 taking your health back. We're streaming live from our studios of Think Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu and from my home office in Makiki. Today we have a very unique young lady who wears many different hats and you'll see her wearing this hat and many others as we as we talk. Let me introduce to you Lube Cabin or also known as Sister Lube. Welcome Sister Lube. Aloha thank you for having me Miss Wendy. Yes I'm so excited because you're such a unique person. There's so much to just share about you and your charisma for life and everything that you do but before we get started Lube just tell us a little bit about yourself. You know it's all God. It all goes to him all the glory to God. My name is Lube Cabin. I'm originally from Republic of Palau and I've been in Hawaii for I came here in 96 so I've been here for about what is that 25 26 years. Wow. I attended high school here. Yeah. You don't even look old enough to have gone to high school yet. Wow so you come from Palau. Yes. So now when was the last time you went back to Palau? I went back about maybe what is it seven years ago or so for performance yeah. And do you miss Palau? Yes I do. I do but Hawaii is very beautiful and it's been home to me for these many years yeah. So are you here alone or do you have family members with you? I'm here with mom. Oh wow yes and I know that your mom she does a lot of community surveys and looking after the people of Palau here in Hawaii is that is that right? Yes and also actively involved in the Hawaiian community. She's been an advocate and does a lot of social work for the community here as well. Wow and of course she speaks the language so it makes the people from Palau when they come here they feel the more warm because their their people are greeting them here and then helping with the cultural difference as they enter into a new lifestyle you know buddy is that correct? Palauans in the Micronesian community as well. Wow so I know that you do a lot of things you wear a lot of different hats so please share with us some of your talents or your hobby. Whoo okay so I do music I've been doing music in Hawaii for the past maybe 10 years or a little bit more. I also do printing been blessed to be a part of a local brand with my screen printing experience we launched Shigo apparel where we build and empower women to know who they really are in the kingdom you know kingdom culture. Yes and I do printing I do filming I have a podcast on Modestv where we tackle local issues we also give a platform to a lot of musicians locally and globally to come on our show and share the message of reggae music and and just to encourage you know Pacific islands and also the Caribbean islands so yeah and culture as well. Wow when I first met you I mean I would not know that you were from Palau or the Micronesian I mean that would be not even a guess I guess it's your unique hairstyle that I and is your trademark I would say and I would you know today it's it's manageable and it's mild sometimes I see it all up and what when it's all up and you have that big fun and wow you at that time you look like an entertainer. Yeah yeah I've had this hair for a long time and it was all the way up past my knees but you know I had to trim and and you know have it more weight for me a less weight for me to carry. Wow it does it does look like it weighs a lot because you have a lot of a lot of hair and it's very well well kept and it's beautiful I love it. So share with us what kind of music what's your favorite type of music that you perform. I love reggae music from since a young girl that's all we were you know able to listen to or receive alpha blandi but marley that type of music so it really grew and has a place in in my life and and what I give when I'm on stage so reggae music really is the music that hits me here the heartbeat right. So tell me when you were back in Palau you listened to a lot of reggae and Bob Marley. Yes we were limited because the radio station announces you know debts and funerals and stuff like that now it's more there's more radio stations but back then it was one main radio station and we're kind of limited to outside music but through friends and then being in school and stuff reggae was big you know. Wow big in pacific islands and also big there. So do you think there are more people back home in Palau that have the same kind of energy towards reggae music and have the kind of your look as well the reggae look? The reggae look I think that the dreadlocks yeah there's a lot of young people that are starting dreadlocks but reggae music has that island beat so it's already in us so in Palau reggae is big Hawaiian reggae too is very big there. So did you hear of Hawaiian back then? When I came to Hawaii I first heard of Hawaiian. Yeah yeah I went I lived inside Pan the Marianas Islands attended high school there too and then came to finish my high school here when I came to Hawaii that's when I first started you know meeting artists and like Macho, Buchelomano those are the guys from back in those days that you know carried on the Hawaiian and yeah the headliners wow so I know that the 45th annual Pacific Island forum was held in Palau and you were one of the headliner artists there wow I better get your autograph the next time I stop. So how did that come about and how was that experience to be the headliner there? It's really I say this is God Wendy because this music I didn't I'm nobody from a little town you know in Palau you know I came here and it's really God that opened doors and connected me to a lot of stuff so I was able to be in the local scene here had the opportunity to record with a lot of local producers RSL productions got those thinking and thumb, kaipokapua everybody that's kind of in the scene here wow really God because my calling in my heart was to go back