🌿10AM~ Jessica Arruda ~ Premier Benefit Consultants –

Be prepared for Medicare’s Annual Enrollment just around the corner. This presentation covers Medicare basics, sign-up timing and process, Medicare Advantage vs. Supplement options, what to expect during AEP (Annual Enrollment Period), 2026 Prescription Drug Plan changes, why choose a local agent over 1-800 numbers or social media ads, and scam avoidance tips.

Also see Jessica at her Medicare Resource Booth B9 and See Ads on page 12 and 14 / www.pbchawaii.com/jessica / 808-645-4028

Medicare Mastery: Navigate Enrollment with Confidence Hawaiian Style with Jessica Arruda

🌿11AM~ End Self-Sabotage with Michelle Melendez

Michelle Melendez will inspire at the Ka’ū Wellness Festival with her talk, “End Self Sabotage." Discover why you block your own success in health, weight release and freedom uncovering hidden beliefs, childhood imprints, and nervous system protectors that keep you stuck in procrastination, overeating or quitting. Through practical tools, somatic wisdom and compassionate insight, learn to rewire patterns, build self-trust and create safety for the body and life you deserve. Reclaim sovereignty—stop abandoning yourself and thrive!

Michelle Melendez | Freedom Activist | 5x Award-Winning Author End Dieting Hell: How to find peace in your body and release the weight Order here (Won 4-awards) Great Maui Land Grab: What caused the Maui fire and is your home next? Available here (Finalist in American Book Fest: True Crime) NEW: The Death Of Freedom: What happened to America and how to save it! (#1 New Release) Get it here Founder of www.BlossomInnerWellness.com and www.StandTogetherHawaii.com.

Visit Michele in Booth B3 for a book signing!

White Eagle Sacred Rhythm, Living Spirit: Shamanic Use of Sacred Drums and Medicine Rattles

12PM Discover the heartbeat of the earth in this immersive workshop and sacred booth experience. Learn to select, journey with, and wield sacred drums, medicine rattles, and shamanic instruments — channeling their power intentionally for sound healing, music, and ceremony in a grounded, heart-centered way.

White Eagle, DrumKeeper of the 7ft crystal-inlaid Grandmother Drum, Founder of the global Whirling Rainbow Foundation & Rainbow Fire Mystery School, guides you with 15+ years teaching shamanic arts across Hawai‘i. She’s crafted over 6,000 drums and awakened a million hearts worldwide.

Visit White Eagle Medicine Woman’s booth in the main ballroom, alive with handcrafted drums, rattles, feathers and ceremonial treasures — each piece pulsing with ancestral wisdom and island spirit. Feel the Grandmother Drum’s call, touch the

crystal-inlaid heart of sacred rhythm, and carry home an instrument alive with story.

Join the rhythm. Claim your sacred tool. Awaken the living spirit within.

https://www.whirlingrainbow.com/

Hiding in Plain Sight: Earth Medicines of Our Kūpuna

1PM ~

Join acclaimed author and herbalist David Bruce Leonard, creator of "Medicine at Your Feet: Healing Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom for an enlightening journey into the earth medicines of our kūpuna. Discover the healing plants, time-honored practices and ancestral wisdom thriving quietly around us — waiting to be rediscovered.

David reveals how these traditional remedies remain hiding in plain sight, offering profound connection to ʻāina, community and personal well-being. Perfect for those passionate about

Hawaiian plant medicine and ancestral healing arts, this presentation celebrates the living legacy found in his celebrated book.

An inspiring call to remember — and reclaim — what has always been here.

https://earthmedicineinstitute.com/