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The Impact Podcast Show
In this world, it is the norm to focus on inspiring #TheMany. For The Impact Podcast Show, we focus on impacting #TheOne. We interview people from all walks of life, allowing their stories to be shared, tailoring to impacting #TheOne. Hosted by Joshua Suli-Ruka.
As "The Impact Podcast Show" journey comes to a close, our Host wanted to share a personal message of gratitude to say thank you to all who have participated on the journey. This message goes out to #TheOne!
In this episode, our host has a conversation with Kimaea around the subject of Sex Talk. Check it out!
In this podcast episode, Joshua has a conversation with Elizabeth, one of the founders behind Flawnit' a business specialising in handmade candles. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh has a conversation with Carlos Mendoza, a man who is most famous for his TikTok name "CarlosExplains", topping up at 1.2 MILLION followers online. Throughout this episode, Carlos shares about his upringing, growing up in a disadvantage area. Adding on, he shares his heart as to why he loves teaching sexual education through the TikTok platform. Check it out!
In this episode, we are fortunate enough to have Faima as our next special guest on The Impact Podcast Show. He currently has a clothing brand called Trzl Hill. In this episode, Faima touches on his upbringing, sharing the life lessons he has learnt growing up. Check it out!
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In this episode, Josh has a conversation with Pnuks, a man who is most famous for the viral Tik Tok video regarding the "bare minimum". Throughout the session, Pnuks shares into deeper context behind the video, followed by his story. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh speaks with Raka Raukete, an inspiring entrepreneur using the social media world to aspire to inspire other people to become better. Raka shares in this episode some of the setbacks he experienced growing up as a Cook Islander Australia-born. Adding on, Josh and Raka rub shoulders together, having a deep discussion around social media. Check it out!!
In this episode, Josh engages in conversation with Jerry Fanene, one of the visionary men behind IMHMN. Growing up as the eldest, Mr Fanene struggled with the many pressures placed to be the “role model” for his younger siblings. In 2010, Jerry’s mother passed away, which placed Jerry through many mental health battles… which led to a suicidal attempt. He shares the encounter he had through one of his biggest setbacks he experienced in his life. Check it out!
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In this episode, Josh speaks with Brendon Tapuai, an actor in the new series "Parramatta Series", playing the lead role of Atonio. Many would have seen him as Atonio, a few know him as Brendon. Our host joins Mr Tapuai in hearing his life story behind the wide screens, where he suffered from mental health issues in the last year of high school. Throughout the episode, Brendon shares his upbringing, growing up as the eldest of his family and having to carry the pressure of being the eldest. Adding on, he touches on his experience on playing the role of Atonio and how his acting career all played out! Check it out!
In this episode, Josh speaks with Anver, a men's performance coach who focuses on empowering men to become their better selves. He shares his upbringing on growing up with his father leaving the family. Adding on, he also touches on his low point in life, which has brought a catalyst into his journey into becoming the best men's performance coach in Australia.
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Josh has a conversation with Joseph Tau, a youth worker who specialises in running youth programs and being a program facilitator. He currently works with an organisation called “Creating Changes”. On the side, Joe runs his own hustle called One Love Mentoring, helping the young people through small specialised programs.
In this episode, Joe shares about his upbringing growing up in New Zealand as a Samoan young boy. He also touches on the struggles of “understanding”, finding it hard to understand. Through his struggles and setback, he was able to find freedom through helping young people who he looks at as “Little Joe’s”. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh was fortunate enough to connect with the man himself, Omar El-Takrori. For many people, they would know him as “Omar El-Takrori” from Think Media. In this case, our host dives more into the background story behind Mr El-Takrori.
Omar currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife,and little baby girl. He is a part of a team called “Think Media”, a media company providing tips and tricks for online video, founded by Sean Cannel.
Throughout the episode, Omar shares his upbringing to the journey to how he became a content creation. Adding on, He also speaks on his faith with Jesus and the purpose to his life and calling.
