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04/08/2023

Today, I want to honor the women who have rewritten the narrative. These are the women
who have stepped into the world with acts of courage, embarking on a journey of self-ownership.

By living their truth, they have prompted us to pause amidst the whirlwind of life and confront
the unexpected. Their stories, diverse and compelling, have woven a tapestry of our shared
experience.

Their legacy is not just in the lives they live, but in the lives they've empowered. These women
are brave souls who inspire us to embrace life, just as they have fearlessly done.
Here's to the courageous women, here's to sisterhood, here's to empowering each other. ✨


01/08/2023

Gratitude pours from my heart for the Powerhouse Women. Fearless, bold, unapologetically themselves. 🔥 They teach us strength and ignite courage in the world.🌸

Each with different stories, yet bound by a common thread - the audacity to be themselves in a world that often tries to box them in. They dance amidst the contrast between their lived realities and the expectations placed on them during their youth.

Inspired Success Magazine celebrates these radiant souls who have shattered preconceptions and reshaped our vision. They are living proof that the strength of a woman is unparalleled, and the beauty of her spirit, indomitable.

Here's to highlighting more years of sisterhood, learning, and fearless living. ✨

22/07/2023

What main events and supportive highlights helped to shape your future?

“I was very sad about being laid off from the morning show that I loved and had hosted for five years. I could have said, “Oh my God, I’m devastated, or, this is an amazing opportunity! The universe works like a vacuum, taking away something to allow something new. I chose to go with this amazing opportunity. It has taken a long while to like myself. I still battle with self-worth issues, but for the most part, I can look in the mirror and say I love my resilience, tenacity, hard work, capability to do things, and ability to step back and relax. I was raised without any expectations. I had to get through my issues and make an opening for empathy, to be a well-rounded human being with morals, authenticity, honesty, and values. Blessings are meant to be.”








What supportive advice and guidance would you offer to emotionally struggling teens, and women around self-acceptance?“T...
20/07/2023

What supportive advice and guidance would you offer to emotionally struggling teens, and women around self-acceptance?
“Therapy helped me more than anything. The stigma around going to therapy is heavy, especially growing up in an Italian family where you were told not to cry or feel. Professionals know how to guide others through these situations. I asked for a lot of help. I’m not afraid to ask for help with anything, help from my friends, or help from my family. It makes other people feel good to help. It’s a gift for both sides to ask for help because people who care about you also want to be there to give support.”







“It’s difficult to feel lonely in such a big world. Had I shared my story, I might not have felt so alone. I am sharing ...
19/07/2023

“It’s difficult to feel lonely in such a big world. Had I shared my story, I might not have felt so alone. I am sharing it now to say, If you’re reading this, you are not alone. And if you choose not to share anything that’s ever happened to you and just want to use me as an example, you’re not alone. I hope this brings you some sort of comfort. The comfort I feel like I desperately needed so many years ago. I know that feeling. And I love you.”








This issue of Inspired Success Magazine celebrates International Women’s Day! International Women’s Day gives us all a m...
13/07/2023

This issue of Inspired Success Magazine celebrates International Women’s Day!

International Women’s Day gives us all a moment to reflect on women’s achievements throughout history and to acknowledge them in all areas of society, including their significant contributions in every field, from science and technology to politics and the arts.
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01/07/2023

A turning point for me in my career began during the covid shut down. A colleague introduced me to the President and CEO of Regional Hospice, Cynthia Emiry Roy. They are extraordinary humans doing the work of angels. Their mission redefines hospice care. Whether it’s end-of-life care or a life-limiting illness, human connection is their mantra, and their culture honors each patient’s unique end-of-life journey. Hospice is a word that people never want to talk about. Then layer on children with a life-limiting illness, and it’s almost unbearable to speak about.
The North Star facility was designed by world-renowned Architect Roger Ferris. I worked with Roger and his team to use his architectural flythrough rendition of the wing as the set for the show. Our visual effects team did a stellar job, and we won a gold Telly Award for Set Design.
We hired the lead in Hamilton, Miguel Cervantes, and his wife, Author, and Activist Kelly Cervantes, to host the show. We chose Miguel and Kelly because they had lost their daughter when she was three years old. Every moment of the show was right from the heart. Families who had lost their children played a significant part in the production, which I believe now was a significant part of the healing process.
Regional Hospice raised more money than it ever had before with this production. It was a magical experience for me and an honor to work with these foundations supporting their mission.



