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What is the Superpower Academy at the Hub?

Superpower Academy at the Hub is a collaboration between the Hub, a coworking space and Superpower Academy. The purpose of this program is to have an educational and fun summer camp for children while their parents take advantage of the professional work space at the Hub. The camp will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is a flexible hands-on summer program for children and parents can take advantage of a professional work space to focus on their work. The camp curriculum is used by elementary teachers and combines STEM with social and emotional learning. Again, this camp is to help working parents with a flexible, educational and fun child care solution for their keiki now. All superpowers will be taught by Alicia Donnelly, a current Kindergarten teacher at Kamiol’iki Elementary. This program is compliant with Hawaii Department of Human Services Guidelines.  Learn more about Superpower Academy at www.superpoweracademy.org.

How does it work?

The purpose of this program is to have an educational and fun summer camp for children while their parents take advantage of the professional work space at the Hub.  Drop off and pick up anytime Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9am – 2 pm.  The program is first come first serve with a limit of 10 keiki per day. Parents can purchase day passes for flexibility around their schedule. Parents can also purchase a package of 5 days for a discount and select what days they want to have their keiki attend. Flexibility is offered based on your working schedule.  While you get your working hours in at the Hub, your keiki are engaged in friendly activities.

Upon registration or drop-off parents will have to sign a waiver & image release form.

Can you tell me more about the curriculum? 

• Fun STEM projects help kids build proven skills for lifelong success
• Comics and stories of real heroes gets kids READING!
• Hidden messages and other surprises make learning fun
• Kinds learn lessons about emotions, empathy and making good choices
• Kids earn Superpowers as they learn real powers

How do I reserve a spot for my keiki? 

Purchase a spot through this link here: Eventbrite Link

If you want to buy a 5 day-pack for your keiki please contact the Hub team for the discount code!

When does it start and how long does it go for? 

The camp is now starting on July 1 , 2020 and runs until July 31, 2020. Drop off and pick up anytime Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9am – 2 pm.  Parents can choose day passes for added flexibility or multi day packs. Each week will have a theme and the Superpower Academy lessons will happen from 9:30am-11am.  If it is a success we may keep it going beyond July 31!

Who is this for? 

Keiki from Kindergarten through Fifth grade. Parents need to be working at the Hub while their children are at the camp. Parents can be members or purchase a day pass at the Hub.

How much is it and how do I pay? 

Flexible day passes are $50 per day. A five day package is discounted at $225. At this moment we are taking credit card and debit card purchases on site at the Host desk. We will be working on a way shortly to purchase online. Check back at this site for updates!

What about snacks and meals? 

The program will provide small snacks however parents are responsible for bringing lunch for their keiki.

Please check back on this page because there will be updates!

Name: Diana Gremillion

Company: Successful Life Strategies 

3 Questions: 

1. What work do you do?

I work as a life coach to help people in times of crisis and stress, in order to turn that situation into one of the best things that has ever happened to them. I am licensed by Mary Morrissey and Bob Proctor to teach courses that they have created. But I have also founded my own company called Successful Life Strategies, and the intent behind that is to really help professionals achieve next level success with less stress as they work smarter instead of harder.

 What’s your WHY?

I would say that my why is  that I have been through a lot of painful and difficult, traumatic things in my life. And one of the things that I always promised to myself and has helped me to keep going, has been the decision and the commitment that the pain/difficulty was not going to be bigger than me. I was going to turn it into something good. I have a very strong conviction in that as well and for my clients and people in general that whatever pain we go through is here to help us create greater good for ourselves, not to take us down. 

Though this is not my passion project, this is what I do full time and I love what I get to do, and I am fully passionate about it. I love teaching, sharing with people and inspiring them. There is really no better feeling than when somebody’s face lights up as they start to understand these concepts, start to apply them to their lives and actually see what a difference it makes. 

What do people not know about you?

I think people will often look at me and think that what i’ve achieved or where I am has been easy. I think that’s a really common mistake that many people make when they are looking at somebody else’s life. They think, ‘oh it must have been easy for them’ or ‘oh it is because they have all these things’ and the truth of the matter is that it is not easy for any one of us. We all have our own internal battles that nobody else knows about or understands. You have to bring forth compassion for yourself and for others in those kinds of battles. We are all dealing with difficulties that we might not know. For example, I think that people will think that talking to others is easy for me because of my profession, without knowing that I was extremely introverted and socially awkward and anxious for pretty much my whole life. Or people will look at me and think wow it must be easy for you to lose weight or not be overweight when they might not know that I struggled with my weight for decades. So to me it is important to remember that literally all my current life is a result of growth and decisions I made to face fear over and over again. 

