Kīpuka Moʻolelo
Kīpuka Moʻolelo is a storytelling podcast that centers Native Hawaiian voices, histories, and lived experiences through intimate conversations rooted in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and ʻike kūpuna. Each episode creates space for ʻike, memory, and manaʻo to be shared across generations, strengthening cultural connection and contemporary understanding.
Kīpuka Moʻolelo
Holeka Inaba
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In this episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo, Holeka Inaba shares how a childhood rooted in Hawaiian language education shaped a lifelong commitment to community leadership, public service, and aloha ʻāina. Raised through Pūnana Leo and Hawaiian-medium schooling in Kona, Holeka reflects on how ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi formed his worldview long before he ever entered formal political spaces.
The conversation traces his return home after college and his path into county government, where Hawaiian values, genealogy, and responsibility to place guide everyday decision-making. Holeka speaks candidly about navigating modern governance through a Hawaiian lens—bringing language, ʻike Hawaiʻi, and community accountability into institutions not originally built for them. This episode offers a grounded look at leadership as an inherited kuleana, carried forward through service, humility, and steadfast connection to ʻāina and poʻe.
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This episode of Kīpuka Moʻolelo is a production of ʻŌiwi TV, a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, community voices, and ʻike Hawaiʻi through culturally grounded storytelling.
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