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By Sarah Hodges<\/p>\n
Emily Rose Carr Hunt, a beloved member of the Still & Moving Center \u2018ohana, will soon open the doors to her new coffee shop. Her long-time dream of owning a cafe came up two years ago at a Still & Moving staff meeting when life coach Tony Bonnici led a create-your-dreams mini-workshop. We all heard Emily\u2019s excitement as she described her cafe idea, with its unique blend of her world travel coffee experiences. Ren\u00e9e didn\u2019t know Emily\u2019s dream would cause her to leave our staff. Now, a couple years later, the cafe named PeleKai comes into being. The big twist in the plot: she\u2019s opening it AT Still & Moving Center!<\/p>\n
At age five, Emily ran a \u2018cafe\u2019 in the 200 square foot loft of her family\u2019s Oregon home. She named it The Upper Cafe and served the best make-believe coffee and beverages of all the imaginary cafes. She loved taking drink orders from her family, watching their delight as they received one of her imaginary treats. Being an only child sparked her rich imagination, and her playtime came alive from inner visionings. When she wasn\u2019t cooking up something at her cafe, she was working at a make-believe grocery store, or out in the garden with her mom, working her \u2018farm\u2019. The lively world within Emily\u2019s imagination became a treasure map for her many years later when she found herself at a crossroads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amidst a successful career working for Cirque du Soleil, Emily encountered an inner calling for something different. \u201cI gave up my forever job just to find more growth and creativity,\u201d explains Emily. She loved her creative duties and the people with whom she worked, and yet she also knew she wanted to pursue something new. During the shift from her 10-year-long base in Las Vegas to working on a seasonal show in Japan, Emily envisioned what her new path could be. She began reflecting back on her dreams from when she was a child. \u201cI either wanted to be a goat farmer or have a coffee shop,\u201d Emily recalls with a chuckle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When we want a transformation in life, change often has a way of finding us, sometimes in the most unexpected ways. As she approached the end of her time on tour in Japan, Emily imagined what life after Cirque du Soleil could look like. She called upon a friend she\u2019d made during one of her visits in Hawai\u2019i, Neelanthi Vadivel, who had also worked for many years at Cirque du Soleil. Neela described a possibility for Emily to come to Hawai\u2019i and work at Still & Moving Center. \u201cVisiting Still & Moving, I felt really connected to the land beneath it and the beautiful interior of the center. Still & Moving became a light for me, like a candle to the dark times that I faced when I returned to Japan. I felt as if the Center was ready to receive me when I needed it,\u201d Emily muses.<\/p>\n
With Emily\u2019s partner David living in Hawai\u2019i, the decision became simple. At the close of the Japan-based Cirque show, Emily moved to Hawai\u2019i and began working at Still & Moving Center. As she worked, Emily\u2019s coffee shop notion danced at the periphery of her awareness. Then, at the end of 2019, it came back with an unignorable force. She started plotting how to bring the dream to life.<\/p>\n
Just as Emily was getting ready to sign for a space to build her coffee shop in Honolulu, the Covid pandemic hit. Knowing the implications a pandemic could have on a brick-and-mortar coffee shop, she decided to reshape her vision to a mobile cafe. Ren\u00e9e\u2019s husband Cliff, who owns a construction company, agreed to help her build a coffee trailer. They devised an exchange: Emily would help Cliff with his own construction project that would give her skills for the work on her trailer, and Cliff would in return help Emily construct the trailer. What a beautiful, community-support act of helping one another! She began working on Cliff\u2019s project, learning some tricks in construction. However, the timing kept being off her from bringing her idea for the coffee trailer to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPeleKai Coffee to me is about co-creation,\u201d comments Emily. She brainstormed with Ren\u00e9e\u2019s about parking her coffee trainer in front of Still & Moving Center. Doing so, however, would block the view of the studio from the road. Then, during Emily\u2019s goodbye dinner from her staff position at the studio, Ren\u00e9e asked Emily what she thought of building the cafe inside<\/i> of Still & Moving Center. As with all important matters, Ren\u00e9e had asked Still & Moving Center itself what it wanted, and it had replied it wanted the cafe in<\/i> the building. At the mention of this possibility, tears welled up in Emily\u2019s eyes. She hadn\u2019t dared to imagine this option, and it felt like the missing piece to the puzzle. They decided PeleKai Coffee would make its home within the very walls of Still & Moving Center. \u201cDoing this with Ren\u00e9e, with the Stil & Moving community, brings richness to the cafe,\u201d affirms Emily. \u201cIn combining different energies together, the space becomes even more alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily and Ren\u00e9e worked determinedly together to come up with a cafe layout that would harmonize with the first floor of the studio. Obstacle after obstacle arose. Cliff made deep holes through the lobby floor trying to reach the drainage pipe. Much sweat and many holes later, everyone went back to the drawing board. Emily, Ren\u00e9e, and I decided to reposition the barista bar, pushing it right to the front window of the lobby within easy reach of the drainage line by punching a hole through the front of the building!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then Emily\u2019s construction team got to work. Maybe you\u2019ve watched her project evolve. After months of determination and effort, Emily has almost finished transforming half of the lobby into PeleKai Coffee for people from both Still & Moving and outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s mission with PeleKai Coffee is to bring \u201cAloha in your cup\u201d, meaning a mindfully, ethically made beverage to delight the taste buds. Teaming up with her husband Dave, Emily is creating a nurturing space where people can meet, cook up ideas, enjoy hot and cold drinks, and chart the way for bringing THEIR dreams into reality… \u201cAnd it’s already happening that people are coming in, talking with each other, getting ideas, and feeling this aloha spirit!\u201d Emily exclaims.<\/p>\n
We are all so excited for the cafe and proud to watch Emily pull her dream into reality.<\/p>\n
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