August 8, 2025 • 44 mins
What if becoming great wasn't about massive miracles but small, daily steps? Eric Yamashita, founder of "Every Day Better" Movement, shares this powerful philosophy that's changing lives across Hawaii & God's great beyond.
It's refreshingly simple: You don't have to be perfect, just a little bit better each day! It began as a scribble on a notebook & has evolved into a clothing brand & ultimately a movement of positivity that touches on all aspects of wellbeing—physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional. Eric shares how "Every Day Better" resonates with each person and is transforming our community.
Eric weaves together faith, family & fitness into a holistic vision of what it means to live well. Best part? Eric models the authenticity he preaches, even as a cynical Christian. :) His reminder: "Everything starts with loving yourself!" This serves as foundation of the EDB Movement & challenge to anyone seeking meaningful change in their lives.
Follow IG @EveryDayBetterHI or visit everydaybetterhawaii.com to join a community that believes in the power of small improvements & the courage to be imperfect while still striving for better. CHEEHOO CHAMPS 'R US!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Aloha, welcome to Aloha Alive.
Of course, I'm Auntie Dawn andwe're here to talk about the
heart of Hawaii, which is Aloha.
One of the great kapenas, orcaptain of our team of 18 people
, is the man sitting right nextto me.
His name is Eric Yamashita ofEvery Day Better.
Good morning, brother, eric.
(00:34):
Good morning.
I'm super honored to be hereExcited.
You're already a legend in ourcommunity.
I was trying to walk out ourprevious guests and we had to
stop and follow our talk storyfor like at least 20-30 minutes.
Catch a few reels, do somephotos.
Thank you for Everyday Bless,because the name precedes itself
.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, I mean it's.
I'm just grateful to be able tobe have this idea and share
everyday better.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So tell us what is everyday better, because maybe
people are watching from likeTallahassee or North Carolina
and they don't know, or maybefrom New Zealand.
What is every day blessed andyou can see it right here.
Auntie Dawn is modeling myeveryday Aloha.
We got everyday Jesus and he'severy day better, better.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I'm a personal trainer.
I started in 1992.
So 33 years of training Wow, mylife's work is just helping
people be better.
Um, about 15 years ago I wrotebecause I'm old I write things
on a notebook or a day runner,you know, not like nowadays and
I put on the side of my bed andI wrote every day better and
just kind of stuck with me for awhile and then it would just
resonate every once in a while,come back and I started saying
(01:37):
it to my clients.
You know, you got to be alittle bit better, not having to
be perfect.
Um, 10 years ago I kind ofstuck again and then so finally,
six years ago I'm like I wassaying it so many times and just
repetition, getting into myclients' heads about just trying
to be better every day,incrementally better, small
little steps in your physicallife to be better.
So I said, okay, I'm going tojust start a brand on a fluke.
(02:00):
I did a food network show I meanon the news, with Guy Hagee and
Augie Made a shirt and we did alittle snippet called Cheap
Eats Wore the shirt.
People loved it on Instagramit's a great thing about
Instagram and people loved it.
I got a lot of feedback, so Imade 50 shirts.
The next day I sold 50 shirtswhat?
So I said, okay, something isworking here.
And then I didn't do it tostart to sell clothing, but just
(02:22):
to spread a message.
Right, I like to say thateveryday better is a mantra.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's a mindset, it's a motto, it's a meaning.
But more than that, I want tostart a movement of positivity.
So it started out as everydaybetter being better physically
in your physical life and thenit kind of evolved into being
everyday better spiritually,everyday better mentally,
everyday better physically.
So I was just so overwhelmedwith the amount of people that
(02:50):
connected with it on differentlevels and I realized it's such
a general term but so basic, butyou can apply it to your life
in any different facet right andit.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's simple but it's profound.
I love it.
I've been wearing your merchsince I first met you and we met
at, I think it was an HBAreunion a couple years ago, and
I love you and I love Patty,your partner in all things.
But Every Day Better is just.
I think it's so.
It connects with so many.
Eric, in my humble opinion,because we all can do it.
(03:18):
I can be a little bit betterabout my weightlifting or about
my bike ride or my walking or mydevotion time with Jesus,
whatever it is.
I can be a little bit betterabout my weightlifting or about
my bike ride or my walking or mydevotion time with Jesus,
whatever it is.
I can be a little bit bettertomorrow and maybe, as I've
heard you say in the past andcorrect me where I'm wrong,
brother but it could be a greatday.
But we still have some room forimprovement somewhere and that's
(03:40):
the applicability of it.
But it's also the easy way toget in on that and it is.
So where can we get Every DayBetter?
And we'll come back to that,but I want to say it a few times
to help support local, becausewe always support local here in
the state of Hawaii, we're anohana, and then I'm going to ask
you about your family, becauseI happen to know your family and
just some of the living legacywith that.
So where can we get Every DayBetter merch?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I'm on Instagram Everyday Better Hawaii or you
can go towwweverydaybetterhawaiicom so
pretty basic.
I have an online store.
You can see everything there.
You can go to Everyday BetterHawaii on Instagram.
Send me a DM and I do pop-upsevery month.
You're busy, I'm a busy man,but I'm also very, very grateful
to be blessed to be busy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it is a movement, and we'll talk about that in a
second.
But first I want to get to knowyou as a person, because, well,
I know him, but I want us allto know him and his family.
Your patty is your bride atyour side.
Do you have kids?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I have one son, Ian.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh, shout out to Ian.
Okay, so anything you want toshare about Ian.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, he's just a great kid.
He's 21 years old and he's agrown man now and it's weird
because we're kind of emptynesters now.
Ian is working now and it'svery validating to have a son
become an adult and you know,all I wanted was him to be to
just love God first and just bea great human being and be kind
and strong and healthy, and he'sachieved all those things.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He's a superhero right now.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And he's only 21.
21,.
Yes, he loves and respects hisparents, which means I'm very
old, but it's, he's the head ofthe game.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We have a new chapter .
Empty nesters.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, good thing you have a feisty female at your
side, his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I have a wonderful wife.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Correct.
She's one of the most wittypeople.
I love her, her, I loveeverything she posts.
Okay, enough about beautifulwife.
Now part of what I know aboutyou, eric, and this is what I
want to bring up as far as AlohaAlive, I talk about Aloha Alive
wanting to perpetuate the heartof Hawaii because Aloha is so
powerful.
You grew up in the footstepsand in the shadow of a great man
(05:39):
who was your dad, pastorJeffrey Yamashita.
I knew Pastor Jeff from CampAgape, which is a camp for the
children whose parents are inprison, and he was just such a
humble.
He was like the big guy whodidn't need to pound the table,
(06:00):
just his presence alone.
He was a police officer on thewest side of Oahu.
For how long?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He started in Waianae , so probably maybe six or eight
years, and then he became ahomicide detective.
Yeah, but eventually he built achurch in Waianae because
that's where his heart was.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So how many years service?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So he did 52 years in law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Whoa, 52 years and he just passed away.
Was it 2022?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Three years ago.
Correct.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I remember, because I remember being so hit by that,
when you grew up in the state ofHawaii and there is a police
officer who then not only seesthe need of the youth on the
West Side and then becomes apastor who isn't just some guy
who's preaching from the pulpit.
And please know I love pastors,I support our pastors, but this
(06:46):
was a pastor who did things bydoing them, not just by
preaching, not just by talking,but by walking it out, caring,
giving and being.
Can you tell me a little bitabout your dad?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He was definitely more of a shepherd than a
preacher.
So my dad was more of a man of apeople and everybody says it
gets kind of hokey, like, oh, hemore of a man of a people.
And everybody says it gets kindof hokey, like, oh, he'd give
the shit off his back.
But my dad would literally dothat.
I remember growing up, when Iwas probably eight or ten, uh,
we brought this guy home and itwas big brothers of hawaii and I
was like what is this?
We had four kids in a familyand why are you bringing this
guy home?
He was a good guy but, like youknow, a little bit jealousy,
right, and my dad's like youknow this.
(07:17):
I was like why is he here?
Like we have, you have all ofus.
And he's like, well, these guysdon't have any fathers.
And then I didn't get it and wedid stuff with him and dad
would go and do stuff.
He was always there for us.
But I just didn't get it,because you're eight, nine years
old, you're kind of selfish.
And then he got a skateboardfor this guy and three or four
skateboards and brought it forhis brothers and I was like, dad
, how come they got skateboards?
I didn't get a skateboard andhe sat me down and your tears
(07:40):
because their dad is gone.
I think their dad wasincarcerated or he passed away
and there was five kids, four orfive boys and a daughter,
because they have nothing.
They live in like a one bedroomhouse and you guys have
everything.
So you just need to realizethat you only see the skateboard
but you don't see what we'regiving to them.
And we got to deliver theskateboards to their house and
I'm like nine or 10.
And I was like took my breathaway and very impactful that day
(08:00):
, because my dad was alwaysthere for every single soccer
game, every spelling b, everysports thing, church.
He was always there for us.
He was giving and I was likehow come my dad's giving that?
I don't want foster kids, Idon't want to break this away,
but now that I'm, when I becamea father and I see my son, I see
the heart he had and he wasalways with church or the police
department.
He was always giving.
He was.
(08:21):
So where did dad go?
Two o in the morning he went togo counsel someone or go help
somebody or bail somebody out.
He was always doing that, buthe was always there for us too.
So it was easier for me to say,oh, he wasn't there, but he was
there for us and for everybodyand that's a lot.
So obviously he went manynights without sleeping.
Yeah, but more than telling.
And we watched that and as Igot older it resonated with me.
(08:43):
So that's how I wanted to be adad and that's why, with my son,
my son sees that my dad had alife of service.
Wow For sure.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And now your son has chosen a career in the same life
of service.
That's amazing.
You know, and this is a talkstory session, we're conversing,
it's not.
I'm not just putting you on thegrill, although I love you,
brother, we're talking aboutevery day better, but one of the
things you just said that Ilove is that we in the state of
Hawaii, we Hanai we adopt.
Your dad was Hanai-ing kids offthe street that otherwise he
(09:12):
would be.
I'm sorry, but arresting orthrowing into juvenile detention
or putting into alternativelearning right, and he knew,
even with your five, the fivekids in his own family, he could
extend that father fathering toother people.
One of the issues we face somuch today is fatherlessness,
for a variety of reasons I don'tneed to get into.
(09:33):
You're a smart audience, you'rea smart man and so when we look
at this is the issue, I'm not.
I'm going to give 10% toidentifying the issue, 90% to
the solution.
Your dad just went ahead andstarted doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Which to me is one of the reasons he just won of the
many that.
He was a supernatural superherothat I highly respected, and I
was a cynical kid growing up.
I had a lot of bad thingshappen to me and I'm very
cynical when I look at people,but when I see the real deal, I
know it really is.
And your dad was Mr Real DealFor sure, 100%.
(10:07):
He didn't just preach it, hewalked it out.
Yeah, he walked the walk out.
And so you and it's funny youjust said he bailed some of the
kids out.
So he's arresting them on onehand and then going to bail them
out.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, he had compassion chance.
Yeah, wow, it's easy for us tojust say, oh, you know, these
guys are bad.
But I mean he grew up in kalihi, palama settlement.
The parents were divorced, thedad wasn't really there a long
time, you know a lot.
