 Welcome to the Savvy Chick Show. It's Chantel Seville here and I'm your host today and always on the Savvy Chick Show. Now it's just myself today because I really love to take a recap, tell you what's coming up, and get you excited about the future of Savvy Chicks, which means your future. So in the past we've done a lot of different episodes and we'll take you for a walk down memory lane, but first and more excitingly and importantly, I'd like to tell you what's happening now. You would notice our wonderful new set, the Savvy Chick's awesome logo there as well. So we're really stepping it up a notch and I think that's always important to do is really keep on your front foot. So we've got this gorgeous Savvy Chick's logo designed by Frankie and Boyd, a fantastic design company based in Australia and Canada. We need one here in Hawaii. And with the Savvy Chick's show, it's really important that you know what it's all about and it's Inspire, Dream, Believe. And what that means is Inspire. We're here to really inspire you to just do whatever it is that you want to do. When we say Dream, it's not just sitting there dreaming, it's about dreaming big and looking at what others are doing and seeing that it's what's out there. And that's what we love to bring to you with the show, all these different careers and ways of getting there and the neatest things that you might not be able to see in your local town. And then the Believe part is believing it's possible and believing it's possible for you, which is so important because, you know, it's one thing to say, oh yeah, that's possible for her. But what about for you? Because if it's possible for them, it's possible for you. And that's what's the most important part is to believe that it's possible for you and just focus on whatever it is you want and be so resilient to keep going for whatever you want and following that through. So what's really exciting is the next six episodes after this one of The Savvy Chick Show are going to be completely dedicated to careers for you to aspire to achieve a career or, I mean, you might be 10 years old watching this. When I was young, I always wanted to have a show. I wanted to be on a show. So this and these different careers will show you what's possible for you and as well as what kind of qualities it takes for you to get there. So be sure to ask all the guests, you know, their history and what they did when they were young and what it takes to do what they do in their career and how important it is to work on certain qualities and skills and how they can really be experts in what they do, which means that once you learn to do that, you can start heading towards your dream career yourself. So it's all about dreaming big. Now some of the careers we have coming up, so I'll let you know, I am very, very, very excited. I'm only going to tell you who one of these guests is because I'm just that excited. It's actually an old friend of mine and a very good friend, Jason Gretch, who's an international fashion designer. Now he has designed some of the dresses for the most incredible celebrities and all you'll see next week. You have to watch next week's episode 11 a.m. Honolulu Time. He's also just recently done a collaboration with IBM. So basically when fashion meets technology, I mean, who would have even thought those two fit together? So we'll have that and just these most gorgeous, whether it be a wedding gown or a dress for an Australian celebrity delta Goodrum. We're going to flash them up on the screen and get you inspired to really follow those of you who are inspired to be stylists and designers and whatnot. So I guess that that leads me to the next one. We'll have a professional stylist and personal branding expert, a young artist. We'll have a professional athlete because I mean a lot of you girls might want to be or have young women be athletes. That's very exciting. Someone from the entertainment industry. Now I'm not going to tell you who it is, but it could be an actor, an actress, maybe someone in the industry, maybe a filmmaker. So you'll have to stay tuned to see who that's going to be and as well as someone from advertising and design. And this I find really interesting because when I was in high school, I wanted to do marketing and I didn't know it was marketing then. So I went to the guidance counselors in Saskatchewan, Canada and they said, oh no, you can't do that. You're not good at maths. Well, really you need to only know a small amount of maths to do marketing, which is advertising. A lot of the rest is creative and it turns out that I could do it. And I ended up studying in Australia. I did a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and I was just fine at the maths and in fact I was actually quite good at accounting, which is one of the maths that you do. So the reason I want to introduce you to this industry is because the advertising industry has so many positions that you might not know about. I mean there's different people creatives. There's actual physical designers. There's those who come up with concepts. There's those who meet with the clients who actually help relay what the client wants. So for example when I worked at Audi, I had someone that would come to me at the office at the dealership and I was in the marketing department and I would explain to them, look, I'd like to do a neat campaign and you know, this is what I kind of think I would look like. And then that person would basically say, oh, do you mean this? Now what they do and they're called your account manager. So this is a really cool career and it's actually quite well paid. They would go back to their creatives at their office and say, look, Chantel from Audi Center Melbourne wants to do this really neat campaign and this is what she wants the cars to look like and whatnot. And then they'd come up with a creative concept and then that account manager would come back and present it to me. So I just want to share