We all have those people in our lives that just rub us the wrong way...those challenging relationships that we can't stop analyzing and agonizing over. Maybe it's a family member that drives you nuts, a coworker who you just can't seem to work smoothly with, or a client that drives you bananas.

Join us as we share some thoughts and strategies to help us manage and learn from the difficult, less than sparkly connections in our lives so that we can spend less time in resistance and more time in the flow! 

We hope to see you at our upcoming class at Happiness U on July 12th: How to be the Healthiest Person in Your Office! For more info and to register visit www.yourhappinessu.com

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We are so excited to bring you this special interview. Join us as we chat with Debbie Friedrich, the creator of The Petal Process, about techniques to bring clarity and balance to the mind and body, and to celebrate a milestone in Debbie’s own personal journey as an entrepreneur. Pop in those headphones and enjoy!

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We love apps! We're crazy obsessed with utilizing cool technology to help make life easier, more productive, more efficient, and MORE FUN! This is the first of our ongoing series of "App Chat" episodes where we will share apps from each of these four categories - productivity, health, lifestyle, and FUN! Of course, we really think this is ALL FUN and we hope you do to! Enjoy and thanks for being a Hot Better Popper! We <3 you!

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THIS IS OUR 10th EPISODE! Hooray!

Upcoming Events

Moms in Hawaii Mom-O-Rama on June 28th Apps to Help Mom

Happiness U Class on July 12th How to be the Healthiest Person in Your Office

In this episode, we are each sharing our favorite apps in four categories that we hope you’ll find helpful.  Apps are a great way to manage things in our lives, but don’t use them if they are not helping you.  If you have any apps that you would like to share, email us at [email protected].

You can also find us on Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.

•Productivity - Mint

•Productivity - Way of Life 

•Health - Sleep Cycle

•Health -  Stop, Breathe, Think

•Lifestyle - Ink Cards

•Lifestyle - Delectable 

•Fun - Craft Gawker

•Fun - Keepy

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We know our Hot Better Poppers are motivated, active, engaged people who are always going, going, going! If you’re anything like us, you might feel just as uncomfortable with a little quiet “nothing” time as we did. Having time for yourself to sit quietly with your thoughts, be completely present, and to just breathe is such an important thing to incorporate into your daily life, and yet we all seem to have so much going on that these moments never seem to happen. In this episode, we’ll share some of our favorite ways to slip a little quiet time into our busy days.

From This Episode: 

Moms In Hawaii Mom-O-Rama Event on June 28th

Class at HappinessU on July 12th - How to Be the Healthiest Person in Your Office

Foam Roller Exercises

Hawaiian Humane Society

As promised, we are SUPER EXCITED to share Part 2 of our Hot Better Pop Radio 2-part series on healthy eating. After laying the foundation of how "healthy eaters" think about their food in Part 1, this week we dive into the actual yummy goodness of food, glorious food!!!! We share tips on how to shop, eat out, and prepare healthy foods that taste good and make your body happy!

Episode #008: Healthy Eating Part 2

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Many of our listeners have requested that we do an episode on "Healthy Eating". We had so much fun talking about healthy eating and healthy food that it turned into a 2-parter! In today's episode, we lay the foundation for healthy eating by talking about the MINDSET of healthy eaters. 

Here at Hot Better Pop, we don’t define ourselves by any one nutrition label, we believe there are many paths to health - vegan, paleo, gluten-free, omnivore, etc. Our Hot Better Pop definition of healthy is to eat in a way that makes you feel good physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Nutrition is very individualized and what we think is MOST important is knowing yourself, tracking to create a mind-body connection, and just having awareness of the connection of how what you eat impacts how you feel. 

We hope you enjoy part one and stay tuned for next week Tuesday's episode, "Healthy Eating, Part 2...The Food!"

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Kimi and Pua discuss everyone’s favorite astrological scapegoat and share useful Mercury Retrograde tips that can be used everyday to create a life you love! 

Episode #005: Mercury Retrograde Show Notes

Rather than letting a few hiccups get in the way, Pua and Kimi took control of the situation and went surfing together, which turned into a brainstorming session.

What is Mercury Retrograde? From a scientific standpoint, it is the motion of the planet Mercury as it slows down and appears to stop and move backwards.

From an astrological standpoint, (according to Alice Inoue) Mercury rules certain things like communication and technology and when it is in retrograde, everything goes haywire so that there are mix ups and miscommunications. People may have a hard time explaining themselves or understand something differently. Alice says that you do not have to believe it to experience it.

Friends Episode where Ross and Phoebe argue about Evolution and Gravity

Mercury Retrograde happens 3-4 times a year for about 3 weeks. Is it really happening or are we looking for the evidence to make it happen?

Tips for Surviving Mercury Retrograde:

Alice Inoue says: Let MR take you in to the "zone" of where you need to be. Fight it and you lose. Embrace it and you win. Allow the seeds of opportunity to germinate within you, as you change your pace over the course of the next few weeks. If ever there is a time to go with the flow....this is it.

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We are so excited to bring you this special interview with Alice Inoue, Chief Happiness Officer of Happiness University. Join us as we talk to Alice about how she got to be a "CHO" and what "being happy" really means.

