Podcasts about Tongan

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The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

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The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

 Ace this quiz or fall victim to the Tongan death grip... Play. Share. Listen with former professional wrestler and FOX News Contributor, Tyrus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

This week, McKay talks about aspects of the culture effect, including creating culture, maintaining it, and how to rescue it. He opens up with a story detailing Tonga's devastating volcanic eruption and how the Tongan culture, which values respect and open-mindedness, helped the people weather the storm. McKay notes that, when teams or families have a strong culture, they will thrive and prosper, but, on the other hand, when culture is weak, it can destroy your team and everything you're working for. McKay also emphasizes that, as leaders, we have the opportunity to influence and shape the culture that drives us, and goes on to share that, to do so, we must learn to value feedback. So, make sure that you are slow to speak and quick to listen when it comes to creating a culture and values. Likewise, an influential leader will lead by example, sharing and modeling the values by which they hope their team will abide. McKay draws this episode to a close with one final piece of advice: be careful who you let join your team. All it takes is one person to totally alter your culture, so protect it and you will protect your team as well.The Finer Details of This Episode:Tonga's devastating volcanic eruption The fall of IBM Defining culture Influencing culture The importance of feedback Sharing and modeling values Why mid level managers create cultureQuotes:"Tongans look out for each other and respect others. Many Tongans may avoid outward signs of wealth or affection. They dress in modest ways, and they're highly receptive to other people's opinion and behavior.”“Culture can guide a team, lead a company to thrive and prosper, or culture can, like toxic ash, choke a team and cause companies to fail, or fall.”“Most leaders don't understand culture and they don't know how to diagnose or influence it.”“Culture can help teams be more agile, loyal and effective… Culture can also be a significant liability when it's misaligned with your strategy or values. And it doesn't matter how dysfunctional your culture may be on your team today, you can improve it with a plan and intentional effort.”“So, like the researchers in Roseto, you may have to set up camp for a while on your team, maybe even in your family - watch, listen, and observe. See if you can uncover some of the cultural behaviors and assumptions that your team members have.”“You see, some leaders stopped showing up for the small things. And the result? Their people do the same. What you do duplicates, so if you want to change the culture on your team, model the behavior.”“Hire and recruit people who exemplify what culture you're trying to create. And over time, these managers will influence your entire team. So be very selective about the people you let influence your team.”“Listen, learn, and determine where your culture is today to define the mission and values that will underpin your future culture.”Links: Open Your Eyes with McKay Christensen

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Winnie Dunn was a teenager when the Chris Lilley character 'Jonah from Tonga' became a national joke and as a Tongan Australian the stereotype made her feel uncomfortable.Despite being born into a big Tongan family in Western Sydney, Winnie felt conflicted about her heritage growing up.But over time her understanding of what it means to be Tongan evolved, and at the age of 28, Winnie became the first Tongan Australian to have a novel published.Conversations Live is coming to the stage! Join Sarah Kanowski and Richard Fidler for an unmissable night of unforgettable stories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and surprise guests. Australia's most-loved podcast — live, up close, and in the moment. Find out more on the Conversations website.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

ON TODAYS SHOW: We're back from Magic Round and wow we have learnt a lot about each other. Find out how well we really did when it comes to the bingo card. Plus, White Sunday has just happened for our Tongan community, and we ask you for your stories. For more, follow our socials: Instagram Facebook TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

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Dr. Kehaulani Fagatele-Folau joins this episode to introduce her doctoral research. We begin with Indigenous concepts and methods she used from the Madau-Moana to make sense of some of the colonial contexts Indigenous women of Oceania traverse in the academy. Some themes we discuss include Indigenous feminism, interconnectivity, sharing space, and relational ethics by using Niu/Neo/Knew Tā-Vā. Fagatele-Folau shares a re-imagined R.I.P. acronym, and deploys it as metaphor for laying to rest systems of power, as they work through the process of ‘becoming' a Madau-Moana cosmopolitan. We reflect on the possibilities in being rooted and mobile, and continuing to learn confidence with care through a broad sense of kinship. “Not all the powers that be are all the powers that are” – Kehau Fagatele-Folau Terms with introductory definitions: Madau (Pohnpeian for Ocean/Thought); Moana (Ocean in Tongan); Talanoa (Critical relational dialogue); Iroir (reflection/beautiful view/to position yourself for a beautiful view); Hoa (pair/partner/companion/connection); Hoamālie (harmonious partnership); Hoatamaki (imbalanced partnership); R.I.P. (Relationality, Intersectionality, Positionality); Mana (honour, prestige, potency, authority).

