The Pacific Bridge Co.

05/09/2024

Mahalo to Jim Silbernagel for hosting Stephen Kagawa on the Real Wealth Media podcast! Click the link to listen!

https://lnkd.in/ggriat6S

04/20/2024

🌺🎤 Podcast Alert! Mahalo to George Grombacher who hosts the Aligned Money Show with Stephen as guest.

The Fiduciary Rule with Stephen Kagawa

https://moneyalignmentacademy.com/the-fiduciary-rule-with-stephen-kagawa/

"We focused on the fiduciary rule impacting how financial services and advice are delivered, what it means and how it would apply, potential negative and unintended consequences, and what consumers and professionals can do to have their voices heard, with Stephen Kagawa, Founder and CEO of The Pacific Bridge Companies, author, and National Board Member of NAIFA.

Listen to hear a difference-making tip on how to reach out and advocate for the financial industry!"

04/11/2024

We're pleased to announce the NAIFA-Los Angeles 71st Annual Will G. Farrell Public Service award recipient: Stephen Kagawa! We're thrilled to recognize Stephen's outstanding achievement. Additionally, Stephen will be joining the esteemed MDRT Top of the Table Panel. Please join us on Thursday, April 18th, in Culver City as we celebrate Stephen and hear from other industry leaders. It promises to be a memorable evening of mahalo and camaraderie!

Register on NAIFA's website with the following link: https://lnkd.in/gFK-BPK8

The Will G. Farrell Trophy may be awarded only once each year to a member of the life insurance industry in Southern California or someone closely associated with the life insurance industry in the State of California who is distinguished in her/his own industry and who has demonstrated unselfish service to others in and out of the industry.

04/05/2024

If you believe in the importance of financial advice that flexes as one ventures from one part of the world to another, you share in our hope. Perhaps this is where your talent may be of best use. We’d love to explore that with you – Let’s talk soon!

Do you want to positively affect the lives of people around the world?

03/06/2024

Aloha! Tomorrow, Wednesday March 6th, is MDRT Gives Day!

Thanks to your Aloha, we are able to give resources to groups like NAMI to provide vital support across so many communities.

-NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.-

Through the Global Grants Program, the MDRT Foundation empowers MDRT members to make a difference in their communities around the world. Every MDRT member has the opportunity to endorse a grant for a charitable organization they care about. In 2023, the MDRT Foundation awarded a record setting 377 grants, spanning across 44 countries, for a total of USD 1.8 million. This could not have been possible without generous donations from MDRT members.

The Global Grants Program is why we are choosing to give back. By being fundraisers for MDRT Gives Day, we will be raising funds to support the Global Grants Program.

MDRT Gives Day is March 6th.
https://mdrtgivesday.mightycause.com/team/Mdrt2024-Caribbean-And-United-States



MDRT Foundation

03/04/2024

Mahalo Nui Loa to Edwin's Restaurant and Leadership Institute for reminding us of the importance of compassionate sustainable education as we prepare for MDRT Gives Day on Wednesday, March 6th!

We'll be hosting a Day of Service in Southern California, tomorrow, TUESDAY, MARCH 5th from 9am to 11:30am.
Come join us if you’re able!!

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"EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization that offers formerly incarcerated adults a foundation in the culinary and hospitality industries and a support network necessary for long-term success.

Located in Cleveland, Ohio and founded by Brandon Chrostowski in 2007, the driving principle behind the organization is that every human being, regardless of their past, has a right to a fair and equal future. In 2011, Culinary Club classes began at Grafton Correctional Institution, and shortly after, EDWINS Restaurant opened in Shaker Square on Nov. 1, 2013.

While enrolled in the program, EDWINS students are equipped with intensive training and hands-on work experience. They are also provided with free housing, legal services, basic medical care, clothing, job coaching, literacy programs, and more at the Second Chance Life Skills Center (est. 2016), a 30,000-square-foot campus.

Today, EDWINS has grown to include an award-winning fine French restaurant, Butcher Shop, Bakery, and edwins too; a culinary incubator, community kitchen, event, and makers’ space. The Institute graduates 75 students a year many of whom gain employment in dining establishments across the country.

OUR RESULTS:
EDWINS GRADUATES RECORD A 95% EMPLOYMENT RATE
AND LESS THAN 1% RECIDIVISM*."

03/01/2024

and Mahalo Nui Loa to Danny O’Connell for reminding us of the importance of giving and for sharing his day of service with us as we prepare for MDRT Gives Day on Wednesday, March 6th!

Danny and his son’s Boy Scout Troop recently spent the day collecting non-perishable food items for ‘Scouting for Food’ - the Boy Scouts of America’s annual food-collection drive for those in need and this video highlights how they were able to serve their community in very tangible ways!

FYI - We’ll be hosting a Day of Service in Southern California on Tuesday, March 5th from 9 am to 11:30 am (the day before MDRT Gives Day) and we’re going to have another Day of Service in New York on Wednesday, March 6th that will begin at 12 pm, and we’d love to have you join us if you’re able!!
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Good morning, MDRT! This is Danny O’Connell and I am out with our son's Boy Scout Troop 70 and we're participating in ‘Scouting for Food’ out here in the rain for our day for service. This is the largest canned food drive in the United States to help replenish food banks all over the country. And this morning, right here in the rain, we went door to door and we were able to get over 450 items that we collected after dropping off bags last weekend. So I hope this finds you well and thank you, stay dry!

02/21/2024

🌺 Aloha! Only 2 weeks until MDRT Gives Day on Wednesday, March 6th! We gratefully celebrate our opportunity to raise funds and awareness for the MDRT Foundation’s Global Grants Program, which supports non-profits worldwide. 
 
Last year The Pacific Bridge Companies was able to partner with MDRT to highlight and support two amazing non-profits. Go For Broke preserves the legacy and sacrifice of the Japanese American WWII veterans and their families through in-person and virtual educational programming, and Foothill Unity Center, a multi-service agency that serves as the region’s primary provider of integrated services that help individuals and families move out of poverty to reach economic stability.
 
Let’s come together to make a difference!

12/05/2023

🌺 Introducing the 2024 NAIFA Board of Trustees! Mahalo and Aloha to NAIFA and this amazing team and our very own, Stephen Kagawa as they step forward to serve and contribute to our professional community.