 Thank you for joining me on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Shayna Park, your host for Money Talks. My guest is Ha'Aheo Scanlon. She is a doctor of acupuncture and area director with PSI seminars. Welcome to the show, Ha'Aheo. Aloha, thank you for having me on the show. Thank you for being on. I love chatting with you. You're just a bundle of joy. And I would love for you to share with everyone about yourself and who you are and when did you do the PSI seminars? I am, as he said, you said, a doctor of acupuncture. I am also the area director for PSI seminars. I actually took the course in 1987. I am a mother of seven and a grandmother of 13. And my youngest is just four months old, my youngest grandson. Oh, my goodness. A big family. A big family. Well, my oldest granddaughter is 26. So there's a big range between them. Well, that's always the best. You have oldest, youngest, and you just get to keep on playing with all of your grandkids all throughout your life. Yes, yes, I love it. It's my favorite occupation is being Nana to 13 grandchildren. I believe family is the most important thing in the world and I can see you feel the same. So tell me about your family and, you know, tell me about PSI seminars. Well, I'll tell you that I took the basic in 1987 and five years later, my husband passed away suddenly. And I gave birth to my youngest son at three days later. And I know that it's the work that I've been involved with PSI and I've been able to raise my children to be very productive individuals in the society. And so my oldest son and my middle son and my younger son work for the movie industry. And they are definitely facing some challenges right now. And so we all work together as a family to support each other. My middle son is the president of the IAZI Union, which takes care of all the people that are in the movie industry here in Hawaii that do all of the work behind the scenes and in front of the scenes. And then my daughter is, I took, I was pregnant with my daughter when I attended in 1987. And she now owns her own salon at LeMonde and she is actually a curl specialist. So she would love to do your hair, Shayna. I would love to get my hair done. And then my youngest who was born after his father passed away is a very successful professional entertainer. He's also on the board of directors for Ola Bru and he is their celebrity farmer. So he plants all of the tea leaf that they're gonna use for their newest product. So all of my children are quite successful. My youngest daughter teaches preschool, Hawaiian immersion preschool. And my oldest daughter, Taimani, works for me. So she works with me at PSI seminars. Did I cover all my children? I think I did. It's great to hear how successful all your children are. And would you say it's a result of PSI seminars? I definitely would say they, we have classes for children five to 12. And so my oldest and my number two went to the class when I first started. And my children are very tall. And so my son was probably about six foot two when he went to the children's class. And he said, mom, this class is for babies. I said, well, I'm sorry. And in order to go to the adult basic for free, he had to attend the children's class. So I said, you don't make $450 back in 1987. So you need to go. And by the second day, he loved it. He was so happy. They learned tools to be successful in school. They learned tools to communicate as a family. And so it was very amazing for my two children to start the work. And then every one of my children went at five years old. The only one, my youngest, his teacher, his preschool teacher was the facilitator. And when he was a little over four and a half, she said, he's ready. And his first goal was to attend Kamehameha schools as a kindergartner. And he got in. He wrote it down, he drew a picture of it, and he was accepted in kindergarten. Wow, he created that. He created that with his. Wow. And you mentioned your daughter and how she works with you. I work with my mom. And I believe with PSI, because I've done the work myself, that what I have learned in PSI seminars helped with my relationship with my mom and communicating. And you have a personal relationship, but a working dynamic as well. I feel at times it could be a little tricky. However, thanks to PSI seminars, we have a great working relationship because of all the tools that we have learned in the class. Yes, I would definitely agree. When my daughter was young, we did not have the greatest relationship. She had an amazing relationship with her dad. And when he passed away, it was very, very difficult. And we struggled. And we kept using the tools. And we kept going back to one thing that PSI has offered for 50 years is that you can go back for free anytime you want to. And so I took her to the class, and we kept working on this relationship and communication. And if you had told me when I first took the class 36 years ago that my daughter and I would work together, I would have told you it's impossible. And today we have an amazing working relationship, amazing communication. And for her birthday, she decided to go to the Beyonce concert in Kansas City, Missouri