I Wanted To Do Everything! Art, Jewelry & The Free Fearless Design Journey Of Jules Tuake

The Kia Orana Podcast

Jules Tuake is a very PRIVATE person, we are so privileged to have her on the show.
This is an interesting, informative, hilariously funny, and honest GIRL chat episode.
“Your brain is always ticking and when you’re creative, we have to focus. Picking our brains until it Explodes! I like the new, I like the old, I like the eclectic, I like it all”, she says.
3rd minute: My adopted child hood life story starting in the 60’s.
5th minute: Left New Zealand and went to Australia 40 years ago at the age of 18.
7th minute: My stilettos being my Fearless metaphor.
10th minute: My journey in Sydney, Australia - studying and working.
14th minute: My job killing chickens, cleaning windows in Sydney, wanting to be an interior designer & walk in my high heels.
16th minute: 4 years full time studying Interior Design, at a TAFE Institute, Sydney Technology in Enmore. A purely design course - Graphic, Jewelry, Fashion, Interior and Decorating Design. And being the ONLY Cook Islander in the class.
18th minute: Designing some rich dudes doghouse!
20th minute: We mention her friend Fiona and how they are so opposite.
22nd minute: We all have potential, lets focus.
25th minute: We touched on her ART, and then she mentions a memory of Interior design for a Hotel in The Blue Mountains in Australia - A fantastic story.
29th minute: A marketing story in Sydney - Another fantastic story.
32nd minute: My dream of my grandfather, and how this moved me to come home for a holiday in 1998. She returned to Rarotonga permanently.
34th minute: Gathering Mardi Gras props.
36th minute: Decorating my house like walking into Cleopatra’s kitchen.
37th minute: Working for $5.00 an hour here in Rarotonga in 1999.
39th minute: Applying for Rarotonga family land, my journey starting in 2005, and what that looks like.
46th minute: Selling my hut at Punanga Nui Market, to fund the initial beautification of my property.
49th minute: We begin talking about her ART and she announces, my forte is actually decorating spaces.
50th minute: We talk about a beautiful mahogany pearl shell inlay chair that I have in my office.
57th minute: I have over 2000 painting images. I love doing ABSTRACTS.
60th minute: We talk about her Private home, that she has built in Rarotonga.
63rd minute: My return home 25 years ago and riding my motorbike, with BLACK lipstick wearing 10 different earrings, dying my hair blue! Everyone thought I was an alien hahahaha.
Jules, you’re an amazing person and I truly appreciate you sitting down with me to GIRL CHAT! Thank you Chantal xox

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health
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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.