Episode 15: Rangipare Belshaw-Ngaropo

Rangipare Belshaw-Ngaropo is of Ngaati Awa descent and affiliated to Mataatua, Te Arawa, Tainui, Takitimu and Ngatokimatawhaorua. 

She’s has represented Aotearoa at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, United Nations Expert Mechanism on The Right of Indigenous Peoples in Switzerland and attended the World Indigenous Decade of Water Summit with He Kuaka Maarangaranga in Minesota. But most importantly, she’s a maamaa. 

She draws her strength from her whaanau, hapuu iwi, tiipuna and future tamariki. She’s held several governance and leadership roles locally and nationally uplifting, elevating, and raising Maaori aspirations.

We met working together in the youth development space, and what I love most about Rangipare is her connection to her culture, community, and creativity, and how she unleashes her authenticity and self-expression through these channels.  This episode was vulnerable, real, and authentic, and we spoke into themes of motherhood and the ego identity.

We dive into:

• Identity loss in motherhood
• Whakapapa and genealogy 
• Letting go of people pleasing 
• Toxic positivity in motherhood 
• Play and pleasure as self-expression
• Masculine and feminine energies 
• Creating bliss
• How the ego plays games
• Unlearning control 
• Healing in the ocean 
• Setting boundaries
• Narcissistic tendencies 

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