Recounting Life Lessons Sione and Alana Uyema

If you could send a message to your past and future selves what would they be?
In this impromptu episode, Alana sits down to share a message with her past and future selves that pretty much anyone could benefit from. This is especially true for those going through some growing pains, stepping outside of their comfort zone, and letting go of what once was so they can embrace what could be.
It's a gift to herself and her listeners...
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"Life doesn't have to be so hard." That's what Kathy Mou learned after struggling with infertility.
In this episode, Sione and Alana sit down with life coach and the creator of The B.S. Life aka The Bliss Soft Life, Kathy Mou. Where she recounts the experiences in her life and her identity as an Asian twin, working in her family's restaurant, and struggling with infertility led her to discover principles to living a life that's more blissful and not so hard.
Highlights from their disccusion include:
the difference between self-love and self-care how do you start putting your needs first how do you know if you know what you want? why self-love is not selfish how to avoid stifling your children's ability to discover their wants and abilities We don't have to wait until we reach our next goal or phase in our lives to feel happy or bliss. And life really doesn't need to be as hard as we often make it.
Connect with Kathy:
Website: www.kathymou.com/
Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok: @kathy.mou
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Communication is one of the most essential soft skills to develop if we want to be effective in our leadership, teaching, coaching, parenting, selling, and relationships.
We speak to influence and to be understood, but if we aren't good at listening before we speak the things we say may seem to go unheard or misunderstood.
In this episode, Alana shares the 7 Ps of listening and ways that you can use them in your conversations and every day life. These 7 practices will make you a better listener and communicator. They are:
Priority Patience Persistence Paying attention Patterns Practice Placement Want to connect with Sione & Alana?
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When is the best time to start taking action on our goals? When is it too late? 
Alana sat down with Sharon Takamori, who at 76 years old, decided to start a YouTube channel, even though she had little to no knowledge about how to get it done. They talk about how she dealt with setbacks and negativity and the driving force behind her desire to jump into a new entrepreneur journey at such a late stage in her life.
Sharon is also the daughter of the late Fujiko Matayashi, the lady who sat on the side of the highway in Waiahole for years, selling her fruits to help provide for her family. Fujiko is also the inspiration behind the iconic song, Sweet Lady of Waiahole, by Gordon Broad. 
In this episode, Sharon shares memories of her mother, what she's learned from entrepreneurism, as well as what gardening and farm life have taught her.
Want to connect with Aunty Sharon?
Find her and the rest of the Sweet Lady Legacy familiy on Instagram @sweetladylegacy or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@sweetladylegacy808
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Making decisions use up energy and bandwidth. And it's the most urgent decisions that end up using up most of our energy. When our energy is low and the time for making those desicions arrives, it is likely that we will end up making a decision we later regret.
Not only that, the bandwidth required to make those decisions also rob us of the energy and time to do more of what we actually love and actually want or feel called to do. In short, decision fatigue can prevent us from doing our best and greatest work.
In this episode, Alana shares the 3 things she did to increase her capacity and minimize the decision fatigue that the everyday obligations brought with them. She calls them the 3 E's of decision making.
The 3 E's of decision-making can help you minimize that decision fatigue for yourself and for those that you lead. 
What more would you be able to do or enjoy if you had more time and energy?
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If we want to avoid wandering aimlessly in our lives and in pursuit of our goals we need 3 things:
We need a map or a plan to follow We need to know where we currently are We need to know what our desired destination is or where we want to go One of the best ways to do identify those first two is by tracking our stats, habits, numbers, and data. It's by keeping good records. As we do this we'll also be able to discover our strengths, our weaknesses, and use that knowledge as a way to take advantage of our positioning to give us an edge.
In this episode, Sione and Alana talk about the lessons and tips they've picked up by being more intentional about tracking their goals and progress to help you discover ways to get or create a map for yourself and then to determine where you are on that map.
For help in determining what you want or where you want to go once you have that map, check out:
Ep. 1: Begin with the End in Mind
Ep. 2: Success as a Whole
Ep. 33: Success is a Feeling
Ep. 57: Success Starts Here
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