with her 26-year-old daughter. Wow. And I was able to help them buy the tickets to go to the Beyonce concert. Well, first and foremost, big, big, that is such a big thing to attend the Beyonce concert and for you to help her. I can only imagine how extensive the tickets were. I don't know if that was her birthday concert. I've heard about it, but I heard the tickets are crazy. Yes, she bought the tickets to the concert, and then she discovered that tickets to fly were pretty high. And so through creativity and through one of my other friends who I enrolled in the basic, she flew to St. Louis, Missouri instead of Kansas City. She, he picked her up and her daughter from the airport and they drove to Kansas City, which saved them about 50% for their ticket. Wow. And he said he's been to concerts all over and he said this was the best concert ever. I love that. And a lot of times too, for me at least, before I took PSI seminars, when I would hit a block in any situation, I would just say, oh, oh well. But I realized with the story you just shared, after doing the work, you become solution oriented. And no is not an answer, it's okay. What other way are we gonna do to figure this out to make it happen? And that's probably one of the greatest things I learned in PSI because seriously, if I just stopped at all the things that I had challenges with, then I really don't think I'd be where I'm at today. I would agree. You know, during COVID, there's so much that went on. And even for us as a company, we had to pivot because we do in-person seminars. So everybody sits together in a big room and in most cities across the nation, across Canada, we were not allowed to meet in person. Now, I am grateful to say, here in Honolulu, we have had 50 years of in-person seminars and so we were able to find solutions. We met at the Blaisdell, we had a room that seats 300 and we ended up, we were only allowed to have 50 people in a room that seats 300. Everybody's set apart. The facilitator was in Denver. They couldn't fly here. And so we had a 10 by 10 screen and my son who did audio for an audio visual, I'm not sure what you even call that for the fast and the furious in Kauai and he's also the union member who does it at the Blaisdell and he set it all up so we could stream the facilitator. We could have microphones set up so it was as if the facilitator was in our room and yet he was on a 10 by 10 screen. And so we're grateful to say we are the only city that continued in-person seminars during the pandemic and everybody else, but also with psych seminars, we had to pivot and they created online seminars so that people from Bali to Turkey and everybody in between and all around the world can now participate in PSI during our basic seminar. So what I'm hearing is although there was COVID and it was a very rough time, you guys took a pivot and a great solution came out of it, which was online seminars and now everyone can do it all across the world. Yes, my friend from Bali, I met her in 2019 and she was on the first online seminar. She started at midnight and they did it at eight in the morning, I know. And I was feeling bad that I had to wake up at 5.30 here in Hawaii and she was able to use the tools because during COVID, most of Bali shut down. Their medical system is not up to par with ours. And so she had a hotel, she had some stores and a coffee shop and all of them are successful. And then she opened an ice cream parlor during COVID. Wow. By using the tools she learned in the basic online, she said it was worth waking up at midnight. I would say it's worth waking up at midnight as well. So for you and your experience, I want you to share your background and really go into detail how PSI changed your life. I know you shared about your kids, what did it do for you? Well, I would say that when I took the seminar in 1987, my mother asked me to attend. She told me there was a money back guarantee and I thought I'm gonna get my money back. That's a picture of my mother, my two sisters and I, and we all did the women's leadership class together. And today we have four generations of my family of women that have participated in PSI seminars. And when I took the class, I didn't tell my mother that I had a house in foreclosure. I was struggling financially. And so the 450 that it cost, I told her I couldn't afford that. And she just said, you have to pay cause I've already paid and I want you to go. But she told me there was a money back guarantee and I thought, well, great, I'm gonna get my money back. And she'll never know that my house is in foreclosure and that I am struggling so bad. And then I learned so much in the first few days. I met a woman who sat next to me. And when I shared with this stranger that my house was in foreclosure, she said, I can sell your house for a profit. And I said, well, everyone has written to me to say, they'll just buy it for what I owe or a little less than what I owe. And she said, no, no, I'll sell it for a profit. And she came to my home in Kaneohe and she asked for a pan and cinnamon. I said, why do you need a pan and cinnamon to sell my home? And she said, it gives the essence of apple pie baking