lineage

This page holds part of the deeper story—the rivers beneath the visible current of Manalife.

I share here the ancestral threads that shape how I understand energy, leadership, and responsibility, and the traditions that inform the work across the Manalife Family Office.



My great-grandmother was part of the first graduating class of Kamehameha Schools and studied music under Queen Liliʻuokalani. Her presence represents one of the living lines through which these teachings entered my family.

The first graduating class of Kamehameha Schools. Pamela's great grandmother is second in on the right.  She was taught music from Queen Lili`uokalani.

ancestral gifts

Every current has a source.

Long before Manalife became a framework for leadership and flow, it was rooted in a lineage of Hawaiian knowledge traditions known as Laʻau Kahea and Kilokilo.

Laʻau Kahea means “energy calling”—the practice of summoning, directing, and harmonizing life force (Mana) for restoration and balance.

Kilokilo is the discipline of observation: reading signs in nature and the heavens in order to move in right relationship with what is unfolding rather than acting in isolation from it.

Together, these traditions form part of the foundation beneath the work I do today.

Honoring the aumakua

These teachings are my inheritance.

Although I carry my father’s light skin and a name that often conceals my roots, the knowledge of my Hawaiian lineage has always shaped how I understand energy, structure, and responsibility. It informs how I design systems, how I read patterns, and how I guide leaders toward coherence instead of force.

Manalife was born from these principles: that Mana connects all things, and that alignment with it restores both individual direction and collective balance.

I share this lineage to honor my ancestors—not to claim authority beyond what has been given, and not to commercialize what is sacred.



Their wisdom flows through everything I create: as strategy, as sanctuary, and as devotion.