In 2013, our host was fortunate enough to play Harold Matthews for the Parramatta Eels, a team that had won the U’16s Harold Matthews Cup, followed by the National Championship a week later. For Josh, this was the start of his new journey of discovering the true beauty behind personal development and building resilience. During his season, there was one particular man that supported him in his journey.
Josh speaks with a man who has impacted his life over the course of his teenage years playing through the rugby league representative system, Chris Hutchison. Nicknamed “Hutcho”, He has many accolades under his belt, winning over multiple premiership across many different age groups respectively through the rugby league system.
In this episode, Josh has a long awaiting conversation with his Under 16’s Harold Matthews Coach. Hutcho touches on his upbringing, growing up with hard working parents and his two brothers. Adding on, he shares the process of him entering into coaching, followed by his heart behind coaching people, not just in rugby league, but across many other sporting avenues.
In this episode, our host speaks with Logan Brown, a social media marketer for Victorious Hafto. He touches base on his upbringing, growing up with a loving family in central Auckland, NZ. During the podcast session, Mr Brown foretells his story on how a proposal deal from his friend sparked a desire within him to leave his laboring job, to pursue the life of an entrepreneur. Check it out!
Growing up always being a “big girl”, Sapphire lived her life being uncomfortable. The main issue for her was her body image. In this episode, Sapph shares her deep struggles on losing her 4th child through her pregnancy. She foretells the accounts of how her daughter had sparked her WHY and made her lose over 50 kilograms of weight. Check it out!
In life, many successful leaders in the world receive great recognition in the world. However, there are many unseen leaders who don’t get the recognition but still focus on impacting #TheOne. Paulo is a great example of this! In this episode, Josh speaks with Paulo Greaves, a man who started a Bible study group called SMS (Save My School). Mr Greaves shares on his journey of his father being in the army, the struggles of being evicted when he was in years 11 & the constant prayers he prayed for to bring The Word into Fairfield High School. Check it out!
Aywan currently serves as the Youth Director of his home church. Riversedge Church. In this episode, Josh has the honours of having a conversation with Aywan Suleiman. Mr Suleiman shares his life story, growing up in Iraq to then moving to Australian. Adding on, Aywan shares his story on how living with a presenceless father had made a big impact on his life today.
Other than being a sales rep, Trae is seen to be a major influence under his name “DJ Songz”, engaging the people on the dance floor through many gigs such as weddings, nightclubs, functions... you name it, he probably has done it.
Now, even though he has been blessed to get paid for a passion as a DJ, Mr DJ Songz has had some hiccups along the way on a personal level.
In this episode, our host speaks with Trae about his life story, growing up in the area of Ipswich, Queensland. During the session, he touched base on some of the many challenges he had faced both personally and through his career as a DJ.
In this episode, Josh reconnects with one of his rugby league coaching staff, Aaron McDonald. "Macca" has played a vital role in Josh's rugby league journey, coaching him for the Parramatta Eels Harold Matthews squad in 2014. Through this episode, Aaron shares his story, growing up with a blessed, community-focused, faith-based family. Adding on, Mr McDonald also touches on some of his major setbacks in life... from losing his father, to his wife suffering from depression and bipolar, to also his son being diagnosed with autism. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh speaks with Kelli, a woman who currently serves at her home church, Inspire Church as a content creator. Making a big impact on his life, our host wanted to provide a platform for Kelli to share her story growing up and how she entered into the content creating scene. Adding on, Kelli shares a touching story on her experience growing up in high school, and why she loves to help other people. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh was fortunate enough to speak with Aynsley Broom, who would best be known for her works under SippingKoko, a blog-focused brand that tailors towards empowering Pasifika people through blogging. Just like everyone else in the world, she has an empowering story to share, where she grew up being called a "plastic" samoan, for not knowing her culture, to now using her voice through blogging, helping other Pasefika people know more about their culture. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh was honoured to have Kevin Aung, aka. Blindside Kev on the Impact Podcast Show. During the conversation, Mr Aung shares on his story, talking about his upbringing, to how he gained a passion into being a video creator. Kev currently is a video creator, apart of the Seuno Production crew, who specialises in music video productions. Adding on, Kevin shares on his relationship with KreezyVision and where he wants to go in the near future. Check it out!