these just different ideas because I've been very fortunate to be exposed to a lot of careers and a lot of people in all different types of industries. And it's not all about making the money. Making money is fantastic, but it's really about pursuing your natural talents and doing what you love and continuously following that. So throughout this with myself as well as with my experts and entrepreneurs and artists and a lot of it is about people in creative fields because though I'm a business person, I am very creative and I think there's so much space in this world for creatives to be really successful if they have the right guidance and can really be able to articulate their art, whether it be as an entrepreneur or as a singer or dancer or artist or designer. I mean, you name it, athlete. Even though you might not consider those creative, they do still fit under my creative banner because you really need to play on your own strengths for that one. So those are just a few of the careers that we have coming up to showcase and it's so important for you to really decide what it is that you want to do and even if you don't know it doesn't matter as long as you're pursuing things from day to day that you enjoy and if it switches tomorrow, that's so fine because you never know what you do, how it can lead to the next thing that you're doing and I just want to share a little story while we're here and it's just you and me today about me wanting to create The Savvy Chick Show and Savvy Chick's TV essentially which are almost two of the same is that I really wanted to do this show and have this dream because I really wanted to interview people with cool careers and when I was living in Sydney, Australia, I was asking anyone and everyone I knew because that's how I communicate, can you please help, you know, is there anyone that can sponsor this and they said, oh, you don't have enough viewers, you don't have enough this, that and I just, I couldn't work out how I was going to do it but I knew I would so I ended up asking a friend of mine who had a penthouse in Bondi, I was quite lucky, if I could borrow his rooftop and his house to set up a shoot. Well, I didn't have a cameraman and the cameraman cost money and well I thought that I was going to do it anyway but I could get guests because, you know, one of my strengths and this is why I'll always encourage you to find your strengths is communication and also connecting people because I'm a real connector and I absolutely love helping match people so if someone needs a house and someone needs a housemate I'll match them up or if someone needs a designer and someone is a designer, I'll match them up so in this case people always wanted to be on my show and they still do because this is my strength and it exposes them to more people so I couldn't find a cameraman who would do this for next to nothing because I didn't really have a budget being that it's just this visionary project and eventually the day of the shoot, so I lined up all my guests because remember I'm good at connecting and I love people so had all my guests lined up the night before I was planning to shoot I didn't have a cameraman or a voice, audio, anything and I just knew, you know, I just worked on it so long and I knew it was so right and it was bound to happen that at 10 o'clock the night before this amazing guy called Jay who I will tag in this it's funny enough because Jay, there's a Jay here at Think Tech so these Jay's seem to believe in and back what I'm doing he came through, he called and said look you know I know that you don't really have much of a budget but look I believe in what you're doing let me help you out, you know you can pay me such and such for now and as it grows we can go from there so we'll just do a little pilot for you so the next day I did the whole shoot and it was amazing and you can actually see all those videos on the Savvy Chicks TV YouTube as well as the SavvyChicks.com website you can see a few of them and if you go back to the YouTube the reason I share that story with you is that you know so many times in life you're the only person that might see something and it takes a real strong character to believe in something more than anyone else can and even the people that were doubting around me and the people that might doubt around you never let that doubt affect what it is that you want to achieve because deep down we all know like I knew it was going to come through and if it didn't you know what it didn't matter but you just have to go for things and not let the outer voices dictate what you're going to be doing and who you're going to be so it's always stay as internally focused as you can focus on your mission, go for what you really want because even in doing this in the show all the guests that I really really really wanted have been on the show those that I was kind of thinking sometimes they fall off they can't come through they don't see really what's in it for them and that's perfect for me because then I just get more of this high caliber guest who is here to inspire you and is really believes in you too so that's my little in a nutshell about creating Savvy Chicks and Savvy Chicks TV and yeah so from now I'd like to just actually one more quick thing before the break we are very very excited that the Savvy Chicks show will be at Honolulu Fashion Week we'll be behind the scenes with the media passes and getting you all access to the Honolulu Fashion Week in November I'm very excited for that so I hope you will all be able to check that out once we do the filming and right back with you in a second we're going to come back and do a walk down memory lane of some of the coolest guests that we've had here on the Savvy Chicks show and look forward to seeing you back shortly Hi I'm Donna Blanchard I host the show Center Stage on Think Tech Wednesdays at 2pm and this is Crystal Cork Hey I'm Crystal and I host Quok Talk on Tuesday mornings I like watching