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Coined "the golden girl of wellness" by ELLE magazine, Candice Kumai, bestselling author, chef, wellness writer and former model shares with us her painfully-imperfect life lessons and experiences that have shaped her 15 year career in media, publishing, wellness, food, modeling and content creation. Arianna Huffington recently named Candice "Top 20 NEW role model"+ Kumai is proud to share with you how to transform your life, accept the beauty of imperfection and mend what feels broken --- w ...
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why business should be infinitely inspiring + its a good time to start your dream business 1- there are multiple ways to start a biz: types: INC, S Corp, C Corp; each state has different paperwork 2- find someone: biz partner, lawyer or a mentor to help you to launch your Corp: check BizFilings.com and LegalZoom.com 3- share the same morals//values…
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Dr. Andrew Weil: Please follow and share the work of our friend and the leading pioneer in integrative medicine: Dr. Andrew Weil https://www.drweil.com/ instagram.com/drweil https://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/ Dr. Andrew Weil, originally from Pennsylvania, traveled at a young age, hopping to Japan at just 17 years old in 1959. He then received…
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Le Five Practices: Be Clear Practice Kindness Culture Go Vote Education NOTABLE PLACES TO DONATE + HELP NOW: Blown away by your iTunes reviews thank you Get your MATCHA CLEANSE ASAP: TheMatchaShoppe! Get my NEW Book Like ASAP: Kintsugi Wellness Share this podcast with two of your best friends! text them now! Support by buying my Books: Kintsugi Wel…
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PODCAST 51: Black lives matter BLM Clarity and Answers from Jenelle + Barry + We love you, all of you, always Please listen to this full podcast to meet my friends Jenelle and Barry What makes us American: we all come from different walks of life + it is our differences, the history of our mixed cultures and our variance of stories that make us mor…
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Stay Centered Through the Challenging Times A Self-Care love note this week + pls share Wirth friends! You will be tested throughout your lifetime. Until now, however, most have never experienced a global shutdown. During this time, it’s important to have a better understanding of life itself and stay centered for your mental well-being. Everyone’s…
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Essentials: Things that matter right now! Running water Food - cook my recipes :) Health Family + Friends + their love and affection Listen, love and share more kindness//empathy Useful Post Pandemic Tips: Practice and note more with action and with time//space, but **actually use them** + take notes! DIGNITY RESPECT HONOUR EXPERIENCE - if you have…
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Dear grandma and grandpa -- here’s how us millennials are doing Putting perspective into the story + understanding this situation to better find peace within this time. Episode 48- Dear Grandma and Grandpa: Here's how us millennials are doing Stay home, please. Cook more at home: order my books asap: fave 3? Clean Green Eats, Kintsugi Wellness, Cle…
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The Survival Guide to Quarantine Life: Living your best quarantined life - Boss up + start volunteering its not about you: - wellness in the schools + health corps - look them up! tell me what you're doing to help others these days? -Make each other laugh: Coming to America from -- watching in 1st grade lol - Cook every meal of everyday -- this hel…
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a little prayer for you!:) its all going to be okay! every little thing that you do now is cumulative -- it will help everyone later + share this pod asap on IG and with friends! here's what you can do to help others in this time of need: 1- stay in and quarantine, everyday 2- donate to charity: Wellness in the Schools + Health Corps -- check them …
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SEASON TWO: Welcome back xx It's time.. I owe ya a good BFF voicenote -- so here it is: how we can relate and connect more on the next level: who: I am now on season 2, where I'm at what the heck are we all going to do now? how do we define who we are outside of business labels? how: we can step up now and be a hero, a leader and a pioneer why: why…
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Dear Little Candice, Here are 10 legit things, I wish I could tell you.. but, I'd rather you dream, learn and grow on your own.. look at how good you turned out!? LOL xx xxx Off to Japan in the morning ... to crush more dreams xxx I almost can't believe it xx 10 Things I Wish I Told My Younger Self: The Legit Gangsta Ways💝💛 1- Don't Rush Anything. …
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you wanna be lightning? how to weather the storm: 1- Wab Sabi: -- accept all is imperfect, perfectly imperfect 2- Surround Yourself w/ Smart People: -- get smarter on this + no, you don't have to be friends with everyone forever. Do your best be your best, give your best 3- Get off Social +do Real Life Shit: (write books, practice yoga, paint, play…
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Hi hi hi girls! From SF to Brooklyn to Tokyo.... always taking a break to help each of you, each week on my pod... All you have to do is download, subscribe and share with everyone you know! sending love xx Obstacles to Opportunities being your own BFF, but like for real how you handle things is how you will be treated in this life always try your …