Diana is a fairly new member of the Hub. She began her membership in February and has begun to love the community she has grown into. She admits that joining was a new concept to her because she struggled with being socially awkward for so long and the Hub presented itself as a place where she felt comfortable interacting with people. 

She wanted to pair her workspace with an event space that she thought wanted to make a positive impact. The Hub, or Impact Hub Honolulu as it was known at the time did exactly that. It created a space for small business owners, freelancers, and entrepreneurs to basically build a dream. Diana adds that “it is a space to support what I do which involves a lot of helping people build dreams out of adversity and difficult times. It felt very much aligned and I have really enjoyed the events that I have had an opportunity to host there”. 

Her favorite thing about the Hub is the people. Everyone she has met at the Hub has been very nice and very open and she thinks that, it is just a wonderful way to learn about the different things that people do. There are so many people that get stuck in the nine-to-five office kind of job, and I think it is so fascinating to know people who are willing to step outside of that. I myself have done it but it is still so inspiring to be around people who are willing to let go of that nine-to-five and the 401K and those kinds of things in order to pursue something that they are passionate about”.

In true life coach fashion, Diana left the interview with this:  

“This is not the last crisis we are going to go through. From a standpoint of ‘this too shall pass’; this is not the last time we are going to go through something like this. Therefore I think it is important that everybody realizes that while ‘yes there is this and we are going to get through it’ there is at some point going to be another catastrophe and it is worthwhile to know how to handle crisis so that it doesn’t have to hurt next time, and it doesn’t have to be as painful. That way, they can turn it into something that really shapes you into the next evolution of you instead of having this time be something that shakes you to the core”. 

Name: Luke Assenmacher
Company: Reel World Film Makers

Get to know Luke Assemacher from Reel World Films!

Filmmaker Luke came to the Hub about two years ago when he first approached the Hub team about some video projects. At the same time, he just moved out here to Hawai’i and he describes the hub as a landing pad for him. He says that, “besides having a brother out here, the community was rad, and was a large part of why I stayed out here and stayed motivated”.

In the interview, Luke stated that he loves working at the Hub because of the diversity of people. You never know who you’ll meet or what you’ll learn. Part of that is the kitchen social zone too. Luke admits that in a lot of coffee shops, it’s kind of weird to talk to people. But in the Hub’s kitchen area, it’s where you can push all phones, internet and whatever else aside and just talk to people if you want to.

As for his work, the production company, Reel World Filmmakers, is made up of a team of motivated individuals with the belief that by owning less, you can live a little more. They connect sustainable communities through sharing their stories in films, commercials, documentaries, and corporate marketing strategies. Currently, he has been helping Chef Hui document their work in feeding people and helping local restaurants faced with the hard effects of COVID-19.  You can learn more about this, Luke and his work here, and watch Reel World Filmmakers videos here.

3 Questions:
1. What work do you do?
I do full service video production. The way I explain what we do at Reel World Filmmakers is that we make engaging branded content through authentic documentaries set around perspective, experience, and community.

In real terms, I have a Marketing degree in the background which helps to create the full service video production. That means, we work all the way from content development, to producing the videos to the post production, which is editing, and then also to the distribution end. A lot of us here have a background in distribution, so we have the knowledge and the resources to do what the video is set out to do as far as the analytics side and having it land.

2. Do you have a Passion Project? OR What’s your WHY?
It’s such a funny question, especially as an entrepreneur because work, well video, definitely started off as my passion project as I traveled.

I took a few years to like travel, which  was a good way to meet different people and communities and get to hear what they are doing and I loved that. But I don’t really consider video as my passion now, it’s more of a profession.

For the ‘why’ in ‘why do I make videos’ I think it’s because in my opinion, everybody wants to do some good. And in that, hopefully we [as Filmmakers] can be there along with you to see you doing that good and therefore help spread the good  throughout your community. Whether the subject is an individual or a larger corporation I think everybody wants to do some good. So that’s what keeps me into making videos and keeps me passionate about it. I try to keep an optimistic attitude in all videos.