home to share my the gift of music you know but um so I lifted I lifted that up to God and I was like if it's your time and your will it will happen but it's been my dream to do that uh and it was several many years later I got a call and it was like Lubei you know it was Palau somebody from Palau the president's office calling me they said we want to invite you we have this big event for the dignitaries in the Pacific Islands and your name came up and we want to invite you wow right God is this you still kind of like is this God because in everything I do I have to like you know seek advice from you gotta hear you gotta feel it from him right because if it's not him I'm not you know jumping in so my God is this you and the name Kapono Naili Ili who's a local artist and that has played with me and helped me in the beginning of my music along with many others but uh came to me and I was like let me reach out to him I said we have one week to prepare one week to fly to a foreign country okay to pull this together and it was a long event one week event of just music wow when I called him he's like I'm your guy let me get a group together don't worry about anything focusing music and tell them yes so I prayed about it and it was like the confirmation I needed you know that says this is you ask for it you've aligned yourself this is for you the doors is open and so I said yes and we went there it was an amazing experience when of course well first of all you ask and you shall receive and so that you did you ask for it and you know I think that's the problem a lot of people are afraid to ask and you know they think oh it's kind of a material thing God but I want it but you know what if it's from your heart and your obedience God will reward and uh and he's going to be very generous with it so you know I like to encourage everybody out there that if there is something I mean if you're seeking even better quality of health I mean I ask God for a better quality of health and he answered and look at me I always say I'm a Tiruchik from the west side on this island but I cried out and I asked God to heal me and help me get healthy and look at me and I even have a show and think how I promoting taking your health back and so for you Luve you cried out and you asked I want to perform I want to be and you know indirectly he's given you a great responsibility to be an icon for someone that was from Palau and that was able and granted the opportunity to come out and live here in Hawaii but you're being obedient to God and to share his glory in his message while you're here and yet you have the opportunity to take it back home and still shine bright so others will see the way through your life and that's amazing Luve and and God says in his word he says if you ask and you shall receive right yes well let's say I ask and then he you know we don't receive it's unto him you yes it is time all in his time yeah if he didn't think you were good enough or ready he wouldn't have allowed you to go and that door would not have opened but you were obedient you were faithful and he knew it was your time he prepared you for such a time and the best part is as you went you honored him and you came back and so you continue to honor him and we're going to get into the heart of like getting healthier and promoting good health between here and your people here in Hawaii because every culture needs it especially when they come to the western world you know and then they all want to be like westerners and that's where a lot of the downfall comes is that they want to be the fast food industry gobble you know gobble gobble eat all that great McDonald's and happy meals so I'm glad that you are I know your epitome of health as well we're going to talk about that but I also know that when I saw some of your photos I just want to ask you some of the beautiful girls that you were performing with when I saw those photos they look like they were having costumes very similar to the other Polynesian countries so like the skirts and then the you know the coconut cups were there for the bras and the tops so is that a traditional costume for your people as well yes that's a traditional and different islands have different addition to that custom but it's pretty much yes the grass skirt and the the top wow the hair but those are those were the dancers that had performed during that festival that 45th annual festival yeah there was a lot of dancers and a lot of local even the the men group were you know doing their traditional war dance and and the reason when the I say God really made this like the trip of a lifetime not just for me but also for the band because I got to pick a lot of the local musicians and it was a CJ Kama, Kaimi, Will Yokoyama and Mindy Smoked Stack and we all went together and these are Hawaiians right wow when we were there we they got to share the music Hawaiian music and you know the putunas they're all they were in here it's just hearing the town beautiful you know traditional Hawaiian music we did a little Hawaiian stuff we did reggae we did some more you know lovers rock reggae but it was such a nice cultural exchange and they were so blessed to to have local musicians from Hawaii come there and I just give the glory to God to make that happen wow amazing and I know I mean I know you know many hats and you also helped to publish um a Palawan language book I guess it was for your mom but it benefited so many people more than your mom your mom was just a messenger to get that book out so how did that all come about and what was the reason for that publishing of Palawan? So currently in uh with our culture we we're slowly losing uh our culture and our language and language is really that thing that holds our culture together uh a lot of young people a lot of kids a lot of kids that are in the mainland uh abroad