ALOHA ʻĀINA & ART · In this episode, Lily Māhealani Mitchell invites us into the in-between - between Hawaiʻi and England, painting and design, emotions and healing. She traces her path from meticulously painting roses as a kid to creating protest-inspired archival work like a hidden-ink Kumulipo typography piece that questions who knowledge is really for. Living abroad sharpened her awareness of aloha ʻāina, water, urbanization, and what it means to carry culture in spaces that don’t always reflect it back. We talk murals in underground markets, research as resistance, and why sometimes the message chooses the medium, not the other way around. This conversations is about staying rooted while roaming and becoming the sun wherever you land. Mahalo for tuning in!

Learn more about Lily's art:

Website: https://mahealily.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madebymahealily/

Episode Highlights

00:00 meet lily māhealani mitchell 🌺

01:49 a multi-medium artist — why pick one when you can do it all? 🎨

03:22 home: oʻahu, hawaiʻi island, england & choosing leeds beckett university

06:25 storytelling, culture, and the heartbeat behind the art

06:51 roses, realism, and learning to really see

08:58 letting the message choose the medium

10:37 inspiration abroad: missing hawaiʻi, aloha ʻāina, and community contrast

14:58 reforest leeds: water, biophilic design, and reconnecting people to ʻāina 🌿

19:12 save our surf (sos): archival posters, shoreline protests & urbanization 🌊

21:36 research as healing: archives, primary sources, and cultural continuity

25:04 kumulipo typography project: hidden knowledge, reverence, and decolonizing text

30:21 making the work: emotion, therapy, and the leeds market tunnel mural

33:37 art is for everyone

36:30 leo rising ♌

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Credits
🎙️ Host & Producer: Molly Mamaril
🎸 Guitar: Amund Gismervik

A Diversity of Experiences: Guests on Heartbeat Narratives share their own perspectives and experiences. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of the host or the podcast. We invite you to listen with an open mind and enjoy the joy and insight offered from many different vantage points.

PRESENCE · In this season of heart-to-hearts, we sit down with Love Chance - a mother, entrepreneur, ʻāina lover, and dreamer. She is also the founder and creative force behind The Indigenous Soap Company. Guided by ancestral wisdom and reverence for the land, Love weaves Cherokee and Hawaiian teachings into her motherhood, her business, and the way she moves with intention. What began as a chance meeting at Pāʻaiau fishpond in Pearl Harbor unfolds into a reflective conversation on presence as the doorway to joy. Love shares how she gathers meaningful moments like flowers in a sacred lei, snapshots to be treasured and carried forward. Along the way, she offers insights on conscious entrepreneurship, happy soap stories and leading with aloha. Mahalo for joining us on this path to living in the moment.

Episode Highlights

00:52 A chance encounter

02:07 What’s in a name? The love story

03:41 Roots, rituals, and where we come from

06:43 Aloha everywhere: the Hawaiian diaspora

09:53 Finding joy in the now

12:45 Lāʻau lapaʻau, plant medicine

16:34 Sacred beginnings: Hawaiian birth wisdom

20:02 From vision to lather: the soap origin story

21:34 How Hawaiʻi happened (unexpectedly)

22:27 Expanding The Indigenous Soap Company

23:07 Babies, business, and balance

24:56 Entrepreneurship

26:53 Aloha forward: business with intention

30:53 Creative sparks and muses

33:09 Happy soap

36:54 Gratitude

Learn more about Indigenous Soap Company:

🌿 Website: https://www.indigenousoap.com/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indigenoussoap/?hl=en

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🎙️ Host & Producer: Molly Mamaril
🎸 Guitar: Amund Gismervik

A Diversity of Experiences: Guests on Heartbeat Narratives share their own perspectives and experiences. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of the host or the podcast. We invite you to listen with an open mind and enjoy the joy and insight offered from many different vantage points.

What does it mean to believe you are enough? In this episode of Heartbeat Narratives, Teron Buford, author, storyteller, and founder of Grace Through Soul, joins the conversation for a reflective discussion on identity and self-worth. Teron and Molly reconnect as friends from their college days, reflecting on how shared history deepens the conversation. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Teron shares how his life experiences have shaped his approach to leadership, fatherhood, and service. He reflects on insights from his book, "What If I’m Enough?" and the roles that storytelling and love play in making meaning of our lives. The conversation explores vulnerability, masculinity, and a reminder that your story isn’t a shackle, it’s the key.

Teron’s Website:
https://www.gracethroughsoul.com/

Buy the Book “What If I’m Enough?”
https://www.gracethroughsoul.com/about-3

Episode Highlights

02:34 Reconnecting

03:31 Teron's journey and life lessons

09:57 Role Models: the candy fundraiser story

16:28 Reflections on identity and vulnerability

21:49 Meeting Dee: a love story

27:22 Living fully and embracing the present

38:01 Future plans

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Credits
🎙️ Host & Producer: Molly Mamaril
🎸 Guitar: Amund Gismervik

A Diversity of Experiences: Guests on Heartbeat Narratives share their own perspectives and experiences. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of the host or the podcast. We invite you to listen with an open mind and enjoy the joy and insight offered from many different vantage points.