ReadswithRosa Podcast

|| My goal is to spread the Bula Spirit. || Talofa lava, bula vinaka. This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast we highlight a small business based in Orlando, Florida. Originally from the Fiji Islands, Adalyn Hazelman Jaquez is the Creative Director and owner of #FijiCreations. What started as a hobby has now turned into a business with a huge focus on empowering women and bringing Pacific Islanders...

|| Connection through Conversation. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I catch up with the sis Fatima Lui. She has years of live talk experience behind her, she’s a communication specialist and entrepreneur, and the host of the #TimaTalks Podcast.  Follow Tima: • Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/tima_talks • Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/51h8NOV2iTpivJY8XYWTdO?...

|| It’s ok to ask for help. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a talanoa with Micha Faamausili (@love_meeshh). She is a Mental Health advocate and content creator based in Oregon, USA. She takes us through the advocacy work of the @polysandmentalhealth collective, her own struggles with depression and grief, learning our Samoan language, and the content that she likes to crea...

|| Understanding that failure is a possible outcome. || This week on the #readswithrosapodcast I sit down for a talanoa with Samoan self-taught comic-book illustrator Michel Mulipola aka ‘Bloody Samoan’. We chat about his work with Duffy Books, ReadNZ,Storylines and visiting schools around Aotearoa. He also shares his three greatest achievements to date, some of his experiences as a gamer, and his...

|| Lessons learned from self-publishing. || Mauri. Happy Kiribati Language Week. This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a chat with Felicity Maddison, Author of the fantasy-fiction series Benhar. She shares her Kiribati and Chinese heritage, the lessons she has learned from being a self-publishing author, and the stories behind her writing. Follow Felicty: •  Instagram: https:/...

|| Guam Goddess in Training || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a chat with Author, Educator and occasional Blogger, Tanya Chargualaf Taimanglo. We chat about her writing, her Chamorro and Korean roots, collaboration with her talented artist brother Sonny Chargualaf, and the work that authors Lani Wendt Young and Sisilia Eteuati are doing to uplift other Pasifika writers throu...

|| Music allowed me to see my worth. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down with Otara emcee, Tha Movement. Our talanoa revolves around his life journey, self worth, remaining optimistic amidst adversity, mental health, and how creating music became a form of therapy and saved his life. He also sheds some light on his music academy, Move Communities, his upcoming album, and working a...

This week on the #readswithrosapodcast I sit down for a talanoa with current Deputy Principal of Kedgley Intermediate, Sialele Pulou. As she prepares to take on her new appointment as Principal of Kingsford Primary School in Term 3, we have a chat about Education, Principalship, Career Goals and growing up in the EFKS.    Follow Sialele:  •   Instagram:   https:/...

||  Everything happens for a reason. ||   We've reached 60 episodes fam!!!  Thank you for all the support.  This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a talanoa with Tongan Emcee and Youth Worker, Rizván Tu'itahi.  Known to many as # northcityrizzy , he proudly reps three things: His Tongan roots, the Baha’i faith, and the North Shore of Auckland City. In his wo...

||  Tu’u pē lā mo e poupou. ||  (Always be prepared for any eventuality) This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a talanoa with Tongan-Australian writer, Winnie Dunn, the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies and the recently released Another Australia. She is the General Manager of Sweatshop, a literacy movement based out in Western Sydney, and is currently wo...

||  Remember God in Everything. || Ia manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa (Happy Samoan Language Week), fa’apea le faamanatuina o le 60 tausaga o lou tutoatasi Samoa (Happy 60th Independence Samoa) 🇼🇸❤️💙.   This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I catch up with Samoan, Christian + Queer interdisciplinary artist Iatua Felagai Taito. We chat about family values, intersectionality, the crea...

||  Imagination is so powerful. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast, I sit down for a chat with award winning playwright and multidisciplinary artist Leki Jackson-Bourke. Leki shares some insight into his artistic journey, the creative process, protecting the integrity of one’s work and the importance of self care. Follow Leki: •   Instagram:   https://www.instagram....

||  Creating Opportunities for Samoans. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast, I sit down for a chat with Justin Lima. He is a Foreign Service Officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Samoa, and most recently he served four and a half years as the Counsellor to the Embassy of Samoa in Tokyo, Japan.    Follow Justin:  •   Instagram:   htt...

