In this video, discover how to reclaim your voice and the importance of authentic communication. Join Michelle A G Ebalaroza Kawano as she shares her experience at the Level Up Summit 2026, where she delivered a powerful speech titled "Unmute Yourself: Reclaim the One Human Right We Violate - Using Your Voice."

Key takeaways:

• Overcoming technical difficulties during presentations

• The significance of engaging with your audience

• How authenticity can captivate listeners

• The role of preparation in public speaking

• The impact of sharing personal stories

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Technical challenges faced
01:11 Importance of using your voice
02:20 Engaging the audience without slides
03:27 The role of authenticity in communication
07:40 Conclusion and final thoughts

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What does it really take to rise beyond adversity and live limitlessly?

In this powerful episode of Walking in ALOHA; Let’s Talk Story, Speaker, Author, Certified Facilitator, and Human Rights Consultant Michelle A. G. Ebalaroza Kawano sits down with Nancy Langevin—bestselling author, Certified High Performance Coach, former elite athlete, and founder of Unbound Synergy Academy.

Nancy shares her incredible journey from despair to purpose after overcoming life-threatening health challenges, personal struggles, and adversity. Through faith, mindset, movement, and resilience, she reveals how anyone can reclaim their inner strength, break through limitations, and rise into their highest level.

Together, Michelle and Nancy explore the ALOHA Always framework:
🌺 Affirmations & Actions
🌺 Leadership & Love
🌺 Overcoming Obstacles
🌺 Health & Healing
🌺 Acute Awareness

In this episode, you’ll discover:
✨ How affirmations paired with action create transformation
✨ Why gratitude is essential for resilience and high performance
✨ The connection between movement, mindset, and healing
✨ How to trust your intuition and advocate for yourself
✨ Ways to shift from survival mode into purpose and impact

💬 Memorable Moments:
“God has your back.”
“Live limitless. Fly higher.”
“Your pain is not your prison—it’s your platform.”

📚 Featured Book:
The Flip Side of Despair by Nancy Langevin

🔗 Connect with Nancy:
Website: https://unboundsynergyacademy.com
Programs: https://unboundsynergyacademy.com/programs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancylangevin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.langevin.77
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyelangevin/

🌊 About the Podcast:
Walking in ALOHA; Let’s Talk Story is a transformational podcast sharing stories of faith, healing, leadership, creativity, and purpose through the ALOHA Always framework.

🎙 Hosted by:Michelle A. G. Ebalaroza KawanoSpeaker, Author, Certified Facilitator, and Human Rights Consultant

You were created by the Creator to be a Creative. Express yourself. Your time is NOW. 🌺✨

Walking in ALOHA: Let's Talk Story |

From Unseen to Unstoppable: Aadityaa "Aadi" Gupta on Vulnerability, Courage and Walking in ALOHA

Have you ever looked at what you were handed in life — the part you didn't choose, the limitation someone else would call a tragedy — and wondered if it could actually become your greatest gift?

That's exactly where this conversation begins.

Aadityaa "Aadi" Gupta is legally blind.

And he is one of the most seen people I've ever had the privilege of talking story with.

A motivational speaker and endurance athlete, Aadi didn't just survive the weight of visual impairment and the stigmas that came with it. He did something far more powerful. He picked up his cane, stopped apologizing for who he was, and walked boldly into the life he was created to live.

In this episode, we go deep.

We talk about the moment a six-year-old girl — owning her cane without a single drop of shame — became a mirror he couldn't look away from. We unpack what it really means to reframe weakness into strength, not as a motivational catchphrase, but as a daily, lived-out decision. And Aadi shares how the ALOHA Always Framework gave language to what he was already walking — Affirmations and Actions, Leadership and Love, and the courage to live fully present even in pain.

Because here's the truth:

Your uniqueness is not your obstacle.

It is your anointing.

Maybe you haven't walked through visual impairment. But maybe you've been carrying something — a diagnosis, a difference, a chapter you've been hiding — that the world told you made you less.

Maybe you've been waiting to feel ready before you let your real self be seen.

Aadi's story is a gift, friend. Not because it's polished. But because it's honest. And in that honesty, you'll find permission — to stop performing, start healing, and step into the version of yourself that fear has been keeping at arm's length.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Aadi's journey through visual impairment shaped his identity and his calling
• The ALOHA Always Framework: Affirmations, Actions, Leadership & Love
• Why vulnerability isn't weakness — it's a compass
• Reframing the parts of you that feel like liabilities into your greatest strengths
• Practical strategies for living boldly right now, even in the middle of hard
• Recognizing fear as a guide, not a stop sign
• What it looks like to truly be blind to your limits

Sound bites you won't forget:"If she can own her cane, why can't I?""My cane makes me unique, not weak.""Your uniqueness is your strength."

This is the Walking in ALOHA: Let's Talk Story Podcast — where real conversations create real change. I'm your host, Michelle "MAGEK" Ebalaroza Kawano, and every episode we gather around real stories, real struggles, and real breakthroughs — connecting hearts from across the world through the power of shared experience and the ALOHA Always framework.

If this episode stirred something in you, share it with someone who needs to hear it today.

And if your story has been waiting for a place to land — I want you to know: Voices of ALOHA: From Dream to Reality is open now. Your story deserves to be published. You deserve to be heard.

E Komo Mai. Welcome to your next chapter.

ALOHA always,Michelle 🌺

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