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The Kia Orana Podcast

Haydn Adams & Chantal Napa

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Kia Orana! The official greeting of the Cook Islands—meaning hello, but also may you live long. On the main island of Rarotonga (where a majority of the locals live) you'll find a lagoon nearly encircling the entire island that you can swim and snorkel in. Take an adventure up to the top of the island, through the cross island trek. And sample myriad of locally-fresh dishes from home grown foods and locally-caught fish. Purchase freshly-grown veggies and hand-crafted black pearls from the we ...
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Today we chat to Paul Itaea Bob. A returning Cook Islander, his family decided to leave Aitutaki in the late 60's - emigrating to Auckland, New Zealand for approximately 15 years and then onto Sydney, Australia in the early 80's. "The connection of land to family and family to land". This gives us all an insight into Paul's podcast conversation tod…
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In this episode we speak with Becca, she is a mental health professional from the United States of America. In June of 2023, she decided to resign from her position and traveled to New Zealand spending six months there, to evaluate her career and her future. "It got very tough", Becca says. She had worked for seven years with teenagers in high & mi…
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In this episode we talk with Donna Jane Napa about her reasons for deciding to open a Spa in 2018 in Rarotonga. We dive into her story of making lifetime parental cross road decisions, deciding to leave her job because she had become a new mum, juggling motherhood... She speaks about attending beauty school courses here at our local Cook Islands Te…
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Welcome back to Rarotonga Eliana, and this time with your baby daughter Lily! This episode was recorded on the fly - Saturday mornings at our Punanga Nui market is hustle and bustle. Over 200 vendors offer a variety of food, clothing & arts/crafts. I hear, "Hi Chantal", I turn and Eliana is approaching me with her 9 month old daughter Lily-Anne. El…
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This episode is a snap shot recording explaining to you about an amazing local Civil Society Organisation. Cook Islands Women, Au Vaine. (CSOs) are organised voluntary non-state institutions which mostly operate on non-profit basis. They are formed and led by citizens to champion their collective or common interests and concerns of the members, spe…
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This episode is a lovely chat with a female spa therapist and tour reporter from Kyoto in Japan, Mari Yamashita. As an aromatic massage therapist, Yamashita has been importing since May 2016 from Rarotonga products made by our local producer Rito Cook Islands. Rito's virgin coconut oil and their premium range of bio-active skincare products. We dis…
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Kia Orana and welcome back to our show, Dr Corrina Tucker an environmental sociologist, researcher and university lecturer. During Covid19 lockdown in early 2021 Dr Tucker allowed me to record her story of deciding to buy a business named, Storytellers Eco Cycle & Walking Tours Rarotonga. In this episode we chat together about her newly published b…
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Candice Luke has recently joined our Cook Islands news team as a journalist. Candice asked to interview me, Chantal your host with an update for the print side of our national newspaper.... I replied how about we interview each other? We chat about her journey through journalism school in New Zealand and then her decision to leave her home New Zeal…
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Kia Orana everyone, Armin Schwander, is originally from Switzerland. Armin shares with us a great story of how and why he 'accidentally' ended up on holiday in Rarotonga in 2016. Which then lead to the opportunity decision to purchase the food and beverage business now named The Lucky Rooster Eatery. Armin and I share with you all, how you can trav…
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Kia Orana and welcome to Ms. Tia Henderson, a young 23 year old Cook Islands woman returning home to Rarotonga to spend time with her family and have a holiday. Currently studying Strategic Management and also a minor in Supply Chain, at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Before heading off to University, and straight out of high school at t…
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Travelling from the mountains of California, a western U.S. state. Flying across the North Pacific Ocean down to the South Pacific Ocean beaches of Rarotonga. Barry and his partner Ricardo have returned for the second time to our Polynesian shores. "Aere Maru - Let's not rush, just sit back relax, unwind and enjoy," says Barry. Barry shares with us…
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Kia Orana, I personally met Simeon and his family here in Rarotonga, over 10 years ago. During our conversation then, we learnt that a mutual connection we had was of being birth delivered by the same island Doctor Snowball in Aitutaki, many moons ago. An instant friendship began of which we affectionately greet each other, 'Kia Orana my Aitutaki b…
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Get OPTO's best content every day by subscribing to our FREE Newsletter: www.cmcmarkets.com/en/opto/newsletter As 2023 comes to a close, a year that witnessed transformative shifts across various industries, there's one theme that stood out— artificial intelligence. Current forecasts predict that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence could …
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Pa Tepaeru Taiteariki Upokotini Marie Ariki was born in September 1947 and named Marie Peyroux, better known as Pa Marie, or affectionately as Aunty Pa. She is one of two Ariki (Chief) of the tribe (Vaka) of Takitumu on the island of Rarotonga. The eldest of her family, she was inducted on June 27th 1991 under the title of Pa Ariki, the 48th descen…
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