Lahaina Girl was founded in 2023 in Lahaina, Maui, by me Jill. My journey has been perfect, even with all the heartaches because of lessons learned, teaching me true resilience in this life, and to lean on others and God for love and support. I'm the "half-full" girl and have been my whole life. I have an amazing husband, 3 grown boys (I am a proud BOY mum), and loyal friends for 50 years. Girlfriends are everything.

In my past professional life, I was a RN-Manager for a variety of hospital Departments. Loved being a RN, loved my co-workers and staff. But..working as a Manager through covid burned me out...completely. I was unhealthy, depressed and barely surviving. Forced me to look at my life and ask myself what/why/where/who?

Lahaina has always been the end goal, as we have visited here many times, almost moved here in 1988, but chickened out. Even did the Maui Marathon in 2002....one and done! We found a house, bought it unseen, and sold our house all within 1 week. Crazy right? Yep. Retired early...Yay! Sometimes you just have to do that in this life of ours, live your life. Started recovering from life, by beach time, and started to find shells. Or they found me. It has captivated me in a way I have not experienced, and I am in my own little world when finding them. Being in the ocean, finding beautiful ocean treasures is better than anything ever. It's called MANA. I started to make jewelry, which is crazy since I am NOT a craft girl! I was ready to launch the jewelry line and had a meeting with a local entrepreneur to plan my first pop-up on the day of the fire. Yes.

August 8, 2023 ...Every physical lifetime memory gone in a matter of minutes. We barely escaped with our beloved animals, and a few necessities. So thankful. Again. Half-full.

Moved to the North Shore of Oahu for 1 year to recover, replenish our souls, and figure out our life. Not an easy task. Processing something like this is just uncharted for all of us involved. It is hard.

Decided to re-launch "Lahaina Girl" 2.0, and it has taken the last 2 years to find my footing again. I find ALL my shells, so had to start from scratch. I look at those treasures with deep appreciation, as they have helped fill up my soul again.

So, we are here now! Excited to share my special creations, made with positive Mana and Aloha.

My hope is that you feel what I feel when you wear my jewelry. Mana 🐚😊

xo

P.S. This picture taken of my girl "Bunny" and me on our walk. She is an Old English Sheepdog...shaggy girl. BIG girl! HA!