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Tonga's Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi is heading to the Vatican to pay his respects to Pope Francis. Media Association of Tonga President and the Tongan Catholic Newspaper deputy editor Viliami Falekaono spoke to Corin Dann.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in Tongan language (Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Today on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer  talks to three Queer farmers of color, Oriana Bolden, Loa Niumeitolu and Kellee Matsushita-Tseng about how we can create alternative spaces to sustain us during this newest round of fascism.  While  Trump is orchestrating a neoliberal collapse  and we weather  the constant barrage of attacks on our lives we need to create alternative communities rooted in the land.   But our capitalist  industrial model of growing and consuming food is contributing to both climate change and social inequity and unfortunately large agro industrial farming is not that  different than plantation farming. industrial capitalism is undermining our ability to build sustainable food systems for all.  98% of Farm Land is controlled by white people and  many  argue that alternative economies—including alternative food networks—continue to benefit middle class white folks, while further marginalizing communities of color and low-income folks.  So today I am going to talk to 3 Queer farmers who are  creating  farms and gardens farming for BIPOC and low income and Queer people which is so important to  creating a truly just movement for food sovereignty and  is so important right now to help create alternative communities that can sustain us when we can not count on government grants or financial support reminding us that  we will need to create   independent grassroots movements rooted in the land  where we can be sustained with food and well being and   where we can create our  own systems for  mutual aid and an alternative non extractive non exploitive economic and eco system.  Today we talk  to 3 farmers who are doing that.   Oriana Bolden  is a Black, queer, filmmaking farmer located in Grass Valley, CA, where Oriana  stewards medicinal herbs, edible flowers and long-celebrated, but “forgotten” herbs, spices and indigenous foods that are local and ecologically and culturally important.  And we talk to Loa Niumeitolu, who  is a Tongan poet, community organizer, educator and urban farmer. She is the director of Planting Oceania, a Pacific Islander collective that plants their ancestral foods and medicine for self determination and to heal from the destructions of colonization.. planting Oceania plants on the unceded territories of Lisjan and Raymatush tribes.”    And lastly we talk to Kellee Matsushita-Tseng who  is a yonsei, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american, living and farming on unceded territory of the  Uypi-tribe   in Santa Cruz. Kellee joined the Food, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country, called Second Generation Seeds, which preserves, improves, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora.  Kellee is also a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons, a collective of queer and trans asian Americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community. The post Queers of Color Farmers appeared first on KPFA.

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On this week's podcast, I speak with Ashley Semmens. Ashley spent 18 years in the Australian Navy, enlisting in 2005 into the direct entry program as a Clearance Diver. Ashley deployed multiple times, which included Op Resolute Border Security, OP Manitou, a human remains recovery in Tongan deep waters, and two deployments to Afghanistan on OP Slipper providing Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Reconnaissance to the Infantry combat team whilst on patrol in Afghanistan and during the withdrawal of Afghanistan in 2021.  In 2022, he was medically discharged at the rank of Chief Petty Officer, now he volunteers his time to the Clearance DiverTrust. Clearance Divers (CDs) are the Australian Defence Forces' specialist divers. CD tasks include specialist diving missions to depths of 54 metres, surface and underwater demolitions, and the rendering safe and disposal of conventional explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices. Ash is about to take on his toughest challenge yet, he has set his sights on becoming the first person to swim the English Channel — in a peculiar backwards manner. To achieve the record, Ashley will need to swim on his back for more than 15 hours, not in a traditional backstroke, but dolphin kicking while facing the sky, with minimal use of his arms. He said preparing for the 34.2-kilometre swim was as much mental as physical. The kicking is effectively how I would work in my previous profession, he said. But as a clearance diver, I will be taking mental resilience into the swim. The channel swim is set for June 2025 and aims to raise money for the Navy Clearance Divers Trust. Good luck, Ash, you got this! This is a raw story owning all your faults and redemption! To donate to the cause, see the link below https://ncdt.org.au/donations/sponsor-ash-in-a-world-first-finning-across-the-english- channel/ Presenter: Adam Blum Guest: Ashley Semmens Editor: Kyle Watkins

