Jandals in Japan Hosts, Catherine and Jayne Appear on Kiwi Flees Podcast

From Kiwi Flees:

In this episode of Kiwi Flees, Jayne & Catherine share their experiences of arriving separately in Japan over 20 years ago, both thinking they'd only be away for a year or two but finding themselves hooked to their adopted country over two decades later.

We discuss their different but also connected lives. Jayne being rurally-based with her family in Fukushima which suffered a triple disaster in 2011 of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. Jayne shares why she chose to stay in Fukushima and how she runs her successful podcasting consultancy, two award-winning podcasts, and her baseball-mad family from there.

Tokyo-based Catherine has forged a hugely successful corporate & governance career, including being the first non-Japanese woman to serve on the Boards of Toyota and Fujitsu. She is the founder and principal of the first foreign-female-founded boutique law firm in Japan and is clearly a serial award winner, taking out Entrepreneur of the Year, Foreign Lawyer of the Year, and Boutique Law Firm of the Year.

During the pod we explore themes including resiliency, the importance of story-telling in Japan, lessons for Kiwi businesses considering entering this market, plus some of the more egregious errors they've seen businesses make, and how to avoid them.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or at kiwiflees.co.nz.

Thank you to Paul Sinclair and the team behind Kiwi Flees for this opportunity to share our stories with your listeners.