Best Siiide

Best Siiide

By @hepsfxSociety & Culture
Download on the App Store

Best Siiide episodes

  • Brooke Barrett - Living above the line
    How many of us have fallen to a narrative or story which was created for us? For example - people telling you you’re funny, so you therefore establish yourself as the funny person?
    But what about the skinny girl?
    The bad student?
    Have you ever played into a story created for you by someone else?
    Vivid nightmares, borderline schizophrenia and being accused on of having an eating disorder when she didn’t have one at all are just a sample of the hurdles that Brooke Barrett has overcome thus far.
    A woman of many talents (including fashion design, modelling, stat quo challenger and rooftop shouter) sits with me as we explore how to turn lemonade from life’s lemons.
    Have a pen and paper handy!
    58 min
  • bonus episode: GREEN SCHOOL NEW ZEALAND
    I was fortunate enough to head out to the sight for the first Green School in New Zealand. Green School Bali is the first Green School which has set the standard in many ways academically, culturally and holistically. Imagine a school that taught us to achieve within ourselves as much as it taught us to achieve financially and academically. The Green School concept has been heralded as bringing about a challenge to our current system of education. Encouraging its students to flourish through wellness, curiosity and trial & error - the school has also met its resistance with people questioning its agenda, cost and fixing what some say isn’t broken. Here you can hear their aim, purpose and pragmatic approach to making their dream a reality. ***disclaimer - this recording is super raw, literally a phone thrown to the front of the room where you’ll hear children make noise, people whispering and even a muffle as one presenter walked off with my phone thinking it was his.
    1 hr 36 min
  • Everything happens for a reason - Sam Rapira

    Being a champion in anything is a long journey and requires a lot of commitment. Whilst a lot of sports receive a lot of support, others are breaking new territory and are yet commanding the financial backing thats needed to propel the sport and its contenders into the necessary spotlight to maximise their opportunities.  Enter: Sam Rapira Alongside his family (Brother, Jake.  Mum, Tich and Wife, Jess) Sam has created an everlasting legacy that spills out from within the boxing ring into the community of New Plymouth and Taranaki that will never die. Not only did Sam have 70+ amateur fights before turning pro and hold multiple NZ titles but with the aid of his support network and the boxing community he was his own promoter - promoting every fight that he had in Taranaki. Often mistaken for his Rugby League cousin - Sam, Jake and their co-owned boxing gym do regular charity work for the community and SPCA. Organizing food banks for the winter months and Christmas Season.  - How to turn negatives to positives - How the threat of violence can change your life and - How to make the most out of working with family As we all know, life can smash you over and knock you out so who better to share with us the ways of getting back up?

    25 min
  • 14 diets by 14 - Michelle Yandle
    Do you watch what you eat?
    A simple question which is anything but simple to answer.
    Nutrition Coach.  Teacher.
    Author. Healthy Food Ambassador.
    Cat Lover. Recovered Yo-Yo Dieter. 
    TED Talker and all around good bitch, Michelle Yandle - was placed on 14 different diets by age 14 and (like many of us) was made to feel insecure about what she eats.
    This podcast was fun at the time, but as I listened back before uploading it online I found myself relating to the conversation and its contents far more deeply than I did than when we recorded it. I had flashbacks of many Marae gatherings getting force fed food I didnt really want, the people I lived with "feeding me up" out of love and most of all - I relived all the jabs, backhanded compliments and flat out disrespect given to me by others in regards to my weight and size. 
    What did my ancestors eat?
    How did they know what to eat without blogs and in the internet?
    Would we cope TODAY without supermarkets?
    AND
    Is eating healthy, an unhealthy obsession?
    Push play ya egg
    49 min
  • I'll never go back to jail - Todd Williams aka Louie Knuxx

    Being a Hip Hop fan and a proud product of Taranaki - this was a little bit of a fanboy moment for me.  Todd Williams, (stage name Louie Knuxx) according to every magazine you read and every search you make online is an artist, rapper and musician. But what they don't tell you is that the man is a better-than-he-thinks student, introspective teacher and just a fuckin' good dude.  With a rap career spanning over two decades he shares how he went from rapping in his bedroom to eating shrimp on a yacht in Prague drinking champagne whilst sharing the stage with everyone from Deeze Nutz to Dizzee Rascall along the way. Nonchalantly emotionally aware, Todd jumps from topic to topic as we explore intergenerational trauma, growing old, the state of hip hop, racism in sports and why Mike D from Beastie Boys is an asshole.   No holds barred.  

    1 hr 52 min
  • Welcome to the Best Siiide Podcast
    Just introducing myself and letting people know not only who I am but why I’ve decided to get into podcasting. I actually shared more about my personal life than I intended in this prelude episode - I think that people who know me really well might even be a little caught off guard by some of the things that I mention. Why are we here? Who am I and why is this podcast going to change the world?
    11 min

About Best Siiide

From the publisher's feed

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…