and it allows people to feel a home. I thought, that's the craziest idea I have ever heard. I handed her the pan, I handed her the cinnamon and I left and she sold my home for a $50,000 profit over what I owed. Wow. In very short order, before the foreclosure. And so I was able to at least find solutions. And I thought, there's something about this seminar that works that a stranger I met in a class that was, back then it was four days, now it's three days, could create solutions for my financial struggle. Seemed so amazing to me. And so I've never stopped. We are able to go back for free for the rest of our lives. And I say, I have probably gone back over 300 times. I've lost count because I always learn something new. And something that serves the situation I'm in. And so like I said, my husband passed away five years after I started. And I supported my children in making sure that they continued so that we'd at least have a common communication with whatever, they all have different, I shouldn't say they all, they have different behavioral styles, which you learn in the basic. And so I learned to communicate with them in the way they need to hear it. And it's just been a way of life for me. And now I want you to share about your life now because we just talked about some exciting. I don't want to share it. We have some slides that will come up, but we have some exciting things that happen for you in terms of, you were talking about going into foreclosure, but now where you're at and with the property you own, please share about that. Yeah, so I'll start out by saying my realtor is Zeni Kai. And she works for Team Lolli Real Estate and all of their employees attend the basic seminar. And I believe all of their realtors attend the basic seminar. And so my goal was to buy a house. And I will say, and I was working with my son and my daughter and I will say that Zeni put in eight offers that were declined. And so one of the things we talk about inside seminars is resiliency and that there is a reason for everything. And so one night at one o'clock in the morning, I was searching Zillow and I found a house and it was, I found a property. I would say say I found a property and that property had a three bedroom, one and a half bath house that said it was ready to move in. And a six bedroom, four bath house that said in the listing needs work on the second floor. That's all it said at one o'clock in the morning. And as soon as I saw it, I just felt like we had been declined for the other eight to prepare us for this one. It was under a million dollars. And I said, I wrote to her in the morning. I said, I wanna put an offer. She said, the house is not listed. You're not able to put an offer on a house that's not listed. And I said, yes, you are. Because I was a realtor in 1993 and I knew you could. Not that you know what they want. I said, I gave her the amount. I said, put the offer in. We've already been rejected eight times. It's the worst that could happen. And so we put the offer in and it was definitely under what they were requesting when they finally listed the homes. And so I was in the basic seminar and I believe that is such a key. I was in the basic seminar working in December of last year and December of 2022. And she sent me a text that said, they have countered your offer. And I said to her, accept the counter. She said, well, you don't wanna do that because it's higher. It's got some contingencies. They're not gonna pay any fees. She gave me a whole list. I said, accept the counter. Because I knew that if I liked the counter offer, they wouldn't be able to talk to anyone else until I declined. And so some of the requirements where they weren't paying any seller's fees, we had to close in 45 days. And what was the other? Oh, they weren't doing any renovations. So if we found something that didn't work, too bad. That's on you. That's on me. And so they countered with 975,000. And I said, we're gonna make it work. And what we discovered once we accepted the offer, their counter was that they had subdivided the property. So we could get a mortgage on one of the buildings and we had to pay cash for the other. But what was left was what I had in the bank. And so we paid cash for the six bedroom four bath, which is still loading in the air on pallets. We've applied for permits and we're in the permitting process. There it is. You see how it says needs work on the second floor might have been a little incorrect. I said, I don't know what that means in the listing. And so we got a mortgage on the livable house and we were able to buy the whole half an acre for 975,000. That is incredible. It is. And I'll tell you that some of the offers we put in were 1.2 million for a three bedroom two bath house on 7,500 square feet of land. And had we been successful with that, we wouldn't be able to buy this house today. So I'm very happy. I'm happy for you. You created that. Thank you. Thank you. It was just clear. We teach a formula in the basic that says 100%, you can get 100% of what your intention is if you follow the formula. And I put that to work. Now, if you see that car in the front, that is yet another example of my 