Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style

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Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style is the Royal Lei podcast on living pono — practical life coaching grounded in aloha, balance, integrity, and interconnected well-being, with Lenka John. In each episode, hosts Alex and Jordan take one Hawaiian value — pono, aloha, lokahi, ohana, kuleana, malama aina, mana, hooponopono — and turn it into an honest coaching conversation and one practical step for your week. New episodes daily.

  1. 1d ago

    Making Things Right With Yourself: Hooponopono Turned Inward

    Episode 11 of Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style. In Episode 2, Alex and Jordan explored hooponopono between people; this episode turns the practice inward. Guilt is a signal that moves; shame is an identity that freezes. The history, honestly told: hooponopono as a traditional Native Hawaiian family practice documented by Mary Kawena Pukui, Morrnah Simeona's Self I-Dentity through Hooponopono, and the four phrases as a modern adaptation. With Nora's story and a five-step self-hooponopono practice: settle, name your part precisely, clear inwardly with the phrases, choose one concrete repair, close with care. © 2026 Lenka John — Royal Lei.

  2. 1d ago

    Understanding Female Loneliness

    Episode 10 of Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style. Alex and Jordan explore female loneliness through Lenka John's Royal Lei guide, Understanding Female Loneliness: loneliness as the gap between the connection a woman wants and the connection she believes is available; being needed is not the same as being known; solitude, isolation, and loneliness as three different experiences; the hidden labor of connection; and reconnection as a gradual practice, closing with a three-part plan: one environmental change, one relational action, and one act of self-companionship. If loneliness comes with persistent hopelessness or thoughts of self-harm, please reach for a licensed mental-health professional or a crisis line right away. © 2026 Lenka John — Royal Lei.

  3. 2d ago

    Pono in Relationships: Living in Right Relationship

    Alex and Jordan go deeper on the value that holds the whole series together: pono, and what it looks like inside a real relationship. Pono is not winning the argument — it is the balanced, right condition of a relationship, restored by listening rather than scoring points. Through the Hawaii state motto, "Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono," and a coaching conversation with Elena, who wins every argument and is losing her husband anyway, this episode explores the canoe picture of balance, one week of listening all the way to the end of an answer, and a three-question practice for living in right relationship.Key points: Pono in Pukui and Elbert's definitions and its kaona of balance, with hewa as imbalance; the state motto spoken by King Kamehameha III on July 31, 1843; Elena's story and the canoe image; pono as the destination of aloha, lokahi, kuleana, and hooponopono; and a three-question practice for the week.Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style — a Royal Lei podcast, hosted by Lenka John. © 2026 Lenka John — Royal Lei

  4. 3d ago

    Aloha: More Than a Greeting

    Alex and Jordan go deeper into the most famous word in the Hawaiian language, and the one most likely to be misunderstood: aloha. In the Hawaiian dictionary by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Elbert, aloha is love, affection, compassion, mercy, sympathy, kindness, and grace, and the word itself breaks open as alo, presence, and ha, breath, so aloha is being present with someone, face to face, breath to breath. Through the Aloha Spirit law of 1986 and its five values, akahai, lokahi, oluolu, haahaa, and ahonui, and a coaching conversation with Daniel, a wellness coach who performs presence instead of practicing it, this episode explores aloha as a practice of attention, not a greeting, and a three-question practice for living it. Key points: aloha as more than a greeting (alo = presence, ha = breath; honi, sharing a breath); the Aloha Spirit law (Hawaii Revised Statutes section 5-7.5, 1986) and its five values; aloha is not being nice or saying yes to everything — boundaries spoken with presence are aloha; Daniel's story and the one-breath practice; a three-question practice for the week.

  5. 4d ago

    Lokahi: Living in Balance

    Alex and Jordan explore lokahi, the Native Hawaiian value of unity and harmony — to obtain oneness — through the triangle of spirit, land, and people, the Aloha Spirit law, and a coaching conversation with Rosa, a coach and caregiver who learns balance means feeding the starving side of her triangle. Key points: lokahi as unity and harmony, from Pukui and Elbert's Hawaiian Dictionary, and the Aloha Spirit law; the triangle of spirit, land, and people, and the same triangle inside one person — body, spirit, and people; pono as the choice and lokahi as the harmony that follows, with hooponopono restoring lokahi; Rosa's story and the one-small-act-of-balance practice; laulima, many hands working together. Hosted by Lenka John — Royal Lei.

  6. 5d ago

    Mana: The Power You Carry Inside You

    Alex and Jordan explore mana, the Native Hawaiian value of power as living authority — inherited and earned, grown by kept promises and service — through the story of Maui slowing the sun and a coaching conversation with Sam, a team lead who learns his power is in his word, not his volume.

  7. 5d ago

    Aloha: The Philosophy and the 14 Principles

    Harbor welcomes Lenka onto her own podcast for a first: a conversation about Aloha, the philosophy and the fourteen principles, from her new guide. Together they walk through the five teachings inside the word Aloha — Akahai, Lokahi, Oluolu, Haahaa, Ahonui — and the values of Pua Ola, the blooming of life: Aloha, Pono, Ho'oponopono, Mahalo, Kuleana, Lokahi, Ohana, Malama Aina, Piko, and resilience. Lenka closes with the blessing from the guide.

  8. 5d ago

    Mana: A Candle, Not a Wall

    Alex and Jordan welcome guest Layla, who cared for her mother full-time for six years, for a conversation about mana — not as a wall you hold up, but as a candle you tend. Together they ask: who taught you that your strength only counts when it is spent on someone else? Layla shares three practice questions to take into your week: where is my candle smallest, what is one small act that feeds my own strength, and who can I tell the truth to?

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Life Coaching, Hawaiian Style is the Royal Lei podcast on living pono — practical life coaching grounded in aloha, balance, integrity, and interconnected well-being, with Lenka John. In each episode, hosts Alex and Jordan take one Hawaiian value — pono, aloha, lokahi, ohana, kuleana, malama aina, mana, hooponopono — and turn it into an honest coaching conversation and one practical step for your week. New episodes daily.

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