Maile Keli‘ipio-Acoba
Maile is the CEO of INPEACE, a local nonprofit based in Waiʻanae. She talked about the organization’s mission, how they provide educational programs to Native Hawaiian communities with ʻohana-focused models, how they develop their team and programs from within the community, and how important that has been to the success of their work. We also got into her personal story, how she found her calling, and the driving force that keeps her going.
https://inpeace.org/
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Kelly Sugano
Kelly has been a professional wedding planner for 20 years, getting her start before wedding planning was really a thing. She shares about the evolution of weddings over her career and how couples’ needs have changed, her best advice for planning a wedding, and why things like a professional emcee are so important. We also talk about her new business, Borrowed Blooms, which brings ultra realistic faux flower arrangements to weddings – a game-changer for the wedding industry!
https://www.aperfectdayhawaii.com/
https://www.borrowedbloomshawaii.com/
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Chardonnay
Chardonnay is a recording artist, a business owner and a farmer! She shares the origin of her name, along with the funny way her dad tells people why they named her that. We also get into her music career and how that led to her meeting the woman who would become her wife. She also shares about helping run her wife’s food truck/catering company, and her family farm where they have 600 pigs!! Needless to say we, covered A LOT in this episode.
https://www.instagram.com/chardonnay.music/
https://www.chardonnaymusic.com/
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Diana Gremillion
Diana is an international speaker, author, master life coach and cohost of the Body Positivity Podcast! She’s the daughter of Filipino immigrants and grew up in New York before making her way to Hawaii. She shares about being in class just 2 blocks away from the Twin Towers when the 9/11 attacks happened, leaving her career on Wall Street to become a chef and eventually cooking a Michelin-starred meal for President Obama, and the road that led to her current calling in life – helping people achieve dreamy and delicious results in their lives 😋
Learn more about Diana at https://www.dianagremillion.com/
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Keoni Vaughn
Keoni is Executive Director of Lanai Cat Sanctuary. He shares the incredible story of why and how it was created, and how houses more than 700 cats with zero fleas, and each cat has a name! Keoni’s grandpa was a co-owner of the historic Oahu fine dining restaurant, John Dominis, and Keoni shares an entertaining memory of “fishing” in the restaurant’s legendary fish pond and the fallout at school when he wrote about his adventure.
Learn more about Lanai Cat Sanctuary: https://lanaicatsanctuary.org/
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Nick Bradley
Nick gives stargazing shows all across Oahu with his company, Stargazers of Hawaii. We talk about how he left his career in construction to pursue his passion in astronomy. He answers my questions about the universe, distant galaxies, what the coolest thing he’s seen, and yes, we talk ALIENS! He also shares about his other love – baseball – and working with the UH baseball team’s video department.
Check out Nick’s upcoming events: https://www.stargazersofhawaii.com/
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Kara Kusunoki
Kara is the Hawaii Regional Director at Catapult Learning, an education service company supporting struggling learners. She shared her experience with learning struggles throughout high school and college, which inspires her to help educators and students through her work today. We talked about being the daughter of a teacher and how that influenced her to go into education, working with her intermediate school band teacher who used to terrify her, and what it’s like to accompany her marathon-running boyfriend around the world.
Learn more about Catapult Learning at https://catapultlearning.com/
Contact Kara at karakusunoki@catapultlearning.com
Laura Reid
Laura is a professional speaking coach who grew up with a stutter and is an introvert by nature. She shares how she became an award-winning speaker and now helps others do the same. We also get into how she got into stand-up comedy, what it’s like to slay one night then absolutely bomb the next night, and a crazy story about getting stuck in Bali for 4 months at the beginning of the pandemic. Did you know that Bali has an annual day of silence where no one speaks, uses electricity or has access to the internet?! I sure didn’t!
Download Laura’s free course on public speaking at https://www.thespeechslayer.com/
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Our Grandparents, Part 2
It’s the follow up to Ep. 207 “Our Popos,” this time we’re talking about the grandparents we were close to, Jamie’s paternal grandma and Nolan’s maternal grandfather.
Join us on zoom for a free workshop! We’re teaching how to record an oral history interview with your loved one using your smartphone and things you have around the house – from setting up your camera, positioning everything to get the best light and sound, how to conduct the interview and what to do with the footage. Happening Tuesday, Nov 15 at 7:30 PM HST! Register at https://poplegacyvideos.com/workshop
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