stylist to the stars, having travelled around the world, setting up shop in wardrobes for some of Aotearoa and the world's top talent. Get your tissues ready, girl. Sammy pays tribute to his family, who've played their role as the village in getting him to where he is today. Functioning as a brown person in a predominantly white workplace is hard aye? Sammy's got some words of wisdoms in that department.

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Girl, they didn’t axe us after the first episode so surely we’re fine! We were really honoured to kōrero with our Southside sista, Azura Lane. So south she and her Pukekohe peeps drank at barn parties, Zu is raw about being Māori but not knowing Te Reo. Our now Flava Brekky host has hosted every single show on the station and she shares that story of patience too. Malo le fa’amalosi Zu, we love ya.

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Waddup and welcome to the very first episode of Island Roots, Auckland Ways! And who better to yarn with than our Fijian/Maori brother, Joe Daymond. He's a comedian, actor and entrepreneur. Joe was raised in Wellington and went on to attend the city's most prestigious private schools. From that, to dropping out of uni, to living in his car and touring across America - Joe shares like he's never before. 

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Episodes Out August 8th

Longtime friends and children of South Auckland, Mariner Fagaiava and Allyssa Verner-Pula are proud to present 'Island Roots, Auckland Ways'.

Both in their early 20s and university students, Mariner has a background in journalism and hosts Flava Drive, while Allyssa is an emerging academic and creative. Together, they share their contemporary diasporic reflections on a number of topics pertaining to the Pasifika experience in Auckland. Using this podcast as a platform to create a living archive, Mariner and Allyssa hope to offer a modern, fresh and nuanced perspective on existing media that centres Pasifika communities in Auckland. 'Island Roots, Auckland Ways' is part of the Flava Podcast Network. 

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Y'ALL, WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF OUR FIRST SEASON. for the last nine episodes, we've been bantering about what we love about $A. now, we pass the mic to the girls and see what parts of our good hood they enjoy. a massive thank you to everyone who has tuned in and created our lil iraw aiga as it stands today, we love you all and wish you a summer full of fun. don't worry, we'll be back (after we do some a$$ shakin in the sun). jah bless xxx

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our second to last episode of the first season :(

if you don't believe or adhere to certain beliefs, is it possible that you aren't truly pacific? that's the question we pose to ourselves today, pertaining particularly to religion, politics and athleticism. since tongan-australian rugby player israel folau shared his anti-gay beliefs on social media, it's opened the door to other sportspeople sharing similar sentiments. we have a good talanoa about this and much more xx

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why kia ora! welcome on back to iraw where this week, the girls sent in their questions and we're answering them. for those of you on your cultural learning malaga, listen in to our top tips and trix to picking up the language. plus, we help out a sis who's deciding whether to pick uni or work. then, the million dollar question - should you shoot your shot with someone or wait for them to make the first move??? enjoy hotties xx

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coming at you with a lolly scramble of current affairs this episode! we discuss the margret catfishing situation that unfolded on ig (a girl tricked her ex into thinking she was withholding their baby from him, but there was no baby). then we look back a year on from the formal govt apology for the dawn raids. has anything changed? we end by looking back on the many eras of beyoncé, our true queen. sorry liz xx

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cheeeehoooo!! HAHAHAHA there's nobody we love more apart from Jesus Christ Himself than our friend penina. she lives in the north shore of akl, represented and considered as a plush area.

when ppl think of pasifika, they automatically think of the southside. which isn't the case for our mate penina, who is still wonderfully immersed in her culture as a tama'ita'i samoa. she helps debunk what it means to be someone from outside the south. ty for coming on sis x

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happy IRAW wednesday, hotties! firstly, manuia lau malaga, lennay kekua.

our big topic this week is defining success as pacific immigrants. it's often touted that the migrant dream was/is education - we unpack that. we all want to give back to our parents/rangatira who travelled here from the islands. but the grind ain't easy, and tbvfh we need to look after ourselves in the process.

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welcome back to our two-part series reflecting on pacific entertainment in new zealand. there is so much to talk about, and you've probably been able to think about some more "golden" moments.

but for time's sake, we're choosing to analyse sione's wedding - the poly romcom that took da world by storm. you know we luv a shout-out, so shout-out to the naked samoans for making such an iconic movie! enjoy xxx

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who doesn't love a bit of nostalgia?! this week, we're winding back the time machine to when life was better. and by that, we mean when tiktok was out and bebo was in. literally lol. the 2000s and early 2010s were a defining period for how pacific were represented in arts, entertainment and media. we talk about the hold of samoan-indian musician aaradhna... our obsessions with the levi family on shortland street... and so much more xx

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girl we made it past the first episode and for that, thank da lordt lol. this week, we spill on our catholic school experiences. avp went to an inner-city all-girls school with a million dollar view... a front row seat to racism as a afakasi gal trying to live. maz went to de la salle, tucked in the heart of aukilani saute. all-boys. and maz ain't a MANs man ya know. but where we went to school formed who we are today, so again, thank da lordt for that x

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knock knock, ho. welcome to the first ever episode of IRAW. mariner and allyssa trace back to where their friendship began, froth over a certain nz singer and pay tribute to another nz singer who actually named the podcast (fa'etangata status fr). leave a rating and subscribe. let's do it all again nek week! tai lafs x

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wass poppin fāmili !!! this was a real impromptu recording of our trailer, so pls mind the fake laughter and dryness. not a regular occurrence, we promise <3

share w/ ur friends n' famz... like... follow... all the things. we'll catch u wednesday 10th august at 7am nzt :*