Hanging Out with Nolan Hong

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 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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With the new COVID Booster out, we all have many questions and so we are lucky to have Dr. Jill Omori join us for a live Q&A about the shot. Dr. Jill Omori (Ep 44) is the Infectious Disease Officer for the City and County of Honolulu and Director of the Office of Medical Education, John A. Burns School of Medicine. So if there’s anyone I know that I can trust, it’s her!

This episode was originally a live stream in our facebook group, Hanging Out in Hawaii. Join the group to get notified about upcoming bonus episodes so you can join in on the Q&A – https://www.facebook.com/groups/hangingout

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/
Follow him on IG: https://www.instagram.com/stargazersofhawaii/

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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 [email protected]

Pop Love Stories – https://poplovestories.com/

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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 attempt at telling the stories of our grandparents. We started with the grandparents we didn’t know as well – Jamie’s maternal grandparents and her paternal grandfather (whom she called Popo), and Nolan’s maternal grandmother (whom he called Popo). We ran out of time so come back for Part 2

Learn more about Pop Legacy Videos at https://poplegacyvideos.com/ and love stories at https://poplovestories.com/

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Dr. Fong started his podcast, “Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast”, in 2015 and it currently has over 600k downloads. He tells his story of how he was a Biology major when he got his calling to become a Baptist pastor, which he did for over 30 years. We also go into how he became a LGBTQ ally and advocate in his church and now thru his podcast, and how he met his kamaʻāina wife and his connection to Hawaiʻi.

Follow Ken’s podcast at https://asianamericapodcast.com/

In 2004, I discovered the most beautiful singing voice I ever heard — it was Kauʻi. Instead of becoming the next Whitney Houston, Kauʻi dedicated her life to teaching and even created a nonprofit that connects students to Hawaiian values and life skills through music.

We talk about working with students on the west side of Oahu and the missing bridge between many Hawaiʻi students and education.

Learn more about Kauʻi’s nonprofit, Hoʻōla Music and Cultural Arts, at www.hoolamusic.org