Speakers

Since 2010, Cynthia Arnold and her team of experts have been helping over 600 clients to De-clutter and downsize to either Age in Place, Transition or Move. Through these years of experience and training, they've come up with tips to De-clutter, how to SORT through years of personal belongings, and how to get organized, with a personal touch

Ashli is a Financial Consultant with AXA Advisors and the President-Elect of the Rotary Club of East Honolulu.  She specializes in providing knowledgeable, objective financial guidance and customized strategies to consumer segments that demand high-quality service.

At this meeting, we will also give out some 1st Quarter awards!  

Lani Kwon, MA, Founder and CEO of Creating YOUR Calling® LLC, provides clients with step-by-step tools and resources for life transformation and re-design.  She has over two decades of experience in teaching, writing, crisis counseling, public speaking and life coaching, and she combined these interests into a successful coaching practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2005.  Now back home in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, she offers professional keynote speeches, presentations and workshops for small groups, companies and non-profit organizations.  She is a member of the teaching faculties at Happiness U and Sedona Hawaii at Ward Centre.  Lani serves and supports people going through many types of life changes, such as: graduation, career change, identity crisis, coming out, moving, marriage, divorce, pregnancy, recovery, and retirement, among others. Lani has served as a transformations life coach since 2005 and professional keynote speaker since 2013.   Lani trained with international coaching school Newfield Network (2011-2012) and Dr. Robert Holden’s Coach Camp (2016) and has been a member of the International Coach Federation since 2006.  Lani has also trained as a Nia Technique® Instructor and earned White (2014) and Blue (2017) belts in that practice and a Moving to Heal certificate (2018).  She is also a registered yoga teacher RYT through Yoga Alliance and Adi Shakti Yoga School (January 2018).  In March 2018, she trained in New York City in the MELT Foot and Hand Method, a guided self-healing technique that renews, rehydrates and revitalizes interstitial connective tissue.  (Click for a recent Scientific American article about ground-breaking research on connective tissue and the Interstitium System.) Lani is also a writer and has had multiple non-fiction, poetry and fiction publications.

Maeona Mendelson, MSW, PhD, is the former Director and Professor in Residence of the Intergenerational Center at Chaminade University and President,Travel&Learn, LLC, an intergenerational study tour company. She has been an adjunct professor of Social Welfare Policy at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and the University of Hawaii School of Social Work. She is an active volunteer for the Honolulu Museum of Art (HOMA) and Shangri-la, the Doris Duke museum of Islamic Art. Her previous volunteer activities include serving on the National Board of AARP, Chair of the national AARP Foundation, and President, AARP-Hawaii, (2004-2012). In 2004, she received a Resolution and Commendation from the House of Representatives, State of Hawaii for contributions to international affairs, culture, education and trade on behalf of Hawaii. She received Social Worker of the Year Award in Gerontology, NASW, 2007.

Hear from Executive Director, Joan Naguwa, about how the Rotary Foundation grants that our club uses helps to fund the important work HUGS does in the community.

Join us for an exciting lunch and tour of Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children!  We will meet at the Kapiolani Medical Center from 12:00pm - 1:30pm.  We are NOT at the Waialae Country Club due to the Sony Open!