Legends Interview Series Presented by Sarah Furuya Coaching

This is a re-release of Season 7 episode 9 with Gretchen Miura. Gretchen and Sarah run Lighthouse Circle together, and cohort 6 is now open. You can read more here - https://www.sarahfuruya.com/grief-support-lighthouse-circle-2025 ********************************************************************* Listen to Sarah and Gretchen talk about Gretchen’s life story and how following Dragons became a go...

This is a re-release of Season Three Episode One of the Legends Podcast with Gretchen Miura & Sarah Furuya. This was the genesis of the Lighthouse Circle Grief Support group. We are now open for Cohort 6 - https://www.sarahfuruya.com/grief-support-lighthouse-circle-2025 ************************************************* Introducing Gretchen Miura Legend of Healing. Gretchen is a mindfulness tea...

In this deeply moving and thought-provoking episode of the Legends Podcast , host Sarah Furuya sits down with the miraculous Matthew Dons, a figure who has not only transformed his own life but has profoundly impacted the world around him over the past eight years. This is the final episode of Season 8, themed Skin in the Game , and it brings a powerful close with insights on life, death, and the...

Release from daily bullshit is fertile ground for creative freedom, frank talk and advocacy. Also good men, creative forces and the usual rabbit hole of musings with Sarah. In this episode: Sarah muses on her final guest of the season’s daily dialogues with death. They are in a unique position to be absolutely unfiltered because they are close to mortality in every single day and have been fo...

This week I  sat down with the remarkable Sarajean Rossitto , a force of positive change in the nonprofit sector. With a wealth of experience and a passion for empowering communities, Sarajean shares her journey, insights, and the pivotal moments that have shaped her career. Sarajean and I could have talked for hours. She truly is a legend of influence, impact and social change. Currently bas...

In this episode of Legends Podcast, Sarah Furuya delves into the themes of "Saunter & Frolic", "Creative Musings" and "Slowing Down". Sarah shares her reflections and experiences over the past few weeks, discussing the inevitability of celebrity influence and the impact it has on our daily lives. She candidly recounts an incident involving a partially recorded session and the challenges of sta...

Once again, Skin in the Game is described as taking some kind of risk; in Stevens' case in service of the art, the music, the listener, the singers, and himself. In service of the third entity; the actual entity that sits with a life, between all these individual entities. And being vulnerable in the name of authenticity and in the name of creating the very best experience of the music for all the...

Kwan Chan - what a man! He is so humble and genuine, I felt peace talking to him. He has this lovely childlike essence coupled with an absolutely mature and mindful approach-building skill and he has incredible body strength - check out his YouTube channel to see his breaking. Skills that apply not only to dance but all areas of life. It was just the conversation I needed to have. Sage wisdom from...

In this Creative Musings episode, Sarah Furuya shares her journey of dismantling old beliefs and societal norms, blending humor and insight to highlight the importance of slowing down and redefining success. Key Highlights: Embracing Disobedience and Experimentation: Sarah discusses her recent hiatus for self-care, her current experiment of dismantling outdated cultural and business practices, and...

In this episode, we do some serious reminiscing on the good old days when our salary automatically appeared in our account without any effort from us!  Skin in the Game to Victoria Close takes us on a time travel in the episode - into the past to Victoria’s teen business, we visit her early aspirations and how during the time she was selecting what to do. We also travel into future Victoria s...

Joy leads us on a mystical journey through thin places, magical backstreets, tarot, mysticism, poetry, grief and death. day jobs and other jobs. (wait for the ferry story) There are multi-swears and adult themes in this conversation so please be mindful of who you are listening with. Grandma will love it but your kids… Joy read two of her poems for us - her poetry is like Shibuya at night; all of...

In this weeks creative musings, Sarah muses on some wildly creative, yet ethically questionable facilitations she did in the past and wonders - has she lost her moji? Also on evolutions she’s gone through in her coaching practice.  She wonders has she lost her coaching mojo…? Find out on this episode!  *please note none of this episode, or any episode, besides any cited research is anyth...

