The Team

Damon Iaea

Co-Founder / Certified Personal Trainer

Damon Iaea wears many "Team Move hats," including Certified Personal Trainer, Swim Instructor, and he is also one of our group class instructors. His love of fitness followed him to adulthood, from a child. He has been active in many triathlons, marathons, and other endurance events. Damon has also swam competitively and for over ten years, instructed swimmers of all ages from infants, to adults. In addition to Team Move, he works full-time as a Personal Trainer at a fitness center in a local hotel, where he trains clients in close to over 100 sessions per year of different ages, medical conditions, and fitness levels. Says Damon, “People ask me what I do for fun besides working out; I tell them that this IS what I do! Fitness is not a 9-5 job, or a weekend thing, but it’s a lifestyle. My clients know that I practice what I preach in my everyday life. I remember exercising to fitness shows on television when I was only ten years old. So on a daily basis, I always say that I’ve been involved in the field of fitness literally, all my life!”

Kim Lehano

Co-Founder / Programs Coordinator

Kim Lehano is DEFINITELY not a “gym rat.” She truly believes in fitness and has seen her share of what it can do to better her life, but her expertise lies in another arena and what she brings to Team Move is completely different. With a BA in Communication/Psychology, and a MA in Organizational management, this single mother, who holds many hats (Director of Marketing & Public Relations, College Professor, magazine editor, freelance creative services consultant) brings to the Team Move table, her creativity and passion for helping to better people’s lives.

Her background in media, marketing, public relations and communications, brings to Team Move the opinions of a “REGULAR JOE or in her case, JANE.” Instead of having a fitness organization made up mostly of elite and competitive athletes, Kim brings to Team Move, knowledge and foresight based on her years of experience in Hawaii’s media. With jobs, responsibilities, and a son to raise on her own, she knows the realities of life outside of work, and is able to relate to clients who are struggling to keep that work-life balance afloat, and stay healthy and fit at the same time. TEAM MOVE was the perfect fit for her ideals about fitness, and in teaming up with Damon, they established that “something missing” on this side of Oahu, from which all those working, and juggling family and school and personal lives, like Kim herself, can be accommodated by.

As you’ve heard in the movie “Waterboy” starring Adam Sandler, Kim’s saying is this, “You can DOOOOOOO it!”

Tony Richardson

Certified Personal Trainer / Group Exercise Instructor

In 2009, Team Move welcomed a very well-known name, to join our "team."

Tony Richardson is a name famous in the triathlon circuit in Hawaii, and around the United States, for the past few decades! When not teaching and training for Team Move classes/clients Tony works at the most reputable fitness organizations in the State of Hawaii.

Just in the past few years alone, here are a few of his personal fitness accomplishments:

2009 Ft. DeRussy Biathlon 2nd place overall
2008 Del Mar Powerhouse Paddle 1st place-3 mile paddle
2008 Nautica Malibu Triathlon 2nd place Celebrity Division
2008 Pacific Open Water Challenge 1st Place/King of the Beach
2008 Butch Van Artsdalen Windansea Surf Club Paddle 1st Place
2008 Surf Monkey 2nd Place Paddleboard-Age Division
2nd Place 5K-Age Division
6th Place Overall Swim-Paddle-Run Division

A certified personal trainer, amongst other things, Tony is still a competitive racer, but his passion "will always be in helping and training people to achieve their goals. Some of my clients who I've trained for their first marathon or traithlon, I've actually raced alongside with," says Tony. Team Move is lucky to have such a talented and gifted athlete with the care and passion we feel for the people of Hawaii!

Matt Meko

Yoga Instructor

In 2009, Team Move welcomed a yoga guru, as our yoga instructor. Matt Meko has had a vast array of experience in addition to his yoga practices, including beginning his career as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle for Disney World, Cookie Monster for Sesame Street Live, and Purple Panda on television's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He was encouraged by mentors Andre' DeShields, Fred Rogers, and Hawk Jones to pursue teaching yoga. Yogis Ana Forrest, Andrew Lappa, and Shiva Rea showed Matt how to develop his own style of mind/body fitness. Since 2003 under his company Mekosun, Matt has helped thousands of people ages 3-85 rediscover joy and gratitude in their body and life; from prisoners to CEO"s, the physically challenged to elite athletes, through private home lessons to group classes for companies like Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Microsoft. Before moving to Honolulu, Matt lived in Seattle where he produced the internationally recognized GURU 2008 Calendar which promoted men doing mind/body fitness. He also volunteered with the Seattle Police Department assisting individuals and families at domestic violence crime scenes. We are fortunate to have Matt as a part of our 'ohana!