and also in Palau living in Palau are losing that language right so uh my mom and I kind of teamed up together it's like how can we uh bring a solution or do something and again it's just God putting that in in my mom's heart to want to do it you know and we were thinking about our my nieces uh that are hapsimons have Palauans have pahesians have Palauans and how we can do something for them to learn the language but it was uh really uh my mom is also a language uh a curriculum writer in Palau before we left so she has yeah she has that uh experience so um it was God that just allowed that to happen we published it and a lot of people have ordered the book and it's really and very thankful that their kids can get to learn you know uh bodies uh bodies and shapes and colors and counting and uh yeah and that's my mom the chief author I'm just the the one who's you know publish and and help her publish you were her buddy and we all need a buddy and so you know you're actually not even knowing how valuable that book is it is so valuable I had a gal on my last show from Tahiti and also just like the Hawaiian language at one point it becomes a dying language and so what you've done is you're resurrecting it and you're going to continue to instill upon your people to continue to take pride in their culture no matter where they go and it's up to you guys the elders to make sure that it doesn't die and and make sure that it is exciting for them as it is for you whether you're here or back in your country it should never die so it does take work and you all did it by publishing this book to continue the the onset of the language and not let it go silent so touche and congratulations to you and your mother for working on that cultural building block that you guys did yeah so you know when I first met you you were working on a rooftop that's when I first met you so how was it like working up there up on the roof wow amazing we we have we have a full aquaponics hydroponics we had the opportunity to really be immersed in the community helping the homeless people that come to the shelter the rooftop was on top of the women's shelter and so it was one of the most rewarding uh jobs I've ever done in my life when the wow because there was a you know there's a we have a problem here in Hawaii with homelessness and we see people we say oh homeless right it's a person without a home right a houseless person it's a person without a house so it's a person first yeah a human being and then that's just the situation or circumstance right and that really grew me to humility and also seeing people for who they are and not their circumstance and god allowed me to take that job because like I said all the glory goes to him because he opened the doors and I started as a part time and I became a lead running that program it was such a joy and blessing because sometimes we have people that come they just need somebody to listen they just need to rest with all of everything that's happened you know so we have to create like a peaceful environment plants and agriculture it gives you that nature gives you that and just be there to share and give you know and then also receive and see people for who they are yeah not their circumstance so that's amazing and like you said it's all it's all god because you're I want to say you're a musician you're an entertainer you're a book writer and now you are an agricultural specialist and who would have thought like wow right I mean you and I are pretty much in the same book both because I I mean I had no pleasure in growing or doing anything of this but like yourself we've grown to love it and so now you find yourself as a specialist that's amazing and like I seen your produce that you produce up on the rooftop all that beautiful lettuce and everything and so when you work with the people from the shelter are they allowed or do they get served the food that you guys grow as well or is it just for a reach out yes so now the program that's the main goal of that program is to feed the kitchen I think when COVID happened we realized you know because stuff were being cut and access to the kitchen food to the kitchen was kind of short so it really woke us up to we have to start making sure that the kitchen first comes first and that the clients have food and we also distribute to the food market and down to earth yeah when we have extra yeah wow and that's amazing that's the most amazing part for me is that you're able to create like non-gmo chemical free vegetables and you're giving the people the houses people the people from the street the best quality it's God's food that you're preparing for them it's that you know like a lot of times at the shelters we get all the leftovers and the close to date but you're giving them the best and I'm praying that they understand and they realize how blessed they are by being there at your shelter that they're getting the best quality of food that you are preparing so are you only we give them they they grow it so they go to the class they get the skills and then they're they're the ones who run that rooftop wow and that's even more worthwhile because when you teach someone how to grow or how to fish it's even more valuable than just giving them the fish so what a great program the one that you feel so blessed are you still working there now I'm no longer there because of COVID there was a termination so it's there's a case pending but I just lift it to God because I really love that job right yeah you became the agricultural specialist and so maybe we'll yeah just give it to God and he'll figure it out and help you figure it out and probably a few more doors have already opened as you left so I know that you're going to look for it and it's going to be right there in front of you so now that you're not working on the rooftop are you still actively