So he he grew up with fatherwas around, but not living in
the house, so he knew how itfelt, I think.
So I didn't realize that tilllater.
Um, but he had a heart for justthe people of hawaii and and he
saw potential in kids and I wasalways like he was always
(10:42):
organized because he was runningPAL, so Police Activity League
in Kalihi, and so he was alwaysdoing stuff.
But I mean, I think of all theaccomplishments that he did and
he was always there for us.
I don't know how he did it,yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Like you said, he must've not slept.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like, how could you do all of those things?
Now, interesting to me that youjust said something.
He grew up here, palamaSettlement.
We happen to be in Kalihi.
You work Kalihi, I work Kalihi.
And he didn't.
There was a divorce.
Early in his parents' life hewas fatherless.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, so at 12.
So it was my grandma's workingthree jobs and my dad and his
two brothers were just surviving.
Yeah, grandpa was I mean, hisdad wasn't around, so he became
the father, the father figure.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Wow.
And then not only for his ownhome, where he was fatherless,
did he become the father.
Then he extended and became afather to his own family.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He had five children.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You're one of them.
And then he became a family tohis community.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh yeah, and then he was doing stuff, you know, with
church and Teen Challenge andalways, like him and my mom were
preaching at the prison, my4'11 Holly mom.
So they're always doing stuff,outreach stuff, and that's just
what you do.
So it wasn't, it was like Isaid, it was a life of service.
That's just kind of was normalfor them to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's like breathing, yeah, blinking, my heart's
beating.
I'm doing something.
Talk about your mom.
I love your mom, auntie Barbara, she's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's my mom.
But me and my wife always sayshe's the most benevolent person
I have ever known and that's mymom.
But if you really get to meether, she's very, very sweet and
just not judgmental.
And you know, you have this4'11 Haole lady who was in
Waianae, makaha, all the timewe're going to the prison and
she had no fear, she was ateacher.
Then she started subbing whenwe got older.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So she would go sub at Nanakuli mom and she's 4'11,
howly, 98 pounds and she's gotthis beautiful like, if you
think of the ladies of the south, she's got like this, like kind
of puffy right.
Yeah, she's light hair, you cansee her.
She looks like a littlefloating cotton ball when I
she's the nicest thing ever butshe had no fear and she loved
people.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, so she didn't see color or race or gender or
whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So wow, how did she meet your dad?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
uh, my dad was a rookie cop.
My mom came from New York.
She came to get her master'sdegree at UH, met at the beach.
He saw the white girl, she sawthe brown guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, andit's funny because my grandma's
Chinese, so it's not racist.
But back in that generation myChinese grandma wanted to only
marry Chinese girls.
It wasn't racist because wedidn't think about that.
It's like the Frank Dillemasong or Mr Sancho Lee get plenty
(13:00):
.
We all got along.
We've seen our differences.
But my grandma wanted Chinese,mr Sancho Lee, she wanted
Chinese granddaughters.
But my dad and his two brothersall married white girls.
So all these half-breed kidscame.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I was going to say Papa kids are the most precious
and beautiful anointed appointedamazing Right.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
But back to business.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Tremendous family.
Just to put a tie up on thattopic.
I brought up his family becauseI have a high regard, respect,
and this is legit because I amone of the most cynical
Christians.
I don't even know how I'm aChristian.
I don't know why Jesus takes mein.
Nonetheless I'm very cynical.
(13:44):
So if Patty's watching, shegets this because she's a wit
herself.
But I have a high regard andrespect for your family.
Like seriously.
It's like slapping down thecarte blanche card.
If you say Yamashita or JeffYamashita or this man, eric,
it's all in.
I'm already backing you Now, asI say, I'm backing you.
I love that every day.
Better is a movement.
What does that look like inreality?
Because we can say the wordmovement, but there's a lot of
people who watch, especially ouryounger generation.
They need to say, uncle Eric,what does that sound like?
(14:05):
What does it look like?
What does it be like?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It starts with you.
I always say that people wantto be the change, but they want
to point fingers.
So change has to start with me.
So for me it has to be.
I have to be the person thatlives it and walks it and
preaches it and does everysingle day.
So I'm fallible and I make tonsof mistakes.
If you know me, I'm an openbook and my heart is open.
I explain and I'm real abouteverything that happened in my
life.
But, like I was telling my son,sometimes every experience has
(14:30):
made me a different person,right.
So every interaction you havein your life people have to
understand that they can teachyou who to be like or who not to
be like.
Every obstacle provides anopportunity.
So that's one of my favorite.
Every obstacle provides anopportunity to sit in front of
the wall and cry and do nothingor retreat or jump over the wall
.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, so we have these experiences in our lives.
But we wallow in our pity, andthat's okay.
But we need a moment to stepback and guess okay, how can I
make this better?
And we rely on tv or spouse ordrugs or food or anything to
make us better.
But we have to kind of comewithin ourselves.
I think we, as we get older, werealize that there's not a lot
of accountability in the worldyeah in the government and our
(15:09):
friends, yeah.
So I think for me, starting tobe every day better was just for
me.
It resonated for me.
I always say it sounds funny,but it was selfish, because when
I do my thought of the dayevery morning, my thought of day
was for me and it was like it'sfor, it's for social media.
But I'll be 59 years old, Idon't know how to stand social
media no ways, you're 59 yearsold, yeah but I'm doing it
because I want to sharesomething that resonates with me
(15:29):
.
Like the thought of day issomething that I think is
impactful to me, but itresonates to me.
So it sounds weird but I'mbeing selfish because that's
what I thought that day, orthat's a, a model or something I
found.
I didn't create them all, butby me verbalizing instead of
writing it it resonates a lot ofpeople and if it touches one
person I'm happy.
But it's also, I tell people,teaching is learning twice.
Yeah, so if I'm sharingsomething, I'm resonating and
(15:50):
reiterating it myself in my headand then it kind of resonates
throughout the day.
So sharing that is a good thing, but for me it's just it.
Me, it's a daily walk of tryingto be better for myself and,
like I said, it started as aphysical thing but it evolved
into trying to be better withyour relationships at work, your
relationships at home, yourfiscally with them, because we
have to be responsible with ourmoney, absolutely.
We have to be responsible withour emotions, we have to be
(16:11):
responsible with our spirituallife.
So it evolved.
I didn't want it to be aChristian or a political thing
and I've kind of tried to stayaway with that.
But as far as me, loving God,I'm not ashamed, because I
realized that I don't want toshove Jesus down people's
throats, because I think that'sthe worst thing to do.
But I also want people to knowthat I love God.
I'm imperfect, I make lots ofmistakes, but I love God, and if
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there's an opportunity for meto share Jesus, I will do that.
But I also want people to knowwhere I'm at.
I make mistakes.
I have successes, but myfailures really make my
successes greater.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, and it's the realness about you that preaches
the best.
I love that.
You said a few things there.
One was obstacles areopportunities, and the second
that you brought up your thoughtof the day, because you post
those and I love them Sorry,selfish, because they're short.
You can capture it in one little15 second nugget yeah, and
thank you for recognizing and Iknow it's not a big deal, but
(17:04):
you said you don't author all ofthem.
Yeah, but they'll be reallygood little nuggets, like you
just did one yesterday and I go.
I've heard that before but Ineeded to hear it again.
Right, and it's just a littletweak.
I needed, like, probably whenyou're training.
I went to the gym once.
It's just a little tweak, Ineeded Like probably when you're
training.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I went to the gym once.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It was just one time but I like to bring it up a lot
and my trainer at that time hewas like Don, you're doing that
almost correctly.
And I was like dude, you toldme to do a little little
dumbbell lift right there, I'mdoing it, he goes, but if you
tweak it just a little bit,you're going to actually hit the
medial, the muscle.
I'm asking you to do Right andyou understand that because
you're a trainer.
Yes, and that's the way you'retweaking.
With these thoughts of the day,I could be generally good, but
(17:44):
I can be a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There's the key word.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right, so that you're hitting it head on and then I'm
going to get that nice bulgeright there.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And you're allowing yourself to make mistakes.
And every day is a next day.
It's another whole, anotheropportunity to do better I love
it, and it's bite-sized, yeah ithas to be that way it's that's
(18:12):
nowadays.
We're so, we cannot.
Yeah, we're so aged we cannothandle a lot of stuff.
It has to be really quick.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, and we're overwhelmed.
Eric, we live in a world ofinundation.
We're overwhelmed.
It's the informationsuperhighway and I'm standing
there just trying to cross onelane.
Why am I getting mowed down byeverything in this information?
You keep it Every day.
Better is bite-sized chunks andyou give me the thought of the
day is a 10, 15, second little.
Now you just said somethingelse that I want to go back to
(18:41):
and kind of zoom in.
You know, like when you gotyour cell phone you're like wait
, what is the eye color?
Zoom in there.
Um, you said you're not ashamedof your relationship with Jesus
Christ.
And thank you for saying you'rehuman, you're fallible.
You started with that.
You said I'm fallible, I'm notperfect.
We have it up here.
It's my favorite cap to wearwhen I'm out because it preaches
in one box three words everydayJesus.
How did you come to know Jesusas your best bud?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
My parents became Christians in the 70s, so
probably I was like 10 or 12.
And my dad was a cop, but hewas a tough guy from Cali, so
far from perfect.
I think he shielded us from alot of the stuff that went
around in his life or policework, but we started going to
church in late 70s, yeah, so Ithink I became a Christian at
maybe 13.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Wow early.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, 45 years ago or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So did you feel like that was for real, because I
know a lot of kids who saythat's not really my thing.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I was the head of the youth group and I was a
teenager on Far For God and thenI became 21 and started chasing
girls.
I mean like, yeah, so I alwaysknew God, but for sure, 20s and
30s I was single andbodybuilding and traveling all
over the world and just beingworldly.
I knew God and I would go tochurch sometimes and my parents
never made me do anything.
But you know, yeah, but Idefinitely didn't have a close
walk with God.
(19:53):
I mean, I knew he was there,but just yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Thank you for saying that, because it's not
necessarily this perfectstraight timeline where I got
saved at 13 and then I juststarted living this Christian
life that went all the waythrough to the man that we see
today, who's almost 59 years old.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh no, success is not a straight line at all.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And neither is our salvation.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's like yeah, it's a very wavy, tumultuous yeah
yeah, and what I love.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
before we started and you can speak to this again,
but they didn't see it on camera.
I did.
You talked about I didn't knowthat Patty is your second wife
and you said you know, afteryour first divorce, god bless
that person.
You had your child with thatperson, but then you went off
and you became Kolohe Boybecause you were angry, that's
real Eric Patty's, the bestthing that ever happened to me.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So she brought me happiness and joy and peace.
I mean Jesus did, but, yeah,definitely my wife has brought
me closer to God for sure,Because she became a Christian
and that's all my parents wantedwas.
That was their prayer.
And then my dad led her toChrist and baptized her six
months before he passed away.
So it was God, yeah.
And then her becoming closer toChrist and being on fire for
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Jesus made me on fire because Iwas back to the cynical thing.
I thought I knew everything.
I was.
I've been in the church for 40something years, so I was the
most critical person.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Because we see everything.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I can see everything.
So I always think people arefull of crap, because I know my
relationship with God wasn'tperfect.