Happy Rotuman Language Week (𝙶𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚟 𝙽𝚎 𝙵ä𝚎𝚊𝚐 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚞ạ𝚖 𝚃𝚊) ||  My Grandmother was my first book. || This week’s #ReadswithRosaPodcast episode is extra special. In celebration of #RotumanLanguageWeek , I sit down for a chat with Rotuman poet and writer, Mere Taito. We discuss books, her first poetry collection 'The Light and Dark in Our Stuff', her contribution to the anthology Vā: Stories by Wome...

||  I have every right to be there. || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down for a talanoa with Dr Jemaima Tiatia. She is an inspirational mentor and role model for our young people and Pasifika women in leadership, and she moves in our communities and spaces of governance focusing on issues such as wellbeing, mental health and suicide prevention. In her current role as Acting Pro...

||  Listen. Be Humble. Obey the Calling. ||    This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I catch up with Fa’alaniga Tanielu. Her and her husband are in their final year at Malua Theological College in Samoa, and she joins us on the show to share some of her experiences as a mother, Lawyer, growing up in the EFKS church, navigating our Samoan identity in the diaspora, and her journey as...

||  I am wild and free. ||   This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I catch up with Pasifika Printmaker and Illustrator Corina Richards.  We chat about art + motherhood, books, PI representation in AAPI Heritage month, and her collaboration with author and husband J D Richards.   Follow for weekly podcast episodes on #Spotify and #GooglePodcasts .     Follow Cori...

||  The Girl from Revolution Road.  || This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I am joined by Iranian-New Zealand author and film maker Ghazaleh Golbakhsh. We chat about her book of personal essays - ‘The Girl from Revolution Road’, Hypenated Cultural Identity, and her work in the tv and film industry. Follow Ghazaleh: •  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ghazalehgol • &nbsp...

||  There was a time when I quit music. || This week I catch up Motu Musiq artist Ron Moala. We chat about his journey as an artist, the hard work that goes into building up a successful barbershop business, and the importance of family and faith in his life. Follow Ron: •  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ronmoala •  Business:  https://www.facebook.com/BackyardB...

||  I feel the urgency to get books out there. ||  This week on the #readswithrosapodcast, I sit down for a talanoa with award-winning New Zealand children’s author David Riley. Also known as the #ReadingWarrior, he is an education specialist, playwright, and an advocate for Pasifika storytelling, and he is on a mission to get reluctant readers excited about books and reading. ...

||  Our ancestors were scientists, they had a name for everything. || This week on the #readswithrosapodcast I sit down for a korero with Māori Artist and cultural practitioner Hone Bailey. Renowned for traditional Māori weaving, he shares his love of nature and plants + how the practices his ancestors used in various art forms has taught him to value the process that goes into creating,...

||  My contribution to our community and our people.  ||     This week on the #readswithrosapodcast I sit down for chat with the bro Adam.  We talk about life, family and medicine.  He is currently a House Officer in his second year as a junior doctor in Wellington, New Zealand. Follow Adam:   •  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ardeem  •...

||  There are so many benefits of having a second or third language.  || This week on the #readswithrosapodcast I chat to Dr Will Flavell. He is an Education Manager at Comet Auckland where he advocates for more equitable learning pathways for all. As well as being a member of the Henderson-Massey local council, he is an exceptional role model for rangatahi, a champion of te reo Māori, a...

||  Let's do it our way, rather than like a western paradigm  ||   This week on the #ReadswithRosaPodcast I sit down with award winning writer and poet, Sisilia Eteuati. We discuss the recently released anthology, Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana, which she co-edited with fellow writer and co-founder of Tatou Publishing, Lani Wendt Young. We also get into publishing houses, the str...

|| Supporting our learners takes a ‘collective’ effort || This week on the #readswithrosapodcast, I sit down with Laureen Leituala to discuss her teaching journey, the importance of the ‘collective’ in the learning context, knowing when to take your teacher hat off, and how she copes with being the only Pacific Islander educator in her school. We also chat about how social media is a learning tool...