“Take the leap and have fun doing it,” advises Tom Zimmerman, president and director of Central Pacific Homeloans, to individuals who want to venture into business.

Tom has more than 12 years of experience as a mortgage professional, and combined with his zeal for entrepreneurship, has become an effective business leader in this side of the financial industry.
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No employees, no plan, and no money – these were the challenges that attracted Bob Dove to run the state’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance. Under Bob’s leadership, Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. (HEMIC) was able to sign 292 policies amounting to $1.3 million in premiums, within its first month operation.

HEMIC is a high quality, competitive insurance company that is today’s leader in Hawaii’s workers’ compensation insurance industry.
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Stanford Carr has tilled the land from a very young age and gathered much knowledge as a vernal farmer. This early childhood experience would eventually reflect on his professional career as one of the most innovative and dynamic real estate developers in the state.

Today, Stanford is president of Stanford Carr Development, an acknowledged leader in the Hawaii land development industry. Stanford has founded the company in 1990 and has since changed the Hawaii landscape with his master-planned communities.
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At a young age of 21, Shelley Wilson decided to start her business, Wilson Homecare. She was recognized in 2003 by Pacific Business News as one of Hawaii’s 40 Under Forty, and was one of the fastest 50 companies two years in a row. Her company was also recognized in Forbes Magazine with an outstanding small business award. She’s actively involved with different business community organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii to name a few. And she also provides international support to aid underprivileged children in Africa and Vietnam.

Shelley Wilson came to Hawaii from the frigid weather of Iowa to ameliorate from an accident incurred from her military duty. Incapacitated for several years, Shelley was admitted to the Tripler Army Medical Center where she awaited full-recovery. Her humbling experience with her friends and medical staff during her convalescence galvanized her to stay in Hawaii and put up her own business veered towards care for the sick and injured.
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Being a university administrator is a daunting task; one has to deal with the academic programs offered to thousands of students, and also, manage hundreds of staff and faculty members. But Gene Awakuni, chancellor of University of Hawaii at West Oahu, is more than equipped to handle such challenge.

Gene has the knowledge and experience that puts him in the shoes of the myriad of youth who veer off path, and then rise up to become successful in both life and career. His tool is his past and the insights he has learned from it.
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Marsha Nadalin trudged the arduous path from employee to business owner – in the process acquiring skills, knowledge and experience to stand as cream-of-the-crop in the cosmetology industry in Hawaii. Marsha brought Susan Thomas Salon in 1993 and changed its image and expanded its services to appeal to both male and female clients.

But Marsha has never forgotten the community that has helped bring to her all the accomplishments and successes. Marsha Nadalin is involved in charitable projects that benefit not only the local community but also other communities in times of need.
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Aloha Evan and Kari,

Thank you so much for the privilege of working with you and your company, Greater Good Radio. It is my pleasure to share with you that our Greater Good Radio project has won us the “Success Skills Individual Topic” trophy in the semi-finals that was held in San Francisco, California. We will now go on to compete in the SIFE National Exposition that will be held in Kansas City, Missouri. We are excited to share with the guests and judges our incredible experience with Greater Good Radio and their guests.
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Greater Good TV Debuts at #1
Konishiki interview
Greater Good Events Project
SBA Small Business Journalists of the Year Award
HPU Young Alumni Award
Greater Good Book update
Kyle’s wedding
Setting deadlines
Offshoring

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It’s been a long time since I’ve written a journal and the year is already coming to a close. A lot has happened since July. We’ve been busy doing tapings for the television launch next year, January 2007. Actually we were supposed to launch in September but there was little time to prepare the shows and everyone was rushed and stressed out, so we pushed it back to January. I thought this was a good idea so that we could spend more time on making the shows good.

During the end of September we did a Greater Good Anniversary party at Pearl at Ala Moana Shopping Center. That was a blast. We had approximately 300 people there. The food was great and all of the drinks were very tasty. We had a chance to preview the food and drink the night before at the Hawaii Business Magazine’s Fittest CEO event. Thank goodness we had a chance to go the night before our party because during the party there was no time to enjoy the food and beverages. There were so many things to take care of to make sure that the party operated smoothly. Thank goodness to Hawaii Pacific Entertainment and Lincoln Jacobe who helped with the planning and operations of the party. Without them, I think my stress level would have been much greater. Overall, I thought the party was great and I couldn’t have asked for a better event! It would be awesome to do something like this annually.
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“We are about to give up our faith in ourselves, we are about to give up our faith in others, we may even come to a point that we’re going to give up our faith in God,” Atty. Arnel Casanova remarked. “But we should look at all these challenges, difficulties, and sacrifices as a way of tempering and strengthening our character, our soul and our spirit, at the end of the day we will succeed.”

Atty. Casanova, who sits as general counsel of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, knows what it takes to be able to push beyond despair. And it is in these lessons in his own life that he draws the drive to be of service to others.

In 2007, Atty. Casanova founded AvantChange to promote social entrepreneurship in Asia. He has also been teaching a course in this discipline at the Ateneo School of Government.

With faith and perseverance, he was able to break through poverty and use his own experiences to lift others off destitution.
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It was back in August when Evan asked me to pick a Sony product that would enhance my productivity. At first I thought of getting the MFM-HT205 (20” wide screen LCD/TV), which up to now, I still haven’t seen any that matches the specs for the same price. The lowest I’ve seen on Froogle is $679.00, not a very high WAF (wife approval factor) rating but still worth it. After telling Evan this, he said to try and see if I can find a system that’s close to the price range. By the way we started working on Greater Good TV early June and we all became like hyper-threading processors, multi-tasking and all that, pretty exciting. Basically my main responsibilities now are the audios and the soon to be launched online videos, among other things. So from audio to video, thus the hardware upgrades. I was really surprised when Evan told me that he would be getting the RC310G, I found some nice models that would do the job under $1,500 but he said we might as well get the higher end model and the boss was right, overall it’s far out! (more…)