But I watch people like, oh,that guy's taking a lot of money
, that guy's all for himself,that lady wears too much makeup,
this person, that person socynical, is easy, yeah.
So it was hard because I waslike, ah, my wife is on fire for
Christ.
And I wasn't because I was like, ah, I want the old hat, just a
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more grumbling old man.
Being on fire, the last two orthree years has has made me more
on fire for jesus because sheloves jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, so her walk is very new.
For sure, dad baptized her sixmonths before he went to glory
yeah, amazing it's, that's justgod and you said that your
parents actually told you stopbeing so angry.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You know, here's a great woman and she, she
actually didn't really want youshe was happy with her single
life and I pursued her, but I'mglad I did because my life has
been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So this is the marriage then, and I'm not
trying to bash anyone else- ortry to demean.
Every experience, as you said,is a building block to who we
are today, but Patty is the onethat God meant for you.
Correct, that's amazing, almost10 years now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
But Patty is the one that God meant for you, correct?
That's amazing, almost 10 yearsnow.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So the message for those of us who are single, or
those of you who are watching,is that God has a person for you
.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
When we force our own plans it's not going to work.
But when we step back, I tellpeople I have lots of clients
who are divorced.
I trained women for a long timeso I became just the ear.
I'm learning with my wife to bea better listener.
I'm not far from perfect, butI'm learning to shut my mouth,
try not to fix and be a betterlistener and I'm realizing
there's lots of women that wantsomething in their lives and
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they want happiness and theywant peace and they look for it
in men or other people.
And the best advice I can giveis you need to find yourself and
be happy by yourself.
My wife was very happy byherself and I ruined all that.
She was self-sufficient andhappy, but I think our lives are
even greater because we'retogether.
Yes, absolutely, I'm not farfrom perfect and she's very
tolerant of me and vice versa,but I think relationships are
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tolerating each other.
That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, and you make a great couple, because I invited
both of you to come and shedidn't come.
She's here in spirit, I know,but you said she is actually
extremely introverted.
And she's one of the funniestwomen I know.
I love seeing her Instagramposts, but she didn't want to
come be on camera.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, she had to work , Somebody's got to work, right,
she had to work, and then she'sjust not that camera person and
you are.
I'm very extroverted and she'sintroverted you but she just her
life is more private.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, but there would be no eric if there's no patty.
And there's no patty, well,there would be, but it's not as
full as having to become that'swhy we work, because we're not
yeah, we're yin and yang yeah, Ilove.
It okay, so here we go.
So your testimony was reallyyou got saved early um.
Jesus was there, but, like yousaid, success is not a straight
line.
Everything was the churchsalvation is not a straight line
either and I love, love thatyour parents one being a pastor
and he's a hardcore pastorhardliner he didn't just hold
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you to some kind of unreal ideal.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They just loved us, they never pushed.
I mean, we went to a Christianhigh school.
We were fortunate enough thatmy parents scraped together to
put us to HBA, which I sent myson there for 13 years.
It's not cheap.
So, even more appreciation forwhat they did.
And they had four of us goingthere.
I don't know.
I always say did my dad selldrugs or?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
launder money.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Because I don't know how they could have done it.
But you know, what they did isthey always had faith and
somehow God provided.
We didn't have lots, but we hadfamily.
We were together.
They were always there for us.
We had everything we needed.
We didn't have lots of fancyclothes, but I didn't feel like
we were poor.
We weren't rich.
I went to private school, soeverybody's rich.
So I always felt like, oh,those guys are rich, I'm not
rich.
And then after a while I didn'tcare, because now I see I had
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family.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'd rather have family than money any day to get
family or an authentic personwho likes them.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
for them, I have tons of clients who are super
wealthy, but you know what theydon't have?
They don't have peace.
I have peace, that's goodPeople want to be successful and
they want to be rich.
And I ask them you want to besuccessful and you want to be
rich, but don't you want peacemore than that?
Right?
And then, if you really reallyPeace, money doesn't buy peace,
sex doesn't buy peace, familydoesn't buy peace.
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You have to find it withinyourself or with God, and that's
the only way.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You beat me to the punch.
I was just going to ask wheredo you find your peace?
Then you have to With God.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But people are not accountable.
They won't sit back and gothrough all the ugliness of
their life and figure out whatthey really want.
They're going to throw it outto other people instead of being
accountable.
So the more accountable likefor me, the more accountable and
real and transparent I can be,the better.
And if people don't like it,that's okay.
I hate to use the word I don'tcare because we say I don't care
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and that's a tough word becauseit really that basically I
don't care.
That's harsh, but it it doesn'tbother me as much.
I know God loves me and my wifeloves me and I'm far from
perfect, but I'm going to justkeep doing my truth and my
movement because what I feel isright.
It's not always perfect forsure.
So I try not to be political onmy Instagram.
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I obviously have strongfeelings, but it's just setting
yourself up for fightingDistraction, right.
And I've talked to a lot of thebig influences in Hawaii.
They make money off of food sexand yeah, that's where the
money's at, because that's whatwe look at, that's what we're
drawn to.
Food is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I love donuts of course, or milkshakes or boba
drinks before my everyday better.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
When I had my own private Instagram.
If I put a picture without myshirt on or donuts, I'd get tons
of views.
If I talk about Jesus, nobodycares because it's exciting
locals punching hollies orpeople fighting or whatever
crimes yeah.
Yeah, bullying, it's exciting,has views and and and sex is
cells right, that's the truth.
And and food cells yeah, so Idon't want to do any of that wow
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so you're never going to find abikini girl on my website.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thank, you, I'm married.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's.
That's not the representation,and a lot of the people I buy my
clothes are big girls andthat's who's?
Yeah, yeah, so it's like.
It's like I'm not there to sellclothing.
I'm there to share a messageand the byproduct is me selling
clothing.
I'm grateful that I can do that.
My job is a full-time trainer,so my mission is I share
clothing and stuff like that.
It's something that you canwear every day, so it's a
constant reminder when you gosomeplace.
You can see my brand a hundredyards away and people always or
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oh, what's that?
They'll say what's that about?
Or I was really ready for allthe negativity and I haven't.
I thought I started to starttalking about Jesus and people
are going to say, really, yeah,I just and my default setting is
always be optimistic, but Ijust was ready for people to
just give me negative stuff.
Right, I had, here and there,some people they don't believe
in God or they don't think Ishould use.
But I'm like well, I'm born andraised here.
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I have plenty of love in myheart.
If you know me, I have lots oflove I never said I was Hawaiian
right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Never once said that I don't think the Hawaiians
copyrighted Aloha.
I pray to God they didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But I.
But I share it with everybody,so the negativity is so minimal
and I was ready for it.
Cause I said oh yeah, one dayat a time.
Or if I'm changing people'slives one t-shirt at a time,
then that's good.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I have to say every time I wear it because I have
the everyday blessed.
I have this one everyday aloha,which I wore for not just my
birthday last year, thank you,but I also wore it for my
Christmas card I sent out.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I was at Ko'olina.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I was just up on a, not a Christmas tree, a palm,
coconut tree hello, I eat it allthe time and I had this shirt
on.
But every time I wear my gearand then I have this cap that I
also wear.
Um, it's a stop and stare.
Yeah, and it's not don o'brien,because I'm a little bit older.
She's not the girl she used tobe, but it really is this three
day, three word box and peopleget it.
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And because it's usually blackon white, all my gear is like
but and then one word ishighlighted in a different color
.
People read it and they don'teven talk.
They can keep walking, but alot of them go yeah, like the
shirt, or what's up with the cap.
Yeah, where you got that?
So thank you forconceptualizing.
Um, it's a sermon in a threeword box.
Boom kajesus.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's.
A conversation starts like myshirt just is better.
So some people like it, somepeople don't.
And I've had people say, oh,you think you're better than me?
I say, oh, on the contrary.
I say, no, it's just about mepersonally trying to be better
for myself, not than you, butyou can also be better too.
And then I love when peoplecome at me negative, because I
try to flip the script.
I say, bro, you can be better.
(29:28):
Like, oh, sorry, I came at you,like that.
Obviously people, people come atyou when they're, when there's
pain in their life, yeah, yeah.
So instead of me pointing outtheir pain, I just talk to them,
maybe make them feelcomfortable, maybe they can
share their pain and we can havea conversation about stuff.
I'm not going to fix it orchange their life, but if I can
impact them by just talkingabout shortcomings I've had and
why I did every day better, andif they have a moment.
That's why, when I do events, Ilike talking to people a lot.
Selling the shirts is cool, butit's more just connecting with
people on that different level,because they see you on
Instagram and it's one thing,but when you get to these events
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, you can just talk to peopleand people share their stories.
So eventually I'm starting apodcast and writing a book of
all the interactions I've had.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Because I just have tons of stuff on my phone about
people, how and I'm not makingit like it's me, because it's
really not about me, it's mejust starting a conversation,
right yeah, about how to bebetter.
It's like people just need itsometimes.
Like you said, a little15-second snippet or something
that Bite size.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, you're changing the world one bite at a time.
Yeah, I'm just grateful that Ithought of this and it's Old.
Eric, was they used to?
I was all about myself.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But now I really don't care about people knowing
that it's my brand.
We'll literally go someplaceand you'll see the shirt and
I'll say, hey, nice shirt.
And the guy has no idea it's mybrand.
But I hate to do that.
My brand.
I don't even like saying thebrand it's our movement, eric,
but the fact that somebody gotit.
I go where'd you get that shirt?
He goes oh, my brother's,father's of people that are
sharing the shirt as a gift andthey're sharing something
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positive.
So it's just heartwarming forme that before it was like, hey,
that's my shirt, bro, Right,that's mine.
And then it takes all theemphasis away from the meaning
and it puts it on me and I'mhuman, but I don't really need.
I don't need the pat on the backanymore.
Every day I have blessings,blessings, just connecting with
people, and I thank God.
I try to be better about beinggrateful in the good times,
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because we always want God whenwe're having problems.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But when we have successes.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We don't always thank God.
So I'm trying to thank God allthe time, but I have these
opportunities and I think I takeit for granted less and less
now because I'm trying to bemore aware.
And I have these DMs and peoplesay, hey, thank you for sharing
that or whatever it.
And I have these DMs and peoplesay, hey, thank you for sharing
that or whatever.
It's super impactful because alot of people don't have human
nature, where we don't havevalidation in our lives.
I did this thing for men'shealth.
(31:31):
The other day I did a littlething and it's just women are
created one way, men are createdone way and men are super macho
.
But men need to be loved.
Yeah, they need to be validated.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Respected.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
They need to be acknowledged yeah, but we don't,
and we don't say it now.
So I do my best to tell guysyeah, bro, I love you and it's
not.
Oh, bro, you're homo, it hasnothing to do with it.
But men have a hard timetelling other men that they love
them.
But if you make that normal, itadore you is different from
love.
So I try to tell my wife Iappreciate her and I love her
and I adore her, because love isone thing.
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Oh, I love you, love you right.
Love you right.
I love cake, right I love pizza, yeah, so it's very abused.
I'm not saying it doesn't haveany meaning, but it doesn't have
a lot of meaning anymore.
So saying I appreciate you andshowing I appreciate you and
acknowledging to other men.
It's not nothing to do withwomen to the other men, but
we're definitely different whenwe cater to women or to men.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
And then there's a lot of men that I know, who are
business owners or CEOs that aresuffering, that have messaged
me that they want to killthemselves.
