 Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Hello, have Friday and welcome to Perspectives on Global Justice, Think Tech Hawaii. This is your host, Beatrice Cantelmo. We have been dealing with a lot of ickness in the world. So today's show is about promoting wellness. We need to replenish ourselves with good vibrations and amazing people. So every person, every social movement and every community needs artists who inspire us and invite us to reconnect with love. Creative selves, healing and dreams. Lucy Lynch's assets, creativity, voice and musical arrangements are like sugar for our hearts and ears. And I'm so glad that she's here with us today. Welcome darling. What an intro. Aloha, welcome. Thank you. Well, happy Aloha Friday, sir Lucy. Give our viewers a little blurb about yourself. What do you come from? Where were you raised? Exactly. Sometimes that's really a good question. I ask myself that question like, where did I come from, right? To feel like you're from Venus, Mars, you know. So I actually recently, I have the feeling it's a mix between out and the stars but I have the feeling I actually come from the whales. But that is a different story. I would really say, you know, I am a singer and songwriter. I am a magic maker and I'm a life lover. So I think that's kind of like, you know, three keywords in my life. And I'm originally from Hamburg, Germany, as you can maybe hear in my accent. Hardly, you know. Yeah, but you know, it's, you know, and that's so... Born and raised there and I lived there a long time. I mean, until I was 28. So, okay, so 28, you were in Hamburg, Germany, probably travelled a lot. So what brought you to Hawaii? So it was, it started with a dream or it started actually with a book I read about fairies and nature spirits. And that really got me in touch with really connecting with my soul spirit. And I just loved it so much. And then I had this dream where I flew around the head of the Statue of Liberty and it said to me, come home. And I was very confused because I didn't really have a relationship with the United States. Right. But I followed the dream. So I took my fairy costume with me and I flew to New York City and I danced down Broadway in my fairy costume. And I'm so sad because the social media world was not, you know, that big. No inventors. So I don't have any Instagram or anything. I still have, though, on a camera somewhere at my parents' house on, like, a tape. There must be still some footage of that. But so how marvelous. How my love with America really started. America started. And how long ago was that? So that was probably nine, ten years ago. Ten years ago. Yeah. Even longer. It was 2005. 2005. That was my first time. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, we got a few years there. And so from Statue of Liberty in New York to Hawaii, how did that stretch happen for you and how long you've been in Hawaii now? So it's, you know, it's always the story behind it would be a wonderful movie or a book. I just, I'm so alive right now that I just, I always say, I don't have the time right now to write that book because I'm still living it. So how it all, how it started was the New York experience. And then I was so carried by something in New York, like some love and higher power and intuition and gut feeling that I decided, you know what, all these books that I've been reading about, fairies, nature spirits, Paul O'Quel, you'll follow your heart, follow the path. It will always unfold in front of you. I said, I have to, for myself, put it to practice. I have to almost prove to myself that that's really true. And so I booked another flight to New York City and with a very low, teeny, tiny budget, I decided to travel through the United States with bus, train and hitchhiking and then ending up in Hawaii. That was my goal. Wow. And did you, did you have this plan to come straight to Oahu? No, I actually landed in the Big Island. Big Island. Yeah. So it was, I traveled all the way with all the adventures that you can imagine with a snowstorm in Pittsburgh and a broken down train and sleeping on a train for three days, being then in San Francisco, LA, San Diego and, you know, Yosemite, all the good stuff, the redwood trees. And it was just beautiful. And then I took a plane to the Big Island and I had no idea on the plane where I was going to stay. And that's why I made nothing. You totally had this faith. I just had faith. I met a beautiful gentleman on the plane who was there with his knees. They, they took me in, you know, into their beautiful house on the Big Island. Just like that. Just like that. It's like Aloha Spirit. I can care of you in welcoming you. So it's Ben Woods. Seven years. I'm here now, but back then, I wish I could have just stayed, but you know, the whole visa immigration. So I, I had to go back to Europe, keep working. I came back for half a year and then I met my now beautiful husband, Matthew Lynch. So there was love stories within the love story. Do you have a song for that love story? Oh, I actually have several probably, but play one for us. So this is actually really sweet. I haven't played it in a while, but it's, it's very sweet. And this is a song I couch served on his couch. I found him on the internet on couchsurfing.org and I booked a night on his couch and I arrived at his house and he had this guitar with only four strings and I sat down and I sang, I sang. That's a marvelous, you don't need to write this story. And the lyrics kind of freaked him out. He's always like, man, when you sang those lyrics, I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, so here we go. What if I am a princess and you're the frog I kiss? What if I am just the one? What if I'm already close to you, but you still feel the distance? You, you can sing, but I could see it was a little intimidated by the whole idea. Well, you know, so it just kind of came to you like spontaneously. And it just, yeah, it was this thing that it was a song that has been coming through a few days before on the, on the big island. And I was like, OK, I just got to share it with, you know, I got to share it with him. So that was that. So wow. So OK. So when we started the program, we talked about your inquiry about