ALTBAYS

Show 91 Jason K Myatt (Radio Broadcaster)   Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Te Paea Puha and Leo Magri) Meet Jason K Myatt Jason a voice over actor. Her spends his days reading radio and tv commercials, podcasts, and a lot of education materials for all over the world.  After 20 years in radio in Australia, a move to the Higher Education sector took Jason on a completely new journey of Voice coachi...

Show 90 John Freer (Journalist/Thames Business Association) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri) Meet John Freer John is a former journalist and former Thames Valley rugby player. He currently manages Goldfields Shopping Centre in Thames.  John is a Thames-Coromandel district mayor candidate in the 2022 elections. He wants to unite the wider community so that all residents an...

Show 89 Steph Wood (Sol. Goods Suncare) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Christine Threadgold and Leo Magri) Meet Steph Wood Steph started her sustainable suncare business, Sol. Goods, after wanting to naturally protect the faces of her family when they travelled the coast of Central America chasing waves a few years ago.  What started as a small idea has created a fire inside her to be better, do b...

Show 88 Bella Rafflyn (Lead Singer Coast Arcade) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Te Paea Puha and Leo Magri) Meet Bella Bavin Bella is Coast Arcade’s lead singer. Their vibe is indie rock, however, they also draw from alternative-rock, indie-pop, and surf-rock to craft their vibrant summer sound. Bella brings a lot of energy to the stage. She won a National Musicianship award and she can surely kic...

Show 87 Graham Morcom (Senior Pastor - C3 Church) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Fabian Roberts and Leo Magri) Meet Graham Morcom C3 Church Global is an international movement of over 500 churches. Spanning 38 years and 64 countries. across the globe. From Australia to Kazakhstan, from Sweden to Brazil. Senior pastor Graham Morcom along with wife Selma are founding members of C3 Whitianga since it...

Show 86 Hundy Parr (Forestry/Mercury Bay Rugby) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Christine Threadgold and Leo Magri) Meet Hundy Parr Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practised in plantations and natural stands. Hundy had been out in the bush...

Show 85 Hāni Dread (Māori Artist) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Fabian Roberts and Leo Magri) Meet Hāni Dread Hāni Totorewa aka Hāni Dread is an artist from Rangiriri Paa, whose waiata (songs) seek to address cultural injustices through conscious-based roots reggae. Hāni is passionate about his culture and people. He was one of the founding members of the legendary Aotearoa reggae band Katchafire...

Show 84 Āwhina & Te-Taima  (Māori Influencers) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet  Āwhina & Te-Taima  The twins Āwhina & Te-Taima are passionate about their culture and language. They create online content aiming to entertain their audience but always pushing the importance of speaking te reo Māori.  Tik Tok challenges and dance moves share space with beauti...

Show 83 Scott Simpson (Member of Parliament - Coromandel) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri) Meet Scott Simpson Scott Simpson is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the National Party. Simpson's ancestors settled in Kūaotunu, on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the 1800s. He grew up in Auckland and was educat...

Show 82 Greg Cawley (Brikman – Yoga for Men)   Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri)  Meet Greg Cawley  For many men, their life path seems pretty straightforward: Go to school, get a good job, find a loving partner, raise children together, work hard, be strong, support and survive  But what do you do when, suddenly, in your mid years everything starts to unravel?  “Yoga” isn...

Show 81 Anita Prime (NZ Singer/Songwriter) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet Anita Prime Anita began singing at a very early age, learning piano from age five and went on to learn the flute, guitar and drums. Prime entered her first talent contest at 13 as part of a group called Three 'n One. As an adult, she worked the New Zealand club circuit and performed in co...

Show 80 Tanya Arnold (Lotta Love Plant-Based Cooking) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Leo Magri) Meet Tanya Arnold You can always smell good cooking, but what if you can’t see it? It’s a problem that Tanya Arnold knows all too well. Being diagnosed as a child with keratoconus, a disorder of the eye that results in progressive thinning of the cornea, you would think the last thing she would be doing...

Show 79 nzDan (New Zealand's #1 Selling Porn Producer) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Christine Threadgold and Leo Magri) Meet nzDan nzDan studied to become a personal trainer while competing in boxing. After graduating with an exercise science degree in 2011, he freelanced and contracted to a commercial gym.  Entering 2019, he saw an opportunity to add massage service to grow his skills and...

