Sweet Inspiration with Alvina

Pacific Island Food Revolution is a reality TV Cooking Competition hosted and created by celebrity chef Robert Oliver who is joined by 24 contestants from Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu. They are all competing to represent their country to become the first champion.   In today's episode I had a great conversation with Global Communications Director Faumuina Tafuna'i about the Food Revolution and how it all began, highlights while filming on location, how and why you should become a Food Warrior and so much more.

Loren is the Brisbane winner of the 2018 Cosmo Curve Model Search. She has 3 beautiful children, is the CEO of The Self Care School and has over 13 thousand organic followers on Instagram. She holds a masters degree in Human Rights but above all else she is a true reflection on what beauty looks like inside and out. Lets hear her journey on how to be more confident in you're own skin. 

Miriam Ratu is the face and author behind Beyond the Pacific, a smart and savy online space that shares ideas one blog at a time! Her blog covers areas of business, law, lifestyle, love, fashion and travel and poetry.

Its not easy chasing your dreams but Miriam was on a mission to see her dreams fulfilled and Im so thankful that she has shared with us her journey, tips and advice on what she did to make her dreams come true.

I'm very excited to share with you my journey and what I've been up to these last couple of months. Joining me to help decipher my story is my trainer and mentor Matthew Tuton.  I've had such an eventful couple of months and in today's episode we take a look at cruise control, we talk about sudden shifts in mindset that occur through a shift in understanding, not through a change in circumstance and the highlight of my time so far was learning the importance that you cant control what happens around you, but you can control you. I really love this episode and I hope my lessons learned become yours too!  

Today's episode is in a very different format and its all about opening up the door to have the conversation. I had a great chat today with Mia who is a very free thinker on our Samoan belief and history system and I stress to you that these are his own opinions! We have a look at the book called Whispers and Vanities, Cannabilism, and Christianity. Opening up the door to have a slightly different conversation is a door that needs to be opened and talked about freely as long as we don't harm or hurt other people. Everyone is entitled to their own views and when we touch on topics that are so taboo in my culture… sometimes we need to just drag them into the light so we can learn and move forward from our history…

In today's episode I am so excited to have Victor Lelo and Nesha Ranui from Victorious Health and Fitness share with me their journey on what inspired them to create a unique and successful program. Based in Brisbane Australia, the Victorious team have their popular 4 week challenge program, kids program, Master chef nights and a whole range of different things to kick start your healthy lifestyle.

We rise by lifting others..words that the Victorious team live and breathe by. It was so good to chat with Victor and Nesha about how it all began, standing out from the crowd and having your own flava. Their mission and what the future holds for Victorious, motivation and how to maintain it, social media and the massive part their support page plays on each individuals journey.

Lapi Mariner is a prominent singer within the pacific who splits his year between singing at concerts and in the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and America where he plays some at some of the biggest hotels in Las Vegas. The Father of 2 began his journey a year ago with the desire to change and become a healthier, happier person. He joined the team at Brown Butterbean Motivation and has begun the journey of changing his mindset and bad eating habits. I loved talking with him, I had so much fun. He is such a humble person and has impacted so many people with his music. Today we talked about how his journey began and what triggered his change, changes you have to make whilst on tour, his love of boxing and knowing your why … to keep you motivated and stay on track. A big thank you to Lapi for taking the time out to chat!

I am very excited to share with you Part I of a 3 part series on the amazing journey of Dr Heena Akbar. 

Part I – The Journey

In partnership with the Pasifika Women's Alliance, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Pacific Island Reference Group Inc. (PIRG) & Diabetes Australia Dr Heena Akbar was awarded a PhD with her research on Diabetes 2 management among Pasifika women. In this episode we dive behind the scenes and explore her own personal journey leading up to finishing this amazing achievement.

This episode which is Part I and simply titled 'the journey' is an informal chat where we can learn more about Heena and the process she went through, what drives her passion, her love for working within the community, the forums and the partnership with the PWA.

In Part II we dive into the research, the work and then finish off with Part III – the Dream.

I am extremely honoured to have such an inspiring pasifika woman share with me her journey, so let's get straight into it and hear how her story began…   

I'm really excited to share with you a very special episode that covers a topic that is very close to my heart and that I am extremely passionate about. The Polynesian project is a specialised online program that is designed to tackle the obesity rate within the Polynesian community. I had a great chat with Dan and Rach Faumuina who are the creators of this successful program.

In today's episode we are fortunate to have Matt Tuton aka the smiling assassin back in the chair.

We covered so much in this episode like what steps can you take to maintain your new lifestyle, motivation, the different phases I'm going through, what happens when Alvina goes on holiday, some of the fears I had in releasing those early boxing videos, technology, social media and that highlight reel! But my favorite one of all is the new word I learnt on this episode…  Hippocampus … let me say it again …

Hippocampus ….

Listen all the way to the end .. it will make sense to you then :)

Enjoy