It's heavy, and the mostmacho-ish guys, the ones who are
the leaders, are the ones thatare suffering too, but they
cannot ever show that.
Not afraid to show weakness,yeah, but you have to be.
Yes, we have to be a little bitmore compassionate.
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Realize that all the tough guysaren't necessarily tough.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, and this is everyday knowledge.
To use everyday better term,because I love what you're
saying, eric.
Part of it is mental wellness.
We call it that in the world,right, but it's also men's.
Mental wellness is a wholedifferent plane.
Speaking to a man, I was justreading part of scripture I
believe it was in Ephesiansabout how a man and a woman are
to be together a husband and awife, right.
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And there's this whole set ofinstructions on how a guy gets
to love his bride and at thevery end it says and women give
your husband respect.
That's it, one word.
But I love what you're saying ishow do we flesh that out more?
Because I am in elementaryschools a lot with the Choose
Aloha program and I have toteach really basic ways of what
does that look like, what doesit sound like?
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Yeah, and that's how we canspeak to men so that they feel
validated.
Because you're right, eric, Iknow some really large
Polynesian guys professionalfootball players or coaches and
they look massive, they'removing mountains of muscle.
But for me to say I appreciateyou, I respect you, I so love
the way that you love your son.
(33:50):
That can turn that man into apuddle because he doesn't get it
.
He didn't hear it at home, socan we do more of that?
Is that what?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
you're saying yeah, because my dad did with me.
I do it with my son all thetime.
So I was like I don't want totell him I love him too much,
much, but like too bad.
Every day he's off to work.
I'm like I'm proud of you, besafe, I love you.
And then he wasn't alwayssaying it because he's too cool
and recently, now he's 20, he'ssaying it all the time love you
too, dad.
It's like it's very valid, buthe needs to hear that, like our
people in our lives.
So I tell people, we need totell people we love yeah that we
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love them good because they you.
You know I love you, right, butmaybe that day you didn't
realize I loved you I need totell you, I need to inundate you
with, with love and make sureyou understand, through how I
speak, but more than that, how I, how I act and how I treat you,
that I love you because daysare short and you know come on,
yeah, we don't always have, wedon't have, we don't have the
time that we think we do wereally don't.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
My pastor just said that this past Sunday in church.
He said you know, he knew ayoung man, young pastor in his
church who walked outside andunfortunately dropped dead Like
just stone cold dead, no causeof death, right Wasn't hit by a
truck and you could, I couldwalk outside and, god forbid, a
bus could run into me, et cetera.
But we don't know and the daysare short.
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Thank you, eric.
So tell people that's our lifetip, life hack.
Tell people that you love themright now, today.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You don't know what they're going through.
You know, just, my wife alwaysreminds me like I'm 95, super
happy and positive, but intraffic I'm kind of a monster.
So I'm getting better.
But she's like honey, you don'tknow what they're going through
.
They could have diarrhea.
They could have lost their dog,like so I have to remember he
could have diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They could have lost their dog.
So I have to remember theycould have diarrhea and lost the
dog who had diarrhea and she'sgood.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
She's like put your hands down, because I'm a cop
but I like to fight everybodybefore.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No, I'm the same way.
Traffic makes me nuts and wehave the worst traffic in the
nation.
Eric.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But my wife reminds me you don't know what they're
going through.
Try your best.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
True that, true that.
So I just like Do you want togive any shout outs before we
bring this in for a landing,because I'm going to get to the
aloha part at the end.
But thank you, brother.
That was so much aloha andyou're like it's like watching
somebody on four times fast.
There's so many statements Iwant to take apart and like look
at each one and that's thequality you get when you're
watching, like even the thoughtof the day with Eric on at
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Everyday.
Better Hawaii, you get 15seconds.
You're like wait, I got towatch it again.
Oh good, he posted it like fivetimes.
And you know, the other dayyesterday there was a guy I
think he was like fromCalifornia or Florida, somewhere
else, with palm trees, and likeit's in green because the guy's
from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So Everyday Better Hawaii.
He's from California, but hewas visiting in Kauai.
He's wearing the shirt, yeah,yeah and it impacts us that way.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So thank you for that and thank you just for all the
goodness you put out there.
Where do you get a lot of thesource?
And then I'll bring this in forthe aloha landing where's.
Where's your source?
Where do you get so muchgoodness?
Because, I mean, we all havethe same chances it's, it's who
you surround yourself with, youknow.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I mean like, so like come people say, oh, you don't
surround yourself around withcigarette smokers or people who
are fat and I'm like I loveeverybody.
Yeah, if you happen to bebigger and you smoke cigarettes,
I'm still going to love you.
Yeah, but we just surroundyourself.
You're definitely some of thepeople you're around.
What?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So I just choose to be around people who love God,
who are trying to be healthier,trying to be better, and it's
not that I'm segregating myselffrom other people, but my life
is so busy so I have to bereally just accountable and
responsible.
Who I spend my time with?
So I'm going to spend my timewith.
I start my day with God, end myday with God.
Spend my time with my son asmuch as possible he works a lot.
Spend my time with my wife,which I adore, but I've got to a
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point with my career where Ican vet my clients.
So I want to be with peoplethat really want to do things
and move and get better and feelbetter and be positive.
So it's not that I won't bearound negative people, but
negative people are verydraining.
So I have time for those people, but it just depends.
You have only so much time ofthe day.
So I derive my aloha fromlooking at positive things,
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listening to positive things,sharing positive things, meeting
positive people, praying.
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You're naming so many things that are available to
any of us.
One of my mentors, or reallygreat friends, is Scarlett Lewis
.
She founded Choose Lovemovement around the world after
her son was killed in a schoolshooting.
He was in the first grade andout of that completely evil
murder event where 28 peoplepassed, including the gunman
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himself who turned the gun onhimself at the end of the event,
out of that great evil she wasable to redeem a greater good.
And she says this.
She goes, we all at everysecond of the day, at every
instance, every thought.
You can either choose positiveor negative.
Here's the good news is ittravels in every instance, every
thought.
You can either choose positiveor negative.
Here's the good news is ittravels in a single file line,
so you can only think onethought at a time, right?
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So why don't you choosepositive?
And here's the even better newsthan the good news is that you
can always.
There's always something to begrateful for, and so you can say
I'm grateful you're here today,eric.
Likewise, I am grateful thatyou choose positive and that you
put that out on every single,out of every pore of your body.
You sweat positivity, brother.
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But you're also very humble andvery.
You say it, I'm fallible.
Where did you learn Aloha?
Growing up Hawaii.
Here's where I'm going toswitch pivot.
What's your favorite thing youremember of growing up in Hawaii
?
That's purely Hawaii.
Here's where I'm going toswitch Pivot.
What's your favorite thing youremember of growing up in Hawaii
?
That's purely Hawaii.
I remembered with Kelly Boy deLima.
I used to play guava fight.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well, I grew up in Oahu.
My mom was the only white ladyfor blocks, so the next door
neighbors was Gonzagon, filipino.
The other neighbors were mixed.
Next door neighbors wasHawaiian Chinese, the Carlos
family, then a Japanese family,then the Konui family was
Hawaiian, so we lived in acul-de-sac.
So it was that small microcosmof Hawaii.
And I'm the whitest kid there.
Growing up I wanted to beHawaiian.
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I wanted to go to explorationbecause my neighbors went.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
But we all played in a circle together.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
We went hiking.
We played sky eating, we playedtee, played whatever like that
kickball, whatever.
We rode bikes.
We got into trouble.
We went to Manapumat but it wasvery diverse, so it was
definitely a cross section ofHawaii.
You had Filipino, hawaiian,japanese, chinese all in one
little circle and we all gottogether and those days are the
greatest because it was pure.
Back then we never had TV,never had Instagram.
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We spent our summers out there,sweating, drinking from the
hose, so yeah, so those are funmemories that you would never
think I've got there.
Like, my kid went to privateschool.
He lived in Wekai.
People think he's from themainland because he speaks so
good English.
I think I speak pretty goodEnglish.
I can kind of do the localthing.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
I guess I look local enough.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I think I look super white, but I'm Hapa enough.
But I definitely didn't thinkthat I grew up my paul and I
asked for my heart is music.
There's no way you grew up 94block.
I said, guarantee it's changeda lot, but that was such a safe
environment that we, we could, Icould go back there and I go
there pure yeah wow, it's notthe same, but if we could go
back to that.
Yeah, life was a little bitmore simple, yeah we all want
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that and that's what we're doinghere on aloha alive the heart
of hawaii.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
okay, so last question who is your Aloha hero?
Someone who embodies Alohaspirit?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Oh, it's got to be my dad.
By hand style.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Pastor Jeffrey Yamashita Hand style.
Yeah, he's still an icon, he'sstill a pillar in the church to
this day.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
There's not too many people who are going to say a
negative thing about my dad.
No, so 81 years on this earthand he changed more lives and
help more people than I can evermatch.
So my goal is to be like that,you know, be like.
My goal is to be like to bemore like Christ, but it's just
in the human form.
I want to be a fraction of whatmy dad did and hopefully my son
will follow my footsteps.
Hopefully we always talk aboutlegacy, you know.
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So hopefully there'll be legacyand continue, and my son is
growing to be that man, I thinkyou know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I want to speak a blessing on you, brother.
You just said something and I'mjust going to tweak it a little
bit, like tweaking that muscle.
You said I hope to do afraction of what my dad did.
I pray exponential.
Oh, yeah, for sure, even to the100th generation there will be
(41:43):
many blessings, and I highlyesteem your dad he's one of the
few pastors I hold in thatregard and so for me to say that
to you is not a light blessing,but you're already doing it,
eric.
Any last thoughts you wanted togive to our Aloha Alive
audience and Ohana?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, I think people need to realize that everything
starts with them.
Yeah, it starts with yourloving yourself, being
accountable to yourself, findinga relationship I mean I say
finding a relationship with Godit's up to you, but you have to
do your best to find peace foryourself before.
You're not going to findhappiness in sex or money or
violence or other people untilyou take care of yourself.
(42:20):
So I mean, if everybody canrealize every day they wake up
and they just want to be alittle bit better, find a way.
It's not even about sellingshirts of my brand, but
everybody has an opportunityevery single morning to make
their life better and it'sreally up to them.
I mean, there's a lot of peoplewith really, really bad
circumstances, but there'sthings that we can change.
There really is things that wecan change.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Even if it's just getting out of bed for five
minutes or washing your face ormoving moving or feeling a
certain way or connected withsomebody like that.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
We have opportunities every day to make our lives
better.
Well, like I said, whether it'smentally, physically,
spiritually, financially,fiscally, we can do that.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
So I implore people to just to be positive.
Yeah, Thank you for not beingthe regular influencer on IG who
goes after food, sex orviolence to pump the numbers but
you're a very positive and purenot peer pressure numbers, but
you're a very positive and purenot peer pressure, but pure
pressure and influencer.
This is Mr Eric Yamashita andhis bride, who's not actually
(43:14):
here, but in spirit I know she'shere.
It's Patty, and they representEvery Day Better.
It's a movement that started inthe heart of Hawaii, right in
the journal of this guy righthere, but you can catch him on
IG Everyday Better Hawaii.
