Business Karaoke Podcast with Brittany Arthur

Send us Fan Mail Podcast Episode: "2 Births: My Journey of Motherhood and Entrepreneurship" 🌍 "Join me on an extraordinary journey across continents and through the transformative realms of motherhood and business creation in my latest episode, '2 Births: Welcoming My Son and Incorporating in Japan.' This isn't just my story about embracing new life and new ventures;...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO and founder of Kantan Games, a Japan game market consultancy. As you know, I approach any conversation we have on the Business Karaoke Podcast as if we're on a learning journey together. With all of the conversation around the Metaverse, NFTs, Crypto currencies  and a 2021 study showing that consumer gaming is bigger than...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Jennifer Shinkai. You may know Jennifer as the founder and host of the Ikigai podcast or of the on-line community, Make March Matter. Today she joins us wearing yet another hat. This time of diversity and inclusion workshop facilitator. Jennifer walks us through both the how and the why of metaphor being a powerful tool for communication in your te...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Jakob Knutzen. Jakob is one of 3 founders and the CEO of Butter - a full workflow for complex collaborative sessions which supports facilitators. Here's the story of how I connected with Jakob and why I wanted to introduce him to you, too. A few weeks ago, I posted my remote facilitator set up on LinkedIn and I asked for others to share any ot...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our firs power pair guest appearance at the Business Karaoke Podcast. We're joined by Kristy Ishii, a bi-cultural career transition & wellness coach for expats in the USA and Japan and Nina Cataldo, DEI facilitator, identity coach and the founder of Hafu Ladies (a worldwide community for hafu and mixed-Japanese womxn). In this episode we deep dive into how to n...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Fuminori Gunji. Gunji was a founding team member of Softbank Robotics from 2013 to 2016, leading Softbank's domestic B2B businesses and overseas expansion efforts. In 2017, Fuminori Gunji headed business development for MakeLeaps. By the end of 2018, Gunji had successfully closed MakeLeaps’ M&A deal with Ricoh and went on to lead MakeLeaps...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Takuma Iwasa. Iwasa-san is the founder and CEO of IOT consumer electronics company, Shiftall Inc. I first met Iwasa-san when I visited his Tokyo offices with a mural friend. I say office but it really is more like a buzzing lab. Each person uniquely designed their own workplace with things that inspire them and it's not uncommon to see people...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by the Co-Founder and CEO of LUMA Institute, Chris Pacione. Chris leads a highly-skilled, multidisciplinary team of designers and practitioners located around the world who are passionate about fostering the practice of design thinking among individuals, within teams, and across entire organizations. He is co-author of the LUMA System and the book “In...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Jayne Nakata. Jayne is the creator of PodLaunch with Jayne and the host of the Transformations with Jayne Podcast.  Jayne story's  one day noticing that there was no voice of other women like herself: foreign, a mother and living outside of the major cities in Japan, feeling isolated and alone in their daily lives to not only publishing over 1...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードで堀江愛利さんあ来ていただきました。堀江愛利さんはWomen's Startup Lab（WSUL）の創設者兼CEO。 WSULはシリコンバレーにあるアクセラレーターです。 WSULは、イノベーションとコラボレーションを通じて女性の成功に取り組んでいます。堀江愛利さんは情熱、結果、そして人前で話すことで国際的に有名です。 さらに、堀江愛利さん最近、アントレプレナー誌によって2020年の100人のPowerful W...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Ari Horie. Ari-san is the Founder and CEO of Women's Startup Lab (WSUL). A Silicon Valley based accelerator dedicated to creating a world where women thrive and succeed through innovation and collaboration. Ari is internationally recognized for her passion, results and public speaking prowess and was recently listed as one of the 100 Powerful...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we have the rare pleasure of welcoming back a guest and its all the more special as its close friend of the Business Karaoke Podcast, Evan Burkosky. Evan is a Digital Transformation (DX) expert in Japan helping  businesses adopt new technologies and improve productivity via AI, automation, eCommerce, and retail logistics. He has worked both agency-side and vendor-...