Ngahere Talks

Business isn't just about profit... well it doesn't need to be! Aroha Tamihana founded Maimoa Creative to empower people on their Te Reo Māori journey and has built a successful business doing it, but it's the values that really drives her.  Manawa founded Ngahere, and all of its branches, from the desire to see our Māori and Pasifika people thrive in our creative, innovative, entre...

Q&A on Creative Hustle, how to get over creative blocks and find inspiration, getting your hustle going, beating perfectionism and pricing for the value of what your creativity brings to the table.  Lessgooo!

Q&A on business, keys to starting, growing and sustaining a business, a bit about what's behind Ngahere, and why we roll in South Auckland.

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This week on Ngahere Talks Manawa Udy is joined with Hepa Te Moana aka. Bestsiiide. In this episode, Hepa touches on how his childhood and upbringing set him up with confidence in ‘foreign spaces’ later on in life. Enjoy!

This weeks Ngahere Talks episode features the amazing wāhine and very good friend of Manawa's, Nyrene Crowley 🔥 Nyrene is a professional fighter and Mixed Martial Artist. She has trained in Martial Arts for 6 years and competed professionally full-time for 3 of those years. This episode touches on her journey to becoming a professional fighter, the stigma around MMA and what she wants to ultimate...

This weeks episode we have the beautiful Nikki Penetito-Hemara join in on a kōrero with our host Manawa. Nikki is South Auckland born and bread #RewaHard. She's the Director of Kori Colalb, a business focusing on "Māori ways of understanding and interpreting the world." In this episode Nikki and Manawa have a mean chat about their upbringing as wāhine Māori, seeing barriers and stereotypes that we...

Hosted by Manawa Udy in Poneke, Wellington at Karaka Cafe. We're joined with Pera Barrett who is a father of two, the Founder & CEO of his charity 'Shoe Box Christmas' and a Digital Product owner at BNZ.  We get to talking about Pera's journey of imposter syndrome during his years of learning Te Reo Māori. We had a kōrero about prioritising things in your life that make you happy and pres...

Manawa & Mel link up  with Josh Faraimo and Jarome Cavubati, Founders of Kwotimation. "Kwotimation provides software that empowers tilers to automate the pricing process and provide tailored prices to prospective customers." This episode talks about the heart, soul and bones of being an entrepreneur and the struggles of starting a business as Māori and Pasifica people during the early sta...

Welcome to Konei Kōrero - the podcast series dedicated to boosting Aotearoa Brands 🌿   This episode is a special Kōrero with the awesome Hohepa & Mia Thompson, the creators and entrepreneurs behind their brand, The Hori. Our Host, Manawa, leads them through a conversation about their upbringing in Ōtaki & Australia. You'll love their story and vision of how The Hori started, what the...

Budget 2021 just came out! Minister Hon Peeni Henare & Arena Williams from the Labour Party give us a break down on what the budget is & how it affects our area.

Manawa and Mel sit down to korero with Peter Tynan, CEO of Foundation North. Foundation North is the largest philanthropic (kinda like charitable) funder in Aotearoa, and was setup after the sale of the ABS bank back in 1988.  The multiple millions of dollars it generates every year goes into funding initiatives in Auckland and Northland. Peter grew up in South Auckland and has had multiple e...

Welcome to Konei Kōrero - the podcast series dedicated to boosting Aotearoa Brands. In Episode one, Manawa and Mel chat with Kim Hill, the business strategist, coach and mentor that every Maori business owner gets referred to when they need support.  For over 20years Kim has walked entrepreneurs through their challenges and their achievements, and with specialties in marketing, communication,...

Manawa sits down with Green Party Co-Leader Marama Davidson during her 2020 Election Campaign, to learn more about the Manurewa local and the lessons she has learned so far in life.  A strong theme throughout the kōrero is about the power of Wāhine, Indigenous Women, and our ability to fix the worlds toughest challenges. Enjoy x

Manawa sits down with Rt Hon Winston Peters during his 2020 Election Campaign, to hear from him his experience around leadership and longevity.  Of course, there's some politics in there, but this kōrero was all about gleaning wisdom from a well-seasoned leader in Aotearoa politics, someone who has run the highs and lows of life, and continues to do what he believes in. We hope you enjoy this...

4 best mates, Manawa, Mel, Clint and Mel Masina (yeah another Mel) open up about the raw and emotional traumas and experiences in their lives that have caused emotional pain and mental distress, and what that looks and feels like on the daily.  But also the power of quality friendships and relationships and how together we are equipped to find power over this mental illness epidemic we have i...

Manawa sits down with the young adult crew from Ngahere - Fia, Taylor and Juanita - to discuss the challenges they have faced growing up, and the biggest mental health battle of their generation - Social Media and Comparison! There are also some great tips on what to look out for in yourself and your loved ones, and how to manage the pressures. Brought to you by www.konei.nz for Mental Health Awar...

4 best mates, Manawa, Mel, Beks and Mel (yeah another Mel) share their mental illness battles as wahine, whanau members, mums and entrepreneurs.  Then discuss how they identified their struggles, and then worked to find a balance in their lives when these struggles exist. Get the tissues coz it's not an easy conversation. Brought to you by www.konei.nz for Mental Health Awareness Week 2020

Stronger Than You Think!  In this final episode Manawa and Mel talk about creating environments for our people to thrive.  Every living thing in this world has unique and ideal environments in which they will thrive (or not) and we believe that this is an important aspect to any programme, event or space aimed at Māori and Pacific peoples.

Stronger Than You Think!  In episode four we unpack how we choose to prioritise people over 'programmes' and the reality that entrepreneurship is a fantastic pathway for self and community development.  Because our people and our community need time and support to develop themselves as entrepreneurs, we realised we needed additional structure to support this development focussed mahi.

Stronger Than You Think!  In this episode, we talk through the early stages of growing our community and what it's like to just get started with a full, clear picture of what's ahead.  This courageous approach is important for enabling innovation, and building an idea with lean resources. This episode also features Joel from TSI, Keu from ASK Q, Kathie from ATEED and Ray the founder of G...

Stronger Than You Think!  In this episode, we go back to the beginning and share the story of setting up Ngahere Communities, Te Haa o Manukau and Tukua, and the 4-way partnership that exists.  This journey of setting up a social impact initiative with multiple Local Government agencies and a small community based social enterprise definitely wasn't a walk in the park.  Lots of cour...

STRONGER THAN YOU THINK This Mini-Series was recorded during level 3 of COVID Lockdown and tells the story of Tukua, a whanau of creators, innovators and entrepreneurs in Manukau, South Auckland. Tukua is also a 'programme' designed to build the capabilities of, and access to resources for our creators, innovators and entrepreneurs. In episode one - Resilience, Relationships and Response - we chat...

Episode 01 Meet Travis O'Keefe, serial entrepreneur! "I spent 2 years and significant amounts of $$$, studying and learning from 24 online business gurus!  These gurus all had 7, 8 figure ecommerce businesses! This is masterclass level, they are all at the cutting edge of e-commerce!  Whilst studying them I noticed that there were a few things that these gurus all did in common!  A...

Secret Number One - Build a plan! Travis introduces us to the value ladder, and other tips from the e-commerce Guru's