This season has been a blend of early mornings, long runs, cross-cultural connections, and unexpected wisdom. In this recap, I reflect on the highlights and lessons of June–August 2025:

• Shifting Rhythms 🌅 Closing out my last 3am MBA class, moving from “have to” → “get to,” and creating space to notice family, gratitude, and growth.
  

• Here’s to the Streamline: Lessons from the Pool 🏊‍♀️ Learning from Olympian Lacey John (Nymeyer) about how swimmers navigate resistance—and how women in leadership can do the same with strategy, posture, and purpose.
  

• Reflections from the ʻOhiʻa Lehua Half Marathon 🏃‍♀️ Training as a working mom of four, running through Volcano, Hawai‘i, and remembering that finishing isn’t about perfection, but faithful presence and the gift of community.
  

• Snapshots from Palau 🌊 What began as planned meetings turned into deeply relational moments of trust, cultural restoration, and Pacific partnerships that reminded me that leadership transformation often happens outside the boardroom.
  

Through it all, I’ve been reminded that leadership and life are less about flawless execution and more about presence, perseverance, and the courage to keep moving forward—even through resistance.

💡 My hope is that this recap encourages you to honor your own season, trust the process, and notice the sacred lessons in the everyday.

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Aloha kākou! As we wrap up the month of May, I’m reflecting on the moments that shaped us—planned and unplanned. From the sacred pause of Lei Day, to the end-of-school chaos, our 15th wedding anniversary, Alumni award, and our WiLD Conversation with Stephen M. R. Covey, this month reminded me: trust is measurable, relationships matter, and becoming is a process worth honoring.

In this month’s recap, I share:

🌺Why Lei Day celebrations of connection matter

💬 Highlights from our conversation on trust with Stephen M. R. Covey

💍 A look back at our 15-year anniversary and PacRim roots

📚 The beauty and stretch of finishing a school year as a mama

💪 Reflections on growth and gratitude with my FIN family

If you’ve felt stretched thin, full of big feelings, or just in need of a quiet reminder that you’re not alone—this one’s for you.

May we continue to reimagine, reinvent, and reinvite together! ✨

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In this April recap, I pause to reflect on what this month has held—both in remembrance and in movement forward. April marks one year since my brother’s passing, and in this episode, I open my heart to what it means to grieve with hope. I share how reading A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis and The Roots of Sorrow by Dr. Phil Zylla has helped me name the layered experience of holding sorrow and healing at the same time. Both voices have reminded me that grief is not a problem to be fixed, but a formational space—a place where deep growth can take root.If there’s anything this month has taught me—through the journey of being a mother, wife, business owner, friend, and team member—it’s that I am in process. And instead of focusing on what didn’t go the way I planned or hoped, I’m learning to look for the evidence of growth. Because it’s there. Sometimes small and quiet, but deeply real.I share a few glimpses of that growth—journeying alongside business students from Loyola Marymount University as they wrapped up their group project, celebrating Merrie Monarch and the beauty of cultural legacy, walking through Lent and into the joy of Easter Sunday, and perhaps most personally, transitioning into being the mother of a teenager.This episode is an invitation to reflect on your own process. To hold space for what hasn’t gone as planned, while choosing to honor the evidence that growth is happening—maybe not perfectly, but faithfully.

Invited Back exists to empower businesses, individuals, and teams through coaching and consulting that fosters resilience, self-awareness, and authentic connection. Through strategic guidance, leadership development, and culturally grounded media strategies, we create supportive spaces where leaders and creators can share their untold stories, build community, and thrive in their personal and professional journeys. We are dedicated to building bridges of healing and hope across the Pacific, especially between Hawaii, Japan, Palau, Alaska, and beyond.

Let's reimagine, reinvent, and reinvite our way through 2025 together.

There's power in the opportunity to return to the same location as a different person. That's what my husband and I got to do as we rang in the New Year together in Japan.

All the things we thought about who we were, what we wanted, why we were doing what we were doing shaped the moments and years to come but not without major adjustments to what we believed, how we related, and when we chose to say yes and no.

We each have the same amount of hours in a day, days in a month, and months in a year, but what we get to create with them is up to us!

What's ahead?:

MBA with College De Paris + Ducere Global Business School

https://ducere.education/course/mba-leadership-and-strategy/

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Along with the invited back journey of Q4 I wanted to share the books that I got to read this year.

Palau in July:

April 1, 2024 changed my journey forever and launched a month of experiences I never could have imagined. It was heartbreaking and groundbreaking and just the beginning of a new life without by brother.