wanting to find out if it was true, this world of love, yes, and, and, you know, all beings being worthy. Yes. And of, you know, magic, which I think we're so kind of loose touch with that. What are your findings? So from that search to where you're at now. So it's very interesting. Back then, obviously, I was very much in touch with that, you know, like every breath and every step that journey I life journaled it. So the book is kind of there. I just have to probably transcript that. But I was all these different people that I met, different connections that I made. It was literally as if somebody was there with me, OK, now go that way, now go this way. How about you go that way? And the things were just unfolding so beautifully. And then at some point, the world that we as a society have created came back in, which was, oh, you cannot just stay here. You need a visa. So that was already how the first roadblock arrived. It's like, oh, yeah, the practical aspect of reality, of that kind of reality. Yes. So I was like, OK, OK. And I because I got so I fell so in love with Hawaii and what Hawaii kind of tickled in me and got out of me that I was I got I got attached pretty quickly. And so that's when I think I got in my own way was like really trying to force it. And then what happens is in my own experience, these are only my findings. Obviously, when I start forcing it and trying to put it in a box and make something happen, like because I needed I wanted and get so forceful, this kind of magic, I don't want to say disappears, but it kind of moves into the background, you know, if magic would be that fairy, it would be like, OK, you do that for a while. I'm not gone. I'm still here. I'm watching you. I'm still here if you need me, but you need to let go, sweetheart. And so I got very immersed in that kind of panic mode of how can I stay here? How can I be here? And but that seed was there. This year, you just had to figure out, OK, it's not going to happen the way that I'm trying to make it happen. So once you realize that I have to take a step back, breathe, maybe this process has to happen more organically, how then did it go back to that place of that seed of say, OK, from conceptualization to reality, water, you know. It was really an active, I would say an inspired action step of letting go. So what happened was that Matthew and I met and we really deeply connected, you know, not only through that song, but just in our hearts. But he had already made a choice to leave the islands of Hawaii and move to Australia. So he left and there was no other way for me than going back to Europe at that point. And back in Europe, I really I was living on an island over there and I was pretty secluded and I was working a lot. So that I was working as a tour guide. I was a singing tour guide over there. And the time that I had off, I would go into nature and really go inward and really connect with that feeling, with that what I discovered in Hawaii. And then what came, the first thing that came was if I cannot be happy where I am, if I cannot be content here, I will not be happy in Hawaii either. And I remember that very clearly and it was the same thing with, if I cannot be in that love without Matt, if I cannot be in love without that man, without having the feeling to need him, I cannot, it will not be that true love. And so I really had to let him go. And I mean, you know, looking back now, especially because the whole story has a happy ending, it's a wonderful story to share. Still unfolding, yes. Except it's still unfolding. But, you know, that, that it was very painful and I cried a lot and the letting go aspect. But I'm very grateful I did. It's really amazing what you just said about this fantasy and projection that I think the whole world makes about Hawaii. Yeah. That if you're here, you're going to be amazingly happy every day. And every day, you're going to be seeing rainbows and rain and ocean and mountains and that it's that epiphany of paradise. But I think it's very true that we experienced a lot of what we already have as a foundation. So if you come in with that, maybe you can tap into some of, you know, what's here, but it's also everywhere, but if you're miserable and you come in here expecting. Also be miserable. Exactly. And also there is the part of duality in life. And you're like, I think we always seek only the good and we don't make spaces for also the hardships that is about life, too. The letting go, you know, you have one dream and then you have to, you know, adapt to that dream or you find a new dream as you're chasing, you know, your dream and that is really cool. We're going to take a quick break and be right back. Dave Stevens, host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that's just going to scare you out of your mind. 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That you just wanna take a break, go to the beach and just, you know, reflect. I mean, there was a lot of things there to explore from our first segment of this episode. So do you mind playing a song for us about where you're at right now? Oh, okay. 2018 Lucy in Hawaii as a woman, as a creator, as a inspire, as a sister, as a wife. Okay. The question, and then I was just like, like this. See, I'm letting go of the sadness and the joy and the hope, you know, it's all. That everything has a space for me. It's always like, you know, without, like, there is sadness. Why do we only chase the happiness? Because without sadness, happiness would be, would not even be there. Because then we, it's just judgments that we make, right? And it would be so blah, because, you know, there is a lot to be said about that place of grief. We all have losses and disappointments and, you know, kind of fall on our faces. But it's part of learning. That's part of growing. That's proper attachment. And that's how you face so far. It's because of your life. It's because of your life. Yes, I think we forget that all of that is life and that we, yeah, it's just, that's, oh my God, you know, even the tears and the pain, like, you're here, you're in this body, you know? How wonderful. And yeah, so this is really amazing. So I want to talk to you about a amazing play I've seen you in earlier this year