Mentor for Intuitive Intelligence • Psychic Guide • Podcast Host
About Kathleen
It took me a few decades to notice, but I've been doing the same thing my entire life.
I've been a military intelligence officer, a leader in government and business, a coach, a personal-development trainer, a speaker, a professional photographer, and today a Mentor for Intuitive Intelligence and Psychic Guide. For a long time I thought of those as separate chapters: finish one, close the door, move on.
They weren't separate. Whether I was analyzing intelligence, navigating competing interests, looking through a camera lens, or sitting across from someone trying to figure out what comes next, I was doing the same three things. I was noticing what mattered, connecting pieces that seemed unrelated, and interpreting what the bigger picture was telling us.
Today I call it Notice → Connect → Interpret, and it's at the heart of everything I do.
Logic and intuition aren't opposites
I spent much of my Air Force career in intelligence, specializing in air and air-defense intelligence. My job was to gather information, assess what was happening, recognize patterns, and separate what mattered from what didn't. I often did that in fast-paced, high-stakes environments: training fighter pilots, working with senior military leaders, and writing analyses where accuracy and judgment had real consequences.
One of my superior officers once wrote in a performance report that I had a "keen ability to quickly assess situational needs." When I came across those words again recently, I had to smile. Some things don't change.
Today, some of the information I work with arrives differently. It might be a feeling, a knowing, an image, or an impression I can't immediately explain. But I haven't thrown logic out the window. My analytical side still asks questions, looks for patterns, and wants to know whether something makes sense. A feeling isn't automatically a fact, and a coincidence isn't automatically a sign. My intuition simply gives me another source of information to weigh.
I use both. Information informs a decision, but it doesn't make the decision for you.
What you're really getting
When you work with me, you get more than the intuitive. You get:
the intelligence officer who learned to stay calm under pressure and make sense of incomplete information;
the leader who managed people, competing priorities, and decisions that mattered;
the coach who spent years studying human behavior: why people communicate, react, and decide the way they do;
the businesswoman who has built businesses and worked alongside entrepreneurs;
the speaker and teacher who knows how to make complex ideas clear and practical;
and the photographer who learned to notice what everyone else walks right past.
I didn't leave any of those versions of myself behind. They all show up in our work together. We won't only explore what comes through intuitively. We'll look at the behavior you're seeing, the patterns you keep running into, the decisions in front of you, and what experience has to say about all of it.
Along the way
Receiving recognition at the Hawaii State Capitol.
I retired as a U.S. Air Force officer after a career spanning intelligence, leadership, training, and executive responsibilities. Among my military awards and citations, I received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and was nominated by the Defense Intelligence Agency for the White House Fellows program.
After the military, my work expanded into business, government, community leadership, coaching, and speaking. I was personally trained and mentored by Jack Canfield. I taught purpose and personal-development programs, and I've spoken to audiences ranging from universities and professional organizations to a national convention.
I've been honored as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S., as the State of Hawaiʻi SBA Women in Business Champion, and as one of Hawaiʻi's Top 25 Women Who Mean Business.
I'm proud of all of it. But what matters most to me now isn't the list. It's what those experiences taught me about how people think, what they notice, and what they miss.
And then there's the rest of me
I grew up on a farm in Kansas and joined the Air Force, much to my parents' dismay. That decision eventually brought me to Hawaiʻi, which has been home for more than 25 years.
I've flown in an F-16, finished the Honolulu Marathon, owned a Harley, turned up in the background of a few TV shows, and spent more hours on a golf course than I would like to admit. I love good conversation, interesting people, a little irreverence, and finding humor where it probably doesn't belong.
I've also lived enough life to know that accomplishments don't exempt anyone from uncertainty, loss, wrong turns, unexpected changes, or the occasional What the hell am I doing? That's part of what I bring, too.
What this means for you
I don't believe my job is to tell you how to live your life. Whether we work together in a reading, on developing your intuition, or through a six-month private mentorship, you bring your own experience, wisdom, and questions, and I bring mine.
I listen. I notice. I ask questions. I pay attention to what's being said, and sometimes to what isn't. I look for how the pieces connect and what the bigger picture might be telling us, drawing on intuition, logic, and usually some combination of both.
What emerges might be confirmation of something you already knew, information you hadn't considered, or a new way of seeing what's right in front of you.
And over time, you start noticing those things for yourself. That's the part that stays with you.