 journey with you as we learn how to take your health back. Today, our topic of discussion is worldwide COVID. Rise up, join the fight, be a hero. I'd like to welcome back David Yonamini and Hayden Daughters, who are the co-founders of the hero systems. They are both, they are just full of love and, I don't know, energy. Every time I walk in there, I just, I don't know what to say, but I've been into their office and I've experienced what they want you to experience. So being that we're on air now, all you've got to do is go down to their shop and they're just waiting, they're just waiting to educate the rest of us, but they are both here today to educate us about what the world has been experiencing for the last 20 months and to answer some questions that you may have on your mind and didn't know where to go to get the answers. And I'm sure if you ask them, these are two young, bright gentlemen that have the answers and they want to share it with you. So welcome, David and Hayden. Aloha, Wendy. Aloha, Wendy. Aloha, guys. Thanks for having us. On screen, man. Look at you guys so handsome. I try, Wendy. I try. I know you don't try too hard. It's a good idea. I shave for this. All right, so let's get started. I know that when we last spoke at the beginning of the year and we were introducing Hero and your non-toxic sanitization systems and solutions, how has the community responded thus far? You know, Wendy, I think when we started Hero, we had had this idea that, you know, the community would be looking for it, they'd be warm, but nothing could have matched the love, the Aloha and just the Aloha spirit that was really welcoming to us when we entered the market. You know, we had a lot of concern, we had a lot of people who were concerned about their keiki, but what was really amazing was not just some of the vulnerable, but a lot of responsible community leaders really stepped up to the plate and didn't just want to meet where the standard was, they wanted to exceed the standard. And, you know, from a lot of the local restaurants that we have out there, as well as to even some of some big community leaders like in government, we had a lot of different, even Imi Aloha center over in Big Island. I mean, we had just had a lot of people who any kind of business or church organization or NPO that had a large gathering that had a lot of people around, they were just so excited not just to be able to provide this service, not just be able to protect their congregation or their friends or their family, but their staff and their customers as well. And it was just really exciting to see from, like I said, local business owners, small business, even big business owners, just heard the call and the fact that we were able to provide something to them. And what was really exciting was that everyone was looking out for each other. And the fact that support local was so important and crucial in this process was just really exciting. And gosh, it was, it was, it was, it was really quite the honor to be able to serve our community and to help protect our Ohanas. And one of the things also if I could just add to that, it's just been so great to see in the community, you know, there's just a lot of questions, a lot of people, you know, confused, they don't, they don't know about, you know, how, how this virus, you know, works and where is it at in the community and what can they do to protect themselves. And, you know, it's been a really an honor and a privilege to just to be, you know, part of a force to help educate the community, you know, to help, to help, you know, people just kind of have some understanding, because I think once people have some understanding of what they're up against, they can, they can have some practical strategies and practical solutions to be able to protect themselves and to protect their community. It's just been such an honor to be out in the community to help like David said, I know recently we actually did a complimentary sanitization of the National Prayer Breakfast that was just a great thing to be be a part of out here. And just any way that we can to be able to reach the community to be able to educate to be able to share our safe and non toxic sanitizing systems and solutions. It's just been great to be able to help provide some peace of mind in the middle of a really challenging time for a lot of people. Wow, you know, when I wandered into your office and I saw that discol smoke flying around, I would not ever think that that's something that is a solution to the problem that we were just experiencing and really wanted to know what the heck what are we going to do now. And so when I wandered in and I kind of listened to what you guys are saying to others and I just kind of listened and then you said have a seat and I listened and I'm like, you know this anti-wandy we are not into chemicals and not into all these toxins and things and I thought oh no another chemical company trying to put it up my nose but what intrigued me the most and that's why I like having you guys on because you know when you say non toxic sanitization solutions I mean like you really mean that so I want you just quickly to expound on what makes it non-toxic and it being a solution and being not being non-toxic how is that even possible? Well Wendy you know that's a great question and I know when we first met you and got to talk to you a little about our solutions the fact that we had said that we found something that could be up to 80 times stronger than bleach yet completely safe to pet safe plant safe and people safe and the key ingredients were salt vinegar and tap water. I know that I feel like we had you at at at salt vinegar and tap water. Exactly. You know to be able to provide something that was effective but at the same time safer like I said earlier you know our vulnerable capuna and our sensitive keiki you know that that was something that was really close to our hearts and knowing that that when we were using something with frequency consistency and convenience that I could feel good knowing that people were using our systems and solutions and it wasn't going to have any