You can also go to theirwebsite, it's
wwweverydaybetterhawaiiorg.
And then, if you really Dot com, Dot com.
Sorry, dot com, dot com.
And if you really want somemerch, they have a brick and
(43:36):
mortar at Snackalicious Snack.
Addicted Snack Addicted.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, it's one34 Kona Street, right above the
original Sai Street Inn.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Or also catch them at different monthly events.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah, at post events yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Okay, so that's us, and remember every day better Be
every day blessed, ohana Aloha,bye.
Aloha, welcome to Aloha Alive.
Of course, I'm Auntie Dawn andwe're here to talk about the
heart of Hawaii, which is Aloha.
One of the great kapenas, orcaptain of our team of 18 people
, is the man sitting right nextto me.
His name is Eric Yamashita ofEvery Day Better.
Good morning, brother, eric.
(00:34):
Good morning.
I'm super honored to be hereExcited.
You're already a legend in ourcommunity.
I was trying to walk out ourprevious guests and we had to
stop and follow our talk storyfor like at least 20-30 minutes.
Catch a few reels, do somephotos.
Thank you for Everyday Bless,because the name precedes itself
.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, I mean it's.
I'm just grateful to be able tobe have this idea and share
everyday better.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So tell us what is everyday better, because maybe
people are watching from likeTallahassee or North Carolina
and they don't know, or maybefrom New Zealand.
What is every day blessed andyou can see it right here.
Auntie Dawn is modeling myeveryday Aloha.
We got everyday Jesus and he'severy day better, better.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I'm a personal trainer.
I started in 1992.
So 33 years of training Wow, mylife's work is just helping
people be better.
Um, about 15 years ago I wrotebecause I'm old I write things
on a notebook or a day runner,you know, not like nowadays and
I put on the side of my bed andI wrote every day better and
just kind of stuck with me for awhile and then it would just
resonate every once in a while,come back and I started saying
(01:37):
it to my clients.
You know, you got to be alittle bit better, not having to
be perfect.
Um, 10 years ago I kind ofstuck again and then so finally,
six years ago I'm like I wassaying it so many times and just
repetition, getting into myclients' heads about just trying
to be better every day,incrementally better, small
little steps in your physicallife to be better.
So I said, okay, I'm going tojust start a brand on a fluke.
(02:00):
I did a food network show I meanon the news, with Guy Hagee and
Augie Made a shirt and we did alittle snippet called Cheap
Eats Wore the shirt.
People loved it on Instagramit's a great thing about
Instagram and people loved it.
I got a lot of feedback, so Imade 50 shirts.
The next day I sold 50 shirtswhat?
So I said, okay, something isworking here.
And then I didn't do it tostart to sell clothing, but just
(02:22):
to spread a message.
Right, I like to say thateveryday better is a mantra.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's a mindset, it's a motto, it's a meaning.
But more than that, I want tostart a movement of positivity.
So it started out as everydaybetter being better physically
in your physical life and thenit kind of evolved into being
everyday better spiritually,everyday better mentally,
everyday better physically.
So I was just so overwhelmedwith the amount of people that
(02:50):
connected with it on differentlevels and I realized it's such
a general term but so basic, butyou can apply it to your life
in any different facet right andit.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's simple but it's profound.
I love it.
I've been wearing your merchsince I first met you and we met
at, I think it was an HBAreunion a couple years ago, and
I love you and I love Patty,your partner in all things.
But Every Day Better is just.
I think it's so.
It connects with so many.
Eric, in my humble opinion,because we all can do it.
(03:18):
I can be a little bit betterabout my weightlifting or about
my bike ride or my walking or mydevotion time with Jesus,
whatever it is.
I can be a little bit betterabout my weightlifting or about
my bike ride or my walking or mydevotion time with Jesus,
whatever it is.
I can be a little bit bettertomorrow and maybe, as I've
heard you say in the past andcorrect me where I'm wrong,
brother but it could be a greatday.
But we still have some room forimprovement somewhere and that's
(03:40):
the applicability of it.
But it's also the easy way toget in on that and it is.
So where can we get Every DayBetter?
And we'll come back to that,but I want to say it a few times
to help support local, becausewe always support local here in
the state of Hawaii, we're anohana, and then I'm going to ask
you about your family, becauseI happen to know your family and
just some of the living legacywith that.
So where can we get Every DayBetter merch?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I'm on Instagram Everyday Better Hawaii or you
can go towwweverydaybetterhawaiicom so
pretty basic.
I have an online store.
You can see everything there.
You can go to Everyday BetterHawaii on Instagram.
Send me a DM and I do pop-upsevery month.
You're busy, I'm a busy man,but I'm also very, very grateful
to be blessed to be busy.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it is a movement, and we'll talk about that in a
second.
But first I want to get to knowyou as a person, because, well,
I know him, but I want us allto know him and his family.
Your patty is your bride atyour side.
Do you have kids?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I have one son, Ian.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh, shout out to Ian.
Okay, so anything you want toshare about Ian.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, he's just a great kid.
He's 21 years old and he's agrown man now and it's weird
because we're kind of emptynesters now.
Ian is working now and it'svery validating to have a son
become an adult and you know,all I wanted was him to be to
just love God first and just bea great human being and be kind
and strong and healthy, and he'sachieved all those things.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He's a superhero right now.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And he's only 21.
21,.
Yes, he loves and respects hisparents, which means I'm very
old, but it's, he's the head ofthe game.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We have a new chapter .
Empty nesters.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, good thing you have a feisty female at your
side, his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I have a wonderful wife.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Correct.
She's one of the most wittypeople.
I love her, her, I loveeverything she posts.
Okay, enough about beautifulwife.
Now part of what I know aboutyou, eric, and this is what I
want to bring up as far as AlohaAlive, I talk about Aloha Alive
wanting to perpetuate the heartof Hawaii because Aloha is so
powerful.
You grew up in the footstepsand in the shadow of a great man
(05:39):
who was your dad, pastorJeffrey Yamashita.
I knew Pastor Jeff from CampAgape, which is a camp for the
children whose parents are inprison, and he was just such a
humble.
He was like the big guy whodidn't need to pound the table,
(06:00):
just his presence alone.
He was a police officer on thewest side of Oahu.
For how long?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He started in Waianae , so probably maybe six or eight
years, and then he became ahomicide detective.
Yeah, but eventually he built achurch in Waianae because
that's where his heart was.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So how many years service?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So he did 52 years in law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Whoa, 52 years and he just passed away.
Was it 2022?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Three years ago.
Correct.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I remember, because I remember being so hit by that,
when you grew up in the state ofHawaii and there is a police
officer who then not only seesthe need of the youth on the
West Side and then becomes apastor who isn't just some guy
who's preaching from the pulpit.
And please know I love pastors,I support our pastors, but this
(06:46):
was a pastor who did things bydoing them, not just by
preaching, not just by talking,but by walking it out, caring,
giving and being.
Can you tell me a little bitabout your dad?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He was definitely more of a shepherd than a
preacher.
So my dad was more of a man of apeople and everybody says it
gets kind of hokey, like, oh, hemore of a man of a people.
And everybody says it gets kindof hokey, like, oh, he'd give
the shit off his back.
But my dad would literally dothat.
I remember growing up, when Iwas probably eight or ten, uh,
we brought this guy home and itwas big brothers of hawaii and I
was like what is this?
We had four kids in a familyand why are you bringing this
guy home?
He was a good guy but, like youknow, a little bit jealousy,
right, and my dad's like youknow this.
(07:17):
I was like why is he here?
Like we have, you have all ofus.
And he's like, well, these guysdon't have any fathers.
And then I didn't get it and wedid stuff with him and dad
would go and do stuff.
He was always there for us.
But I just didn't get it,because you're eight, nine years
old, you're kind of selfish.
And then he got a skateboardfor this guy and three or four
skateboards and brought it forhis brothers and I was like, dad
, how come they got skateboards?
I didn't get a skateboard andhe sat me down and your tears
(07:40):
because their dad is gone.
I think their dad wasincarcerated or he passed away
and there was five kids, four orfive boys and a daughter,
because they have nothing.
They live in like a one bedroomhouse and you guys have
everything.
So you just need to realizethat you only see the skateboard
but you don't see what we'regiving to them.
And we got to deliver theskateboards to their house and
I'm like nine or 10.
And I was like took my breathaway and very impactful that day
(08:00):
, because my dad was alwaysthere for every single soccer
game, every spelling b, everysports thing, church.
He was always there for us.
He was giving and I was likehow come my dad's giving that?
I don't want foster kids, Idon't want to break this away,
but now that I'm, when I becamea father and I see my son, I see
the heart he had and he wasalways with church or the police
department.
He was always giving.
He was.
(08:21):
So where did dad go?
Two o in the morning he went togo counsel someone or go help
somebody or bail somebody out.
He was always doing that, buthe was always there for us too.
So it was easier for me to say,oh, he wasn't there, but he was
there for us and for everybodyand that's a lot.
So obviously he went manynights without sleeping.
Yeah, but more than telling.
And we watched that and as Igot older it resonated with me.
(08:43):
So that's how I wanted to be adad and that's why, with my son,
my son sees that my dad had alife of service.
Wow For sure.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And now your son has chosen a career in the same life
of service.
That's amazing.
You know, and this is a talkstory session, we're conversing,
it's not.
I'm not just putting you on thegrill, although I love you,
brother, we're talking aboutevery day better, but one of the
things you just said that Ilove is that we in the state of
Hawaii, we Hanai we adopt.
Your dad was Hanai-ing kids offthe street that otherwise he
(09:12):
would be.
I'm sorry, but arresting orthrowing into juvenile detention
or putting into alternativelearning right, and he knew,
even with your five, the fivekids in his own family, he could
extend that father fathering toother people.
One of the issues we face somuch today is fatherlessness,
for a variety of reasons I don'tneed to get into.
(09:33):
You're a smart audience, you'rea smart man and so when we look
at this is the issue, I'm not.
I'm going to give 10% toidentifying the issue, 90% to
the solution.
Your dad just went ahead andstarted doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Which to me is one of the reasons he just won of the
many that.
He was a supernatural superherothat I highly respected, and I
was a cynical kid growing up.
I had a lot of bad thingshappen to me and I'm very
cynical when I look at people,but when I see the real deal, I
know it really is.
And your dad was Mr Real DealFor sure, 100%.
(10:07):
He didn't just preach it, hewalked it out.
Yeah, he walked the walk out.
And so you and it's funny youjust said he bailed some of the
kids out.
So he's arresting them on onehand and then going to bail them
out.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, he had compassion chance.
Yeah, wow, it's easy for us tojust say, oh, you know, these
guys are bad.
But I mean he grew up in kalihi, palama settlement.
The parents were divorced, thedad wasn't really there a long
time, you know a lot.
So he he grew up with fatherwas around, but not living in
the house, so he knew how itfelt, I think.
So I didn't realize that tilllater.
Um, but he had a heart for justthe people of hawaii and and he
saw potential in kids and I wasalways like he was always
(10:42):
organized because he was runningPAL, so Police Activity League
in Kalihi, and so he was alwaysdoing stuff.
But I mean, I think of all theaccomplishments that he did and
he was always there for us.
I don't know how he did it,yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Like you said, he must've not slept.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like, how could you do all of those things?
Now, interesting to me that youjust said something.
