Planting Seeds Podcast

Your silence might be costing you your peace.Here's why the people closest to you don't see the work you're doing , and what to do about it.
This Grow With Me episode comes straight from a story shared inside the Planting Seeds Community. I share a perspective of why the people closest to us — whānau, close friends — often can't see the version of ourselves we're becoming, and why that gap becomes one of the stickiest parts of personal growth.
The heart of the episode: a boundary isn't about keeping people out — it's about protecting your peace, and sometimes your silence is saying more than you realise.

Episode Breakdown:
✨ Why people closest to you can't always see your growth
✨ Being held to an old version of yourself you've already outgrown
✨ Why honouring a boundary isn't your responsibility to manage how others take it
✨ A personal story: months of tension, and why it was worth it
✨ Making yourself small so others feel comfortable — and how to stop
✨ Your word is your boundary, but so is your silence

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You finally get what you've been working for . . . and suddenly you're sabotaging it.Here's why your nervous system does this, and what to do instead.
In this Grow With Me episode, Raniera builds on the "full cup" kōrero from the last solo episode, unpacking why we self-sabotage the moment life starts to feel good — in relationships, in mahi, in finances, in our own wellbeing. Drawing on a Tony Robbins framework of operating at different "degrees," this episode is about recognising the discomfort of a new, better baseline for what it actually is: your nervous system trying to pull you back to what's familiar, not what's true.

Episode Breakdown:
✨ Why introducing a good habit and removing a bad one changes everything
✨ The nervous system's role in keeping you stuck in familiar (even unhealthy) patterns
✨ How self-sabotage shows up in relationships, mahi, and money
✨ The Tony Robbins "20 degrees vs 26 degrees" identity framework
✨ Why change without expanding your identity is only ever temporary
✨ Learning to rest in — not rush through — a season of abundance

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She looked in the mirror one New Year's Eve and barely recognised herself.That was the moment everything changed.
Monique Taipeti is one half of one of the most powerful couples to sit on this podcast. When Marley Taipeti shared his story, it opened a door, and Monique stepped through it to share hers.
Molested in her mother's care at a young age. Fostered out at 6. Moved between parents. By 13 she was self-harming, drinking, and cutting. By 24, she was deep in addiction — meth, lies, two young babies, and a future disappearing.
This is the story of what happened when she finally chose herself. Nine years into recovery, she is now a paramedic, a co-facilitator of the Chain Breakers programme (Waiariki Whānau Mentoring), and a living example that it is possible, that you are worth it, and that the other side exists.

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This is a Grow With Me episode — in this one, I share the pressure and expectation I was putting on myself to keep giving, but receiving grace from the community unlocked a shift in terms of how I shows up.
Inspired by a recent conversation with Ngaire Tuhua (link), who spoke about being No. 1, 2 and 3 on her own priority list, this episode unpacks what it actually means to consciously and deliberately choose to fill your cup, and why doing so isn't selfish, it's essential.
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Ngaire is a Māori creative — artist, moko practitioner in training, wahine deeply rooted in te ao Māori and committed to uplifting other wahine through her mahi. Recorded on the East Coast at Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa, this kōrero feels like sitting in the sun with someone who has walked through real darkness and come out clearer on the other side.
In this conversation, Ngaire opens up about what it means to stop surviving and start thriving! The real mahi behind that shift, the trenches she had to walk through to get there, and why she now puts herself at numbers one, two, and three on her own priority list.
She also talks about creativity as a way of life, losing her nan during COVID through an iPad screen, the moko style she's developing exclusively for wahine, and what it means to be a portal, a creative, and a wāhine in full becoming.

Episode Breakdown

✨ Stepping out of the shadows to be seen
✨ Two types of fear: the one that destroys you, and the one that expands you
✨ "Don't let loss be the lesson", shifting out of survival mode into a thriving mindset
✨ Creativity as a way of life
✨ How living outside of clock-based thinking keeps her present
✨ The real work behind choosing yourself as a wahine
✨ Overflowing your own cup first so there's actually something to give
✨ Wahine carrying both roles, and what it means when tāne step into their own leadership
✨A new style of moko exclusively for wāhine, rooted in whakapapa wāhine
✨ How grief and enlightenment arrived at the same time
✨ Always looking for the gap, the new, the unexplored
✨ All the answers are already within us, we just need people who help us remember

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