046 - Finding Purpose in Community with Nick Bradley-Qalilawa

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some voices just have weight. Some</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">people</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">do. I am blessed to have plenty of people in my life whose voices carry weight. Certainly to me.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of those is a friend of mine, Nick Bradley-Qalilawa.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nick is someone I’ve had on the show before, in episode 14 where we explored</span> <a href= "https://mikecampbell.com.au/014-race-racism-in-australia-with-nick-bradley-qalilawa/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><span style= "color: #2700ff; text-decoration: underline;">Race and Racism in Australia</span></span></span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I always enjoy chatting with Nick and get so much insight from him - because he's such as insightful dude.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lately, I’ve been watching some of his adventures in Fiji - a place that is very much home to him as a half Fijian Australian - he has been back in his village with his father.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And this was, in part, what I wanted to explore with him today - what we can learn from village and community life in our fast paced and ever-growing world.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>In this Episode:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Something we touched on in our last chat, Nick and I explore the juxtaposition that has often been a throughline in his life: being half one thing and half another; European Australian and Fijian. Footballer and university student.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We explore how this can actually work, as it does now for Nick, as a bridge between those two worlds.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With this, we explore some of what Nick and his father are doing in bringing the villages of Fiji to meet the technology an