Chardonnay

Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Winner Chardonnay was our main guest for Episode 1! We had an amazing conversation and could only fit a tiny bit of it in the edit for TV, so we hope you enjoy hearing the extended cut here. 🥳 Join the FACEBOOK GROUP  📺 Watch on YOUTUBE 🎧 Listen on SPOTIFY,…

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Season 1 | Episode 1

Season 1 kicks off with Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Winner Chardonnay who shares about working with her grandpa on her family pig farm, plus we’ll hang out with Devin at City Mill and Mat at Spill The Tea Cafe. 🌺 Connect with our guests ✨ @chardonnay.music ✨ @citymill ✨ @spill_theteacafe 🌺 Please join us in…

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Educator Miki Tomita

Miki is the founder and CEO of Education Incubator. She began her career in biosystems engineering, then moved into education where she spent 20 years in teaching, administration and curriculum development. She reflects on the positive changes she’s seen in the classroom, and shares lessons from growing up in a tight-knit community on Maui, the…

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Producer Melanie Kosaka

Melanie is a media producer, a James Beard award-winner for Best National Cooking Series, and winner of an Emmy Award for best historical, cultural, religious documentary. She shares stories from her career in media production, starting on the mainland working on music videos, coming home and working at PBS, and what she’s up to now….

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Family Promise’s Ryan Catalani

Since high school, Ryan has been drawn to helping address the homelessness crisis in our state. Today he serves as Executive Director at Family Promise of Hawaiʻi, an organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness for families with children. Ryan shares about his family history of his grandparents fleeing their home country and starting from…

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Storyteller Andrew Tran

Andrew is the co-founder and creative director of Redefined Media, and one of the hosts of UNCUT Hawaiʻi. His parents and grandparents immigrated to the US from Vietnam, and instilled in him a sense of gratitude for the opportunities and blessings he has today. We talk about the decision to stay in Hawaiʻi, the challenges…

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Aloha Harvest’s Brandon Tomita

Brandon has always been self-motivated, so his parents weren’t worried when he switched from medicine to business. He served as COO of Wahiawa General Hospital before becoming Executive Director of Aloha Harvest. He shares some career and leadership lessons, and through his stories (including self-inflicted fitness challenges like doing 45,000 push-ups in one year) we…

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Educator Allan Lau

Allan is a public school teacher, a founding member of 24-VII Danceforce, and Program Coordinator for The I’m A Bright Kid Foundation (IABKF). He shares lessons learned working with Castle High School theater teacher Ronald E. Bright and his incredible wife Aunty Mo, his experience helping people find their spiritual gifts while serving as an…

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Hale Kipa’s Venus Kauʻiokawēkiu Rosete-Medeiros

Venus went to college to become a film director, but working at a summer program for kids changed her path. Today she serves as President and CEO of Hale Kipa, which specializes in working with youth and their families who often have nowhere else to turn. Venus shares how she has been shaped by challenges…

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Filmmaker Kolby Moser

Kolby is a Native Hawaiian filmmaker, founder of Aria Studios and one of the hosts of UNCUT Hawaiʻi. She shares how her dad inspires her to put in the work to get better, her main goal when it comes to parenting, her journey to self-love and being proud of herself, and how she came up…

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