Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Hi babes,

I took a much needed creative break last week while flying from set in HNL to set in LA + set in NY...I did this so I could better serve you and get you a meaningful + useful pod for this week...

In so many ways I've realized that everything in life is a process of timing + trial and error ... adaptation to change and continuously making it work. 

Here are 7 better ways we can better understand life, let up on ourselves a little, and learn everyone is constantly working through trial and error, together:  

Everything is fking spaghetti at the wall:

don't be fooled by anyone -- experience is great but adaptation is key: 

- Our Learning Curves are priceless

- Grateful for the Growth: its imperative to success

- Become Self Aware

- Break More Patterns: Esp the ones that don't work for you: be aware of them

- Set Boundaries

- Stop Worrying

- Nemawashi: in Japanese: talking change or a project out humbly with your closest support system. 

Everything is just perfectly imperfect xxx 

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grateful xx ck 

Happy New Year Friends! + Sending you so much love from Pearl Harbor. Let's dig deeper than surfacy/basic-shit this year: 

Here's a little love from today's episode+ share, share share!

with love xx from a child of war:   

Reflect, find out where you came from 

-Remember those we have lost and those who sacrificed their lives for us 

- What can we really learn from our ancestors -- so much is lost as the years pass, its important for us to document these stories. 

- Pay attention to where you are being guided towards 

- Visit more memorial sites, museums and cultural experiences

- Let's not allow history to repeat itself. 

- Leave your Legacy + ask the questions you want to ask, now. 

- Practice more acts of heroism when nobody is looking 

"Intoku"in Japanese 

- Share more important content that matters 

- Look to the flickering light "komorebi" without darkness, light cannot exist.  

- Cultivate more peace in this world 

Deepest gratitude xx Candice 

Happy 2019 Friends! This is the podcast you should share with every friend you know: its free and you'll come out of this podcast, smarter: 

thank u, next 

1- Trust Yourself and your intuition 

2- Forgive Everyone on your shitlist- this is important to write out and drop for 2019 -- thank them, love them, pray for them

3- Be comfortable in your solitude - you must be comfy by yourself and give yourself more kindness, more grace and more self love (take solo trips, listen to music, journal, write, go for a hike, solo.)

4- Artistry: Should be taken much more serious, you can't be "famous" or "successful" overnight -- you're going to have to work for it 

5- Smart Girls: work smarter this year- support other Smart girls -- stop being dumb - smart girls are confident, wise and they support others. 

6- Patience, practice patience (meditate, run, workout, take baths, forest bathe in nature, travel, breathe, write) just get our of your head 

7- Wabi Sabi: All things are perfectly imperfect-- accept this

8- Let go of the Anger: this only hurts yourself

9- The Calling is About Serving Others: be of better use to others in 2019: make this your focus!! It will change your whole life. 

10- Don't Care what others think: f 'em.. its not about you anyways. Stop Trying to Control it all-- letting go of control.. being easy & ignore the judgement of others -- stop spending so much time on social. Again, judgement on you, is a reflection of others, its not about you -- let it go. 

thank you, next xxxx here's to your 2019 xxxx its gonna be amazing

+ go grab Kintsugi Wellness to RESET your whole 2019

+ buy gifts on TheMatchaShoppe.com now! Support other women!

+ stay tuned for my 2019 Matcha Cleanse! Coming to TheMatchaShoppe.com 

xshare share share on IG xx2019 is yours for the taking. Make goals and set intent now xx Candice 

Meet my awesome big sister, Jenni G. She's legit gangster and runs her own cycling shoppe in London: The London Bike Kitchen

She's smart as a whip, cool af, hipster, beautiful inside and out and all tatted up, and..she makes me laugh, her persona and who she is as a person is the same.. all we want to do is help ppl and laugh all day. 

And while this holiday, things aren't perfect, they are pretty good this year. Sis is in her almost 10th year in the biz -- she's won awards, she's been written up in all the UK Cycling mags + she's got two shop fronts in the coolest hipster part of London -- Hackney. 

She will teach us about what worked for her in launching he own small biz, the challenges she faced, the people she did and didn't get on with and how to overcome more obstacles with ease. 

We also share some sister shit that you'll connect with on a deeper level. Spiritually, we are just here to be of service to others. That's it.

CA Hapa sisters from Berkley to San Diego, SF to NY and London... Tokyo to Kyushu, we've been crushing the game, but-- Jenni and I are 1- humbled by our mistakes and lessons

2- We may be "successful" but we are not rich

3- We are both still working 24/7 to make all happen -- esp paying our staff first. -- and working with integrity + community. 

Listen, laugh, cry, connect -- we are both real AF and have no intent to be famous, but rather just help more people. 

Love you sis and thank you xxx we are grateful xxx ck 

FOLLOW sis here + Visit Her in London for Bike Workshops, Community + hipster shit and Bike Swag for Bike Tours: 

https://www.instagram.com/money_melon/

https://lbk.org.uk

Gifts here: https://lbk.org.uk/collections/online-shop/products/gift-voucher-pdf-form

SHARE! This podcast on IG + I'll repost xxx

I'm going to share three stories related to San Francisco in which three different men tried to dim my bright light.

Here's what you can do to overcome and grow//learn//love and shine!:

-Take pride in all that you do, always give 100

- Thank the haters, thank them, say thank you

- Take the high road 

- Read: Dale Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

- Read: Don Miguel Ruiz "The Four Agreements" 

- Keep making decisions that propel you into the light and the right direction. 

- Ignore, take the high road and learn from them. 

