Best Siiide

Best Siiide

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Best Siiide episodes

  • Moana Hancock - Within You

    Multi faceted and multi talented human and beyond, Moana Hancock joins me for this episode to share her journey of life thus far.


    Exploring living within a cult, perspectives on religion, the reclamation of Whakapapa and how her purpose driven life now leads her to empower other wāhine to carve their path. Exploring the notions that life is almost as much about unlearning as it is learning things, we challenge one another and call each other in on our values and how the events in our lives have lead us to where we are today, emphasising the point that everything you need to be all you desire is already Within You.


    Having a personal relationship with Mo' was always going to make this one deep and also meant it had the potential to turn on me and have Mo' ask me a lot of deep stuff too, which we did visit in parts but thankfully I got off pretty lightly here. It's fair to say, there will definitely be a part 2.


    Enjoy :)



    1 hr 18 min
  • Shot Bro - Rob Makaraka (Audio Only)
    Multi talented and multi faceted artist, advocate and ambassador for all things mental health - Rob Mōkaraka joins @beatsiiide for episode 1 of season 4! Also a playwright and actor - he affiliates to Nga Puhi and Ngai Tuhoe and has also has been a part of renowned performing group The Māori Sidesteps. In July 2009 Mokaraka was struggling with his mental health and attempted "suicide-by-cop", an experience which he survived. He used this as the basis for the play, Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet, which has toured around community venues in Aotearoa since 2017.
    1 hr 10 min
  • Shot Bro Part 1 - Rob Mokaraka / Best Siiide
    Multi talented and multi faceted artist, advocate and ambassador for all things mental health - Rob Mōkaraka joins @beatsiiide for episode 1 of season 4! Also a playwright and actor - he affiliates to Nga Puhi and Ngai Tuhoe and has also has been a part of renowned performing group The Māori Sidesteps. In July 2009 Mokaraka was struggling with his mental health and attempted "suicide-by-cop", an experience which he survived. He used this as the basis for the play, Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet, which has toured around community venues in Aotearoa since 2017.
    32 min
  • BestSiiide Season 4: Episode 1
    Kia ora!!! Hello :) Its been nearly a year since our last episode and we’re so pumped to be back! Where did go? Why? And what’s on for this year? Check out our sneak peak at the new season and learn about what’s been happening with us and who can we see this season? Chur Chur
    11 min
  • Jay Ruka - Crusading against colonisation
    It all started with a dream... literally.
    Jay Ruka, the new co dean at Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary in New Plymouth, joins me on an episode to talk about religion and its relationship to colonisation and the reconciling of those two worlds in the modern day. We explore what it's like growing up within a household run by church leaders and how those influences rippled out into social circles.
    Surfing, church, colonisation, family and the churches role in settling Aotearoa as an English colony all play out heavily here. We also get into a very elaborate kōrero about chicken and Jays immersing back into Te Ao Māori.
    Before you change, you need to be challenged.
    1 hr 36 min
  • Permission to feel - Monique Carmela - Best Siiide S3: Episode 7
    When was the last time you gave yourself permission to feel?
    Like, reeeeally feel!
    In a world where we often have been taught to suppress our "negative emotions" : sadness, anger, frustration and the likes - it can be hard to be ones authentic self. What does an authentic self look like and how can we get back to that when needed?
    Enter, Monique:  'Monique is trained in remedial massage, sound healing, biodynamic breathwork, energy healing and yoga. Through her own healing journey Monique has strengthened and attuned her intuition and has a direct channel to Source, offering healing, wisdom, and sacred practices with her clients.'
    We speak around themes of trauma, judgement, becoming a mum, balance and pleasure. We also explore the tools of Breath work, Sound / frequency healing and Cacao and how these tools can aid in our ascension and combating the current state of craziness within the world.
    Grab your notebook, lots to learn here!
    P.S: Special mention to Liam, Moniques partner, as Monique also shares the funniest proposal story I've ever heard in my life!!!
    1 hr 57 min
  • BestSiiide S3: Episode 6: Don't give up your weapons - Netic Rebel
    How do you feel about the current state of the world?  What have you been told about meditation?  How do you keep your expectations of others in check?
    Mystic. Misfit. Librarian. Barbarian. Netic Rebel is a juxtaposition of many things and living proof that people should never be limited to the confinements of a box. In this conversation, Netic and I explore the craziness of the contemporary world (2021) and explore together what we know, what we think we know and what we don't know.  Covering martial arts as therapy, spirituality being open to all and the indigenous perspective in a colonised world - we laugh, gasp and pull our hair out as we exchange life experiences and perspectives about our arrival to this point and where we can go from here.
    Strap in whānau, these strokes go deep and long.
    2 hr 50 min
  • Pania Te Paiho - Best Siiide - Mana is a birthright
    Before starting Wahine Toa Hunting, Pania was a self confessed 'hood bitch doing hood things'.
    Now, many years later, Pania has travelled a journey of dealing drugs and stealing to now leading Wahine Māori on a journey of empowerment by teaching them how to use our natural resources to better themselves and their whānau whilst being invited to speak at soo many events that she can't even keep up with them all!
    I caught up with Pania to talk about mental health, colonisation and what she experienced when she died before she was brought back to life.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Ben D'arth - When light meets dark
    When the world gets a bit tough or times get a bit hard, where do you go and who do you turn to?
    In this episode of Best Siiide I catch up with introverted photographer, Ben D'Ath whose life took a dramatic shift when he was surprisingly involved in a house fire that destroyed his dwelling, nearly took his life and took time that Ben is now determined to reclaim.
    Teetering between dark moments of contemplating suicide, nightmares and self doubt we also experience incredibly illuminating moments of community support, nostalgia and a sense of purpose from Ben as he unearths his walk with fire and how its breathed air into a new found purpose that he has with life.
    Text 1737 to Talk Now.
    To talk to a trained counsellor 24/7 call the Depression helpline – 0800 111 757.
    1 hr 31 min

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A reminder that we are all wonderfully and awfully human, Best Siiide gives you insight, connection and the realisation that it’s ok to be yourself. Hepa guides each conversation with no agenda other…