Ep. 47: Meaningful Conversations - Your First Audience is You with Helen Iwata
Featuring guest
Helen Iwata
We had the pleasure of speaking with Helen Iwata, Founder and President of Sasuga Communications, who specializes in helping professional women excel without exhaustion through her Sasuga! Success Cycle. As we reflected on over a year of isolation and remote working, we explored crucial topics often overlooked in business discussions: mental health, self-kindness, and quality self-dialogue as essential components of impactful business leadership. Helen shared her insights on supporting women in business, strategies for stepping up, and transitioning from survival to excellence during remote work. We discussed creating micro-moments to live your best life and how consistency in endeavors like podcasting can evolve into genuine passion. This conversation reminded us of the importance of holistic well-being in achieving sustainable business success.
Themes of Inquiry
- Women's Leadership
- Mental Health in Business
- Remote Work Excellence
- Self-Care Strategies
- Sustainable Success
We had the pleasure of speaking with Helen Iwata, Founder and President of Sasuga Communications, who specializes in helping professional women excel without exhaustion through her Sasuga! Success Cycle.
Episode Summary
We had the pleasure of speaking with Helen Iwata, Founder and President of Sasuga Communications, who specializes in helping professional women excel without exhaustion through her Sasuga! Success Cycle. As we reflected on over a year of isolation and remote working, we explored crucial topics often overlooked in business discussions: mental health, self-kindness, and quality self-dialogue as essential components of impactful business leadership. Helen shared her insights on supporting women in business, strategies for stepping up, and transitioning from survival to excellence during remote work. We discussed creating micro-moments to live your best life and how consistency in endeavors like podcasting can evolve into genuine passion. This conversation reminded us of the importance of holistic well-being in achieving sustainable business success.
The Guest Biography
Helen Iwata
Helen Iwata is the Founder and President of Sasuga Communications, dedicated to empowering professional women to excel in their careers without burnout through her signature Sasuga! Success Cycle methodology. A bilingual British entrepreneur, wife, and mother, Helen brings three decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience in Japan to her work. Her impressive background includes ten years with McKinsey & Company in Tokyo, providing her with deep insights into high-performance business environments. Helen hosts the Sasuga podcast and offers various programs including Sasuga! Cafe and VIP Women's Coaching, focusing on helping women create sustainable success while maintaining their well-being and personal fulfillment.
Continue the Dialogue
Ep. 48: Transporting Value to Transporting with Values. Part 1 - Ecosystem with Azarel Chamorro
We had the pleasure of speaking with Azarel Chamorro, Smart Mobility Lead at Mirai Share and transport consultant based in Japan. Throughout our hour-long conversation, we explored Azarel's international experience across mobility startups and established companies. We discussed his work as a mobility consultant during global lockdowns and dove deep into the fascinating history of Japan's world-class railway system, which was largely founded on research tours to early 20th century Europe. Azarel shared insights on train stations as business ecosystems, the maturity gap between mobility and digitalization, and Japan's unique privatization success story. We also learned how the famous Bullet Train began as a failure before becoming an icon. The conversation concluded with key trends to watch in the mobility space over the next 12-24 months.
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