Recounting Life Lessons

Don't underestimate the impact of your knowledge. Even the most common lessons can turn out to be golden nuggest for someone else and perhaps even yourself.

There's something really interesting about these lessons that we've been noticing. 

Lessons have layers.

There is a significant wealth of knowledge that we may not realize we posess. 

In this episode Sione and Alana touch on the importance of looking back to find golden nuggets that will enhance your life as you go forward.

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It is so easy to get caught up in the hustle mentality, the grind, and all or nothing mindset when we see it everywhere around us. But there's a cost that comes with this way of thinking.

In this episode, Alana shares how she learned the importance of choosing the right goals, choosing the right pace to go after them, and keeping the big picture of success in mind.

The compound effect works both ways. When we consistently do small and simple things that help us progress and grow toward our best selves, the effects are amazing. But when we consistently stop doing those small and simple things, we end up going backward and creating a whole new set of problems and clutter to deal with that we didn't have before. 

Creating and maintaining success that lasts has a lot to do with being able to keep everything in its proper perspective and know when it's best to speed up or slow down. This episode will help you learn more about how to do that.

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Watching Iam Tongi's journey to winning American Idol this year reminded us of the power and influence that authenticity and music can have in our lives. 

In this episode, Alana shares some of her experiences of what it was like to watch other people react to Iam Tongi's American Idol audition video and then see him perform Monsters live with James Blunt on the show's finale. See the videos she refers to below:

• Video of Iam Tongi's American Idol audition: https://youtu.be/S_MAesZsnMk
• How did Iam Tongi Make American Idol Judgest THAT Emotional video: https://youtu.be/s0NxOiEwrUg
• Iam Tongi & James Blunt: Super Emotional Duet of "Monsters" Makes Idol History video: https://youtu.be/M9hdHDXyo-8

Reflecting on the power of music inspired us to pull out a portion of an interview we did with American Idol alumnus, Katie Higley and share it in this episode. 

Katie shares more about her TEDex talk, "It's okay not to be okay", her experience in helping a friend share a message about choosing to live after attempting to take his life, and how it helped her through a difficult time in her own life.

Life Lesson:

The emotions we feel need to be expressed. When we suppress emotions it can turn into depression. And music is one of the tools that we can use to help us express and release the emotions that may be stuck in our bodies.

Want to connect with Katie Higley?

• Find her on Instagram at: @katiehigleymusic
• Learn more about how you can take music lessons from her on her website: katiehigley.com 

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Sometimes when we think about what it will take to make an impact or to have greater influence, we think it will take a lot of work and effort. But that isn't always the case.

Sometimes all it takes is something small and simple to increase our impact and influence on the lives of those around us.

In this episode, Alana is sharing a few experiences and examples that prove, doing just a little bit more than what is expected can have a huge impact on our ability to be a person of influence and to make a difference.

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In this episode, we sit down with Gavon Wong, host of the Ho'oikaika Youtube Channel and podcast.

Ho'oikaika means to strengthen in Hawaiian. His show is all about empowering Polynesian men to learn how to cope with the stresses of life in healthy ways. It is also a great resource for women to know how to better support Polynesian men in their life.

In our conversation with Gavon, we discuss several experiences throughout his life that have helped him in coping with ADHD, suicidal thoughts, the passing of his mother at a young age, and how those lessons have had an impact on his career, marriage, his relationship with his children, and as he hosts his show.

Want to connect with Gavon?

Visit his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hooikaika

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To wrap up our financial literacy series, we are sharing our top 5 book recommendations to increase your financial literacy. 

When you want to improve your finances, there are two areas to increase your awareness on: 

• Financial IQ: how to make money, how money works, how to manage money, etc.
• Financial EQ: how your beliefs and relationship with money impact your ability to reach your financial goals

These books are the books Sione always shared with our clients or people when they found out he was a financial coach. These books helped us is building a healthy foundation in our IQ and EQ around money. 

What do you don't know can hurt you, and the moment you become aware of a thing, you change it.

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After years of teaching financial education, we've been able to help several individuals and families reach their financial goals. Despite our financial knowledge around helping others learn how to better make and manage money, we found ourselves struggling to raise our net worth or to maintain our own financial successes. Eventually, we realized it all had to do with our mindsets and attitudes around being wealthy, money, and self-worth.

Some of our beliefs and feelings were actually blocking our success, causing us to self-sabotage, and keeping us stuck.

This realization led Alana on a mission to learn as much as she could about mental and emotional money blocks that keep us from reaching our financial goals and living the lives of our dreams.

In this episode, Alana shares 7 of the blocks that she's discovered and a few tips on how to remove them.

The 7 money blocks are:

1. You feel or believe that it is hard to make money and increase your income
2. You don't like spending money
3. You are a bad receiver
4. You don't like having money
5. You believe that all debt is bad and should be avoided
6. You believe there is a capacity or limit to how much you can make or earn
7. You have a negative perception of people who have a lot of money

Resources to improve your relationship with money:

Here are a few of our favorite programs and books that have helped us to remove our money blocks:

• The Millionaire Mindset from John Assaraf
• Winning the Game of Money Program (we love listening to the innercises from this)

*Sione and Alana will earn a commission from any purchases made through the above links at no extra cost to you. They only recommend things that we've used and absolutely love.

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Volatility causes uncertainty in the marketplace. But, those who know how to take advantage of it, are able to thrive during these seasons of life.

In this episode, Sione shares a few of the lessons that he's learned about volatility and what we can do to take advantage of it when it comes to our personal finances.

There are three key areas to be aware of:

1. when will volatility happen
2. the decision you must make if you want to survive and thrive
3. what to do now to prepare and equip yourself

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What can we do to give ourselves a financial advantage?

In this episode, Sione and Alana sit down with Tara Shim as she shares her financial journey and how a couple of board games, a monthly allowance, and investing in herself and her financial education changed her life. 

Raised in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii by a single mother from the time she was about 6 or 7 years old with very little money, her mom bought her a board game for a dollar. Playing that game every day and learning to manage the monthly allowance from her father was the foundation that started her on her journey to owning multiple properties as a real estate investor, and a realtor, and the ability to travel several times a year with her family today.

And boy was there a lot of lessons along the way. 

Want to connect with Tara Shim?

Find her on Instagram @tara.shim or linktr.ee/tara101

Contact her if you're ready to buy or sell a home in Hawaii

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Connect with Alana @alanauyema

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A few of the things that we can count on happening in life and as leaders are that things will go wrong, mistakes will be made, we can't plan for everything, and plans will need to change from time to time.

So how can we avoid getting frustrated and better prepare ourselves to respond to our circumstances when things like this happen? 

Is it possible to create a buffer to allow room for error and prevent the negative spiral that could happen when things don't go according to plan?

In this episode of Recounting Life Lessons, Sione and Alana sit down and share four different mindsets to adopt and practice when things don't go according to plan.

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Connect with Alana @alanauyema

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