Donna's show You do? I like watching your show I like watching your show because you talk about you're not afraid to really dive into issues that are important and sometimes they're a little shocking and you always bring us information that is sometimes the underbelly that we need to know and we need to see it's important Well said Well I like yours because you can find any topic in any type of character but you will find that source which brought them to the product of that creative process and I think that's like the most important thing is the process Awesome I think yeah I do I think it's all about the process and I think we'll find world peace when we know each other's stories so thank you very much for bringing that to us Join us on Think Tech Think Tech Hawaii anytime You're watching Think Tech Hawaii meeting people we may have not otherwise met helping us understand and appreciate the good things about Hawaii great content for Hawaii from Think Tech Aloha welcome back to the Savvy Chick show on Think Tech Hawaii I'm your host Chantel Seville now we're ready for the second segment the first one was all about what's coming up and one really important thing I'd love to share with you is we've done a few episodes of Mission Savvy Chicks Mission Savvy Chicks is something that I'm really personally passionate about as well as this whole show in Savvy Chicks and what it is is it's helping young women achieve their dreams so we've had one girl who's a sailor from Sydney Australia and as well as we've had two local girls here one does fashion design so she does actual design she's a designer and the other one does beautiful earrings so one of these three I have a very exciting opportunity for and I will share it on a later episode of Savvy Chicks TV because it's not yet confirmed we have a brand that's interested in getting involved with one of these Mission Savvy Chicks to really help their dream come true so stay tuned and please do let us know if you have anyone in mind who is really pursuing something they love and they're young someone between the ages of 8 and 17 years old so they've got to be a young entrepreneur but doesn't necessarily need to be an entrepreneur they can be an artist or an athlete they're just doing something that they're really dedicated to if that's you please get in touch now I would like to start walking down memory lane and what better to do is to start with a mermaid party now does anyone remember this mermaid party it is so fun so Keriel is actually a professional mermaid she's the one in the middle of there gorgeous girl with the mermaid party and we had an absolute blast now if you don't think your dreams are possible this woman is making a career out of being a real life mermaid just saying some of the other great guests we've had have been we've had Sarah Wigglehooth who's actually a finance expert she's young, she's innovative and she's really helped a lot of young people gen-wise and millennials get through and give them strategies to really build your dream life and dream job and what that takes finance can be very challenging and confusing it's not really something you learn in school but it's something that once you learn just the simple principles that Sarah taught us you can actually really change your life and you can start now that's her advice to start right away some of the things that Sarah has taught me personally is just basically never be too overwhelmed just take the simple strategies and just be really realistic about what you do and think is this value for money because even if you have a lot of money it doesn't necessarily mean you mean to blow it and she gave some good examples that actually really hit home even if you're out for buying a lunch I'll remember this example from the show do you really need to buy all those things or do you just buy them out of impulsiveness because realistically whether it's shopping or whatever it is that money could go to something else and it's your choice what that money goes to if you want to go on a ski trip but yet you're buying expensive lunches every day well that's going to be a trade-off so I found that really interesting and look forward to doing some more with Sarah but she was another great guest we've had some positive body image we've had Tiff she's just awesome she's from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan she was a semi-pro athlete in soccer and her brothers play NHL hockey incredible family her mom was a professional figure skater all around Canada what she's taught us is as much as they were naturally good at sport what sport does give is something for you to really be healthy and really have a sense of community and with healthy body image she found that by focusing on herself and empowering her own body that helped her to not worry about what other people thought about her body and in today's society I'm all about healthy, fit and confident and it's not about being the skinniest or it's not about whatever it is that's making you compete against others competition is good on the field but after that it's really about competing with yourself and just being the best version of you then we had gorgeous Marlena from Sydney, Australia I met her at the Ascom Girl School seven steps to healthier you for girls and she is just an absolute legend of a young woman she's set to go to the Olympics she's absolutely passionate that she's going to get there and she's had the New South Wales give her a sponsorship so she's a nutritionist and different coaching and what not to help her she wakes up at 4 or 5 every morning to get out on the water and just do what it is she's passionate about and what was interesting about her is she said she didn't always know what she was passionate about and people used to actually call her think of her as a bit lazy and she found what it was that really drove her and made her just want to be so motivated and the other thing is it's found someone that believed