Whakatāne
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Oct 1, 2026
BBHOST
Simon.
BBHOST
All right, mate, we've got a month or so in between now and the last round of our championship battery town rally by a plenty based out of Whakatane this year, still plenty to play for lots to look forward to between now and then, but how excited to, to get down to those cool roads again and finish off the championship crown some champions.
BudgieHOST
absolutely and you know it looks like they've put together a really really challenging event to finish off the season which is fantastic that's that's how we want to see it go down um yeah lots of titles and again you're going to go right down to the wire and it's going to be whoever puts the best foot forward on the day and and minimizes mistakes and that's what rallying is is 100 about so i'm fizzing for that one it's going to be seriously exciting and um Should have a couple of good pods in the next few weeks, I think, Budgie.
BudgieHOST
There's plenty to talk about and plenty of people that we need to probably get in and have a chat.
Raniera RewiriHOST
Of what I had learned at a very, very pivotal time in my journey, and this would have been around 2022, when we had just moved out of our first whare together into a friend's whare in Ohope.
Raniera RewiriHOST
And Ohope is a beautiful beach town here in Whakatane.
Raniera RewiriHOST
And at the time, we were just going through a very, very challenging season financially.
Raniera RewiriHOST
The first one that we had been in.
Mark MitchellGUEST
No, no, we had about 50 in the Civic Theatre, so... which is about right.
Mark MitchellGUEST
I was in Whakatane.
Mark MitchellGUEST
We probably had about 60 or 70 there.
Mark MitchellGUEST
I'm not the prime minister.
Paul WardGUEST
If you were to have interviewed us 10 years ago, a lot of people would have thought this was an idea that wasn't possible or that was slightly crazy.
Paul WardGUEST
But we had enough, I guess, proofs of concept or success examples of what had been achieved in smaller locations for Kiwi in other parts of the country, Whakatane, Rimutaka over the other side of the harbour, the Bay of Islands, Whangarei.
Paul WardGUEST
What our provocation was, or our challenge, was to amplify those success examples over a large landscape and do it alongside people.
Paul WardGUEST
We had to run that track network for three years.
Paul WardGUEST
If you were to have interviewed us 10 years ago, a lot of people would have thought this was an idea that wasn't possible or that was slightly crazy.
Paul WardGUEST
But we had enough, I guess, proofs of concept or success examples of what had been achieved in smaller locations for Kiwi in other parts of the country, Whakatane, Rimutaka over the other side of the harbour, the Bay of Islands, Whangarei.
Paul WardGUEST
What our provocation was, or our challenge, was to amplify those success examples over a large landscape and do it alongside people.
Paul WardGUEST
We had to run that track network for three years.
Sam RoutGUEST
I don't have an entry for time yet, so I might.
MalHOST
Because there's Whakatane.
MalHOST
Yeah.
MalHOST
That's the opening race, November 15th.
Julian WilcoxHOST
The former fencer was named best Māori male solo artist at the Waiata Māori Music Awards on Friday night, only a few months after he took home two Aotearoa Music Awards.
Julian WilcoxHOST
2026 has also seen the singer-songwriter from Whakatane launch his debut album, I'm Home, and touring his first headline show.
Julian WilcoxHOST
Here's another look at John Boynton's story.
John BoyntonCORRESPONDENT
[upbeat music] I notice you don't have your pōutā on today, but you've still got the-
LauraHOST
And then I would like get like massive head spins is the only way I can kind of describe it.
LauraHOST
um it got worse after freshwater worlds I took a bit of a break and started doing waka ama and was like okay this is really weird I don't get sick doing waka ama um but I'm on the water so that kind of confused me so I was like I reckon I'm going to be all right again and I tried to go to White Island um with some awesome humans from Whakatane so um Brad and Nick Swartz and Alicia and Kira actually and so I thought oh this is great you know I've had some time off maybe it's I can get amongst and just have a nice chill day at White Island and thought it was kind of what you were talking about, you know, like maybe the comps were just really stressful and putting a lot of pressure on ourselves and stuff.
LauraHOST
And same thing happened again and just went really viciously seasick really, really quickly and started losing my vision and like completely blacking out my eyesight.
LauraHOST
So that's never good.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
Yes, probably more around 30 years.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
I think for me, I grew up in Whakatane, just a little township on the east coast of the North Island, for those of you that don't know it.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
And my mum was the, she was one of the youth workers and social workers at the community centre at the time.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
So I think for me, I've always grown up with that ability to serve.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
And as I started to, I guess, move through my life, my early life in my early 20s, I kind of started to realise that I wanted to work with young people specifically because of my own upbringing and some of the things I experienced.
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
And also just what was available at the time in terms of what young people are able to access in Whakatane and other kind of small provincial towns as well across the motu.
Catherine RyanHOST
You were a keen outdoors woman, Wahine, outdoors from a young age as well, right? And was this often where you began working with young people, volunteering with young people, that's where that was happening?
Huia O'SullivanGUEST
Yeah, so I trained as an outdoor instructor with disciplines in sea kayaking, mountaineering and bushcraft and And from about 23, I was mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters, which is an international mentoring programme.
Raniera RewiriHOST
So it comes with those things amongst other things.
Raniera RewiriHOST
But this year, I was incredibly blessed by receiving a part-time job, working for a social services movement called Wairiki Whanau Mentoring here in Whakatane, but they also got offices in Tokoroa, Hamilton, as well as Rotorua.
Raniera RewiriHOST
And it's been a huge blessing.
Raniera RewiriHOST
Huge, huge blessing.
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