• In 16 years, Kealopiko has never had any outside investors or government funding except for a few grants to survive through the pandemic.

• Hina and her fellow business partners have been very conservative financially. Any profit that is made is reinvested back into the business. “We pay ourselves for sure, as owners, but we don't make six figure salaries. All of us still have second jobs. And that's not always an ideal scenario, but it does feed back into what we do at Kealopiko.”