Show 78 Brent and Larissa McCown (Tattoo B L A C K Aotearoa) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Fabian Roberts and Leo Magri) Meet Brent and Larissa McCown Tattoo Black’s studio in Tairua is like a time capsule. The walls are lined with art and crafts from many different cultures. There are dozens of awards for Tribal tattooing from 15 years spent working in Europe and over 35 tattoo conventions a yea...

Show 77 Kim Lawry (Project Manager Mercury Bay Environmental Trust) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Christine Threadgold and Leo Magri) Meet Kim Lawry Kim believes that New Zealand’s ecosystems are truly unique, evolved over millions of years in isolation from the outside world. Since the arrival of man, so much has changed. Many people realise just how special the New Zealand environment is, and j...

Show 76 Janik Levien (DJ/Creative Director of ‘The Busy Movement’) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet Janik Levien Art was Janik’s favourite subject at school. He would leave PE classes to do art and graphics classes. Janik is a DJ and events producer inspired to combine his music tastes with creativity, community, art, and design.   In 2018, Janik and his brother Reube...

Show 75 Campbell Angus (Anchor Dairy Operations Manager) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Leo Magri) Meet Campbell Angus Campbell is passionate about his cars and travelling. He moved to the beautiful Coromandel, NZ, a few months ago and became the Operations Manager for Anchor, one of the biggest dairy companies in the country. The ALTBAYS Show family invites you to listen to great...

Show 74 Georgie Parry (Criminal Psychologist) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Te Paea Puha) Meet Georgie Parry Georgie grew up in the UK and has a degree in Criminal Psychology. She worked in the mental health sector for years, which makes her quite interested in human behaviour. ‘Understand your mind, and you will understand others’  Tonight, the ALTBAYS Show brings a fantastic epi...

Show 73 Dave Fowell (NZ Artist) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Leo Magri) Meet Dave Fowell Dave started painting in 1993. He had a free-range poultry farm and then had the chance to create a cafe/restaurant in the Coromandel, the artistic and eccentric place, the Eggsentric.  His vision was that the cafe would not only do food but also be a place where people would feel comfortable and have a cult...

Show 72 Johnny Mason (Chef/Johnny's Tairua) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Brett Soanes and Fabian Roberts) Meet Johnny Mason Johnny is dedicated to providing fresh options for his customers. He was born and bred in Tairua and started Johnny's Tairua at the end of 2018. Johnny knew there was a demand for good-quality burgers, pizzas and tacos in the Coromandel area, so he created Johnny&...

Show 71 Macy Costello (Young Sportswoman) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet Macy Costello Macy is an active teenager. She travels around the country playing sports and always finds time for a new TikTok dance between her commitments. Of course! She left a life by the beach to study in a co-ed school in the city. Macy understands the importance of adaptability and makes...

Show 70 Dave Burton (Potential Developer/Musician) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet Dave Burton Dave formed Potential Development Ltd in 1990 to provide people-based training and consulting services in the corporate market place.    Prior to 1990 he worked for 20 years in the Information Technology industry with Unisys and so became very familiar with the corporate en...

Show 69 Peter Matai Johnston (Visual Artist) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Leo Magri) Meet Peter Matai Johnston Pete is part of one of the most influential Ngati Hei families in Aotearoa. He is a visual artist who specialises in conversational provocation designed to enhance the human experience through promoting the creation of unorthodox thought patterns derived from extraordina...

Show 68 Nicole Bryant and Gene Bryant (Strictly Land-Based & The Fisherman’s Wife) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Brett Soanes) Meet Nicole Bryant and Gene Bryant Nicole and Gene are the proof that a smart couple can work together and thrive. They are the owners of the successful fishing business Strictly Land-Based, and Nicole has recently started Breaks & Bakes by the Fis...

Show 67 Manus Pretorius (Community Resource Recovery Facility) Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Chloe Potae and Brett Soanes) Meet Rae Manus Pretorius Mercury Bay Resource Recovery Centre dream of establishing a community resource recovery facility on the new Whitianga Refuse Transfer Station site, is now becoming a reality. The WMF will contribute $250,000 towards infrastructure, plant, and equipme...