In this episode, our host Josh, speaks with one of the greatest music video director and camera operator in the western sydney area, if not the world... Kristopher Molina. Kris, a.k.a. KreezyVision is a video creator entrepreneur who is making an impact in the music scene, directing music videos with Aussie artist such as Hooligan Hefs, Hooligan Skinny, Masi Rooc, Youngn Lipz, Blueboy and much more. During the conversation, Mr Molina shares on his humbling upbringing, to being the Mr cool guy growing up and how he broke out of the scene. Adding on, Kreezy also shares on the name behind KreezyVision and touches on where Sueno Productions will be heading in the near future. Check it out!
If there is a greater example of our mission statement being filfilled, Kody Duncan would be one of the many greats to be given the opportunity to have their spotlight lit on The Impact Podcast Show. Upon working on multiple businesses, Kody has been one of the big followers of our show, listening to many of our podcast episodes. In this episode, Josh has a conversation with Kody on his upbringing in life, where he shares on his struggles growing up with his parents being divorced at the age of 10. Adding on, he also shares on his heart behind why he is so passionate in what he does. Check it out!
In this episode, our host has the honours of interviewing the man himself, Luke Heka. Just like everyone else in the world, Mr Heka has an impacting story that will inspire and encourage you to feel grateful for life. If there is any man out there that understand the greatest value behind freedom, it would be Mr Luke Heka. Growing up in a sheltered shed as a country Queenslander, Luke understood the freedom. His father would allow him to do whatever he wanted, he was given little to no rules. During his teens, he was pushed to go into boarding school, where he didn't find any interested. Looking for a means to seek freedom, Mr Heka as a youngin did the best he can to be kicked out of school. The result? He ended up looking towards drugs for freedom. In this chat, Luke shares on how he found true freedom. Check it out!
In this episode, our host connects with the man himself, Luka James. He currently is a video content creator, specialising in editing UFC highlights under the brand StayHydrated. Surprisingly enough, Josh and Luka went to the same high school, where Luka touches briefly on his first impression on our hose. During this interview, Luka speaks on his upbringing, followed by his heart behind creating UFC highlights, to the moment he connected with his favourite UFC fighter, Israel Adesanya. Check it out!
Coming from a Samoan background, it wasn’t the “norm” for men like @rahbymamea to succeed in the academic side of life. For him, it derived from Sunday school classes at his Samoan church growing up. With Rahby, he knows the discipline it takes to make it successful. In this episode, @siuasuli has the honours of speaking to Rahby about his story behind his vision to help his Polynesian community through his business venture. He also shares on where he gets his energetic personality from, that makes him the man that he is today.
Our next special guest is a man who has conquered many struggles both in competition and personally. Michael Appana is a personal trainer, specialising in Physique Transformation. Previously competing in BodyBuilding competitions, Mr Appana has a moving story about his upbringing that he shares in this episode on The Impact Podcast Show. In this episode, Our host Josh has the honours to speak with Michael about his background story. Mr Appana shares on his life growing up fatherless, being sexually abused as a child and some of the learning curves he has made being a father himself. Check it out!
Not often do you see a naturally introverted person expose themselves through running a podcast, doing vlogs about their lives and look for a means to impact many people through their social media platform. Well, this here is a great example of who Nick Betar identifies himself as.