All the Stars ✨✨✨✨ ..... when you told me I’d never make it, I smiled inside and gracefully went back to my desk. 

when you didn’t give me the opportunities others in my space got, I created my own. 

when you told me I should get a real day job, a was already working 15 + launched my INC at 23.

when you discriminated against me because I was an Asian female, but tried to hide that, I knew & it pushed me closer to my heritage.  when you tried to ride my coattail, and abuse my kindness, I silently knew + I handled it with grace. 

when you didn’t support me through the tough times, I took notes.  If you want to be of “influence” I suggest you go back to your desk/kitchen/school/studio/creative space/inward + work smarter + harder, for 10 years ++ show us what you’re made of. Educate yourself. 

when the battery dies, how valuable is your heart? How profound your work? It took me a really, really, really long time to get here + I’m still struggling to be my best self.... if you have IT—- keep shining.  

Navigate through the tough times w grace + be smart— Because YOU CAN’T dim the light of those who are destined for greatness. 

Pick up Kintsugi Wellness ASAP + SHOP TheMatchaShoppe.com  to support this free podcast xx

Candice 

Krista and Linds (The Almost 30 Podcast) of have been two of the most supportive soul sisters in the podcast game... and now, IRL. 

They devotionally love and support all the women and entrepreneurs on their podcast and IRL. They are fearless in their pursuit to be real, to find love and to master all of life's f-up lessons. .. while staying kind, and chill. 

It’s no surprise that success is coming back to them, full circle. And in this perfectly imperfect world, we’re all just figuring it all out, together. 


There’s no secret to our entrepreneurship:  
-But I will tell you ten things we have in common: 

1- we are all real af
2- we work with integrity and sacrifice many days off and holidays to work
3-we believe in what we are doing  percent —ride or die
4- we share the same amazing + brilliant mentor, James Higa in SF, he's formerly from Apple + reported directly to Steve Jobs for over 30 years. He shows us integrity and care in his devout mentorship
5- we believe that honesty is the only policy
6- we take chances and risks, even when they are not popular or easy
7- we’ve all had “failures” but look at them as successes 
8- all we want to do is laugh (sometimes we scream lolz)
9- we laugh so hard we f the audio all up
10- we love my matcha cookies and hand jobs + giveaways!!

Now, go listen, love and learn... three very real female millennial entrepreneurs share all Krista and Linds (Almost 30)

I support you all the way home! Visit them on their site!! almost30podcast.com xx love xxx ck 

go go go to thematchashoppe.com NOW, buy a gift!!! and get a copy of Kintsugi Wellness, support your local female entrepreneurs!

taking a break from NY to travel +restart my perspective on life wasn’t easy: gratefully, I’ve found, it’s been worth it. here’s what I’ve learned so far + hope this can help you on your next reset: 

1- Very Little: there’s very little that’s actually important: health, family, friends, laughter, being yourself, creating, freedom + chillin 

2- Being Genuinely Happy For Others: to me, this feels really fking good. I want everyone to find great love + from the depths of my soul, I wish for all to find contentment in their hearts, even when our paths are not the same. Embrace one another. 

3- I Can’t Change People: I can work to better myself + accept that everyone is doing their best. I can work on my heart + mind at anytime. 

4- Expectation Isn’t Reality. I gotta meditate and surf on this more! but perception is also not reality. This, I found, I like who I am in real life way more than for work. + maybe there’s a a hybrid to mesh more of both in my upcoming endeavors. 

5- Showing: the space I’ve given myself, being in nature + w all my childhood friends has shown me my capacity to love, the true love between my surfboards + I never died. I moved to NY to make my dreams come true + I picked them right back up. I hope you can give yourself this same time/space to do the same.. be gentle, be kind. 

6- Go Slow: Rushing never did anything but stress all of us NY magazine editors out; for what? For an issue to hit stands like OMG!! Slow + steady, thoughtful, stillness, meaningful work, more time can work more magic.

7- this life: it’s not perfect, it’s draining, it’s gonna suck +  totally f you over — and you’re gonna come out of it golden.  I’m on 3 startups: LA, NY, Paris, Tokyo, Poland + no guys, sh ain’t easy - but it’s worth it. like all imp things in life. .

If I’m living proof, —- good things happen to good people. You don’t have to do what everyone else is doing. You don’t have to take everyone’s advice. let go

You will have to be patient + try to help as many people as you can. 

Found within the blurred lines —-there is a pursuit of greatness + to find that one last deep breath. We’ve got a big calling ahead of us ♥️

Dude, I wrote/drafted out a whole podcast for you, 3x... the program Im using wiped out my files 3x - wabi sabi

-you're gonna have to listen to this one on your own for all the juicy freedom tips//tricks xxx 

go shop at TheMatchaShoppe.com like ASAP to get good karma! xxx ck 

It's that season babes, the season where we have the opportunity to make more space with our life and our time...

In my two months of non-stop travel out of New York I've learned a lot... mostly, the little things: 

friends, fam, health, laughter, nature, girlfriend BFF time, surfing, barre, hot asses.. all of that ... even scotch, pizza and pasta. 

traveling by myself, reading more books I love and letting go.. 

in this pod, I'll share how to practice gratitude in your heart + how the little blessings are the BIG ones. + how the worst travel day of the season, helped me to appreciate all of the things I have. 

that's it. please share this podcast with two besties this week + get my book kintsugi wellness ASAP as a gift for your three BFFs this holiday!

thanks for being such a babe xx ck  

Hoping we can all start sharing more on the courage to be disliked ... to explain what this means, its a new book I've been reading - focused on:

separating tasks + learning of yours and theirs 

learning to live life for yourself 

unhappiness vs happiness 

why life is not a competition 

+ how to feel you have value -- because you do!! :) 

+ sometimes, not sharing is the best share -- living to just simply be. 

flew in late, gotta be up early for a shoot, in my beloved, NY

thank youuuu for downloading wabi sabi for 25 episodes now! 

I am so beyond grateful! 

we did it! xx ck