called... Money Talks. Money Talks, but what the hell does that mean? So let our viewers know about how that play came to fruition. And if you have any plans to have it back in the community. We will. And what Marcia and I, Marcia is in a major, my co-writer and co-performer and sweetheart, soul sister, what we recently have, we have taken on a whole new journey because we've really realized this play is about self-worth. It is about, you know, viewing success and failure and money all in a new light. And specifically, motivating people and women to look at their finances, to no longer be afraid to step into their financial power. And what we created now is actually we partnered with the Arts at Marx Garage and we are just so excited about it with the nonprofit organization here locally. We partnered with them for a weekend which we call What's My Worth? celebrating our inherent value. And it's gonna be a weekend where we have two performances of our two woman musical show, but also on the Sunday, we're gonna add a free community panel workshop event which is gonna be interactive. We will have four women leaders with their own money and success stories and then some surprises, some exercises that we throw in to really have people experience some of that, you know, to look at their own self-worth, at their own self-love and their own value. Well, it's very nice, you're touching this and that because a lot of people who live the dream and to think about the dream, they don't recognize money as a big tool in part to open many doors. And also the lack thereof that can shed so many opportunities, especially for women because we're always underpaid. No matter where you are in the world, unless Iceland, I think Iceland is the only place that women, you know, kind of like get equal power there with finances, but then who wants to live in Iceland for six months? Maybe not, no. But you know, why can't we not have Iceland model, you know, all over the world for women? But you know, so the part of money, and I wanted to tap in, why was that a core, one of the core aspects of display? And how is that manifested also in terms of worth? Because we live in a society of haves and have notes. And how do we bridge that? And people also treat it like very much on how much money you have. I should have to be this way, but so I want to tap in into your artistic and your woman-powered creator to get that sense for me. It really came out of, you know, it was very simple that Marcia and I met and we realized we are both underpaid and kind of broke artists and excused my language, but we were really screwed up about money, you know? Each one of us in our own way. And so we... What will you say? Did you mind sharing? Like, what was it? So for me, I was kind of always in that magic world, I was always magically taken care of, but I never really was eager to learn about money, how do I invest money, how do I... And I was always living on the edge, you know, it was just always enough. Just enough. And for Marcia, her and her husband, they never really planned for their retirement or for the future. They were also people of the moment, you know, always living with what they had. And we decided to look at that because we realized this whole starving artist, the myth of the starving artist, maybe we can do something about it. And then we pretended to have a million-dollar budget and we wrote a Broadway musical about money and humanity. And then we wrote this two-woman play. And while in the process, we realized, oh, my God, we are all thinking that, you know, that the amount of money in our bank account is connected to our worth, to our value. And so many people feel very bad about themselves or feel small because they don't have that and a lot of that is in women. And then we thought, but look, how can we reclaim that, right? Is there a way? How can we step in the feminine way into that financial power and excitement? Because like you said, money is a tool. We can move mountains with money in the world that we have created right now. So can we own it? Can we say, hey, I don't have to be poor. I don't have to, you know, walk barefoot through the streets to spread love. Like, I can also invite money into my life to help me to do even more of that, right? Right. And you know, there's so much value and that is immeasurable that's beyond what money can pay for artists, for people who do like, you know, profit world, you know, work, the movers and shakers, you know, we needed to really support those who also supported this, you know, foundation that we have that's so cracked. Yes. And, you know, so I'm really happy that you brought this, you know, into your work, you know, starting this year. And then will that be, when will the weekend play in the workshops? So this will be on the 19th, 19th, 20th and 21st of October, Friday and Saturday night. We have the show and then Sunday, the free event. And then I have some other really exciting news to share. So Marcia and I have now our first booking on the mainland in Colorado. So next June, we're gonna bring money talks to Colorado, to the mainland. We're gonna travel through the States, stop in different cities and we are planning on having our mini run on Broadway and then we're also gonna bring it to Hamburg, Germany. So we are looking at a very big year, very big time ahead. We're very excited. We're in the process of searching, looking for sponsorship. And the feedback we've been getting has been just so amazing of people who are really excited. They wanna support us. This is also a very beautiful investment for some people, you know, to jump on board and to get on this. We call it the money talks train. And it's a train, man. That train is going. And we don't know where the destination is, but we're on it. So we have less than a minute left. Okay, oh my God. Would you like to give to our viewers with one song from this amazing Broadway of money talks? Okay, very good. Quickly, quickly. Oh my goodness. And go support Lucy and Marcia and check them out. What's my worth? What's my worth? Am I blood the same without the fence? What's my worth? What's my worth? What's my worth? How can I click ending? Until next week or until next time. We hope with a lot of work.