type of long-term ramifications for people. Wow absolutely. Amen guys you guys nailed it man. Yeah sorry Hayden go ahead. No I was going to say also you know one of the biggest challenges that we've seen with COVID and we've come to discover over you know the last like you said 20 months is that um you know COVID has transmitted a lot in the air right and that's that's become really obvious in um in you know much of the research that's been done so to be able to provide a solution that you know has nano atmospheric sanitization we have the ability to literally occupy an air space with something that can help disinfect the air and help keep our air safe um you know I think it's really been and do that in a non-toxic way right because you can't do that uh with with toxic chemicals so it was just such an amazing discovery and I know it's brought uh so many people some safety and the peace of mind also you know in the middle of people we know right now especially with everybody starting to open up and you know people trying to get back together again and people being in close proximity of course it's more important than ever for us to be able to have safe environments uh you know and help to uh to sanitize the air in a safe way. Right and you know as as you said David you got me at vinegar actually vinegar because that's the old school remedy you ask any uh kupuna back in the day that was the cure all was vinegar and water and so again once I saw that I says well I want to learn more and understand more about what you all are doing there so you know we all thought this pandemic was going to come and go and now we have another variant the delta variant surging will this virus ever end? You know Wendy um I know that uh we're here kind of having fun and and being able to talk about things in a light manner and you know it really always pains me to talk about the virus and and where it is today you know we have really done as much as we can to create awareness and gosh what a great place to live we live in Hawaii where people care and people uh are not just thinking of themselves they think about their neighbors they think about their community but the truth of the matter is we're dealing with something that a lot of experts were afraid of uh we weren't sure if it was going to happen and sure enough it has and really where it started from in India you're talking about a virus that they just thought that had claimed over 400 000 souls they are now finding out that the number might be closer to 4.1 million in India you know you're talking about something right now that is that is going all across Southeast Asia you're talking about something that's affecting us on the worldwide stage with all the way from you know right now they're saying Indonesia is going to be the next India from you know countries like Taiwan and South Korea and Vietnam that had just strong protocols with using high tech and really strong methods of sanitization and still yet it's getting in there and you look at what's happening around our country right now you know you look at hospital beds being filled up you're talking about hospitalizations rising at a rapid rate as well as case counts and I know that you know a lot of people that I know that were in the testing field have you know they thought they were going to go out of business because testing has dropped so much and now you've got a huge demand for testing we have we don't have the lab infrastructure that we used to and then now talking about our islands here you know it's it's something very concerning right we've had triple digit cases for the last uh was it over 10 days now and you know you look at where this is coming from and a lot of people ask me they go David what what is the Delta variant what what are what are some of the key things behind it well you take a look at it right now the the Delta variant when when someone is infected with it sheds about 1200 more virons than than the alpha variant on top of that it only takes one tenth of this virus to get people sick that of the of the version beforehand so you talk about something that's shedding more virus plus it takes less virus to get people sick you've got a deadly combination out there wow well and we thought it was just going to come and go and um it'll be another thing of the past but um it looks like it's here for a bit and um knowing that there are people and companies like yourselves that are working hard to find solutions for all of us that really gives us peace of mind and comfort so um I have to ask you know there's so there seems to be so much conflicting opinions about everything when it comes to covid yes no right wrong left right you know how do we know what's the truth well how do we know yeah that's that's an interesting question right isn't that the question that we all are asking ourselves every single day I mean I think one of the most frustrating things about this pandemic since the beginning is that you know there's just so many conflicting stories happening right ever since the beginning first it was you know it was a hoax and then it was just like the flu and then we heard things were actually more significant than they were we hear we hear all types of things about numbers and and you know you know one day I think David just said it earlier right you heard 400 000 and then deaths and then you hear four million you know you hear maybe we should wear a mask one day and the next day we shouldn't wear a mask right and people are fighting over this right and you know we we hear you know all types of different things about vaccinations and of course I'm not going to go into that today you know there's there's just debates and there's all this tension there's all this division and I think the thing that myself and I know my partners are always so frustrated about when we think about this situation is that you know we see you know many of us we're we're fighting about we're arguing we're disagreeing about all of these different facts of information you know where did it start from like what's the purpose of it you know there's all these all these all this division all this