involved in agriculture I try to be so yes as much as I can right now I'm teaming with a local church light of the world ministries the pastor has some property and has given me opportunity to grow um also uh friends that are farmers were in agriculture school to go farm people and also the Hawaiian 70 groups uh Jamie what Rod reads who leads the food 70 movement so anywhere I see and I could say God you open the doors I I'm in there but my thing is just to really give myself and that's what it is we're in a society in a time now that's more of me me me you know but that's not our this is not our culture island people this is not us yeah yeah we're always we and community we grow community how do we get involved somebody guys we go and we heal you know and this is uh the the culture that we need to hold on to right and and also kingdom culture is like that right voters wow so I try to be wherever uh it needs help people that land whatever we're in there and we try to utilize and regenerate them and do a sustainable part small part wow so I can hear the passion in your heart I mean from entertainer to farmer that's so so cool and like I know that you are truly that you love truly truly love working in the Aina and your heart is truly working with the people and God's people giving them the best quality of food and working towards food sovereignty so how are you going about handling this tackling this issue of you know food sovereignty and be more sustainable with what we can produce here on our island right God's word says do do with what you have and what you can't write you have a skill you have a little land people have land to give for us grow you let us know and we come in I was blessed to meet up with the Jamie Rodriguez from OFH during the freedom fighter rally and so she's already leading that and when she found out I do uh agriculture and I was going through this thing with my job she was like hey get an opportunity to come in and you share what you know and then receive what you need to know uh and uh let's just work together as a community so that's where uh we try and with OFH they're doing the best they can with no funding right so it is this community Jamie goes out there uh we have produce to give nobody has to pay for anything right so they can they get their produce and then other farms be like donate to her there's some produce and we're just sharing produce like that and that's really uh a movement that she's leading and I'm just really happy to be a part of something like that that's more you know on that local level wow not so much making money or anything like that it's just really cool you know so you know tell me now like you're what you are currently doing and how did you get involved with volunteering with OFH occupied forces Hawaiian how does one be able to also get involved and volunteer along your side uh Jamie Rodriguez needs that movement it's uh I'll put it on the comment if people want to I'll put a link there but um you know you just allow yourself to be a vessel and I think God puts it in people's heart right to jump into certain things one thing uh to keep in mind I just what is the greater good and what do you want for me because I don't want to jump into something that's you know maybe not uh wasn't from God or it's not for a good cause and stuff but it's a blessing to to be able to help them and Jamie leads that movement she's on Facebook Jamie Rodriguez um I just go in there whenever they need me there's a meloma aina and work days we're there and we invite the public to come too so I'll leave the link people interested they can contact her or pick that link to come and be a part wow so amazing and so that's how it all works I mean you wearing so many different hats and everything that God gave to you in your life you know you're going to see the exact picture that and plan that he has for you and the best best part is that you are living it you're being obedient you're serving you're growing food not only are you growing food you're teaching others especially the less fortunate to have that quality of food that you are all producing and then allowing them to want more and to be more through everything that you guys are doing there and so I'm just so excited um Luve that you were you you know you didn't you you knew what you had to do when the door was closed you you went but you used all your passion and your drive for wanting to better Hawaii and I'm praying and I know that God has a plan for you that not only here in Hawaii where you be using your engineering uh of plants and and your specialty in agriculture but you also be able to one day go back and share it with the people of Palau so that they also would have the zest for life the quality of life from eating the food from their earth or raised up on the earth so that they can refresh their bodies and refuel their souls by eating the food that he created for all of us yes so I'm so excited for you um and just knowing that I I get to partner with you one day in the I know I'm going to be having dirt in my nails with you do it yeah so I shall come and you know Hawaii was agricultural strong before we grew Hawaii strong before we can grow Hawaii strong again let's grow Hawaii strong and yes energy like what you have and the teaching that you're doing with everyone around I know it can be done but Lube for now we've run out of time for today I just wanted to say mahalo to Lube heaven sister Lube for taking time out of your busy agricultural schedule to share your heart with all of us as you grow Hawaii so we'll be back in two weeks with more taking your help back with when the low mahalo Lube and congratulations job well done my sister aloha thank you so much for watching think tech Hawaii if you like what we do please like us and click 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