He grew up here, palamaSettlement.
We happen to be in Kalihi.
You work Kalihi, I work Kalihi.
And he didn't.
There was a divorce.
Early in his parents' life hewas fatherless.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, so at 12.
So it was my grandma's workingthree jobs and my dad and his
two brothers were just surviving.
Yeah, grandpa was I mean, hisdad wasn't around, so he became
the father, the father figure.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Wow.
And then not only for his ownhome, where he was fatherless,
did he become the father.
Then he extended and became afather to his own family.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He had five children.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You're one of them.
And then he became a family tohis community.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh yeah, and then he was doing stuff, you know, with
church and Teen Challenge andalways, like him and my mom were
preaching at the prison, my4'11 Holly mom.
So they're always doing stuff,outreach stuff, and that's just
what you do.
So it wasn't, it was like Isaid, it was a life of service.
That's just kind of was normalfor them to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's like breathing, yeah, blinking, my heart's
beating.
I'm doing something.
Talk about your mom.
I love your mom, auntie Barbara, she's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's my mom.
But me and my wife always sayshe's the most benevolent person
I have ever known and that's mymom.
But if you really get to meether, she's very, very sweet and
just not judgmental.
And you know, you have this4'11 Haole lady who was in
Waianae, makaha, all the timewe're going to the prison and
she had no fear, she was ateacher.
Then she started subbing whenwe got older.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So she would go sub at Nanakuli mom and she's 4'11,
howly, 98 pounds and she's gotthis beautiful like, if you
think of the ladies of the south, she's got like this, like kind
of puffy right.
Yeah, she's light hair, you cansee her.
She looks like a littlefloating cotton ball when I
she's the nicest thing ever butshe had no fear and she loved
people.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, so she didn't see color or race or gender or
whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So wow, how did she meet your dad?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
uh, my dad was a rookie cop.
My mom came from New York.
She came to get her master'sdegree at UH, met at the beach.
He saw the white girl, she sawthe brown guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, andit's funny because my grandma's
Chinese, so it's not racist.
But back in that generation myChinese grandma wanted to only
marry Chinese girls.
It wasn't racist because wedidn't think about that.
It's like the Frank Dillemasong or Mr Sancho Lee get plenty
(13:00):
.
We all got along.
We've seen our differences.
But my grandma wanted Chinese,mr Sancho Lee, she wanted
Chinese granddaughters.
But my dad and his two brothersall married white girls.
So all these half-breed kidscame.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I was going to say Papa kids are the most precious
and beautiful anointed appointedamazing Right.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
But back to business.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Tremendous family.
Just to put a tie up on thattopic.
I brought up his family becauseI have a high regard, respect,
and this is legit because I amone of the most cynical
Christians.
I don't even know how I'm aChristian.
I don't know why Jesus takes mein.
Nonetheless I'm very cynical.
(13:44):
So if Patty's watching, shegets this because she's a wit
herself.
But I have a high regard andrespect for your family.
Like seriously.
It's like slapping down thecarte blanche card.
If you say Yamashita or JeffYamashita or this man, eric,
it's all in.
I'm already backing you Now, asI say, I'm backing you.
I love that every day.
Better is a movement.
What does that look like inreality?
Because we can say the wordmovement, but there's a lot of
people who watch, especially ouryounger generation.
They need to say, uncle Eric,what does that sound like?
(14:05):
What does it look like?
What does it be like?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It starts with you.
I always say that people wantto be the change, but they want
to point fingers.
So change has to start with me.
So for me it has to be.
I have to be the person thatlives it and walks it and
preaches it and does everysingle day.
So I'm fallible and I make tonsof mistakes.
If you know me, I'm an openbook and my heart is open.
I explain and I'm real abouteverything that happened in my
life.
But, like I was telling my son,sometimes every experience has
(14:30):
made me a different person,right.
So every interaction you havein your life people have to
understand that they can teachyou who to be like or who not to
be like.
Every obstacle provides anopportunity.
So that's one of my favorite.
Every obstacle provides anopportunity to sit in front of
the wall and cry and do nothingor retreat or jump over the wall
.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, so we have these experiences in our lives.
But we wallow in our pity, andthat's okay.
But we need a moment to stepback and guess okay, how can I
make this better?
And we rely on tv or spouse ordrugs or food or anything to
make us better.
But we have to kind of comewithin ourselves.
I think we, as we get older, werealize that there's not a lot
of accountability in the worldyeah in the government and our
(15:09):
friends, yeah.
So I think for me, starting tobe every day better was just for
me.
It resonated for me.
I always say it sounds funny,but it was selfish, because when
I do my thought of the dayevery morning, my thought of day
was for me and it was like it'sfor, it's for social media.
But I'll be 59 years old, Idon't know how to stand social
media no ways, you're 59 yearsold, yeah but I'm doing it
because I want to sharesomething that resonates with me
(15:29):
.
Like the thought of day issomething that I think is
impactful to me, but itresonates to me.
So it sounds weird but I'mbeing selfish because that's
what I thought that day, orthat's a, a model or something I
found.
I didn't create them all, butby me verbalizing instead of
writing it it resonates a lot ofpeople and if it touches one
person I'm happy.
But it's also, I tell people,teaching is learning twice.
Yeah, so if I'm sharingsomething, I'm resonating and
(15:50):
reiterating it myself in my headand then it kind of resonates
throughout the day.
So sharing that is a good thing, but for me it's just it.
Me, it's a daily walk of tryingto be better for myself and,
like I said, it started as aphysical thing but it evolved
into trying to be better withyour relationships at work, your
relationships at home, yourfiscally with them, because we
have to be responsible with ourmoney, absolutely.
We have to be responsible withour emotions, we have to be
(16:11):
responsible with our spirituallife.
So it evolved.
I didn't want it to be aChristian or a political thing
and I've kind of tried to stayaway with that.
But as far as me, loving God,I'm not ashamed, because I
realized that I don't want toshove Jesus down people's
throats, because I think that'sthe worst thing to do.
But I also want people to knowthat I love God.
I'm imperfect, I make lots ofmistakes, but I love God, and if
(16:32):
there's an opportunity for meto share Jesus, I will do that.
But I also want people to knowwhere I'm at.
I make mistakes.
I have successes, but myfailures really make my
successes greater.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, and it's the realness about you that preaches
the best.
I love that.
You said a few things there.
One was obstacles areopportunities, and the second
that you brought up your thoughtof the day, because you post
those and I love them Sorry,selfish, because they're short.
You can capture it in one little15 second nugget yeah, and
thank you for recognizing and Iknow it's not a big deal, but
(17:04):
you said you don't author all ofthem.
Yeah, but they'll be reallygood little nuggets, like you
just did one yesterday and I go.
I've heard that before but Ineeded to hear it again.
Right, and it's just a littletweak.
I needed, like, probably whenyou're training.
I went to the gym once.
It's just a little tweak, Ineeded Like probably when you're
training.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I went to the gym once.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It was just one time but I like to bring it up a lot
and my trainer at that time hewas like Don, you're doing that
almost correctly.
And I was like dude, you toldme to do a little little
dumbbell lift right there, I'mdoing it, he goes, but if you
tweak it just a little bit,you're going to actually hit the
medial, the muscle.
I'm asking you to do Right andyou understand that because
you're a trainer.
Yes, and that's the way you'retweaking.
With these thoughts of the day,I could be generally good, but
(17:44):
I can be a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There's the key word.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right, so that you're hitting it head on and then I'm
going to get that nice bulgeright there.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And you're allowing yourself to make mistakes.
And every day is a next day.
It's another whole, anotheropportunity to do better I love
it, and it's bite-sized, yeah ithas to be that way it's that's
(18:12):
nowadays.
We're so, we cannot.
Yeah, we're so aged we cannothandle a lot of stuff.
It has to be really quick.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, and we're overwhelmed.
Eric, we live in a world ofinundation.
We're overwhelmed.
It's the informationsuperhighway and I'm standing
there just trying to cross onelane.
Why am I getting mowed down byeverything in this information?
You keep it Every day.
Better is bite-sized chunks andyou give me the thought of the
day is a 10, 15, second little.
Now you just said somethingelse that I want to go back to
(18:41):
and kind of zoom in.
You know, like when you gotyour cell phone you're like wait
, what is the eye color?
Zoom in there.
Um, you said you're not ashamedof your relationship with Jesus
Christ.
And thank you for saying you'rehuman, you're fallible.
You started with that.
You said I'm fallible, I'm notperfect.
We have it up here.
It's my favorite cap to wearwhen I'm out because it preaches
in one box three words everydayJesus.
How did you come to know Jesusas your best bud?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
My parents became Christians in the 70s, so
probably I was like 10 or 12.
And my dad was a cop, but hewas a tough guy from Cali, so
far from perfect.
I think he shielded us from alot of the stuff that went
around in his life or policework, but we started going to
church in late 70s, yeah, so Ithink I became a Christian at
maybe 13.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Wow early.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, 45 years ago or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So did you feel like that was for real, because I
know a lot of kids who saythat's not really my thing.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I was the head of the youth group and I was a
teenager on Far For God and thenI became 21 and started chasing
girls.
I mean like, yeah, so I alwaysknew God, but for sure, 20s and
30s I was single andbodybuilding and traveling all
over the world and just beingworldly.
I knew God and I would go tochurch sometimes and my parents
never made me do anything.
But you know, yeah, but Idefinitely didn't have a close
walk with God.
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I mean, I knew he was there,but just yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Thank you for saying that, because it's not
necessarily this perfectstraight timeline where I got
saved at 13 and then I juststarted living this Christian
life that went all the waythrough to the man that we see
today, who's almost 59 years old.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh no, success is not a straight line at all.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And neither is our salvation.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's like yeah, it's a very wavy, tumultuous yeah
yeah, and what I love.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
before we started and you can speak to this again,
but they didn't see it on camera.
I did.
You talked about I didn't knowthat Patty is your second wife
and you said you know, afteryour first divorce, god bless
that person.
You had your child with thatperson, but then you went off
and you became Kolohe Boybecause you were angry, that's
real Eric Patty's, the bestthing that ever happened to me.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So she brought me happiness and joy and peace.
I mean Jesus did, but, yeah,definitely my wife has brought
me closer to God for sure,Because she became a Christian
and that's all my parents wantedwas.
That was their prayer.
And then my dad led her toChrist and baptized her six
months before he passed away.
So it was God, yeah.
And then her becoming closer toChrist and being on fire for
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Jesus made me on fire because Iwas back to the cynical thing.
I thought I knew everything.
I was.
I've been in the church for 40something years, so I was the
most critical person.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Because we see everything.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I can see everything.
So I always think people arefull of crap, because I know my
relationship with God wasn'tperfect.
But I watch people like, oh,that guy's taking a lot of money
, that guy's all for himself,that lady wears too much makeup,
this person, that person socynical, is easy, yeah.
So it was hard because I waslike, ah, my wife is on fire for
Christ.
And I wasn't because I was like, ah, I want the old hat, just a
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more grumbling old man.
Being on fire, the last two orthree years has has made me more
on fire for jesus because sheloves jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, so her walk is very new.
For sure, dad baptized her sixmonths before he went to glory
yeah, amazing it's, that's justgod and you said that your
parents actually told you stopbeing so angry.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You know, here's a great woman and she, she
actually didn't really want youshe was happy with her single
life and I pursued her, but I'mglad I did because my life has
been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So this is the marriage then, and I'm not
trying to bash anyone else- ortry to demean.
