THE SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR WHO…
Builds Across Cultures
where people come before profit
and profitability follows with purpose.
Business Brunch
purpose as action| money as a tool| work as servicE
A reflective workshop series to uncover clarity, direction, and purpose.
BUSINESS BRUNCH guides 100+ participants on building enterprises that serve people, strengthen communities, and create meaningful change—whether or not they plan to start a company.
Taught through a business lens, the workshop weaves goal setting, financial planning, organization, and relationship management through hands-on exercises, worksheets, and guided homework. Participants learn how to work within capitalistic structures—not for extraction, but regeneration.
Business Brunch is unique in its approach, weaving spirituality, ancestral guidance, and divine timing into a reflective process.
JOIN THE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE TAUGHT BY LOCAL EXPERTS
Reroot
The immersive tour company revamping the travel industry.
Reroot curates educational travel experiences guided by 100+ academic and community experts throughout the Americas and Pacific. Setting a new precedent in regenerative tourism, Reroot reinvests tour dollars directly back into the local economy, funding schools, farms, hospitals, and other community programs. At Reroot, local experts design every minute of the itinerary, with each dynamic class educating visitors on local culture, preserving natural resources, and generating capital for the local economy. Sign up quick, as these tours sell out in as little as 24 hours.
a living dialogue between land, space, and self
SEÚL HAUS
SEÚL HAUS is an immersive space designed using Pungsu-jiri, the ancient Korean art of living in harmony with the heavens and the earth in ancestral land alignment. Built from natural materials and organized around the elements, SEÚL HAUS draws guests into constant interaction with their environment—inviting guests into presence, balance, and self-connection.
Reshape your community.
Construction Solutions International
The globally informed, locally grounded construction import company that blends antique materials with modern designs to create elevated construction rooted in global best practices.
CSI streamlines community development by pairing technical expertise with direct access to premium raw materials beyond traditional import channels. Operating in regions with limited infrastructure, it applies internationally benchmarked construction standards while blending antique materials with modern design to create distinctive, context-driven builds.
By integrating best practices from multiple countries and removing supply-chain friction, the company delivers durable, elevated projects that are efficient to execute and designed to endure—supporting long-term growth where it matters most.
PRACTICE SELF CARE WITH A PURPOSE
Jaguar Salon
The beach nail salon funding the next generation of female founders.
On El Salvador’s coast, Kiona identified a systemic blind spot: capable women—mostly single mothers with limited formal education—restricted to day-wage labor and denied pathways to long-term economic mobility. In response, Doctor Kiona invested $5,000 and two years of technical training to found a salon designed not merely for beauty, but for economic liberation, employing exclusively single mothers and their daughters on a pay structure with unlimited earning potential. Profits were reinvested into continuous education in order to add specialized services.
Since its founding, technicians have achieved measurable outcomes including first-time homeownership, financial independence from abusive relationships, and successful launches of independent salons. The salon has evolved into a cooperative model, with each woman operating her own business within the shared space.
TAKE PART IN ETHICAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
Short-term leasing fueling the economy
Doctor Kiona launched her property management company, Hosts2Go, at just 21, managing properties across Latin America and the United States for clients whose first language was not English. Shaped by her Hawaiian upbringing and firsthand exposure to tourism models that extract wealth and displace local communities, she set out to build an ethical, sustainable hospitality business.
A 22-time Superhost, she oversaw staging, photography, listings, and promotion for multiple properties.
STAGING
PHOTOGRAPHY
LISTING CREATION
property managementpromotioN
PROPERTY Analytics ANAYTICS
rULES/REGULATIONS CREATION
Campaigns for a cause:
Doctor Kiona rallies her six-digit social media following, Patreon community, and personal connections to launch micro campaigns and ongoing ventures throughout the United States and Latin America. A handful of these collaborations include:
LAVENDER FARMERS SWITCH GEARS DURING COVID
When the COVID-19 pandemic halted the tourism industry, hotels in Mexico stopped buying lavender soaps. In response, Clay Imports and Doctor Kiona teamed up with local lavender farmers (suffering under economic strain) to launch a new product in incredibly high demand—hand sanitizer—ensuring their harvest didn’t go to waste selling over 2,000 bottles of lavender hand sanitizer.
INDIGENOUS ARTISTS LAUNCH LIMITED-RELEASE HOLIDAY PRODUCT
In Oaxaca, the Zapotec are infamous for black clay products. When COVID blocked incoming travelers and halted sales, Doctor Kiona sought to help artists through the holidays. Together with Clay Imports and Zapotec artists, a limited batch of 600 biodegradable, hand-made mugs were launched and sold to carry them over for the holiday season.
STUDENTS GET A HISTORY LESSON THROUGH DIY
When students in Austin were isolated during COVID-19, they weren’t getting social interaction. Clay Imports collaborated with Doctor Kiona to launch a DIY plotter on a buy-one-give-one basis sponsoring multiple classrooms so that kids could make their own tile pots, while learning the history of tiles from their instructors.
Trading in
Venture Capitalism
for
Ventures
in the local community.
GRAMMY-WINNING SAXOPHONIST FUNDS HIS COLLEGE APPLICATION FEES
When 23-year-old Franco, a Cuban saxophone player, applied to an American university, he quickly racked up $1,285 in fees. With the average income just $25/month in Cuba, he was not able to pay them on his own. Doctor Kiona teamed up with Franco to launch a Val-A-Gram campaign to send songs to loved ones, selling 200 songs to cover triple the costs.
salvadoran surfers LAUNCH THEIR OWN SURF SHOPS
When Doctor Kiona’s Salvadoran employees approached her about opening their own surf shops, she rallied her Patreon community to offer a small business loan. The loan coincided with a budgeting class, logo design, website making, and social media marketing to allow the men to launch surf shops, open surf camps, and even purchase vehicles.
WOMEN START SELLING HOME-GROWN ORANGE JUICE
In El Salvador, a group of women approached Doctor Kiona for help planting their own orange grove. Today, the orange grove employs 13 women, allowing them to harvest, create, and sell fresh orange juice to their local community.
NAIL TECH SEARCHES FOR HER OWN BRICK AND MORTAR
In Cuba, a local nail technician had very few supplies due to the blockade. After Doctor Kiona sent out an international call, salons began donating their supplies. Today, the technician is searching for her own brick and mortar—an incredible feat in a country where the average income is $25 per month.
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Through monthly writings, reflections, and lived experience, I share the spiritual, emotional, and strategic lessons learned while creating companies rooted in ethics, autonomy, and self-trust—beginning with Spiritual Lessons in Business, a monthly newsletter exploring the unseen integrations behind sustainable success