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードで And Assistの德丸佳世さんが来ていただきました。佳世さんは東京にあるバイリンガルのバーチャルアシスタント会社の創設者です。佳世さんからどうのようにAnd Assistを始めたとか、女性が離職する一般的な理由とか、将来への希望についてなとを聞きます。 この会話を楽しんでいただければ幸いです。お気に入りのソーシャルプラットフォームでフィードバックを共有することを忘れないでください...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Kayo Tokumaru. Kayo-san is the founder of AndAssist, a Tokyo-based bilingual virtual assistant company. Like all inspirational businesses, the reason WHY they exist outshines WHAT they do to exist. It became quite clear to Kayo-san that there simply weren't enough hours in the day to invest in both an, at times rigid, corporate career and a ne...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Business Karaoke podcast, we have the pleasure welcoming back Ryan Hart. Ryan first joined us in episode 34 to talk about Customer Experience and today he joins us to dive deeper into solving Japan’s Customer Experience Dilemma and why better Research, leads to better Design and better CX. Ryan currently empowers a team of talented creative and strategic doe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Robin Doenicke. Robin is the founder and CEO of Zensho, paradigm-changing ‘blue ocean’ platform that would liberate and reward recruitment professionals to a degree previously unseen. What Robin calls, "being in business for yourself but not by yourself." The market responded with awarding them with “Best Company to Work For” and “Best Ne...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードでVenture Café Tokyoオペレーションマネージャーの漆原琢雄さんが来ていただきました。 Venture Café Tokyoオペレーションマネージャー。米Northeastern University卒業後、Boston Red Soxのビデオ部とマーケティング部に7年間勤務。Babson CollegeにてMBAを取得の他に、アート、イノベーション、不動産等の多様なビジネス背景を持ちいます。自由な時間には、スポーツを楽しみ、東京に戻ってから...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Takuo Urushihara, who just goes by Tak. Tak wears many hats; not only is he the director of Operations at Venture Café Tokyo but  he also leads a long standing traditional family business in Japan. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the importance of embracing unlikely connections in the service of others and how they can provoke new opportu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Boris Jitsukata. Boris is the Managing Director of the German entity of Goodpatch, a Design Studio, and an executive board director at their HQ in Tokyo. Goodpatch went public in 2020 at Tokyo Stock Exchange, making it Japan's first IPO as a design firm. In this episode Boris shares with us the power of leaning into uncertainty like a designer...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Azarel Chamorro. Azarel is the Smart Mobility Lead at Mirai Share and transport consultant based in Japan with passion for Mobility-as-a-Service, public transport and new mobility technologies. I have been an avid LinkedIn follower of Azarel's work and commentary on mobility for some time now. When I shared with him that I love how he brings...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Helen Iwata. Helen is the Founder and President of Sasuga Communications and is dedicated to helping professional women to excel in their work without being exhausted through the power of the Sasuga! Success Cycle. She's a bilingual Brit, wife, and mother, with a 3-decade corporate and entrepreneurial career in Japan, including 10 years with M...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードでは星野ファビアンさんがきていただきました。ファビアンは人事ストラテジストであり、異文化コミュニケーションの専門家であり、世界最高の人材を引き付けて維持するための最善の方法について日本企業に相談したことから得た気づきを共有してもらいます。多様性のビジネスケースと、文化のギャップを克服する戦略についても説明します。 この会話を楽しんでいただければ幸いです。お気に入りのソ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Fabian Hoshino. Fabian is an HR strategist and cross cultural communication expert who share his insights from consulting Japanese companies on the best ways to attract and retain the world's best talent.  We deep dive into the business case for diversity, the opportunities that exist in engaging a diverse talent pool and some strategies in ho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Kana Akagi. Kana is a multi-faceted entrepreneur on and off who leads with passion and a big heart. To give you an idea of just how deeply she lives this mantra, Kana wrote a book on how business success, particularly her business success, follows making family a priority. In this episode we learn about challenges and opportunities of founding the...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードでは赤城賀奈子さんがきていただきました。 賀奈子さんは情熱と大きな心でリードしている起業家です。このおかげでビジネスの成功が家族を優先することに続く方法の本も書きました。 賀奈子さんは日本で初めてのハッカソンをゼロから設立した方法を共有していました。 あとは、デジタル時代にフォロワーを増やすよりも、コミュニティを作ることはビジネスを立ち上がるための鍵であることについて話...