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I’ve had to take a seat at the table, the boys club table, many, many times …more often than not, my talent, allure + kindness is what won everyone over.. (leather pencil-skirts work, too) but what I'm getting at: you don’t have to be a total bitch to get what you want. Make a seat for yourself: Create space for your name on the roster. It will be …
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Hi babes! Well, thanks for all the amazing reviews, Im kinda like woahhh -- you all deserve a dose of real from a girl who has done it all! Here's my gift to you and each friend of yours who's going through pain... you can better cope and heal-- here's how: Better ways to cope through the pain, because we are all human, we all hurt and we all can a…
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See you back reporting on E! News Tues!! xx “Cleansing” it's not just green juices -- we’ve evolved to lifestyle cleansing for 2019. Hotter. Smarter. Better -- here's how: We associate cleansing with short term weight loss ...But history shows us that cleansing is really about ridding the mind-body-spirit of anything that is harmful. Cleansing shou…
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Hi from Amsterdam! This week we're all about the practice of letting go -- staying strong and pushing forward ..like what better place to practice this, than Amsterdam!? you've got this one life, make it EXTRA amazing and what you've always dreamed of! sometimes, it's not what you gain, its what you lose in letting go... and losing dead weight, los…
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It's the hard knock life for us -- well, you'll hear why when you listen to Pod 36 - Jenni, my only sibling and I never had it easy, we had nothing handed to us... we had tough love and we made tough choices: We now, have to manage multiple businesses and biz accounts, various clients, payroll, taxes, writing, journalism, media, and lyfe with globa…
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Bonjour Beauties from Paris, France this week! Love letters from the French + Japanese American posse this week to you: Today's EP: TAKING THE HIGH ROAD YO: There's a place for all of us at the top of the high road Have the "Be of Service" attitude Be the individual who stays calm Try to see all sides - appeal to the nobles, don't argue What to do …
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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 …
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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…
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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 solitu…
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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 thi…
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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 - Rea…
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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, a…
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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 …
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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. …
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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, n…
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One of My Long-time Secrets to Chillin? Trusting & Knowing the Best is Yet to Come, that's what I'll be doing, because its all I've got. My life is imperfect, its full of sh*t, that's right + I try to make the best out of it... Here's what I try to do to keep moving it all forward and living a life, the one I've always dreamed of xx Pioneering is t…
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hi friends, ep 23 has arrived! had to take a mini break last week bc shit ain't perfect here -- I was on the mend for a few personal things xx all is going to be all g x with all of the hate we've been seeing all over the news these days, its becoming hard to believe that we implement very little to stop hate from being published all over the web. …
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I’m busy gettin rich - dizzy how I signed 80 branding deals in 8 years & you can, too: What we will chat about in this week's pod: Simple Steps to Greatness: always give your best, especially when nobody else is watching stay original & don’t copy other people’s content keep your friend group small and supportive Man I love my team, I would die for…
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how learning is your guidebook to winning + how losing is the greatest gift you can open-- we can learn so much -- strategically, losing is winning bc it helps you to re-direct your sails, re-focus and re-strategize... humility is also key in this process and as a girl who has come up on her own through scrutiny and struggle, I share with you how w…
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Konbanwa from Kyoto! I'm out here shooting a health and wellness documentary in the motherland+ wanted to share with you parts of my studies here: Here's what we will learn about this week: 1-How to Rebuild your Life -- what I learned from a Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor, Mister Nishi teaches us a transitional and broken moment in history + how he …
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So many of you have asked me how it was even possible to write 6 books in my 20's and at the same time simultaneously build a brand -- almost all on accident + by chance and yes, a TON of hard work! EP 19 is where it's at! Im here to help, love! - work on a solid idea - be original + remember, wabi wabi - don't copycat + respect those who have work…