In this episode, Josh interviews Nick Betar, who is currently on a journey himself on building his own personal brand, Betar Life. Adding on, he also runs his own podcast show called "The Betar Project", where our host was fortunate enough to share his own story and vision being The Impact Podcast Show. Nick also shares on some of the struggles he had endured and how he was able to manage to place himself out of his comfort zone & still be able to live life betar. Check it out!
Our host, Joshua had the honours of interviewing the man who has created one of the funniest skits as a Palangi man, Cris Ahern.
Cris, with the help of his fiance Valaree, has been creating skits, from relationship skits, to understanding the polynesian culture, Mr Ahern has done it all.
In this episode, Cris shares on his story on his upbringing, living in Cairns, where his friends were of Samoan or Torres-Strait Islander descent. Adding on, he also shares on the story on how he met Valaree. At the end of the podcast, Mr Ahern speaks openly about his identity of being a Palangi man and honouring his partner's culture by sharing why he wears the traditional Polynesian tatoos. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh speaks to Caitlyn B (Daughter) and Mumma B (Mother) on the story behind their infamous duet relationship of reacting to Poly Music Videos. Just like everyone else in the world, they both have a story of their own. Before there was music video reactions, Caitlyn started a YouTube channel focusing on the likes of Vlogging, Mukbangs, Challenges, etc. From there, she ended up starting a music video reaction with her Mother, to which many people started to draw attention to her videos. Our host had some questions regarding their mother-daughter relationship and share on how tight of a bond they really have. Check it out!
In this episode, Our host was fortunate to have Trey Mooney on The Impact Podcast Show. Being only 18 years old, making him the youngest special guest we have ever interviewed. Trey has achieved many successes in his life, from making Australian Schoolboys, to being on the train-on squad for the NRL Canberra Raiders. Due to his many accolades, Trey understood how it felt being a high profile player in the Rugby League system. Little did many people know, he had experienced some setbacks in his life that made him the man that he is today. Check it out!
In this episode, Our host has the honours of speaking one of his own family members, Susitina Suli. Currently at this moment, Susi is a childrens and youth worker at a church in Northern Sydney, This allows her to help the young people know more about Christ. Ms Suli touches on her story on being raised as a PK aka Preachers Kid, with her parents being ministers of the Uniting Church. Adding on, she also touches on some of the struggles she had faced prior to her new role she has today. Check it out!
Everyone has a story. However, with Mohammad, his story is empowering to hear. Migrated from Afghanistan in 2006, where he found it difficult to speak English. Moved to Fairfield Public School, where he met our host Joshua while going through the same school. In this episode, Mohammad Husaini shares his story on his journey to becoming a professional Rugby League referee. Be inspired as we hear some perspective on what a life really is for a Referee in the Rugby league scene. Check it out!
Our first inaugural female special guest speaker on The Impact Podcast Show is none other than Valaree Reekers. In this episode, Our Host Josh has a real and raw conversation with Ms Reekers about her story behind the camera. Valaree and her partner Cris are one of the biggest influencers on Instagram, creating content through skits, allows humor to shed some light onto their audience. Being of Tongan, Samoan and Dutch descent, Valaree shares on her upbringing, the people that inspires her, how she met Cris and why she continues to create content. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh speaks with Eddie, aka. Ch33ky, the latest trending RNB artist in the Western Sydney area, debuting his first single, Who I Am. Mr Ieremia speaks about the story before the glory, his upbringing on how his single mother had set the platform towards his goals and achievements. Also, Eddie touches more on his backstory on creating "Who I am" and what inspired him to choose the artist name, Ch33ky. Check it out!
In this episode, our Host has the opportunity to interview Tony Laulu, the founder of Digital Discipline, a movement to raise awareness on social media & technology addiction and usage. Mr Laulu shares his upbringing, his heart behind Digital Discipline and how his 5 years old son had turned his life around from being a social media addict. Check it out!
