All female show for The Hits Hawke's Bay breakfast show to celebrate International Women's Day

Adam Green from the The Hits Hawke's Bay breakfast team is taking the day off on Friday as co-host Megan Banks takes over for an all women show.

The Hits Hawke's Bay will be hosting an all female radio show on Friday to celebrate International Women's Day.

The Hits co-host Megan Banks said the show would highlight "some of the amazing women we have in Hawke's Bay doing great things for the community, the business world and women's issues in general".

Panel contributors in the studio on Friday include:

Kirsten Wise - Napier City Councillor and Black & White Accounting director
Robyn McLean - Co founder of the Hello Cup
Hayley Young - Times Up NZ
Annie Dundas - GM Hawke's Bay Tourism
Tina Chamberlain - Black & White Real Estate and the only female auctioneer in Hawke's Bay
Carol Reid - owner of Soulpreneurs
Gabby Allen - founder of Out and About With Kids in Hawke's Bay
Claudia Conaglen - new mother and former contestant on "The Bachelor NZ"
Melissa Rutherfurd and Harriet Twinn - founders of
Hawke's Bay Grazing Platter business Mitzi & Twinn

Hello Cup founder Robyn McLean will be in The Hits studio on Friday morning.

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

"We all have a story to tell, and I'm thrilled to be able to have to the platform to do that so that can give our local women a voice,'' Banks said.

"A lot of our local women do so much that goes unnoticed so we really want to highlight that and at the same time inspire our listeners.

"All of us have been through the ups and downs of life and at the core of it we are all just trying to find the right balance to lead a fulfilling life.

"Sometimes that's easier said than done.

Kirsten Wise - Napier City Councillor and Black & White Accounting director.

"The show will be all about celebrating our success as well as our failures with a strong emphasis on having a laugh. We'll be covering all kinds of topics from relationship advice to financial independence to empowering the next generation, our girls and boys to strive for equality.

Black & White Real Estate's Tina Chamberlain, Hawke's Bay's only female auctioneer.

"It's Beauty and The Beast without the Beast."

Co-host Adam Green - aka the Beast - said he was all for equality.

After sleeping in, Green will be taking care of the domestic duties at home for the morning.