lineage

This page is part of the story, the hidden rivers beneath the visible currents. I share here my lineage, the ancestral threads that weave into Manalife, and my relationship to the wisdom I engage with.”

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

ancestral gifts

Every current has a source.

Before Manalife became a philosophy of leadership and flow, it was a lineage — a living stream of Hawaiian wisdom known as La‘au Kahea and Kilokilo.

La‘au Kahea means “energy calling,” the sacred art of summoning, directing, and harmonizing life force — Mana — for healing, balance, and restoration.



Kilokilo is the ancient practice of reading signs in nature and the heavens, an act of divine observation that teaches us to listen before we act.

Honoring the aumakua

These traditions are my inheritance. Though I carry my father’s light skin and a name that often conceals my roots, the teachings of my Hawaiian lineage have always lived in my bones. They guide how I see energy, how I design systems of harmony, and how I teach leaders to move with integrity instead of force.

Manalife was born from these principles: that Mana is the life force that connects all things, and that alignment with it restores not only the individual, but the collective.

I share this work to honor my ancestors, not to commercialize their teachings. Their wisdom flows through everything I create — as strategy, as sanctuary, as devotion.