100% intention because I have wanted a purple Tesla for four years. And you got my purple Tesla parked in front of my house and my little Maltese, which I've always wanted a Maltese. So all things, all dreams come true. And we believe Sy Seminars is all about hope and possibilities. Yeah, I believe Sy Seminars turns dreams into reality. Yes. By just doing the work. And with that being said, what are some major success stories that you've seen from a person who did PSI seminars? I know we had talked to earlier and you had helped this lady go on Shark Tank and she's a millionaire now, so please share. Well, I will tell you, I didn't help her go on Shark Tank. I helped her go. She was on a team. I facilitate a 90 day program, coaching program. And it's about goal achieving. A lot of people take goal setting seminars. We have goal achieving. And in Honolulu, the mantra is best game ever. Remember that Shayna, best game ever. And so my Liu was playing a PLD game, they said her leadership dynamics and I was her coach. When she set a goal, she had created an invention called the Kria Clip. And she set a goal to present it on the Oprah Winfrey show. And she called me to say, it's leaking. I said, why does it have water? And then I said to her, you're already there. You might as well do the presentation. And she was selected in the top five. She didn't get selected as number one. And I won't tell you what she found out. I'm not sure if I can share that anyway. But I'll say, Home Shopping Network was watching the presentation. And once she didn't get selected as number one, they came and offered her an opportunity to be on Home Shopping Network. She went on, she sold out. I believe it was three to 5,000 units in 15 minutes. Goodness. And she went on to continue her Kria Clip very successfully. Recently, somebody said, why don't you do your videos in different languages? And instantly, she became more successful. And then she applied for Shark Tank and she got on and she won. Yes, I heard of that story. I believe I watched that story too. I'm a big Shark Tank fan. I watched it over and over. I was so proud of her. It was like she was one of my children. And recently, she has always wanted to be a mom. And recently, she just gave birth to baby in November. And they are traveling all around the world. She took her baby to Canada, where her parents live. And then to Germany, where her husband's parents live. And she is living a beautiful life and she has rental properties on the Big Island in Waikiki. And she is extreme. And she says she owes it to all that she learned in PSI seminars. Yes. She's just one. I know. I agree with all my success in you sharing that success story that if you don't work on yourself, there's a lot of things to work on when it comes to personal development. And I want to ask you, Ahaya, what is the cost of the seminar and what is the cost of not doing personal development work? I would say the cost of the basic is $795. Oftentimes, if somebody wants to enroll, I can get a $200 off certificate so they could call me personally. And I believe the cost of not attending is not living your dreams. And especially the ones that are so far of a stretch that you won't even write them down. All of the tools that we've taught, we've been teaching for 50 years. And the most successful are those who actually do the work and come back over and over and write down your goals and dreams. Just talking to you, you're re-inspiring me over and over again of why I love the work and why I continue to share it about PSI seminars. I've told many people about it. A lot of people have done the basic, including my other half. And I know it has helped our relationship, our communication, and just like how you shared for your family, it has helped my family as well. And PSI seminars, I look at it as a gift that just keeps on giving. Yes. It really is. So when are these classes? Our next basic is October 13th, the set of the 15th at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. And then we do have an online basic October 20th to the 23rd. And then our next basic in Honolulu is December 1st to the 3rd at the convention center. Okay, great. I will be there. I will be there because like how I mentioned, you are able to take the class for free for your whole entire life. So I have gone back to the basic, gone back to the seminars time and time again. And what you shared earlier too is that wherever you are in your life when you attend again, you get feedback on how to excel for personal growth. And for me, before PSI seminars, I was in a fixed mindset. And investing in yourself and your dreams, you become going into a growth mindset. And dreaming is not dreaming, but PSI, they turn it into reality. And I'm very, very, very grateful for the seminars and I'm very grateful for you, how I hail. Well, I appreciate you for inviting me. I wasn't sure what to think. And I feel so blessed and honored that you asked me to be on your show. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you. Thank you all for joining me on Money Talks. I hope to see you all at the next episode. I am Machina Park, a Gen Z inspiring lives of liberties. Thank you.