Planting Seeds Podcast

This Grow With Me episode is about a shift I’m consciously leaning into . . . moving my energy from building my personal brand to growing and strengthening the Planting Seeds Podcast platform.

It’s less about me and more about us, the kaupapa, and creating something that holds space for community, conversation, and collective growth.

I also respond to two questions from the community, sharing my honest perspective and lived experience:

1️⃣ How do I have, create and stay consistent with quality time with my sons?
2️⃣ What’s the difference between growth discomfort and retraumatisation?

This kōrero is reflective and not about having all the answers, but about sharing what I’m learning in real time.
I hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave a comment below, I’d love to hear what landed for you.

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This Grow With Me episode is about a shift I’m making this year which is . . . choosing structure over goals.
For a long time, I thought goals were the answer and to be honest setting goals have helped me achieved so much.
But in this episode, I break down whats changed, and the four pou I’m using to support my health, mahi, whānau, and finances. Not to hype myself up but to hold myself steady, especially on the hard days.
It’s about sustainability and staying in the game.

In this episode, I speak into:
✨ Why goals create pressure instead of support
✨ The shift from outcomes to systems
✨ My four core structures (pou) for the year
✨ Trusting the process
✨ Sustainability over burnout

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This episode opens the 2026 season of the Planting Seeds Podcast with honesty. Not inspiration. Not hype. Just truth.
The year didn’t begin the way I expected. What was meant to be a fresh start turned into a Not-So-Happy New Year, marked by an emotional breakdown and finding myself deep in the mental trenches.
In this Grow With Me episode, I share what led to that breakdown, the patterns and pressures that finally surfaced, and how I navigated through the pain instead of bypassing it.
If you’ve ever entered a new year feeling heavy instead of hopeful . . . this episode is for you.

In this episode, I speak into:
✨ A breakdown at the beginning of the year
✨ Being in the mental trenches
✨ The cost of carrying things alone
✨ Sitting with pain instead of escaping it
✨ What breakthroughs look like after the breakdown
✨ Why growth doesn’t follow a calendar
✨ Starting again by filling your cup

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This Grow With Me episode is Part 2 of the communication and storytelling series. In this kōrero, I speak openly about how I got into speaking, public speaking and podcasting, and the simple structure I still use today to communicate clearly and confidently.
I wasn’t always a good communicator. In fact, there were specific moments that sparked my desire to get better, from listening to motivational YouTube videos, to being mentored by an amazing public speaker and storyteller, to experiencing one of the most fearful and embarrassing moments you can have when speaking in front of people.
I share how many failures and hundreds (if not thousands) of reps shaped the way I speak today. There was no shortcut just commitment, curiosity and repetition.
This episode is practical. The next podcast you listen to, I invite you to answer the questions alongside the guest or better yet, start shaping your own story using the structure I share:
Beginning (upbringing), Middle (2–3 defining moments), End (where you are now).
This series is about giving you tools to communicate your thoughts, emotions and experiences with more confidence and clarity.
Make sure you tune in for Part 3 🌱

We dive into:
✨ How I got into speaking & public speaking
✨ The events that sparked my desire to improve
✨ Learning through YouTube & mentors
✨ The most embarrassing speaking moment of my life
✨ Why failure is part of becoming confident
✨ Doing the reps over time
✨ The storytelling structure I still use today
✨ How to practice by listening to podcasts differently

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This episode is an up-the-guts kōrero with my good brother Kawariki Thompson, also known as Mr Waana Heal Stay Real.
Kawariki has been on a deep healing journey, using his real and raw lived experiences to support others in reconnecting with who they truly are — beneath the titles, beneath the masks, and underneath the hurt and pain they’ve been carrying for years.
Coming from a rough background, including childhood abuse and life in gangs, Kawariki shares how those experiences shaped him — and how he eventually chose to confront them instead of running from them. Today, one of his most powerful modalities is breathwork, which he uses to help people regulate their nervous systems, process trauma, and break cycles rooted in the past.
We talk about the nervous system, different ways of understanding trauma, the importance of giving and receiving love, and how breakdowns often become the doorway to breakthroughs.
This kōrero is honest, confronting, and deeply human — and will resonate with anyone who knows what it’s like to carry pain and still wants more from life.
We dive into:
✨ Kawariki’s upbringing and lived experiences
✨ Trauma, abuse, and the impact on identity
✨ From gangster to healer
✨ Breathwork as a tool for healing and regulation
✨ Understanding the nervous system
✨ Different ways to view and process trauma
✨ Giving and receiving love
✨ How breakdowns lead to breakthroughs
✨ Reconnecting to who you really are

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