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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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.

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.

GOOD NEIGHBORS · In this solo episode, I reflect on what it means to be a good neighbor during a time of uncertainty and injustice. While I touch on ICE operations in Minnesota, my aim is to move beyond politics and into a place of shared humanity and respect for dignity. I’ve noticed that most of my neighbor interactions happen during crisis, and I wonder how much stronger our communities could be if we connected in everyday blue-sky moments too. I share stories from Minneapolis and Hawaiʻi, from neighbors stepping up to strangers showing unexpected kindness. Letʻs see the dignity in the people next door and choose again and again, to show up for one another.

Ways to show solidarity with Minnesota communities: https://minnesotanonprofits.org/ally-solidarity

Episode Highlights

00:52 — We see you, Minneapolis

01:37 — “Good neighbors”: Esther Perel’s insight on caring for others

03:11 — Minnesota Nice: reflecting on ICE operations in the Twin Cities and the kind ways neighbors are stepping up

04:59 — "Choose one's own way": Viktor Frankl's teachings on cultivating resilience during the Holocaust

06:56 — Brave breakfast conversations: unexpected honesty, history repeating, and the urgent need to speak up

09:26 — Aloha in action: how strangers have shown me kindness over the years

13:49 — Lessons from the woods: a simulation of the Secret War, building empathy with immigrant communities and never being a bystander

19:28 — Dignity next door: my heart sees your heart

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Heartbeat Narratives Book Recommendations
Our curated reading list that inspires and connects: Heartbeat Narratives on Bookshop.org

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.