Michael is a fascinating human and not so much a chameleon as he is absolutely himself wherever he is. He has an uncanny ability to have skin in the game. He is the first person to EVER present INBOX ZERO to me as something that is appealing, and he is very frank about what the first couple of hours of his day look like.  Michael requested at the top of this podcast to turn some questions on...

[To have "skin in the game" is to have incurred risk (monetary or otherwise) by being involved in achieving a goal] Wikipedia  I kept thinking about what it was about the people who have been really piquing my interest recently. Or as I look back on previous guests what is it that connects them? I loved the very creative folk, and the last season of reinventors. Everyone in fact. Whether buyi...

This episode is dedicated to Clinton, Leonie’s brother  LEONIE FREAKIN DAWSON! In the compelling conversation we meet a woman who has touched many thousands of lives with her Brilliant Biz and Life Academy and created wealth, confidence and happiness for herself, her family and for her clients. She is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, loved-up wife and partner and parent of two and the crea...

Dedicated to the memory of Yasuko Mori, RIP It is with deep sadness and great respect that I talk about the influence that Mori Yasuko had on so many people in our Tokyo community. She influenced me in positive ways to look at business through a new lens of service and innovation. She made a unique contribution to society. I will miss her monthly paper newsletters that were full of personal and bu...

Oh are you in for a treat - Sarah T’s unique take on life design and crafting her life, really made me think. She has always had a pretty fine-tuned compass for what she does and doesn’t want but then her therapist made a revelation to her, about her early life, that really made her think about what was driving her. Sarah has moved around the world a number of times, from rural Hawaii to Urban Haw...

In this Creative Musings Menostorm episode, a mega-ramble is generated. A musing that is the length of a feature film, and one might think it is too long and indulgent.  And one would be right.  It is a love letter to all of my coaches. It is long and the indulgence is taking a trip through my coaching life from start to finish and all the fantastic coaches I had along the way. Honouring...

This episode is dedicated to Uncle Rodney, who died in the line of duty WHAT A WHIRLWIND! We had such a journey through Brittany’s life and I was furiously making notes and thinking HOW CAN I HIRE THIS WOMAN? In this Podcast you will learn: Basics of Design-centred thinking and the concept of life-prototyping and being absolutely values-driven How Brittany designed her family and business to work...

Tales from the Red Cross hospital and fair warning I talk about my recent surgery and I talk about it very openly. ALSO SWEAR WORDS. In sharing this information it may encourage people to better advocate for their medical health and care, have a good experience of a hospital stay. I talk about what I requested, how I requested it, and what I let go in order to have a peaceful stay. I talk about my...

In this conversation, Sam is incredibly generous and vulnerable with what he reveals in his reinventions. One of the things I love about doing these podcasts is the conversations it sparks and the ripples the questions send out into the families of the guests and the world.  In answering the questions about reinvention, Sam, his Mum and his Dad had conversations they had never had before, and...

This week’s Creative Musings is tales from the Menostorm™ How’s your menopause going? Graceful? Elegant? Calm?  Congratulations.  Mine’s been a violent, rupturing shitstorm. A menostorm. And this week I’m taking radical action (I sometimes encourage my clients to do this too - radical action might be the way to go).  I am telling the story of a major life transition I am undertaking...

What happens when you follow Dragons? We’ll find out what brought Gretchen to Dairyuji Temple, which means ‘Big Dragon’ Temple in Akita in the North West of Japan’s largest Island Honshu. Also Fleabag was not the only one who found a hot priest! This Legend, it’s just two intelligent, educated and sensible women leaning into the sacred, the magical and the full spectrum of humanity, nature, genera...

Have you ever looked at a friend, colleague or person in your constellation and thought ‘They should get an award.’? Well I did and I thought … ‘I want to have an awards ceremony at my ten-year anniversary party ’... So that’s what I did. There was a rigorous and thorough application process, selection process and selection committee. Not really - who’s got time for that? And so the SFC Many Ways...

This is season 7, episode 7 of the Legends Podcast with Sarah Furuya of Sarah Furuya Creative. This week's creative musings is all about Unconditional Love. Today I muse on five stories of unconditional love that I have experienced since I was a child, covering generosity experienced at school, to a shocking surprise gift at Christmas to unbelievable gestures in Japan, two from my love. I relate t...