Lino Hola is the founder of Mens Medicine, a support and empowerment group for men. Working as a Personal Trainer in the Gold Coast, Lino had a passion to support other men who went through the struggles of not being able to speak out. In this episode, Mr Hola shares the story on how his upbringing had inspired him to establish Mens Medicine. Check it out!
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard" - Tim Notke
With Joshua Carr, it was only through hard work and determination where he was able to achieve the accolades. Growing up, Josh was considered the "skinny" guy, where he had suffered social anxiety through high school, a mental health issue that many young people may be experiencing today. Now, instead of Josh Carr looking at himself as a burden, he had seen the light at the end of the tunnel, hope to eventually achieve the goal of making his NRL debut.
Currently signed at the Cronulla Sharks, Josh Carr is recovering from his injury he had experienced. In this episode, Josh shares on his insights, reminiscing the great junior rugby league games playing with our Host. He also touches on mental health, and how he dealt with his social anxiety.
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In this episode, Josh reaches out to a man who is currently on the journey of entrepreneurship, Sydney Mamea. Mr Mamea was born in NZ & was raised is Australia. Growing up, he wanted to do more for his family, so he pursued on a journey of going to university to study a degree in Engineering and Science. Once in the professional world, Mr Mamea felt like there was more installed for him in life. Therefore, he started a new journey of entrepreneurship and online business. Check it out!
In our second episode of our newly-structured podcast, our host interviewed Noel Aukafolau and Joseph Taipari, two of the many semi-professional athletes who are working as carers with WhatAbility. During the interview, the boys mentioned about the Founder and CEO of WhatAblity, touching base on the story behind the establishment of WhatAbility. The man who is behind this great cause, a disability support service utilising professional and semi-professional athletes as carers is Steve Dresler.
Some rugby league players retire from injuries, others due to losing the passion to play. For Saia, he chose to retire from the game he loved the most, Rugby League, to fulfill Gods purpose. In this episode, Saia Tanginoa shares his story on his upbringing, followed by the big move he had made from Sydney, Australia to France under a rugby league contract with Super Rugby, Check it out!
A junior rugby league player's big dream growing up is to play in the NRL. Admiring role models. Trying to step like Benji Marshall. Perhaps you were a forward, so you would run like Fui Fui Moi Moi. With Faamanu Brown, he was one of the many rugby league players who were able to play NRL professionally for Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Just like any dream in life, comes a sacrifice. Nu Brown shares in this episode on his journey to the NRL stage, moving from New Zealand, to Australia to pursue his career dream. As he started to excel in his rugby league career, a setback was experienced along the journey, countless injuries. Due to his injuries, Mr Brown had to undergo surgery on his foot, multiple times. Through this heartfelt story, Josh our host explores on how Faamanu became the man that he is now, recovering from surgery and launching Nu Level Media. Check it out!
Many people know him as @plantbasedmaori, having a 42K following on Instagram and being the founder of the Vegan-based food truck, Tupuanuku. However, in this episode, he is known as Raniera Rewiri. In this podcast, our host Josh connects with one of his great role models, who inspired him to start and continue on the Impact Podcast Show. Mr Rewiri shares openly on the struggles of living in Whakatane, New Zealand. Adding on, he shares his insight on how his upbringing has humbled him to become the man that he is today. Check it out.
In this episode, Josh was fortunate enough to connect with William Fine, a young prospect coming up in the ranks of the Rugby League scene. Currently signed at the West Tigers, Will is a man who does not carry his faith lightly, being part of a family who are heavily involved in the Seventh-Day Adventist faith. Because of this, Mr Fine has been inspired to follow his passion in footy, whilst also being able to study a course to become a youth worker. His reasoning to becoming a youth worker is to inspire and encourage young people of the Pacific Community to reach their full potential. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh has the honors of touching base with Matthew Vidal, a man who Josh grew up with during his adolescent years. Matthew came over from Queensland, where he had the privilege to play at Cabramatta Two Blues, the same team as our host. This is where they had connected. As the years went by, so did his passion for rugby league. Once Mr Vidal graduated from high school, captaining his Westfields Sports High School Team in 2016 to win the GIO Schoolboys Cup, he made the conscious decision to leave the game. Once he left the game of rugby league, he had found a new passion in his life... that being Body Building.