debate around it even amongst families and amongst communities um and we're fighting against ourselves um but the reality is all the while while we are fighting against ourselves we actually have a war that's going on we have an enemy that's not ourselves like we're we're we're on the same side because you know we think about it we all want the same thing right what do we want we all want you know we all want our community back right we all want to be out we we don't want none of us want to wear a mask right nobody wants to wear a mask right we all want to be out you know in you know with our with our you know you know just communities and in public gatherings we want to be able to just to do we want our life back right um so we all want the same thing but we're arguing against each other and you know and I think a lot of that has to do with so much of the disinformation out there that people are not paying attention to what what's really going on and you know David did such a great job earlier talking about what's really going on what we've seen is that we've got a virus that is changing very rapidly and is getting you know more more virulent right it's transmitting faster it's hitting people harder we're hearing about kids now in hospitals you know people that are really being affected their lives being wrecked and people are shocked about what's happening because they've been just confused by disinformation so we have an enemy and in order for us to be able to defeat this enemy we first need to recognize that we have an enemy right we we have to agree that this is a problem this is a problem in our community this is a problem in our world and and and at least agree on that you know we can we can argue about all the rest of the stuff later on but let's agree on that so that we can all come together to be able to work together to defeat this enemy and I think that's one of the things that's so important for us at hero and one of the messages that we've been putting out there is that listen we're not about a side we are about the same side which is making sure that uh that that as a community we we we fight back and we and we get our lives back we beat this virus because we can't live with it wow you hit it on the nail I mean you said as a community we need to fight back so it's not just you it's not just me it's not your neighbor it's the community and as long as we don't lose that that main source called community ohana family I think that's what we have to do we all have to be working together but yet we need the right tools to work together with so first of all knowledge and so that's why I asked you all here so that you could inform and teach and then of course you have a system a solution that you would like to share with others to just give them a cutting edge over this this COVID this this bad disease that we want to say that we want to stop it and so to shade to your company for taking it um by the horns and working diligently on this problem so thank you so you know everything that you discussed and shared with us there Hayden as well as you David these problems seem so complex even a little scary I mean not a little actually very scary what are we supposed to do can you help us well you know and I think Hayden had uh really really got us off on the right foot there with uh the fact that we need to come together and you know a big part of what hero you know we we start off as a sanitization company we start off as this company just trying to give some new technology and to help our uh you know whether whether you're a vulnerable kupuna or you're you're somebody that that maybe uh you know you're you're you're not uh as a spring chicken anymore you know and you you're not out there you can't just scrub every floor or or go out there and uh you know wash every window right we wanted to provide something for you that was as easy as uh maybe a slide a slide of some sort or a push of a button but what hero is today is we are so much more mission focused now and uh really really and and what we've discovered is that it takes all of us right it's going to be a a unifying effort and so what we've done to help dispel this disinformation what we've done to help empower people and give them education as we've uh we started an ambassador program and we call it our hero ambassador or hero heroes united and a big part of what that is about is about getting people together educating and empowering them giving them the information that they need and having them go out there and influence their communities influence their circles of influence influence uh their their their family members their their workplaces and that's what it really is about is is getting people to get in front of other people and share with them some information you know it's about saying something it's about it's about doing something it's about activation right it's about being an activist it's about going out there and and helping people and that's really what you know when we started this this hero united and this ambassador program is is really the core of it is is that education piece and getting people to understand that it's not going to be a commercial it's not going to be a radio advertisement it's not going to be a social media pop-up ad that's not what's going to do it that's what got us here you know i for me i grew up in the information age where the internet had just come on out don't get me wrong i'm not i'm not a spring chicken myself okay i remember fax machines i remember i remember i remember the rubbish can you don't know what a fax machine is okay i i remember okay and i i also grew up with the internet too i grew up with all this technology right i gosh i had a phone i think right i had a uh one of those not the flip phone or that that mortarella razor right when i was in high school right so listen i didn't grow up on smartphone tech okay but i remember i remember what it was like and and we when the internet was young you had all this information at your fingertips and it was amazing right you could something great could happen somewhere across the world and then all of a sudden a