The popular co-host of Hi Now Daily, host of Kitchen Scraps, and other entertainment events around Honolulu, Kainoa Carlson was once a walk-on University of Hawaii football player battling each day to stay on the team. He had the work ethic, personality, and positive attitude. Those traits for football lead to getting his foot in the door with Hawaii News Now, becoming a sports reporter, and now adding UH Football Studio Host for game broadcasts to his growing amount of feathers in his cap. Let's get In Focus with Kainoa Carlson.

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After years of leading publications like Honolulu Magazine and Pacific Business News, A. Kam Napier took up the challenge of leading the new player in the local news service, The Aloha State Daily, as Editor-In-Chief.  Over a year into the industry and ASD has won awards and set their own delivery of Hawaii's news and information. Kam talks about how a Waipahu kid became a true influencer of information, and why there will always be a need for good journalism.

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Glenn Medeiros was an international recording artist in the 80's/90's with his hits "Never Gonna Change My Love For You", " She Ain't Worth It", and others.  This Kauai native then made a pivot in his career to become an educator and is now Dr. Glenn Medeiros and is one of the leaders of education in Hawaii as the President/CEO of St Louis School.  Learn how he followed 2 passions in his life to a high level of success.

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Bill "Billy V: Van Osdol is one of the few personalities who have transitioned fluidly from a long career in radio to now a long career in TV, and now becoming the studio host for University of Hawaii Sports game broadcasts.  Hear how this transition occurred, his take on the evolution of local island music, and how his nickname "Billy V" came to be.

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In the month of August Hawaii News Now General Manager KATIE PICKMAN overcame some of most significant challenges and "pivots" for television. There is the always daunting live coverage of the August 8 Primary Election, preparations leading up to the first game broadcasts as the new University of Hawaii TV Partner, AND Tropical Storm Lala hit on the the same weekend as the opening game broadcast.  This caused the broadcast to be cancelled all the while producing live storm coverage throughout the state.  

Hear how a young girl from the suburbs near Chicago found her way to our shores to lead a dominant media company in Hawaii with 3 TV stations, live original programming, streaming content, and now UH Sports.

Let's get In Focus with KATIE PICKMAN.

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A former University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball player, Kallin Spiller is one of the brighest, personable, and ambitious young women in Honolulu.  With an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and TWO masters degrees from the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business, she has transferred the life skills she learned from participating in sports to becoming the Director of Advertising for the new Aloha State Daily news publication.

Get In Focus with Kallin Spiller from her youth in Seattle, to one of the top young professionals under 30 in Honolulu.

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The "Dean" of tv sports media, and the only remaining regular sports anchor in Hawaii is KHON Sports Director Rob DeMello.  He is a young veteran that started in the business at 19 years old who needed help to put on a tie for his first night on the anchor desk.  Since then he has created multiple shows for KHON, worked in radio, and is a devoted family man with a concrete set of priorities.  Find out what he has never consumed in his life and how it all started for this Kailua boy as we get In Focus with Rob DeMello.

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