Pacific Toks

Pacific Toks

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Pacific Toks episodes

  • H.E. President Surangel Whipps Jr. on COP26, Climate change, geopolitics and hope

    Ia Ora Na everyone and welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. 


    For this new episode, I’m honored to share my conversation with H.E. President Whipps J, President of the Republic of Palau. In this episode, as he’s in Glasgow for the COP26 summit, we’re talking about climate change and the role the Pacific region can play in pushing for more action and commitments to tackle this existential threat. 

    We’re also taking a step back and envisioning all the challenges that our region is facing right now including COVID and the geopolitical tensions in the region. Finally we’ll hear his view on Leadership and on hope while he’s helping his community to navigate those unique times we’re all living in. 


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    41 min
  • Stan Wolfgramm on Storytelling, Climate change & Entrepreneurship in the Pacific

    Ia Ora Na everyone and welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. 


    For this new episode, I’m happy to discuss with Stan Wolfgramm . Stan is a storyteller from our region and he’s also the founder of Te Ara, Cook Islands Museum on Cultural Enterprise  which we’ll discuss further.


    Stan is also an actor and the cofounder of Moana Pasifika . All this projects being focused on giving our communities a voice in the challenging times we’re all facing now.


    In this episode, we’ll talk about the role that entrepreneurs can play in regards with Climate change and how to build narratives that can make the Pacific voices heard as well as putting our region in the leadership position to tackle climate change. 




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    51 min
  • Annette Sete on Intellectual Property & Women Entrepreneurship in the Pacific

    Ia Ora Na 

    Welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. 

    For this episode, I’m very happy to meet and discuss with Annette Sete. Annette is the founder and manager of Lavagirl Ltd  and Maku Gifts  - A fashion brand and a home based business making and selling unique gifts.

    Annette is also the winner of the “Best Established Designer” award at the PNG Fashion Week 2019.

    In this episode we chat with Annette about her career and also her vision regarding different major issues regarding entrepreneurship in the Pacific.


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    39 min
  • Keoni Lee on Islands' Entrepreneurship & post-Covid reconstruction

    Ia Ora Na 

    Welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. 

    For this episode, I’m very happy to have the opportunity to have an other conversation with Keoni Lee. I had the privilege to meet him several times so I’m very happy to be able to share our thoughts through this podcast.

    Keoni Lee speaks to us from the island of Oahu. He’s a very successful entrepreneur so I’ll just share a view of his achievements: he’s the cofounder of ‘Ōiwi TV the only TV channel in Hawaiian language, he also founded the great innovative coworking space of Waiwai collective in Honolulu and is now the CEO of Hawaii Investment Ready an organization that supports the people and organizations addressing Hawaiʻi’s social and environmental issues by accelerating social enterprise impact and access to investment.

    In this episode, we talk about entrepreneurship in the island and the state of the Hawaiian economy. We also discuss the potentials ways to build differently our economies in a way that would fit more the needs of our communities and would allow them to work for the generations to come. 


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    55 min
  • Pacific Toks - Joyana Finch on Tech, Engineering and traditions in the Pacific
    Ia Ora Na,

    Welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens.

    Today, I’m very pleased to welcome to the show Joyana Finch. Joyana is graduated from the University of Auckland as the first Pacific woman in history with a degree in mechatronic engineering. She’s also a writer and a speaker, encouraging the younger generation towards a career in STEM.

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    42 min
  • Joyana Finch on Tech, Engineering and traditions in the Pacific

    Ia Ora Na,

    Welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. 

    Today, I’m very pleased to welcome to the show Joyana Finch. Joyana is graduated from the University of Auckland as the first Pacific woman in history with a degree in mechatronic engineering. She’s also a writer and a speaker, encouraging the younger generation towards a career in STEM. 


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    42 min
  • Robert Oliver on Food and Traditional Diets in the Pacific
    Ia Ora Na,

    Welcome to this new episode of our Pacific Toks, where I engage in active conversations with my guests to talk about the challenges our world is facing and seeing them through a Pacific lens. Today, I’m very pleased to welcome to the show Robert Oliver. Robert Oliver is a famous chef from New Zealand but he spent his youth in Fiji and Samoa where he probably got his passion for local ingredients but he’ll probably tell us more about it later.

    Robert hosted the TV series Real Pasifik, which plays in more than 40 countries and is on its 75th rerun. He is Ambassador for Le Cordon Bleu, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, and UNDP Pacific Advocate for Food, Sustainable Development and Wellbeing. And he’s the winner of several awards.

    I have been very pleased to welcome him as a speaker for TEDxPapeete in 2016 and since then Robert is also the founder of “Pacific Food Revolution”, a show filled with Pacific heritage and humor that “uses the power of reality TV, radio, and social media to change people’s eating behaviour.”

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    44 min
  • Andre Afamasaga on Sexual identity in the Pacific
    Welcome to this episode of our podcast, newly named “Pacific Toks - A conversation on the Future of the Pacific” where I talk to leaders from the Pacific or around the world to have a look at the current challenges the Pacific is facing or will face in the Future.

    In today’s episode, I’m very happy to welcome Andre Afamasaga, from New Zealand. 

    Andre is a human rights advocate currently working for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. Before that he was a Christian Pastor. And in the end of 2019, Andre got on the news after publishing an opinion piece titled: “Gay, Christian and a former preacher, I'm coming out to help anyone hurt by Folau” following some public declarations made by the rugby player Israel Folau.

    Listen to our conversation on the situation of LGBTQI+ in the Pacific, the role of the religions to foster diversity and inclusion and how to mix traditions and modernity around the questions of identity in the Pacific.

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    59 min
  • Audrey Tang on Social Innovation
    Welcome to this episode 2 of our series Pacific Toks. Today we're meeting with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is a civic hacker who played a key role in the sunflower movement of 2013 and who is now Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. She has made the 2019 list of 100 global thinkers published by Foreign Policy magazine. Interestingly enough, she also defines herself as a conservative anarchist. But more on that later. She has managed to take the best of different world that are sometimes seen as incompatible: public and private sectors, Tech and grassroots communities, business and government and we’ll try to learn how she managed this and how, in the Pacific, we can take example to lead the changes to come in our communities. 

    If you like this series, feel free to share it with your community!

    Find the video of the episode on our YouTube Channel

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    52 min
  • Keith Coats on Leadership & Change
    Welcome to this episode 1 of our series Pacific Toks. Today we're meeting with Keith Coats, cofounder of TomorrowToday Global. Keith is a Leadership specialist and a futurist. He's telling us about the challenges of our times and the leadership needed to address them. He's sharing with us his insights on what a good leadership could be and why we should care about the future. If you like this series, feel free to share it with your community! 

    Find out the Video of the conversation on our YouTube Channel

    Get on the email list at pacifictoks.substack.com

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    47 min

About Pacific Toks

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Pacific Toks are a new series from Pacific Ventury Media, dedicated to current and future challenges that will define and impact our world but seen from a Pacific Perspective.