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

After announcing he wants to play at the 2027 World Cup, Ross Karl, James Parsons and Bryn Hall break down whether Richie Mo'unga will join Moana Pasifika, not the Crusaders in 2027.Tongan giant Ben Tameifuna talks the Springbok who cracked his back and life in French rugby.Plus, we look into what Moana Pasifika are doing differently that created the resilience to hold on against the Crusaders, the form of Ruben Love and the latest halfback on the rise in NZ rugby. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Today we welcome Asm. David Tangipa, the freshman Republican legislator from the 8th Assembly District, and at 29, the youngest member of the California Legislature. Tangipa grew up off Watt Avenue in Sacramento, not for from McClellan Air Force Base. The impact that McClellan's closure had on Tangipa's friends and neighborhood left a lasting impression - and an awareness that policy decisions affected lives in very real ways. Sports offered a way out of the neighborhood; encouraged by his high school football coach, Frank Negri, Tangipa attended college at Cal State Fresno where he played tight end for the Fresno Bulldogs. Tangipa began working in real estate and got involved involved in Fresno politics, serving as a field representative for Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig. In 2024 he launched a bid for the open 8th District Assembly seat, challenging the favorite, former Congressman George Radanovich. Radanovich led in the Primary, but lost by 7 points in the general.  Tangipa joined us to talk about his path to Sacramento, his extraordinarily short tenure on the Assembly Insurance Committee, and why he - the first Tongan ever to serve in the #caleg - is not part of the AAPI Legislative Caucus.Plus: Who had the worst week in CA politics?1:01 SB581 story2:35 Welcome Paula Treat and Matt Rodriguez3:31 Conferences coming: AI on July 8; Health Care on October 16:05 Welcome Asm. Tangipa7:09 Origin story10:26 "By the time I was 14 years old I was 6'4 and 200 pounds"12:10 vs. George Radanovich14:01 Sacto vs. Fresno16:33 Removal from committees19:42 Relationships with other legislators25:40 Any news on Federal fire funding?29:14 Thoughts on the new building reform package?32:34 #WWCAWant to support the Capitol Weekly Podcast? Make your tax deductible donation here: capitolweekly.net/donations/ Capitol Weekly Podcast theme is "Pickin' My Way" by Eddie Lang "#WorstWeekCA" Beat provided by freebeats.io

itude 7 earthquake struck Tonga at 1.20am Monday morning. Director at Tonga's National Emergency Management Office, Mafua Maka, spoke to Moera Tuilaepa.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest news in the Tongan language(Lea Faka-Tonga) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

In Pacific Waves today: Tokelau's head of state looks ahead; Guam senator pushes for statehood; Tongan researcher investigates needles used for covid vax; Metals company accused of supporting US defence. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Aj & Dee discuss the intricacies and complexities of classical literature while contrasting it with getting jacked in prison.   Our Website The Store Insta Reddit Patreon

Nafe Latu is a Tongan-born entrepreneur, speaker, and master celebrity barber. After moving to the U.S. in 2011, he built a thriving career in the barbering industry, founding Fresh Fade Away Barbershop in Utah County. In October 2024, he sold the barbershop to focus on new ventures. As the co-founder of Beauty University and the Unbroken Community, Nafe is dedicated to helping others grow personally and professionally. He also co-hosts the Rules Don't Apply Show and is known for his community impact, including organizing major relief efforts for Tonga. In this episode, Nafe shares his story of survival, loss, stress tolerance, and finally manifesting his dream life. Join Nafe's community here: https://www.skool.com/the-unbroken-community-1511/about Instagram: @nafelatu CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 2:09 Background 16:21 Survival lessons 33:27 Anything is possible 46:30 Retreat experience 52:16 The gift of stress tolerance

A Tongan family whose eldest son is seriously ill say they've been left broken as they fight an order for deportation. Tina and Tafuna Vea'ila were served a deportation order at the end of last month but whilst her husband has already been sent home, Tina remains in New Zealand with her two sons, one of whom is too sick to travel. The family's lawyer said he's asked the Associate Immigration Minister to intervene. Finn Blackwell has more.