minute later an hour later everybody heard about it and that was the amazing enlightenment and the many people call it the golden age of the internet today we live in the medieval times today we live in a world where you don't know what to believe today we live in a world where it's the disinformation age and the sooner we all understand that the sooner we can get past it and we can start realizing that there are forces beyond us that are trying to divide us but there is there is so much that is being put out there with these algorithms and these different strategies that are that are pulling us up that pushing us apart and our hero mission our hero ambassador mission is to bring people back together again is to get people heart to heart face to face and understand that you can't hide behind a screen you can't hide behind i know we are on screens right now but you can't hide behind the screen you can't hide behind no face to face belly to belly and really to to communicate discuss and and and that's the that's the other key is discussion right hearing people from their side their point of view and explain to them the and explain to them yours and getting that that beautiful understanding and i i i truly feel i you know i've been all across the world and i know uh hate and i know you have too and i know that when you when you travel all over the place and and you're used to meeting all types of people that there's something magical about sitting down with someone and just having a discussion like a human being and we want to bring more of that obviously safely right with mast or with something something in the in the middle we like to call the nano atmospheric state but more importantly it's it's getting people to feel that energy again and and and to be uh to connect again and i think that way to disconnect from maybe that that those screens and connect more uh face to face right again you hit it on the nail and um that's the the feature of the blue zone lifestyle is that they believe in community you know and these seniors these kupuna for the last 20 30 40 50 years every day they came out they sat down and they talk story and they share their lies goals and ambitions and and and sorrows but they laughed and they cried together and that's what made them so healthy and have such longevity and that's of course one of the blue zones is the in okinawa and i uh study that community a bunch yes it's their diet but it's the community that they shared that they could share their hearts and be there and share emotions and that's what we need back and so we need to work a little harder um with you in uh guiding us so that we can get community back that is so so key and so important so i know you know what the problems are i know you have some solutions up your sleeve so what's the strategy to taking out covet how do we do it well what a question there right i could hop in on this one i think that's that isn't that the question that everybody around the world is asking and i know that we um you know we we've been really um thinking hard about this since uh since day one i i know that you know david said earlier we we started out as a sanitization company um and we wanted to help businesses reopen and do so with non-toxic safe solutions and you know that that was a great start but as we've seen everything evolve uh over the period of time and as we've seen this virus become more and more of a problem i think we all can kind of agree that now after we've seen this new delta variant and what's happening um we ourselves um began to get deeply concerned thinking that what we were doing with sanitization wasn't enough uh we were like it's something it's part of the solution but it is not the whole solution um you know we started to look at this whole um this whole covid situation like like a war it really is a world war that's happening and we look around the war and and everybody around this war is battling uh this virus it is a war that we are all against the entire human races against this war and you know if you think about it wendy when you are in a war you need a wartime strategy you can't just think that there's this one weapon that's going to win the war right you need battleships you need you need planes you need missiles you need infantry you need marines you need the whole thing and you need it all coordinated you need a strategy to work together to be able to win and you need to be united too i mean we talk about hero united we can't win a war when we're all fighting against each other we have to recognize that we're in a war we have to unite and we have to work a strategy to be able to win that war and when we started to think about that we actually started to look at you know an a war that actually happens inside of our body um when you know if we look at our immune system our immune system is a pretty interesting and amazing thing right and when when when you have you know a virus that gets inside of your body we have a whole detection system that works throughout our entire bloodstream they're called lymphocytes and what they do is that as soon as they recognize an invader they they eat that invader virus and and like blow itself up and sends off an alert to the entire body red alert red alert there's something that should not be here we need to get it out right and then it sets off a whole cascade a whole a whole system a whole war that happens inside your body to get this invader out of there right because if it doesn't happen that that invader if that immune system didn't you know jump into action it would it would it would shut us down right it would it would end us something as small as a little cut would do that so what happens in our body we got T killer cells that go out there and kill infected cells we have you know B cells that start creating antibodies to block viruses from entering in our system our our body heats up that's why we get a fever so that it can make it you know a hostile environment so viruses can't replicate so there is this whole beautiful symphony that happens inside of our body to be able to win this war and so we started to ask ourselves we're