in her and I think that it's so important to believe in yourself but there's nothing more special than when someone believes in you more than you do and I mean that's who I want to be for you and especially for all these young mission savvy chicks so it's great to have Marlena on the show we had Irina from Bondi Beach Bums she's great value she built her brand at Bondi Beach Bums and she does all the exercise there at Bondi Beach and she was talking all about how you can stay healthy and incorporate exercise into every day because I really believe that being healthy, fit and confident is the key to living your dreams the more empowered you are within yourself and the more healthy you feel the more alert you feel, the better sleep you get these are all really important things to keep you driven and motivated it's not back to having the best body like a temple and I know that might sound whatever it is to you but at the end of the day, if you treat your body like a temple it's not being perfect, just as a general rule not feeling it was junk, not missing a lot of sleep and things like that you will be so surprised at how much you can achieve and how clear your mind is and how focused you can be on your dreams this is one of my favorite episodes oh my gosh, Myra Arrow she is so cool a professional stuntwoman she just studied fashion until she was BMX riding with some of her friends and they suggested that she be a stunt person because she was so good on the stunt bikes and now her and her husband they live in this amazing house they have trampolines in it, they practice their stunts she does stunts on horses she's being the stunt coordinator for one of the big production it's an American production but in Canada you'll have to go back and watch this episode she's a stunt coordinator, she's the one who says what, Card T bones the other car and it's just what a cool career and what an amazing woman I don't know if any of you guys watched the Vikings but she's even had the main character from the Vikings over at a house which is pretty cool, not only does she have a cool career but she's really surrounded by some really interesting and neat characters so definitely get back there and watch that episode if you can then we had play a friend from play pretend she's so fun, she's an actress and she has gone out and created something that she loves a project so that she can inspire more young girls to just imagine their potential and to really get out there and live their dreams and doing that through acting and for me acting was such an important part of one of those base skills that I have that I now use as an adult you learn about how to deal with different situations and how to not take things personally and how to just really just get out there and explore all characters that you have within you I love acting even if you're not interested in acting and perhaps if you're shy acting is such a great thing to do to really bring out the strength of your character so that was lots of fun having her on then we had the inspired career coach Kylie Butler now she is really about matching she's seen a lot of careers and has been exposed to them as I have she really takes to you know to pursue your career and how to find what your talents are and how to really be true to yourself when you're pursuing what you want to pursue and I mean that's one of my biggest messages is that you've really got to be true to yourself because people are going to try and tell you this, that and the other thing and unless you have a really good connection with who you are and what you want to do it gets quite confusing and again for you young ladies watching this don't worry because and probably that is what you'll find a career in eventually if you believe in yourself and believe you can actually live a life of doing that so those are some really really exciting episodes that we've had, I mean we've had plenty more we've had Latoya Asha who has found out a way to combine her love of horses with her love of fashion and I mean that is so cool she's one of my actual very best friends and she's just so full of life and so much fun she started riding horses, loved it when she was young realized she likes fashion and now she has her own blog, Horse Shoes and High Heels she's known as the question fashion blogger she's about to bring out a range of signature pieces related to horses and fashion and she's a great one to keep your eye on because she'll be getting bigger and bigger and more known every day just girl from, you know, Australian girl and out there living her dream so she's really someone that has a big imagination and believes anything that's possible and, you know, she's for the dreamers out there and probably most of you watching the show or watching because you are a dreamer and you just want proof it's possible and I mean at the end of the day that's why I've created it because I've been able to model people who are successful and that's how I continue to create my dreams and my lifestyle because I go, oh how did they do that and then I sort of model them and I think that that's really important whether it been in my fitness and being a fitness model I mean I sort of modeled her by Lindy Olson and knew that there was a healthy way of being a fitness model and getting up there on stage and competing and, you know, I was blessed enough to have her coach me from a distance to achieving that which I mean I just am very humbled that I was able to achieve that so I modeled her doing that and when it came to getting jobs or making this, you know the show in itself then I had the gorgeous Nenea who's building her brand as we speak she's 14 a local Hawaiian girl, you know, she's really out there doing what she loves which is creating jewelry and we want to get behind her so if you are involved in jewelry or if there's any way you can also think to help her that is what she wants to do she would love absolutely love to just make jewelry