Every experience, as you said,is a building block to who we
are today, but Patty is the onethat God meant for you.
Correct, that's amazing, almost10 years now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
But Patty is the one that God meant for you, correct?
That's amazing, almost 10 yearsnow.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So the message for those of us who are single, or
those of you who are watching,is that God has a person for you
.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
When we force our own plans it's not going to work.
But when we step back, I tellpeople I have lots of clients
who are divorced.
I trained women for a long timeso I became just the ear.
I'm learning with my wife to bea better listener.
I'm not far from perfect, butI'm learning to shut my mouth,
try not to fix and be a betterlistener and I'm realizing
there's lots of women that wantsomething in their lives and
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they want happiness and theywant peace and they look for it
in men or other people.
And the best advice I can giveis you need to find yourself and
be happy by yourself.
My wife was very happy byherself and I ruined all that.
She was self-sufficient andhappy, but I think our lives are
even greater because we'retogether.
Yes, absolutely, I'm not farfrom perfect and she's very
tolerant of me and vice versa,but I think relationships are
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tolerating each other.
That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, and you make a great couple, because I invited
both of you to come and shedidn't come.
She's here in spirit, I know,but you said she is actually
extremely introverted.
And she's one of the funniestwomen I know.
I love seeing her Instagramposts, but she didn't want to
come be on camera.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, she had to work , Somebody's got to work, right,
she had to work, and then she'sjust not that camera person and
you are.
I'm very extroverted and she'sintroverted you but she just her
life is more private.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, but there would be no eric if there's no patty.
And there's no patty, well,there would be, but it's not as
full as having to become that'swhy we work, because we're not
yeah, we're yin and yang yeah, Ilove.
It okay, so here we go.
So your testimony was reallyyou got saved early um.
Jesus was there, but, like yousaid, success is not a straight
line.
Everything was the churchsalvation is not a straight line
either and I love, love thatyour parents one being a pastor
and he's a hardcore pastorhardliner he didn't just hold
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you to some kind of unreal ideal.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They just loved us, they never pushed.
I mean, we went to a Christianhigh school.
We were fortunate enough thatmy parents scraped together to
put us to HBA, which I sent myson there for 13 years.
It's not cheap.
So, even more appreciation forwhat they did.
And they had four of us goingthere.
I don't know.
I always say did my dad selldrugs or?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
launder money.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Because I don't know how they could have done it.
But you know, what they did isthey always had faith and
somehow God provided.
We didn't have lots, but we hadfamily.
We were together.
They were always there for us.
We had everything we needed.
We didn't have lots of fancyclothes, but I didn't feel like
we were poor.
We weren't rich.
I went to private school, soeverybody's rich.
So I always felt like, oh,those guys are rich, I'm not
rich.
And then after a while I didn'tcare, because now I see I had
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family.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'd rather have family than money any day to get
family or an authentic personwho likes them.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
for them, I have tons of clients who are super
wealthy, but you know what theydon't have?
They don't have peace.
I have peace, that's goodPeople want to be successful and
they want to be rich.
And I ask them you want to besuccessful and you want to be
rich, but don't you want peacemore than that?
Right?
And then, if you really reallyPeace, money doesn't buy peace,
sex doesn't buy peace, familydoesn't buy peace.
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You have to find it withinyourself or with God, and that's
the only way.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You beat me to the punch.
I was just going to ask wheredo you find your peace?
Then you have to With God.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But people are not accountable.
They won't sit back and gothrough all the ugliness of
their life and figure out whatthey really want.
They're going to throw it outto other people instead of being
accountable.
So the more accountable likefor me, the more accountable and
real and transparent I can be,the better.
And if people don't like it,that's okay.
I hate to use the word I don'tcare because we say I don't care
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and that's a tough word becauseit really that basically I
don't care.
That's harsh, but it it doesn'tbother me as much.
I know God loves me and my wifeloves me and I'm far from
perfect, but I'm going to justkeep doing my truth and my
movement because what I feel isright.
It's not always perfect forsure.
So I try not to be political onmy Instagram.
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I obviously have strongfeelings, but it's just setting
yourself up for fightingDistraction, right.
And I've talked to a lot of thebig influences in Hawaii.
They make money off of food sexand yeah, that's where the
money's at, because that's whatwe look at, that's what we're
drawn to.
Food is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I love donuts of course, or milkshakes or boba
drinks before my everyday better.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
When I had my own private Instagram.
If I put a picture without myshirt on or donuts, I'd get tons
of views.
If I talk about Jesus, nobodycares because it's exciting
locals punching hollies orpeople fighting or whatever
crimes yeah.
Yeah, bullying, it's exciting,has views and and and sex is
cells right, that's the truth.
And and food cells yeah, so Idon't want to do any of that wow
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so you're never going to find abikini girl on my website.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thank, you, I'm married.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's.
That's not the representation,and a lot of the people I buy my
clothes are big girls andthat's who's?
Yeah, yeah, so it's like.
It's like I'm not there to sellclothing.
I'm there to share a messageand the byproduct is me selling
clothing.
I'm grateful that I can do that.
My job is a full-time trainer,so my mission is I share
clothing and stuff like that.
It's something that you canwear every day, so it's a
constant reminder when you gosomeplace.
You can see my brand a hundredyards away and people always or
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oh, what's that?
They'll say what's that about?
Or I was really ready for allthe negativity and I haven't.
I thought I started to starttalking about Jesus and people
are going to say, really, yeah,I just and my default setting is
always be optimistic, but Ijust was ready for people to
just give me negative stuff.
Right, I had, here and there,some people they don't believe
in God or they don't think Ishould use.
But I'm like well, I'm born andraised here.
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I have plenty of love in myheart.
If you know me, I have lots oflove I never said I was Hawaiian
right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Never once said that I don't think the Hawaiians
copyrighted Aloha.
I pray to God they didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But I.
But I share it with everybody,so the negativity is so minimal
and I was ready for it.
Cause I said oh yeah, one dayat a time.
Or if I'm changing people'slives one t-shirt at a time,
then that's good.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I have to say every time I wear it because I have
the everyday blessed.
I have this one everyday aloha,which I wore for not just my
birthday last year, thank you,but I also wore it for my
Christmas card I sent out.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I was at Ko'olina.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I was just up on a, not a Christmas tree, a palm,
coconut tree hello, I eat it allthe time and I had this shirt
on.
But every time I wear my gearand then I have this cap that I
also wear.
Um, it's a stop and stare.
Yeah, and it's not don o'brien,because I'm a little bit older.
She's not the girl she used tobe, but it really is this three
day, three word box and peopleget it.
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And because it's usually blackon white, all my gear is like
but and then one word ishighlighted in a different color
.
People read it and they don'teven talk.
They can keep walking, but alot of them go yeah, like the
shirt, or what's up with the cap.
Yeah, where you got that?
So thank you forconceptualizing.
Um, it's a sermon in a threeword box.
Boom kajesus.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's.
A conversation starts like myshirt just is better.
So some people like it, somepeople don't.
And I've had people say, oh,you think you're better than me?
I say, oh, on the contrary.
I say, no, it's just about mepersonally trying to be better
for myself, not than you, butyou can also be better too.
And then I love when peoplecome at me negative, because I
try to flip the script.
I say, bro, you can be better.
(29:28):
Like, oh, sorry, I came at you,like that.
Obviously people, people come atyou when they're, when there's
pain in their life, yeah, yeah.
So instead of me pointing outtheir pain, I just talk to them,
maybe make them feelcomfortable, maybe they can
share their pain and we can havea conversation about stuff.
I'm not going to fix it orchange their life, but if I can
impact them by just talkingabout shortcomings I've had and
why I did every day better, andif they have a moment.
That's why, when I do events, Ilike talking to people a lot.
Selling the shirts is cool, butit's more just connecting with
people on that different level,because they see you on
Instagram and it's one thing,but when you get to these events
(29:48):
, you can just talk to peopleand people share their stories.
So eventually I'm starting apodcast and writing a book of
all the interactions I've had.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Because I just have tons of stuff on my phone about
people, how and I'm not makingit like it's me, because it's
really not about me, it's mejust starting a conversation,
right yeah, about how to bebetter.
It's like people just need itsometimes.
Like you said, a little15-second snippet or something
that Bite size.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, you're changing the world one bite at a time.
Yeah, I'm just grateful that Ithought of this and it's Old.
Eric, was they used to?
I was all about myself.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But now I really don't care about people knowing
that it's my brand.
We'll literally go someplaceand you'll see the shirt and
I'll say, hey, nice shirt.
And the guy has no idea it's mybrand.
But I hate to do that.
My brand.
I don't even like saying thebrand it's our movement, eric,
but the fact that somebody gotit.
I go where'd you get that shirt?
He goes oh, my brother's,father's of people that are
sharing the shirt as a gift andthey're sharing something
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positive.
So it's just heartwarming forme that before it was like, hey,
that's my shirt, bro, Right,that's mine.
And then it takes all theemphasis away from the meaning
and it puts it on me and I'mhuman, but I don't really need.
I don't need the pat on the backanymore.
Every day I have blessings,blessings, just connecting with
people, and I thank God.
I try to be better about beinggrateful in the good times,
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because we always want God whenwe're having problems.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But when we have successes.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We don't always thank God.
So I'm trying to thank God allthe time, but I have these
opportunities and I think I takeit for granted less and less
now because I'm trying to bemore aware.
And I have these DMs and peoplesay, hey, thank you for sharing
that or whatever it.
And I have these DMs and peoplesay, hey, thank you for sharing
that or whatever.
It's super impactful because alot of people don't have human
nature, where we don't havevalidation in our lives.
I did this thing for men'shealth.
(31:31):
The other day I did a littlething and it's just women are
created one way, men are createdone way and men are super macho
.
But men need to be loved.
Yeah, they need to be validated.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Respected.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
They need to be acknowledged yeah, but we don't,
and we don't say it now.
So I do my best to tell guysyeah, bro, I love you and it's
not.
Oh, bro, you're homo, it hasnothing to do with it.
But men have a hard timetelling other men that they love
them.
But if you make that normal, itadore you is different from
love.
So I try to tell my wife Iappreciate her and I love her
and I adore her, because love isone thing.
(32:05):
Oh, I love you, love you right.
Love you right.
I love cake, right I love pizza, yeah, so it's very abused.
I'm not saying it doesn't haveany meaning, but it doesn't have
a lot of meaning anymore.
So saying I appreciate you andshowing I appreciate you and
acknowledging to other men.
It's not nothing to do withwomen to the other men, but
we're definitely different whenwe cater to women or to men.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
And then there's a lot of men that I know, who are
business owners or CEOs that aresuffering, that have messaged
me that they want to killthemselves.
It's heavy, and the mostmacho-ish guys, the ones who are
the leaders, are the ones thatare suffering too, but they
cannot ever show that.
Not afraid to show weakness,yeah, but you have to be.
Yes, we have to be a little bitmore compassionate.
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Realize that all the tough guysaren't necessarily tough.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, and this is everyday knowledge.
To use everyday better term,because I love what you're
saying, eric.
Part of it is mental wellness.
We call it that in the world,right, but it's also men's.
