Ngahere Talks

Travis and Manawa discuss ecommerce strategies that can be used to execute on your plan!

Systemising your ecommerce strategy to position yourself for booming growth!

Do you want a job, or a business?  You need to build a good team to run your business for you.

On the surface, MAU Studio is an architecture studio, but it's so much more than that. Co-founded by Tuputau in 2016, MAU Studio uses regenerative design to help alleviate poverty across the pacific.  Alongside their architectural services, MAU delivers social design services, education and development programmes with young students, and workshops across the pacific that include young people...

Need help to get your home or business a bit more tech savvy?  Just Ask Q, he'll sort you out! Born and raised in Otara, South Auckland, Keu provides tech solution services for home and business.  And with an extensive background in designing and running tech/electrical workshops for children, Keu does choice things like "make your own game controller" or "sneaker activated beat pads" wi...

After growing up in a whanau of hairdressers and beauty therapists, Awhina knew early on the power of feeling beautiful and began practising as a makeup artist while she was a teenager. In 2019 Awhina rebranded herself and her new vision as Rerehua Studios, a place to empower women.  She offers makeup services and workshops, along with a modelling talent development agency.  In high dema...

NUKU is changing the narrative for and about indigenous women. If you haven't come across the wahine powerhouse that is Qiane Matata-Sipu yet, then you are in for a treat! Qiane is a skilled visual storyteller, staunch wahine Maori, manawhenua of Ihumatao, wife, Mama to a beautiful kotiro (girl), and co-founder of the SOUL campaign to save Ihumatao. In this podcast we talk about NUKU100, Qiane's p...

The Journey of Pure Alofa is beautiful, built on friendship, love, loss, and a connection back to the Motherland of Samoa. Malia and Joyce launched Pure Alofa in 2019 with a whopping 60 products on the market!  Wanting and needing access to natural, affordable health, beauty and care products this duo decided to make them themselves, and that's how Pure Alofa was born. Their journey in busine...

Hillfarrance Venture Capital is an early-stage investor in Kiwi founders who are solving hard problems that matter. They believe the greatest challenges facing our world will be solved by audacious entrepreneurs.  They're here to help their bold vision become a reality. Rob dropped into the Ngahere Communities whare (house) while he was here from LA last week (Feb 2020) and is keen to know th...

Get ready for a good laugh,  and heaps of inspiration. Tuhi is a brand with 3 focuses - Tuhi Sationery, Tuhi Raukura (online training) and Tuhi Digital.  Geneva and Mihi have huge dreams and in just 2 years have managed to build a strong, international, award winning brand.  These two wahine toa aim to help us celebrate who we are, but also help us have access to matauranga (traditi...

"We cling on to our language, our children and all things in our culture." Ata Collier, founder of Piri Paua Aimed at helping us connect to who we are as Maori and Pasifika people, Piri Paua develops products that encourage the use of our reo (languages) and was founded by Ata with the help of her husband, family and friends just 6 months ago.  Ata is super resourceful, motivated and determin...

Season Two - Made of Manukau In this season we explore some of South Auckland's emerging brands and the entrepreneurs behind them.  We also take a look at e-commerce and how this trillion dollar industry might just be the way forward for our people.

The online gaming industry is BOOMING, and the opportunities it can provide to young Maori and Pasifika is actually crazy. Ray founded GameTan in 2019 because he could see that gaming is the most powerful gateway that gets young people into tech careers, exploring all types of skillsets that cover everything from costume and music design, to building computers, computer networking, event managemen...

The e-commerce platform Shopify powers over 1 million businesses worldwide, and is the all-in-one commerce platform to start, run and grow a business. We (Ngahere COmmunities) partnered with Shopify's Auckland based City Lead, Jules, on our 2019 Made of Manukau Pop Up Store. Jules brings a whole bunch of hands on, face to face support to business owners (and wannabe business owners) right here in...

Meet co-founder of Green Aura NZ, Kyle Ratana. Established to bring healing and health to the people of Aotearoa, Green Aura is Natures Medicine.  Founded in 2019 by Kyle and his best mate Dariaus Timiiti, the team have hit the ground running. Now with 5 hand made, all natural products available, the team have already been nominated for a business award by the Princes Trust, and in May this y...

Andy has been the Programme Lead at Ngahere since we began, this month he finished up as a Ngahere employee to follow his dreams and build his business 'National Tech Library' and just be a general, amazing, entrepreneur. And since we like doing everything our own way, we decided to conduct his exit interview as a podcast, which we recorded live at our Made of Manukau Pop Up Store on Friday 20 Dec...

Prolific youth development champion, and CEO of The Princes Trust Aotearoa, Anya Satyanand talks with us about what she is seeing in the new wave of rangatahi (young people) in Aotearoa, and her mission to use the resources of the old world, to build the new world!

For many families, the Christmas and holiday season is tough.  For some they face financial challenges, others have relational breakdowns, some are faced with the reality of their loneliness, and others are overwhelmed with unrealistic expectations. Christmas Box is a project that exists to simply bring hope to families at Christmas time, through a box of food and a caring heart. www.christma...

Critical. is a design studio based inside an Auckland (decile one) school that was born from a dream to help our people and communities use technology to empower themselves. Now, Critical. take the thing we hate the most and turn it into desirable objects, working with companies like Fonterra and Torpedo 7, while also bringing new technology and design thinking into the tech curriculum for the sch...

Best friends, business partners and victims of family violence. This week Mel and Manawa (aka Bob + Bob) start a conversation around friendship, whenua and family violence in Aotearoa, why it's so prevalent, and what can be done to help, from the perspective of those who have experienced family violence and the system set up to 'protect' them. This tender but important topic is something we would...

This week talk about Culturalising Tech OR Decolonising the Algorithm.  Our people were resourceful and fearless in seeking out and settling in new lands, the digital future is no different, this is who we are and we need to be leading the way. AI - Artificial Intelligence - is everywhere. Did you know that in Aotearoa less than 2% of the people working in Tech are Maori & Pasifika? Think...

For those of us who are driven to make an impact - whatever impact that may be - and want to move from local to global, it's not easy finding the pathway to get there. This week Manawa catches up with new friend Beck Pearce who is the Associate Director of Programming at the Adelaide Festival Centre AND the Director of the 'Office of Adelaide UNESCO City of Music'.  Manawa met Beck two weeks...

Pre Season Ep 02 with Nick Manarangi. Once you pluck up the courage to reach out to a new connection, someone you really wanna chat to and hopefully partner with, do you know how to manage your first face to face with them?   The bro Nick Manarangi hit me up on Linked In and wanted to catch up, we'd never met before so my deal to him was, we can catch up and we'll record our first ever korero...

Pre Season Ep 01 with Lynn Lawton. Creatives in Aotearoa earn an average of $15,000 per year, why?! Considering creativity is one of the most highly sought after skill sets in the future of work, something needs to be done about this, and SOON! Manawa talks with Lynn Lawton, owner of Depot Artspace and founder of revolutioncreative.co.nz.  Lynn has been in and around the creative sector in Ao...