I made many friends, many of whom are still in my life today, and some are closer than others. Max Mutchnick is one pers...
29/06/2023

I made many friends, many of whom are still in my life today, and some are closer than others. Max Mutchnick is one person who warms my heart whenever I think of him. We were inseparable through most of elementary school. We laughed, danced, cried sometimes, and no matter what, felt comfortable in our skin around each other. We were like-minded, and unbeknownst to us, we both were gay, I just knew he was a true best friend.
My Dad was managing money for southern rock bands, like Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, and Black Oak Arkansas; they all were a big part of my childhood. They were always hanging out at the house and in our pool. My Dad would often take my sister and me to concerts while working. The moment he saw me fading in exhaustion, he would put me on the speaker on the stage and let me fall asleep with the band jamming and thousands of people singing and screaming, and I was out like a light.
On the intense vibration of a speaker?
I was always around incredibly high energy. It didn’t faze me. Eventually, my dad transitioned from music to entertainment, so movie stars replaced the musicians.



Brook is multi-award winning, entertainment and media veteran and has won an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Direction”. She...
28/06/2023

Brook is multi-award winning, entertainment and media veteran and has won an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Direction”. She is an A-list expert on personality driven branded entertainment across all platforms. Her unique approach to storytelling explores the idea that corporate strategy and life improvement can be paralleled in the same breath. Brook has been at the forefront of innovative programming and holds 4 Emmy Awards, 19 Telly Awards and 1 Anthem Award.
My father was more of a business manager than an accountant. Some of his clients were Aaron Spelling, Bruce Willis, or David Lynch; the spectrum of talent was broad. My father always said, “Don’t go into the entertainment business. It’s hard enough just getting a foot in the door.”
I took his advice initially and pursued sports medicine at SFSU. One semester, I chose a film class as an elective that focused on making super eight films. I picked up a film camera, fell in love with storytelling, and that was that.
So, I transferred back to the East Coast and went to a small liberal arts college, Hampshire College. I studied film theory, film history, and television communications. I enjoyed what I did so much that it never felt like “a job.”



24/06/2023

The work my colleagues, allies and I have done to help reshape the conversation and imagery in wellness spaces and beyond is evidence of how much power we have individually and collectively. We can absolutely reject, resist and reshape the world around us.
My sociological, gender/women’s studies and media literacy education, as well as my mindfulness and embodiment practices, social justice work, and, most importantly, that first awakening I had as a young girl made it clear and demonstrated that we all have much more power, agency and possibility than the stories we’ve been told.






I studied sociology, media literacy and feminism. All three theoretical perspectives provided explanations, justificatio...
22/06/2023

I studied sociology, media literacy and feminism. All three theoretical perspectives provided explanations, justifications, statistics, and research to unburden my experiences and feelings that up until then I had blamed myself for. This newfound awareness allowed some of the shame and guilt I’d been carrying to begin to slide off my shoulders allowing room for possibility.
It was liberating! Like a lightning bolt, a thunderclap—the most resounding and clearest moment of my life. I wanted more of this sense of agency, possibility, and the ability to make conscious and deliberate choices on my own terms while contributing to the collective.






Melanie integrates her backgrounds in mindfulness and embodied wisdom with her academic expertise and advocacy work. In ...
21/06/2023

Melanie integrates her backgrounds in mindfulness and embodied wisdom with her academic expertise and advocacy work. In this way, she offers a holistic and unique pathway to personal freedom and prosperity, one that is customized and designed to each individual. She co-founded the Yoga and Body Image Coalition in 2014, one of her many efforts to create community, encourage collaboration and diversify the larger cultural narrative. Her TEDx, Conscious Empowerment & Collective Liberation.






15/06/2023

What supportive advice would you give to young kids, especially girls who want to pursue their curiosity about riding waves?
If I were to go back and give myself advice, I would want to remember advice I was told by my mom, “to set goals and believe in your dreams.”
Anything is possible. If you focus on putting your mindset and hard work toward your goals and your dreams. Nothing can stop you if you truly believe in yourself!
Be dedicated to achieving your goals. No dream is too big.
You only live this one life. If you’re living and doing something that you don’t truly love, then what’s the point?
If something makes your soul glow and you feel a true passion for it, you must follow that.