Mental wellness is a wholedifferent plane.
Speaking to a man, I was justreading part of scripture I
believe it was in Ephesiansabout how a man and a woman are
to be together a husband and awife, right.
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And there's this whole set ofinstructions on how a guy gets
to love his bride and at thevery end it says and women give
your husband respect.
That's it, one word.
But I love what you're saying ishow do we flesh that out more?
Because I am in elementaryschools a lot with the Choose
Aloha program and I have toteach really basic ways of what
does that look like, what doesit sound like?
(33:30):
Yeah, and that's how we canspeak to men so that they feel
validated.
Because you're right, eric, Iknow some really large
Polynesian guys professionalfootball players or coaches and
they look massive, they'removing mountains of muscle.
But for me to say I appreciateyou, I respect you, I so love
the way that you love your son.
(33:50):
That can turn that man into apuddle because he doesn't get it
.
He didn't hear it at home, socan we do more of that?
Is that what?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
you're saying yeah, because my dad did with me.
I do it with my son all thetime.
So I was like I don't want totell him I love him too much,
much, but like too bad.
Every day he's off to work.
I'm like I'm proud of you, besafe, I love you.
And then he wasn't alwayssaying it because he's too cool
and recently, now he's 20, he'ssaying it all the time love you
too, dad.
It's like it's very valid, buthe needs to hear that, like our
people in our lives.
So I tell people, we need totell people we love yeah that we
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love them good because they you.
You know I love you, right, butmaybe that day you didn't
realize I loved you I need totell you, I need to inundate you
with, with love and make sureyou understand, through how I
speak, but more than that, how I, how I act and how I treat you,
that I love you because daysare short and you know come on,
yeah, we don't always have, wedon't have, we don't have the
time that we think we do wereally don't.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
My pastor just said that this past Sunday in church.
He said you know, he knew ayoung man, young pastor in his
church who walked outside andunfortunately dropped dead Like
just stone cold dead, no causeof death, right Wasn't hit by a
truck and you could, I couldwalk outside and, god forbid, a
bus could run into me, et cetera.
But we don't know and the daysare short.
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Thank you, eric.
So tell people that's our lifetip, life hack.
Tell people that you love themright now, today.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You don't know what they're going through.
You know, just, my wife alwaysreminds me like I'm 95, super
happy and positive, but intraffic I'm kind of a monster.
So I'm getting better.
But she's like honey, you don'tknow what they're going through
.
They could have diarrhea.
They could have lost their dog,like so I have to remember he
could have diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They could have lost their dog.
So I have to remember theycould have diarrhea and lost the
dog who had diarrhea and she'sgood.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
She's like put your hands down, because I'm a cop
but I like to fight everybodybefore.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No, I'm the same way.
Traffic makes me nuts and wehave the worst traffic in the
nation.
Eric.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But my wife reminds me you don't know what they're
going through.
Try your best.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
True that, true that.
So I just like Do you want togive any shout outs before we
bring this in for a landing,because I'm going to get to the
aloha part at the end.
But thank you, brother.
That was so much aloha andyou're like it's like watching
somebody on four times fast.
There's so many statements Iwant to take apart and like look
at each one and that's thequality you get when you're
watching, like even the thoughtof the day with Eric on at
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Everyday.
Better Hawaii, you get 15seconds.
You're like wait, I got towatch it again.
Oh good, he posted it like fivetimes.
And you know, the other dayyesterday there was a guy I
think he was like fromCalifornia or Florida, somewhere
else, with palm trees, and likeit's in green because the guy's
from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So Everyday Better Hawaii.
He's from California, but hewas visiting in Kauai.
He's wearing the shirt, yeah,yeah and it impacts us that way.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So thank you for that and thank you just for all the
goodness you put out there.
Where do you get a lot of thesource?
And then I'll bring this in forthe aloha landing where's.
Where's your source?
Where do you get so muchgoodness?
Because, I mean, we all havethe same chances it's, it's who
you surround yourself with, youknow.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I mean like, so like come people say, oh, you don't
surround yourself around withcigarette smokers or people who
are fat and I'm like I loveeverybody.
Yeah, if you happen to bebigger and you smoke cigarettes,
I'm still going to love you.
Yeah, but we just surroundyourself.
You're definitely some of thepeople you're around.
What?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So I just choose to be around people who love God,
who are trying to be healthier,trying to be better, and it's
not that I'm segregating myselffrom other people, but my life
is so busy so I have to bereally just accountable and
responsible.
Who I spend my time with?
So I'm going to spend my timewith.
I start my day with God, end myday with God.
Spend my time with my son asmuch as possible he works a lot.
Spend my time with my wife,which I adore, but I've got to a
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point with my career where Ican vet my clients.
So I want to be with peoplethat really want to do things
and move and get better and feelbetter and be positive.
So it's not that I won't bearound negative people, but
negative people are verydraining.
So I have time for those people, but it just depends.
You have only so much time ofthe day.
So I derive my aloha fromlooking at positive things,
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listening to positive things,sharing positive things, meeting
positive people, praying.
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You're naming so many things that are available to
any of us.
One of my mentors, or reallygreat friends, is Scarlett Lewis
.
She founded Choose Lovemovement around the world after
her son was killed in a schoolshooting.
He was in the first grade andout of that completely evil
murder event where 28 peoplepassed, including the gunman
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himself who turned the gun onhimself at the end of the event,
out of that great evil she wasable to redeem a greater good.
And she says this.
She goes, we all at everysecond of the day, at every
instance, every thought.
You can either choose positiveor negative.
Here's the good news is ittravels in every instance, every
thought.
You can either choose positiveor negative.
Here's the good news is ittravels in a single file line,
so you can only think onethought at a time, right?
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So why don't you choosepositive?
And here's the even better newsthan the good news is that you
can always.
There's always something to begrateful for, and so you can say
I'm grateful you're here today,eric.
Likewise, I am grateful thatyou choose positive and that you
put that out on every single,out of every pore of your body.
You sweat positivity, brother.
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But you're also very humble andvery.
You say it, I'm fallible.
Where did you learn Aloha?
Growing up Hawaii.
Here's where I'm going toswitch pivot.
What's your favorite thing youremember of growing up in Hawaii
?
That's purely Hawaii.
Here's where I'm going toswitch Pivot.
What's your favorite thing youremember of growing up in Hawaii
?
That's purely Hawaii.
I remembered with Kelly Boy deLima.
I used to play guava fight.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well, I grew up in Oahu.
My mom was the only white ladyfor blocks, so the next door
neighbors was Gonzagon, filipino.
The other neighbors were mixed.
Next door neighbors wasHawaiian Chinese, the Carlos
family, then a Japanese family,then the Konui family was
Hawaiian, so we lived in acul-de-sac.
So it was that small microcosmof Hawaii.
And I'm the whitest kid there.
Growing up I wanted to beHawaiian.
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I wanted to go to explorationbecause my neighbors went.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
But we all played in a circle together.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
We went hiking.
We played sky eating, we playedtee, played whatever like that
kickball, whatever.
We rode bikes.
We got into trouble.
We went to Manapumat but it wasvery diverse, so it was
definitely a cross section ofHawaii.
You had Filipino, hawaiian,japanese, chinese all in one
little circle and we all gottogether and those days are the
greatest because it was pure.
Back then we never had TV,never had Instagram.
(40:01):
We spent our summers out there,sweating, drinking from the
hose, so yeah, so those are funmemories that you would never
think I've got there.
Like, my kid went to privateschool.
He lived in Wekai.
People think he's from themainland because he speaks so
good English.
I think I speak pretty goodEnglish.
I can kind of do the localthing.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
I guess I look local enough.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I think I look super white, but I'm Hapa enough.
But I definitely didn't thinkthat I grew up my paul and I
asked for my heart is music.
There's no way you grew up 94block.
I said, guarantee it's changeda lot, but that was such a safe
environment that we, we could, Icould go back there and I go
there pure yeah wow, it's notthe same, but if we could go
back to that.
Yeah, life was a little bitmore simple, yeah we all want
(40:36):
that and that's what we're doinghere on aloha alive the heart
of hawaii.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
okay, so last question who is your Aloha hero?
Someone who embodies Alohaspirit?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Oh, it's got to be my dad.
By hand style.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Pastor Jeffrey Yamashita Hand style.
Yeah, he's still an icon, he'sstill a pillar in the church to
this day.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
There's not too many people who are going to say a
negative thing about my dad.
No, so 81 years on this earthand he changed more lives and
help more people than I can evermatch.
So my goal is to be like that,you know, be like.
My goal is to be like to bemore like Christ, but it's just
in the human form.
I want to be a fraction of whatmy dad did and hopefully my son
will follow my footsteps.
Hopefully we always talk aboutlegacy, you know.
(41:14):
So hopefully there'll be legacyand continue, and my son is
growing to be that man, I thinkyou know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I want to speak a blessing on you, brother.
You just said something and I'mjust going to tweak it a little
bit, like tweaking that muscle.
You said I hope to do afraction of what my dad did.
I pray exponential.
Oh, yeah, for sure, even to the100th generation there will be
(41:43):
many blessings, and I highlyesteem your dad he's one of the
few pastors I hold in thatregard and so for me to say that
to you is not a light blessing,but you're already doing it,
eric.
Any last thoughts you wanted togive to our Aloha Alive
audience and Ohana?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, I think people need to realize that everything
starts with them.
Yeah, it starts with yourloving yourself, being
accountable to yourself, findinga relationship I mean I say
finding a relationship with Godit's up to you, but you have to
do your best to find peace foryourself before.
You're not going to findhappiness in sex or money or
violence or other people untilyou take care of yourself.
(42:20):
So I mean, if everybody canrealize every day they wake up
and they just want to be alittle bit better, find a way.
It's not even about sellingshirts of my brand, but
everybody has an opportunityevery single morning to make
their life better and it'sreally up to them.
I mean, there's a lot of peoplewith really, really bad
circumstances, but there'sthings that we can change.
There really is things that wecan change.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Even if it's just getting out of bed for five
minutes or washing your face ormoving moving or feeling a
certain way or connected withsomebody like that.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
We have opportunities every day to make our lives
better.
Well, like I said, whether it'smentally, physically,
spiritually, financially,fiscally, we can do that.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
So I implore people to just to be positive.
Yeah, Thank you for not beingthe regular influencer on IG who
goes after food, sex orviolence to pump the numbers but
you're a very positive and purenot peer pressure numbers, but
you're a very positive and purenot peer pressure, but pure
pressure and influencer.
This is Mr Eric Yamashita andhis bride, who's not actually
(43:14):
here, but in spirit I know she'shere.
It's Patty, and they representEvery Day Better.
It's a movement that started inthe heart of Hawaii, right in
the journal of this guy righthere, but you can catch him on
IG Everyday Better Hawaii.
You can also go to theirwebsite, it's
wwweverydaybetterhawaiiorg.
And then, if you really Dot com, Dot com.
Sorry, dot com, dot com.
And if you really want somemerch, they have a brick and
(43:36):
mortar at Snackalicious Snack.
Addicted Snack Addicted.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, it's one34 Kona Street, right above the
original Sai Street Inn.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Or also catch them at different monthly events.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah, at post events yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Okay, so that's us, and remember every day better Be
every day blessed, ohana Aloha,bye.
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