all day long she's talented at it and I just don't see why she can't make that happen if she has the right people around her and backing her and I mean 14 years old look at that we're literally from click communications with us helping think of the best ways that you can actually get out there and so she could really promote herself so definitely you'll have to keep your eye on Nenea there because she's another up and coming and you will be seeing her I can guarantee you lovely local Hawaiian girl here yeah so those are a few of the cool episodes we've had Kalea she was also one of the Mission Savvy Chicks girls she loves to design and she wants to put her designs on all different types of clothes so that's one of the designs she just sketched ever since she was young she sketched she's a beach girl her brothers surf so she you know is around the surf a lot and her parents and she's just out there doing her designs and she'd love to see them on more clothing and bags and what not so we hope to have her stocked in some local shop soon and on some websites so if you have a local shop or website and would like to stock a gorgeous Savvy Chicks product we'd be most happy to connect that and to get these girls living their dreams so if you can help me help the girls I mean what more do you want in society like my vision would be to have people who have these talents and pursuing their talents and not having to go and do you know for instance like if a young girl wants to do jewelry that can be her job and to make that her job and to make her so focused and so confident from that talent that she has within to just want to keep doing it I mean if you're watching this in the I don't mean to say but I bumped into her mom not long after the show and she said you wouldn't believe how inspired the girls were after the show she said and I went home and made her best pair of earrings yet just after the show just because it gave her that extra confidence within herself to really go for it and I mean to me that's that's really what I hope to achieve in society is to get these young girls to just focus on what it is that's true to them and believe that it's possible so I'd love to showcase those earrings soon as well I'll have to find them then we had Lisa Mayn Lisa is a beautiful soul from Melbourne, Australia and she was talking about like you know savvy chicks school and the things that they don't teach you in school and from someone with a very diverse background and she's now a yoga teacher she does a lot of teaching of yoga of girls in schools she's most passionate about helping teach more girls out there these life skills that you need to know about how to buy a house and buy a car and what interest is just really those day to day things how to travel and what it's like to get a passport or what it's like to get travel insurance because I mean when I was 18 I hopped on a plane and went to Australia from Saskatchewan Canada so I think they're great opportunities when you get to travel the world and most people love traveling so if you can learn more and be more confident in traveling I think that that's great so it's really nice to have Lisa on the show and you know it's one of those things like I love traveling and I just get exposed to so many different types of things when you're traveling this was an episode when I went back to Australia I was actually on the Gold Coast of Australia with Trina Brobert who is an absolute gun entrepreneur and business woman and then we had her with Susan Jakob there she makes incredible jewelry and they were just talking about what it's like to be women and have the balance of the family life and you know having a husband and children and being able to balance that and how you can but still continue to follow your passions so that was a really neat episode and it would be well worth having a little sneak peek back at so all it's about is really inspire, dream, believe you know whatever it is in your heart that you want to pursue you've got to go out there and really do that and I can't wait to share the rest of these upcoming episodes with you of these cool, cool careers I mean after that there will be some other exciting episodes following but for the next six weeks please stay tuned 11 a.m. Honolulu time on Wednesdays we'll be having The Savvy Chick Show with the coolest careers that you're going to find and I'm going to get the insights exactly for you and you can like call and tweet and ask my guest questions do it I mean the opportunity for you to ask these people questions is mmm not easy it's not easy unless you're you know very passionate about it or if it's your natural skill to get a hold of just anyone and I've got a hold of them for you on behalf of you so please if you have questions during those shows make sure call in so you call in Think Tech Hawaii Hotline and you can ask and I'll ask the guests for you or even tweet in the Think Tech Hawaii so that's something really important and cool to know as I said if you are a Mission Savvy Chick or you have something you're working on and you want us to know about please follow us on all of the social media channels daily for the next little while here I'll be re-sharing all the old episodes so if you watch one and enjoy it please re-share it because if you're interested by it chances are someone else will be too and these episodes are created for you so be sure to share them on and the Honolulu Fashion Week as I said that's November very exciting and you'll have to wait and see a bit about that but for now I think that's a wrap for the Savvy Chick show thank you so much for tuning in if you've enjoyed this episode especially it's nice to just get little snippets to see if you're interested then please do watch the rest of the episodes and if you don't have time to watch you can always listen just put in the earphones hit the YouTube button and enjoy so aloha thanks for tuning in and we shall see you next week bye bye