Episode #005: Interview with Alice Inoue

Alice Inoue is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happiness University.  She is an expert life guide, and author of five nationally award-winning books, Be Happy! It’s Your Choice, A Loving Guide to These Shifting Times, Feng Shui Your Life!, Just Ask Alice, and Destination Happiness on life wisdom, self-growth and happiness.  She has two columns, one in MidWeek titled “A Mindful Moment,” and an award-winning column in the Sunday Star-Advertiser called “Go Ask Alice”, that offers pertinent life guidance.  Through Happiness U, she helps both companies and individuals develop positive mindsets in order to live more inspired in both their professional and private lives.

In this episode, Alice shares about how she became interested in astrology and feng shui as well as developing the curriculum and business plan for Happiness U. A close call helped Alice to realize that she needed to overcome her fears in order to make her dream a reality. When you have a fear, the first thing to do is to identify what the fear is, then ask what the advantage is if this fear passes (Dr. Demartini). Once you are balanced you are able to move forward on your heartfelt vision and goal.

Happiness University’s curriculum was developed based on trends Alice saw in her personal consultations. There are classes based on physical (Clutter Clearing Plans and Healthy Money Mindset), emotional (Irritating Relationship Clarity 101), mental (Banish Stress and Worry), and spiritual (Life Purpose 101, Meditation 101, and Spirituality 101) levels. The goal is to be balanced on all levels so that you can go where you want to go in life. Life Purpose 101, Overcoming Overwhelm 101, Banish Stress and Worry, and Clearing Clutter Plan are popular classes, but there is not one class that nobody attends. There are several guest teachers in addition to Alice.

What is your definition of happiness? Happiness is not just things that you look forward to that add joy to your day, but the part deep down that resonates with who you are and what you are here to do on the planet. For Alice, it’s helping people find their authenticity, the way that they know how to express it, and what is blocking it.

University of Pennsylvania Happiness Test

Alice’s Hack for High Achieving: Know what you want to do because you won’t need outside motivation to get things done. When you get overwhelmed by the “shoulds,” do more of what gives you meaning. Be conscience and diligent about what you are doing every day. When is the last time you asked yourself who you are and what you want?

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Just back from Ari Meisel's "Less Doing Live" in New York, Kimi shares all about the event which included guest presentations by renowned business and performance strategists Joe Polish, Dean Jackson, Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, and more. 

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Episode #004:  Less Doing Recap

Kimi has just returned from the Less Doing Live event in New York.  She’s back to share what she learned and a few of her experiences with all of us.

Shout Outs - Ryan Ozawa, Hugh Yonamine

Healthy Jetsetting Recap...

Buffer Day:  Kimi is thankful she took off an extra day because she’s overwhelmed by what she needs to do to adjust and decompress from everything she took in over the weekend.

Reflection:  Kimi used her time on the plane to go through her notes and organized them into an Evernote file.  She has questions she wants to research and products she wants to get.  She also has new life hacks to put into place and share in future episodes.

Snacks:  Kimi needs to pack more healthy snacks rather than hoping to find them.

Healthy Food at Home:  Kimi didn’t stock her house prior to leaving.

Noise Canceling Earphones:  Lots of unhappy babies on the plane!

Crystallized Ginger:  Helps soothe motion sickness

Grounding:  Ben Greenfield talked about it as a hack during a presentation.

Kimi lost her iPhone 6Plus at JFK when she arrived.  She got a replacement at an AT&T store and retrieved her phone from the Lost and Found on her way back.  Being in an unknown city without GPS or a search engine forced her to interact and experience the city.

Synchronicity:  Certain themes seem to be present and repeat themselves in different forms. Synchronicity is the universe’s way of telling you that you are on an inspired path.

Less Doing Event...

Freeing Up Mental Space and Energy:  The common theme for all of the speakers.  We can never focus on everything we want to focus on if we focus on everything at once.

Acceptance of the Present Moment:  The present moment is the only place where we experience happiness.  Anything that you can do to bring yourself back to the present moment is really valuable.  Let go to the resistance because it frees the mind to find a solution.

Vulnerability:  We resist being vulnerable, yet that is the deepest way that we connect with others.  (Brené Brown)  It is human nature to not be perfect, so it makes you comfortable with others around you show their vulnerability.

Seeing Your Own Value:  We attract into our life what we feel we deserve.  A lot of times the blocks that we have are caused because we do not feel that we are deserving.  If you don’t value yourself, then the rest of the world won’t value you.

Dr. Mark Atkinson, Medical Director of Bulletproof, is a Mind Body Medicine physician. He talked about eating as well as being in the present moment.

Joe Polish and Dean Jackson of the I Love Marketing podcast spoke about marketing with a deeper message about value and authenticity.

Ben Greenfield of The Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast gave a great talk in his socks.

Jordan Harbinger of the Art of Charm talked about relationships and being authentic in your relationships.

Philip McKernan presented about asking questions and looking for the blocks in your existence that are holding you back.  Busy people are often running from something that is in themselves.  

What void are you filling?  It is important to have a plan before you implement any of these tools or strategies so that you know what you will do with the time you have found.

Outsourcing Workshop: Calvin App will be released in June to make scheduling easier.

Booths...

Bulletproof coffee booth had coffee and samples to fuel the participants.  Kimi tried samples of different products and supplements.  Bulletproof Bar was amazing!  There’s a chocolate and a vanilla.

Follow Up CC is a software that integrates with your email and will send you reminders to follow up.

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As Kimi gets ready to take off for the Less Doing Live event in New York with Ari Meisel, Kimi and Pua talk about things you can do before, during, and after traveling to keep your body, mind, and spirit healthy and happy!