like well that's interesting our body is an ecosystem right think about our body is an ecosystem and what else is an ecosystem well this island is an ecosystem it is it's a body it has you know all different parts it has you know I guess think of each one of us as a cell every every human is a cell you know and we said well what would an immune system look like for the island what if we could create an immune system here that had the ability to do exactly what the immune system does which what does it do it has a detection method it's able to detect an invader immediately that it should not be if we were able to detect detect on the island whenever a virus was present let's we need to detect it right away secondly we need to alert we need to be able to alert the community that there is a virus here there's there's an invader that should not be on this island then what we would need to do is we would need to coordinate all of our defenses we need to coordinate defenses what are those defenses we talked about a sanitizing system solutions therapeutics you know our you know medical everything that we need to do to be able to you know surround and just eliminate ultimately to be able to eradicate that virus and and and that led us to this amazing idea called the shield and this amazing innovative technology that we are currently in development on right now and we're so excited about it because it's not just about the technology it's about you know Dave was saying it's about getting the community united behind a strategy and behind a technology to be able to support that strategy so that together imagine if that one together that we all united and we work together and just on this island just on this island we were able to get COVID down to zero cases and we were able to keep it there you know we started to envision that and and just have that vision and think wow if we could do it here it's then maybe we could do it around the world you know and but maybe it would start here maybe we could shield Hawaii and that's the uh that's the initiative and the campaign that we're going to be launching very soon and we're so excited to connect with the community and and work with the community to be able to make this happen wow you know and like you said you go to war you need tools you need guns you need artillery and you know i i went yesterday to your store and i bought this so look at how pretty this is guys i mean like i'm just not a commercial okay but i just like seeing this is just vinegar and water a little bit of salt putting it into the the machine to change its structure molecular structure and this to me is my piece of mind when i'm shopping when i'm traveling when i'm going out to eat i just do this and you know i tell you what's really funny i go around town and i was at the Mercedes Benz the car dealership this lady brings out her gun and she's like she's like spraying her car down right in front of me i'm thinking like hey girlfriend i know what that is i says you're a hero too and yeah so she just picked up her car and was worked on so before she went in she sprayed it down the trunk the car the mats everything she sprayed it down with her gun her hero gun and she sanitized it and made it a safe place for her and her husband to jump into as they were on their journey back home and so i just put her aside and say hey what is that and she goes oh you don't know and um she was explaining to me like i have to do this whenever i go and then put in my car all over and she was so excited like and i just pretend like i didn't know what she's talking about but she was so passionate and she knew what she had to do because her car was in strangers hands and now it's her and her husband going back into their car their home on the road and she had to make it the best and safest place for them to to spend the next uh what 10 15 30 minutes in and she says when i go home i use this i do everything i make sure i gun him down gun him down she's only gone they were really so yeah she sprayed him in and then he does her too so he gunned her down you know and so it was a reciprocation and you know what one more form of communication for husband and wife because in the past they probably would just walk into their house but anyway so sorry you went off track so you say rise up join the fight and be a hero what does that really mean and what can we all do and wendy i love that question because a lot of people ask us david what does being a hero mean to you what does being a hero mean to to your company and really what it means is it means making a statement it means saying to yourself i'm going to be a hero maybe maybe it's a hero in your family maybe it's being a hero with your friends maybe it means being a hero at your workplace maybe it means being a hero uh in your community what we're saying is that we need more heroes today and whether it's it's through our ambassador program or not we want you to be the best we want you to be a superhero in your community and whether that's saying something and saying hey listen that's not responsible saying hey listen that's not drink from the same cup or hey listen let's let's let's let's mask up before we go in here let or listen hey where's your mask at it's it's being a hero and saying something and not just saying something but doing something and right now we need more heroes we need more heroes everywhere we need more heroes we're gonna find them and we're gonna or we're gonna find friends and turn them into heroes so we don't want all the credit we want them to be a part of the solution so i'm so sorry but we run out of time right now guys so mahalo to you two young heroes and of course the other partner in crime is Dustin I know and thank you for bringing the solutions to us and helping to help us understand this little a little clearer so we appreciate you so much and one day soon we'll have you back when you you develop more tools that you want to share with us but for now thank you from think takawaii and taking your health back i'm wendy lowe and we will see you in the next two weeks aloha and mahalo young men for joining us today aloha