What competition have you entered that makes you the proudest? Until 2016, all of the big wave events that had been held...
13/06/2023

What competition have you entered that makes you the proudest?
Until 2016, all of the big wave events that had been held worldwide were only for men, and I would watch the contest take place wondering why women weren’t included.
For almost 15 years before 2016, women surfers had to stand up and use their voices to be included. Finally, someone was listening and we were invited to be a part of the events at Jaws
This was exciting because there were a handful of us who had been surfing there alongside the guys for many years. That first year being allowed in these competitions was really special, especially because I won the event.
It came with mixed emotions though, the guys had multiple events, and we only participated in one event at Jaws, but it was still a turning point, moving in a more accepted direction for the sport.







Paige Alms is a trailblazer in promoting the advancement of women’s surfing, and has worked to bring more attention and ...
12/06/2023

Paige Alms is a trailblazer in promoting the advancement of women’s surfing, and has worked to bring more attention and recognition to female surfers. Recognized as one of Maui’s “token” female big wave surfers, she currently resides in Haiku, just minutes away from Pe’ahi (aka Jaws).
Her career has been full of conquering giant waves and dominating titles, including her 3 Pe’ahi Challenge wins, 2 World Surf League (WSL) Big Wave world titles, and recently for the Red Bull Magnitude Best Paddle and Best Ride of the Season in Hawaii at Jaws in 2022. This year in January 2023, she was one of the first women to compete in The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, a big wave surfing tournament, where she had the highest heat total and best ride of the women.







10/06/2023

Where do you dig deep for your inspiration?

I’ve had many, and I would say from a foraging perspective, Sam Thayer, whom I’m blessed to call my friend, has been such an inspiration for me. He is a self-taught forager who has published several books in the foraging community, that are considered the best of the best, and he has a dedication to excellence in the information he puts out there. I would encourage you to look up his information. In addition to being a published author, he provides wild food products. He is one of the few people from which you can get wild food products that are unique.







You had the technology and nature choices available. How do you feel you have blended them?Most people assume someone li...
07/06/2023

You had the technology and nature choices available. How do you feel you have blended them?

Most people assume someone like me is anti-technology and is off eating wild foods daily. I like to let go of that restrictive approach. My motto has become one wild food every day. It’s not realistic that we will be out there foraging food for hours every day. But, by including small amounts of wild foods to keep the connection alive, to keep the genetic transfer of information, adaptability, the thriving and nutritional quality of these wild foods to become an embodiment of us. That’s my approach as to what I feel to be realistic about our relationship with wild plants. I was an early adopter of technology. My father was a calculus and physics teacher who was interested in technology, and I remember the very first Yahoo Chat group called, Forage Ahead, being in an online community of forgers from around the world. I felt I was the oddball – the out person who’s off harvesting these wild things. And these people encouraged finding a community and a group of people with which to resonate.
So that was kind of the early days. And then now, of course, I have used technology to facilitate more people participating and engaging with the land by building a mobile app, called Savage Kitchen, which has now been downloaded in 64 countries and over 10,000 users, achieved through organic growth without any advertising.







02/06/2023

What can we expect from you and F.A.S.T. for the rest of this year?
We are creating a program to help encourage all little girls who dream of being a pilot. Our goal is to sponsor and support 20,000 discovery flights for young girls.
A discovery flight is when someone without experience goes on a flight with an instructor. They take off, fly around, and land, all with the guidance of a flight instructor. I don’t want to create just 20,000 new female pilots. What we will create at the end of this is that we will have inspired 20,000 young girls who now have that seed of confidence, perseverance, and perspective that no one can take away from them. That is a game-changer for someone’s life! Someone doesn’t need to become a pilot, but you must know it’s possible. Knowing it’s possible that you can live that dream, you will be able to create many others.






Have your experiences given you a broader sense of awareness?Yes. And when I tap into that and let that voice be louder,...
31/05/2023

Have your experiences given you a broader sense of awareness?
Yes. And when I tap into that and let that voice be louder, it helps me make decisions more clearly. That clarity gives way to the confirmation of, ‘this is going to work.’ It feels good. This sits well with me. Instead of being in that version of an old mindset of, “This is what everybody else is doing… go here, go there, this is bright and shiny, I must follow along.” I now walk a path of, “How does this feel?” type of centeredness. When making decisions, my check-ins are, “Is this heavy? Is this light? Does it feel okay? How does my gut feel? Is there a little frustration with it?” I refer to those answers versus what everyone else is doing. I stopped following the crowd or what seems easy, popular, or even practical sometimes. If it doesn’t sit well with me, I won’t do it.











