Angela Watene lives in the city that never sleeps, New York, New York, working as a management consultant with one of the world's largest accountancy firms. Her current area of focus is financial crimes, working with organisations to help mitigate against the threat of fraud. Of Tainui whakapapa, Angela grew up in Māngere. Her career started at Price Chopper Otahuhu and KFC at the local town centre. She didn't go to university, didn't graduate with honours, instead her adventurous spirit took he...
Apr 02, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Hana Tapiata is a lifestyle blogger living by indigenous philosophies and mātauranga Māori. Her passion is promoting tūpuna mātauranga in as many different mediums, and on as many different platforms, as possible. With a combined online following of more than 20,000, this self-published author believes that if you know yourself, and your whakapapa intimately, nothing will stop you living into your potential. In this episode we talk about rugby, and rock lifting. About Tahiti’s ancestral games an...
Mar 26, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In 2018 Aotearoa celebrated 125 years of suffrage. Of women winning the right to vote. One wahine who played an integral part in that history making moment was Meri Te Tai Mangakahia. Of Te Reinga, Ngati Manawa and Te Kaitutae of Te Rarawa, she was the first woman ever recorded to have addressed the Kotahitanga Parliament. In that time she requested Māori women not only be given the vote, but that they also be eligble to sit in the Māori Parliament. In our only posthumous profile for the #NUKU10...
Mar 12, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Dr Lily Fraser is a GP with a special interest in low carb high/healthy fat nutrition. With a 15 year medical career she has seen the effects of chronic illness and, on the flip side, the positive effects a lifestyle change can have on individuals. She wants to show that low carb is a normal way of eating. You could even say, a traditional way of eating. In this episode we speak with the Turuki Healthcare Clinical Director about her Kai Tahu whakapapa and, being a Māori female in the medical ind...
Mar 05, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode we talk about growing up outside of your culture and reclaiming our Indigenous practices and systems. We have a great conversation about ikura (menstruation), going right back to Hine-nui-te-pō and the first period. We discuss the way our tūpuna would celebrate ikura and, how colonisation has changed those practices. We also discuss Michele’s determination to end period poverty in Aotearoa. Of Tainui &Ngati Pāoa descent Michele grew up identifying as an ‘urban’ Māori. And alt...
Feb 26, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
At only 25 Jacqueline Paul (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) is already working in policy advocacy with a passion to have the youth and Indigenous voice included across governance boards. This landscape architect has a keen research interest focused in building better homes, towns and communities. She wants to improve Māori housing, mobilise rangatahi (youth) and Māori voices, and improve architecture and urban planning with transformative policies. The big goal? Help h...
Feb 19, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Designer and weaver Kiri Nathan has spent the past 9 years building a fashion brand from competition-winning garments at Style Pasifika to a high-end label dressing some of the world’s most influential people, including Beyonce, Barack and Michelle Obama and, our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. In this episode she shares her journey. We talk about her childhood in Scotland growing up on the motorcycle racing circuit, her time as a 19 year old solo mother studying Visual Arts and working as a fli...
Feb 12, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Mojo Juju is from Te Whenua Moemoeā, the land of dreamtime, Australia. She is an ARIA nominated artist of mixed Filipino and Aboriginal heritage, from the Wiradjuri people of NSW. Her latest album Native Tongue is her most personal yet. It talks about being mixed race and, that feeling of straddling a line between where you belong and, questioning if you are enough. I sat down with the singer-songwriter in between sound check during a recent gig in Auckland to talk about identity, racism and wha...
Feb 05, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode we meet Veesh Patuwai (nee Armstrong) and talk about life in the Far North, the gentrification and regeneration of her Glen Innes community and, how she playing her part in raising the next generation of Indigenous female leaders. Veeshayne is most recognised from her days in radio as a DJ for the urban Māori station Mai Fm. In the 90s, she moved to the big smoke of Auckland from small town Moerewa, quickly making her mark in the industry by becoming the first Māori female to eve...
Jan 29, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Melissa Robinson-Cole is of Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Kahu descent. She is a full-time artist and designer, and is also a staunch advocate for body positivity. Lissy, as she likes to be known, is also a walking bubble of joy. It's a feeling she is passionate about, going as far as covering her car in fluro/neon crochet for her latest art project #JoyRide - spreading joy, quite literally, around town. She is effervescent, vibrant and, makes a really yummy cheese dip! In this episode of NUKU she talks ...
Jan 18, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Hear from founder and creator, Qiane Matata-Sipu, about how NUKU has the ability to transform thinking, transfer knowledge across generations and uncover layers to cultural identity. Listen to what drove the creation of this project and how it serves to connect, collaborate, guide, entertain and inspire. "Today I invite you, indigenous wahine, to look at the world through a different lens, a personal lens, a cultural lens, a lens made by and made for us – mā hine, mō hine, kia hine!"...
Jan 18, 2019•8 min
