Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Hey guys! What's up .. I just landed back in California + I'm taking some extra time to write this out for you! Enjoy, LE POD, WABI SABI EPISODE #11:HOW to Get your SHIT Together + Make it Look Fabulous xx all is perfectly imperfect!  What a Mentor Can REALLY do for you.  Why Working Weekends is: beneficial and cumulative to your ultimate success. + its pretty darn easy.  How to gain real clarity and perspective on where you want to go.  Why you should pray for others + their success.  Don't Gossip: there's simply no need and no time for it - it is absolutely a waste of time and not necessary to becoming who you were meant to be.  How to better HUMBLE THYSELF -- check yourself, always before you wreck yourself + why humility is a scarlet letter//asset to becoming a successful entrepreneur.  Surround yourself with SMARTIES!!!  -- who do know more about what they are doing than you! Everyone is a pro at something + collaborating as a team on the end game - that's what makes you strong and successful.  Pay your bills on time - this is legit business - its a transaction + its responsible + important.  Support Others: This is imperative to do sincerely and with your whole heart.  Remember that SUCCESS isn't what we all need more of -- as the Dalai Lama says: “The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds." -Dalai Lama What NYC has taught me on the weekends + how you can continue to do it + put your back into it. hahah.  Love you, I'm such a geek + this pod almost made me cry again!! Go purchase Kintsugi Wellness , like now xxx Candice  PS I have no idea what I'm doing.        

..so the story continues... you'll hear about three different life scenarios on wabi sabi podcast episode 10: one from a perfect stranger, from a Tokyo-Born-Indian, on the other side of the world, one of my own I stumbled across in Fiji, and one that was given to the people of Japan and the world. Each of these stories has the small potential to impact your life, but only in the way you'd like for it to. You allow how you'd like for each of these stories to impact you. After SXSW I received an email about how my SXSW speaking event  helped to mend a family and their trauma.  The story was so touching, I had to share it with all of you... When I went to Turtle Island Fiji this past year to study the local culture and food .. I stumbled across a woman named Deb, who forever changed my life. "We are all okay", "all is okay" + you don't even need to know someone very long, to know, you love them.  Their is a city in Japan, that became a historical place, a place of kintsugi.. in 1945 at 9:15 am. It even hurts to write out about these events. But You'll be able to hear about the recovery from broken to beautiful.  How to do the work + where to find it.  I hope you love episode 10, its short and very sweet + I also answer a few of your juicy IG questions! Send me your notes on Instagram on my latest post -- just comment! get kintsugi wellness now!  + See you on my Instagram stories + on the Today Show Aug 8th! xx ck   

I bless the rains in Africa, and this will all make sense in today's pod: Let's get adventurous!: My Resume is my Clapback.  No time wasted bickering here... only work and good quality work: How to be a better person + learn, stay chill + grow, giving to others and flourishing your life's romance --- your resume stands strong and nobody can take that away from you.  Build it.  Grow it.  Stay consistent AF.  Romance that shit.  Check your ego at the door.  Im tired and I don't feel like writing tonight lollzzz its 12 midnight + I gotta be up for the Today Show -- cuz I'm real AF. -- go listen to it bitches xxx ck  + buy this book dude: Kintsugi Wellness and thank you for being the loves of my life x      

Today, let's talk on the clear difference between selflessly "doing something" and selfishly "being someone". I've often thought of what I was taught when I was a kid growing up with a strict and tough Japanese mom -- but she was also the most loving, devout + admired mom, too. She and my father raised us by example and Jenni (my sister and I) later took what they showed us and all became a family of honor.  We will learn about how I am in the thick of the middle, a time of learning, struggle, financial pain, and balancing businesses from LA to NY -- no this shit is not easy -- but we do it bc we love it with honor.  - How the Japanese lost in the World Cup, they gave 110% -- ganbatte! and they still bowed with honor to the crowd after barely losing 3-2.  - We learn of the Japanese people after the game, picking up their own trash + others after losing the match... they show-- they do not tell.  - The Japanese term "gaman" with great resilience and honor - We learn from my Father, when he was drafted into the military at 18, how he moved his life forward with honorable action and integrity -- even though this was an uncertain time. - We learn from dad, what he calls, "basics" it seems so many of us are losing: like how to properly email someone + how complaining is not the way you + to be a better team mate means to work together.  - Be on time, be prepped, do as you are told. Simple. Basic shit.  - We learn from Maya Angelou and Kendrick Lamar.  - We learn how we can be better, how we can focus on our own work and life's calling - follow your calling -- even if it is far too great of an ask -- you will never be disappointed if you give it your all. - We can see action is the way to success, not talk. Anyone can talk and blab all they want.. but my stack of books and magazine stories will still stand the test of time + I honor myself, my work and mostly, I honor, care and value you + my contributions to society and the world.  Why I care about you? Find out in Episode 8 + have a think about what it means to be more mindful, to show others, by action and to live an even badder and better life.. I've said this before, I'll say it again -- you do not have to do what everyone else is doing.  Check out my new book Kintsugi Wellness -- I'll be on the TODAY show cooking with it!! JULY 12th 10 am hour!!  + Dr Oz JULY 16th!  Love and care for you, keep going babes, the middle is tough, but you are tougher!  xx ck     

Coined "the golden girl of wellness" by ELLE magazine, Candice Kumai, bestselling author, chef, wellness writer and former model shares with us her painfully-imperfect life lessons and experiences that have shaped her 15 year career in media, publishing, wellness, food, modeling and content creation. Arianna Huffington recently named Candice "a Top 20 NEW role model + Kumai is proud to share with you how to transform your life, accept the beauty of imperfection and mend what feels broken --- with Japanese repair. In short, you'll learn to shine from the inside out. Please welcome one of the most "real" girls in media crushing the wellness game. Candice has penned 6 books, sits on the Well + Good council, is a regular contributor to Girlboss, Shape, Cosmo, Bon Appetit, Men's Health, Dr Oz Show, E! News + Byrdie...and she can't wait to share how to transform all of our perfectly imperfect lives. Welcome wabi sabi and all the life lessons your perfectly imperfect heart desires.