My journey started when I told my mom, “I want to be a flight attendant.” That was the only thing I knew about, how to t...
30/05/2023

My journey started when I told my mom, “I want to be a flight attendant.” That was the only thing I knew about, how to travel, get paid, and see the world. My mom said, “No.” I thought, “Well, how else will I do this?” My mother told me that she had seen a female pilot. She said, “If there’s one, there’s another. And if there’s only one, why not you?”
This is the mantra I took on. And my mother’s belief in me.
My mother raised four children on her own for a very long time. She had this belief of “And.” She believed she could be a great mother AND leave and travel. She could see the world, AND she could raise four incredible children.
Being raised not knowing “You can’t” and believing in the power of ‘And,’ were game changers for my belief system and were the start of so much for what was ahead of me.











25/05/2023

Kelly, what keeps you inspired to continue moving forward?
“The words from the song “Imagine” by John Lennon and the vision for the next chapter of my life in 2023.
Though, the community and all the continuing support and appreciation keep me going. Hearing from others that I have inspired is a true gift and the best reason to continue focusing on the future. I have two beautiful children and two beautiful grandchildren, and while they are the personification of the future, the world has become a very small place in which we need to start realizing we are all family.”







What drives you today? Taking these positions is an act of community service and should not be for personal gain. We wou...
24/05/2023

What drives you today?
Taking these positions is an act of community service and should not be for personal gain. We would all be healthier if our politicians looked at it that way. I cared about my community supporting my decisions because I wanted to represent them. It was not about being reelected or gaining more power.
After three terms of Council service, I dove back into Pacific Biodiesel and am on the board and involved in the Kihei Community Association. On the global level, I serve on the board of ICLEI USA, part of a global organization that has 24 secretarial offices around the world, with headquarters in Germany. Our organization helps local governments worldwide develop environmental initiatives, climate action plans, baseline data, etc. ICLEI has been a major partner in global climate conferences.
It has been an incredible experience to see how much of Maui’s message resonates with people worldwide.







Kelly King is Vice President of Pacific Biodiesel Technologies, LLC, a renewable energy company.In Hawaii, Kelly served ...
23/05/2023

Kelly King is Vice President of Pacific Biodiesel Technologies, LLC, a renewable energy company.
In Hawaii, Kelly served as an elected member of the Hawaii State Board of Education, representing Maui County from 1994-1998.
She recently held the County Council seat for South Maui from 2016 -2023.
Kelly has been active as a board member of many local, state, and national nonprofits, including:
Maui Hui Malama Learning Center * Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance * Hawaii Energy Policy Forum *AKAKU Community Television Board of Directors * UH Maui College Sustainable Sciences Management Advisory Council * Maui Farmers Union Board of Directors * Hawaii Technology Development Corporation * Hawaii State Association of Counties, Executive Committee * Maui Nui Food Alliance Steering Committee * NACO Western Interstate Region Board Member * ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, USA Board of Directors * Local Government Advisory Committee to the U.S. EPA * Delegate to COP26 and COP27 (for climate change) and COP15 (for biodiversity).







19/05/2023

My work reflects my reverence for the natural world. I harvest and work with beautiful materials, generally considered weeds or residue. That is to say. They are not considered precious (although they are to me). Those materials include grass, ivy, Queen Anne’s lace, kelp (that I find washed up on the beach), tiny bits of moss, dried fennel, fern, scavenged cedar bark, and the occasional flower. My projects do not require me to alter the landscape. When I finish a project, there is little to no evidence that I was ever there. I work with a “leave no trace” mindset.







What do you experience during the creation process?The creative process is my favorite topic of discussion. It’s my favo...
17/05/2023

What do you experience during the creation process?
The creative process is my favorite topic of discussion. It’s my favorite thing to think and wonder about. And when I am blessed with an interesting idea for a creative project, it feels like a gift from the gods. I love listening to other makers’ stories about their creative processes, whether they are musicians, comedians, visual artists, dancers, writers, or scientists. Anyone whose work requires imagination, intuition, and creativity has my undivided attention.









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