It seems like in quarantine, I have so many little passion projects going on. But spearfishing has recently become my newest quarantine hobby. I think it’s because of the unknown. As a traveler, which I was for several years, and even in work, just the aspect of the unknown is definitely cool and interesting to me. Underneath the water right now, everything is so unfamiliar to me as a white boy from Iowa growing up in cornfields, like, I couldn’t see the bottom of the Mississippi River, it’s always been a mystery and now I am in the ocean where you can actually see the bottom and it’s like ‘whoa’! So now definitely anytime I can gear up and go out there it feels amazing. Even with surfing, it’s the same way, I mean the ocean, period is just a new thing to me. Living here for the past couple of years i’ve tried so many things, like also learning the Hawaiian language, which has become another hobby recently, since I saw it on Duolingo.

3. What do people not know about you?
I pride myself on being a minimalist. Like to the point of having exactly 7 shirts, 4 pairs of underwear, 2 swim trunks, exactly 2 pairs of socks, 1 belt, 2 pairs of sandals, like that’s what I have. If anything else comes in, typically something has to go out. Not having a lot of things definitely transfers over to my filmmaking and I think what adds value to my production is that it’s just very minimal. I try to focus the videos and life on what’s important: family, health, love, you know things like that and the rest will kind of fall into place.

The past few months have been impactful for our whole planet and the collective of members and friends we have at the Hub.

The news changes each day and we are watching the State and City’s leadership for guidance on when we can open. In the meantime we’re making changes to the space to keep our members and team as safe as possible. Currently, members with Unlimited Memberships, Offices and Dedicated Desks can access the space and members with part time memberships who self select as an essential business can contact us for M-F, 9am-5pm access. We are really excited to welcome our Hub ‘ohana back into our space and will continue to ensure the safety of everyone that comes through our doors remains a top priority. Please see our updated operations policies for the Hub here.

During this break in regular services, we’ve also spent time reflecting on the ways that COVID-19 has changed our personal lives and our business. As a team, we’ve listened to our members about the challenges they’ve been facing and have begun to proactively brainstorm some solutions. We invite anyone to send us their ideas on how the Hub can safely support the community and how the Hub can innovate to stay at the forefront of the services it provides. You can email us here.

Our team has definitely missed the collective energy that our members bring: as we’ve often said, the Hub is so much more than the walls that we share – it’s the people that make it a great place to come to work.

For some, the past 6 weeks of shelter-in-place has been a great opportunity to discover the benefits of working from home, and many have found that it suits some of their needs quite well. It has taught some of us new skills (I’m thinking about leading virtual meetings and brainstorms) and allowed us to get creative on how we work. Perhaps it has even given more time to lead a balanced work schedule.

On the other hand, others have had a difficult time trying to adjust and work from home (WFH). As many of us have experienced, WFH has a unique set of challenges, whether that’s unreliable internet, too hot or too cold, a heap of laundry, a lack of space for functional work habits, a loud household filled with family or roommates, child care, or perhaps a few small, unruly ‘coworkers’ that want to join your meetings.

For me personally, I like to have my options and I’m reminded how important a flexible workspace was for me before the Hub existed, and we are reminded why we started the Hub in the first place. The Hub’s flexible membership plans mean that you can join, cancel, and/or change at any time. You can join for just a few days a month even. If you’re like some people and you can’t wait to get out of the house, we’re still open 24/7 for Unlimited Memberships so that you can find the focus time that you need at a desk or in a private office. And you can work with us to host virtual or small meetings, without housemates or kids around to interrupt. Whatever balance of home-work or office-work that is best for you, we want to make it easy for you when we can reopen because things will be different for everyone.

When you are able to come back, the Hub is going to look a bit different – we’re changing the physical spaces with ‘team areas’ and physical dividers to aid in social distancing, and we’ll have updated meeting room protocols. We have revamped our cleaning and sanitizing procedures for those that enter the Hub, and we’ll be sharing the new protocols soon. We want to remind you, that as a current or former member, you’re welcome back as soon as we get permission from our local and state government that it’s okay to open. We really look forward to seeing all of you soon – with your masks on, of course! And don’t worry, we brought the coffee back!