Connecting our Voices with veteran Cook Islands journalist and Communications Specialist Lisa Williams-Lahari.

From sold-out rugby stadiums and World Cups to summer festivals, family gatherings, and corporate gigs DJ @algoodie knows how to move a crowd and keep the good vibes going. He’s worn many hats over the years, always with heart, humour, and a deep commitment to serving our Pasifika communities.

Levi Matautia-Morgan is serving the community his way, through content creation and supporting pathways for small businesses, while producing breakfast radio for the Pasifika community and running his own business. Levi does it with passion, commitment, and good humour.

Marama T-Pole, a veteran in broadcast journalism. For over 25 years she has brought us Pacific stories and news from around the world through our TV screens and radio waves. She shares her love of family, community, growing up in the deep south, and her beloved Tuvalu.

Labour MP for the Māngere electorate in Auckland, Lemauga Lydia Sosene MP, a seasoned public servant, former Chair Māngere-Ōtahuhu Local Board and now electorate MP. Lemauga shares insights into her early years of service beginning with her late parents Rev. Ofisa and Litia Nu’uali’itia, founding minister of EFKS Church in Ōtara, life as a politician, and her personal journey with breast cancer. She exemplifies the well-known Samoan proverb: “‘O le ala i le pule o le tautua – The pathway to leadership is through service.”

He is one of the most recognised faces in Pasifika media across the country and the Pacific region, a Master of Ceremony, Community Advocate, Broadcast Journalist, John Pulu shares his journey from a seasoned reporter fronting the longest serving popular current affairs show on television, Tagata Pasifika. John shares his passion and love of bringing Pacific People together, through language and culture whether he is on TV, radio, through his work in governance and working for his beloved Tonga and the community.

For more than 30 years Ma’a Brian Sagala has inspired, entertained and motivated crowds as a Master of Ceremony and Events Specialist. He joins us to talk about his journey, going out on his own, what it takes to be an MC while applying passion and faith to his business. The Queens Service Medal recipient tells us what keeps him grounded.

From panel operating for his wife Veronica during her radio show in the early 90s to becoming a sound engineer, and 30 years on programme director for Radio 531pi, George Siaosi Matekitonga Moungatonga along with Veronica sit down with PW LIVE and talk about why the passion is still there, to connect Pasifika voices.

Pasifika Editor for the New Zealand Herald’s Talanoa, Timuiaipaepaetele Lealaiauloto Vaimoana Mase, caught up with PW Live. The multi award winning journalist talks about her love of writing and recounts her experience reporting the story of her beloved Samoa and the tragedy of the 2009 Tsunami.

Auckland Councillor Josephine Bartley (Maungakiekie-Tamaki Ward). Josephine works tirelessly for her constituents and wider Auckland. Joining her in the studio is her beloved Milo, following in Josephine’s footsteps of community service and outreach.

For more than 50 years veteran journalist, broadcaster, and community leader Sefita Hao’uli has been serving the community advocating in Health, Education, Welfare, and specifically upholding and preserving Lea Faka-Tonga and other Pacific Languages