I hope this 11/11 was good to you and opened up lots of opportunities both personally and professionally. Today, my business partner and I received an accepted contract from our very first client, and we sent out a proposal for another client. Woohoo!! What about you? We’re only a couple days into the week, anything we can celebrate with you?

Okay, so our new website is established, and now we have to build it out. Right now, I’m aiming for a lean, mean MVP (minimum viable product) that makes it really easy for a website visitor to say either, “Heck yes, I wanna work with them!” or a clear, “No/not right now.” I need your guys’ HONEST opinion on what you look for when you go to a service provider’s website. (Feel free to add more context in the comments ⬇️)

A little while ago, I shared that @Shauna Lindsey and I are launching a new business helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs scale by taking the minutiae of building off their plate so they can focus on the vision. In the last week we... ✅ registered our business with the IRS and Hawaii DCCA ✅ finalized our Partnership Agreement ✅ had our first Clarity Call with a referral lead ✅ submitted our first client proposal ✅ purchased our domain ✅ set up our website (not as easy as you'd think...) ✅ set up our email ✅ set up our CRM Phew!! And that's not even all of it! It's definitely not easy, but it gets to be this simple. What moves have you made this week? Big or small, we celebrate forward motion here!

Aloha, Collective! 🌺 It’s time to set our intentions for the week ahead. ✨ Drop a word or short phrase in the comments to anchor how you want to show up for yourself and your goals this week. Tune into yourself and share what feels pono (right, just) for you. Here’s mine for this week: “don’t think, just do.” In all honesty, it’s kinda lame. I remember cackling at how lame and cringey this line was in the last Top Gun movie with Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. But I slowly started to realize how much time, effort, and energy is wasted just thinking about the thing that I didn’t want to do, instead of actually doing it! We’re in the final months of 2025, my friends. Lets finish strong! Your turn! ⬇️ Say it loud, say it proud! 🙌🏽

In another post, @Matthew Shima asked about how successful entrepreneurs balance purpose and profit. As soon as he asked that, I knew exactly who I wanted to have a conversation with. Yesterday, I interviewed my friend Jacob Kahiapo, Founder and CEO of Mana Cruises and Charters here on Oahu. You can read his Honolulu Business Magazine feature here ⬇️ https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/mana-cruises-and-charters-operates-three-small-vessels-in-waikiki-and-ko-olina/ In the video, I share a sneak peek of our conversation, and my takeaway. Just for being in my community, I share more sneak peeks here before the rest of the world. 😉 Drop your thoughts in the comments!