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Over the past few weeks, our host has been interviewing special guest from different walks of life. One common theme that has played a role in starting the podcast conversation is the passion behind rugby league. Josh has been interviewing special guest, asking them on their background behind rugby league and where their passion lies. Sisa Koroi can resonate with the rest of the special guest, however, Josh has made a bold move to push away from speaking on rugby league in this episode, focusing specifically on Sisa's music career.
Joshua had question whether personal development was an integral part towards a musician's life. In this episode, you are invited on a journey to explore whether self development is an integral part to becoming successful in music industry or not. Check it out!
In this episode, Josh is given the opportunity to have a long awaiting conversation with Emile Isaac, a person who had supported him when he was playing for the Parramatta Eels Harold Matthews team back in 2013-14. Emile, aka Milzy, was one of the strength and conditioning coaches during the Harold Matthews season in 2013-14 where he was given to opportunity to invest his time and knowledge into the next up and coming Rugby League players of the game. Outside of rugby league, Mr Isaac was volunteering his time into Personal Training. From here, is where he founded Ignite Boxing, focusing on training that consist of, yep you name it... boxing, in groups and one on one sessions. With the passion for rugby league, in addition to being a passionate PT under his company Ignite Boxing, Milzy had been told some news that he did not expect. In 2019, December 17th, Emile Isaac was diagnosed with Aggressive Follicular Lymphoma, in other terms, blood cancer. Just like anyone in this world, he was not expecting the outcome of being diagnosed with cancer. With heavy heart and empathy for his condition, our Host made the decision to connect Milzy onto the podcast show, to provide an insight on his journey on how he is enduring through chemotherapy. Check it out.
Have you ever been encouraged by your own parents to follow the dreams that they once wanted? Being an engineer, an accountant, or possibly a professional athlete? You are not alone.
Timothy Ta has experienced this while growing up in his adolescent stage. His parents would tell him that he should focus on becoming a professional NRL player as a career. Scoring a contract for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, he started to feel like he was close to achieving his "parent's" dream. Little did he know, just like that.. his contract did not get renewed. This is where Timothy realised where "he" really wanted to go.
Mr Ta attended Bible College, where he went through intense studying, being an intern at Inspire College. This is where he had fallen in love with his passion, Personal Development. He started to become more aware of himself and realised he could change his career job. This is where he started focusing on his digital marketing business.
With all this in store, Joshua, our host, interviews Timmy in the heart of Liverpool, pulling out enough nuggets to help the people. Check it out.
In this episode, Josh was fortunate enough to spend some time with Noel and Joseph who are current players within the NSW Canterbury Cup season. Whilst Noel and Joseph previously played within the same rugby league club of the Parramatta Eels, Joseph Taipari ended up moving to the West Tigers Canterbury Cup, looking for more opportunities to play in the NRL.
Although the main stigma of footy players are predominant hand-on focused within occupations such as construction, factory work, security and so on, both Noel and Joseph work as carers for WhatAbility, a disability support service utilising professional and semi professional athletes as carers.
Through this podcast, our host touch base with how it really is being a professional athlete, whilst also being a professional carer under the WhatAbility company. Adding on, Noel and Joseph share insights on injuries during the footy journey and ways they both had overcome obstacles.
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Welcome to our first podcast episode after our revamp on our mission. We are glad you choose to listen to this podcast.
Listen to our Host, Joshua speak to Israel Seufale, a player who played countless representative rugby league games through the junior ranks speak about what he has been involved in the past few years. Israel provides insight on his e-commerce business, how the Coronavirus affected the drop shipping in China and more importantly, his Kingdom Hustle crew.
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