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So you: Wanna be a Shot Calla: How to know when to pull the trigger + make some real changes: Here's what I chat about in episode #18 -- Wanna be a Shot Calla -How to know when to make a big life’s transformation & transition -How to win by always using girl code & staying chill -How to practice the Japanese traditions of: “Shikata ga Nai” it canno…
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Eight years ago, September 2010: I packed up one suitcase + I moved to NYC, I had nothing except my smile, my character & my consistent hard work. I slay all day, even when shit got tough, I stood up with grace. 8 Straight Never Took One Break Welcome the Ten things I learned "making it in NYC" Be gracious, honour yourself first + you'll better be …
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So, I woke up next to Elon Musk Monday am on the cover of Forbes.com, woah, what a milestone for an Asian American girl!!! Here's a sneak peek into my full motivational interview for you: let this be your fire + allow me to pave the way with grace x Please love and comment away on my Instagram to support + share my story of adversity with two best …
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Well, it is time -- calling all the ladies-- this one is for you, it took me weeks to put this one together.... and damn I'm giving you all of this advice for free-- burning big holes in my pocket right now. So please: Karma is free and real: Subscribe, tell 3 friends this week to listen, and write reviews for my pod and books. #WabiSabi forever xx…
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Love. 💕When I was asked to answer the question "what is love?"💕 It struck me as a very profound and deep question to answer— I wasn’t actually sure I could answer it. I'm not sure that there's one answer to this question either... I indeed thought about this one a lot —- I’ve actually, subconsciously thought about what it is my whole life. I've had…
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You wanna make stacks right? + you think you're gon be rich? Like and make more $$ than mom and dad? Yep, that's what it says us millennials think... After crushing a bi-coastal business as a small solo female bis owner..I have a much more realistic grasp on the matter. However, I'm still in the middle and, I'm in this long-haul game with you. Here…
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It's time to do the work bae, you ready? Because you know, I don't play-- It's all real deal here + here's the key on how I was able to survive my media and publishing career -- and being thrown to the wolves. ... it was always my friends. Friends, how important are they to you? They're vital to your survival and to your success in this one lifetim…
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Hey guys! What's up .. I just landed back in California + I'm taking some extra time to write this out for you! Enjoy, LE POD, WABI SABI EPISODE #11:HOW to Get your SHIT Together + Make it Look Fabulous xx all is perfectly imperfect! What a Mentor Can REALLY do for you. Why Working Weekends is: beneficial and cumulative to your ultimate success. + …
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..so the story continues... you'll hear about three different life scenarios on wabi sabi podcast episode 10: one from a perfect stranger, from a Tokyo-Born-Indian, on the other side of the world, one of my own I stumbled across in Fiji, and one that was given to the people of Japan and the world. Each of these stories has the small potential to im…
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I bless the rains in Africa, and this will all make sense in today's pod: Let's get adventurous!: My Resume is my Clapback. No time wasted bickering here... only work and good quality work: How to be a better person + learn, stay chill + grow, giving to others and flourishing your life's romance --- your resume stands strong and nobody can take tha…
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Today, let's talk on the clear difference between selflessly "doing something" and selfishly "being someone". I've often thought of what I was taught when I was a kid growing up with a strict and tough Japanese mom -- but she was also the most loving, devout + admired mom, too. She and my father raised us by example and Jenni (my sister and I) late…
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I've put together a weekend bender episode (I almost wrote recipe!) haha a weekend collection of all of your juicy questions + some of these may be tomes you want and might need to hear! Sometimes the Universe sends you notes or signs you need to hear, without you knowing it... welcome Wabi Wabi Weekend Bender: Here's what I answered for you: I wan…
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🐅Tiger Mom Survival Guide: Welcome: Episode Six 6️⃣ - this one is for all you mixed kids, Asian kids & my homies that got kicked around ⚡️⚡️⚡️+ its time for 2018, the year of REAL. Here’s what you will learn in today's episode: How I struggle, how I have endured, how I have pushed myself, how I have created change --Welcome, the Tiger Mom Survival …
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⚡the art of not conforming: My career, as an artist I went w my heart, even if it got smashed, which it did many times. As a female in the food industry, the pain/discrimination was part of my path. This year, with new endeavors + content w @SXSW, @Forbes, @Girlboss, @ariannahuff, @iamwellandgood Council + the new book @harpercollinsus Oprah Magazi…
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