Chikako Tsuda is the Total Coordinator of FutrWorks, Osaka's Coworking space for global startups and digital nomads.

She's been at the same Japanese company for over 20 years. But her career looks like nothing I've ever seen in a traditional Japanese career path, because she kept saying yes to the unexpected thing.

This episode of “Is it Crazy?” is about carving your space to be yourself, in life and in careers.

Chikako never planned to run an international community. She never planned to learn English in her 40s or perform Tahitian dance in a coconut bra. But she kept moving, she kept finding the next thing. 

What you'll hear

• Why she wore red eyeliner to a uniform job, and what her senior said when he saw her
• How she figured out when to push and when to wait, inside a corporate culture that doesn't often say yes out loud
• Why she started dancing in her late 30s
• What she told her three daughters about careers, conformity, and being yourself

Want to follow Chikako's work or explore FutrWorks in Osaka?
Connect with Chikako on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chikako-tsuda-a37356191/
Follow FutrWorks on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/futrworks or Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/futrworks/ 

You’re in luck, Futr Works hosts a Festival for business owners & digital nomads 2 times a year in Osaka, apply for the upcoming Futr Fest in September https://futrworks.com/news/1142 

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Laura Viilep is a Globally recognized Event Strategist, the woman behind Mindvalley's iconic events like A-Fest. She left her Director role at the top in order to start her own Boutique Event Agency, but this wasn't her only "crazy move".

She's one of the 100 Most Influential People in the Events Industry, and still, this isn't a "look how perfectly it all worked out" story. It's the real journey: the doubt, the highs and lows, the empty calendar, and how she learned to trust a decision that felt terrifying.

This is for anyone who has a good career and a feeling they can't shake that something bigger is waiting, but can't picture if or how their own crazy idea would actually work.

What you'll hear:

• How do you leave a job that checks every box, the salary, the team, the title?
• Why is making the decision the hardest part, and what actually happens after?
• How do you keep going and start something new when your battery is low?
• The lesson after she lost a promised client.
• What is the value of trusting your intuition?

Connect with Laura:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauraviilep/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lauraviilep/ 

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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This one is special because it was recorded in Natalie’s house - from the vision board to reality!

She's the founder of the Kicking Goals Marketing & Communications and of the Lady Kicking Goals community. She’s living the life that was on her vision but the story is not about “look at me things are perfect”!. This conversation is about the journey from idea, doubts, highs and lows, and how to reinvent yourself and rise like a phoenix. 

This is for anyone who has an image, and idea but can't picture IF and HOW their own crazy idea would actually work.

For over fifteen years Natalie built her career on the business side of magazine publishing, first in Australia and then across Canada, before moving into communications work with small businesses and the public sector. She'd always been drawn to helping women in business, even when it wasn't officially her job. Then came a rental in Sydney she knew she'd eventually lose, a partner who said "what about Phuket?" and a decision to buy a house off the floor plan in a country she barely knew.

What you'll hear

• How to trust yourself when life makes you feel unhappy?
• Why regularly updating her vision changed her life?
• How to act on a vague image/vision?
• How to navigate the highs and the lows during moments of change?
• What made her say yes to the crazy idea, after 1 year of doubting?
• The realisation that "Whatever you think is holding you back is not. It's you."
• If what you need doesn’t exist, why don’t you create it?

She’s an endless source of inspiration and connection, connect with Natalie via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliejcoulson/ or follow her community on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ladies_kicking_goals/ 

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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"Whatever you do for yourself is never crazy enough." That's what Silvia said in our conversation, and knowing her, she really embodies that motto. She has a very inspiring career spanning BCG, Nike, and now she's VP Sports, Kids and Underwear at Best Secret, the role she says that “ticks all the boxes of what I was looking for”. How did she build a career like this?

What people might not know behind the scenes (and what you'll hear in the conversation) is that she didn't get this far by accident, she's very intentional with her choices and stays open to grow. 

For example she decided to go back to university 2 years ago. That's right, mid-career and as a Director.

What you'll hear:

• How do you become ready for a bigger role when part of you still doesn't feel ready?
• What do you do when your career looks right on paper but something quietly doesn't add up?
• Is it crazy to add a full-time degree on top of a full-time leadership job, for no one but yourself?
• How to recognize your inner knowing and intuition?
• What if success was never the job title, but the person you become getting there?

Some of my favorite lines in the conversation:

• "It's your responsibility to go get them" (the opportunities to grow)
• "You have full power to make your own journey and create your own destiny"

Want to follow Silvia's journey or reach out directly? Find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silviadanna/

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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I met Hugo when he became President of AIESEC International. To me he was this distant, inspiring figure at first, the person everyone in the room was watching. Years later we both ended up in Amsterdam and he became a friend whose career choices I kept learning from.

Hugo calls himself a growth catalyst. 
Today he wears 3 hats: a fractional growth and marketing leader for deep-tech and scale-ups, a builder, and a father who decided presence was non-negotiable. 
He scaled EVBox from 10 to 700 people and past 100 million in revenue. He failed at two startups before that. And last year, in the same 12 months he had his second daughter, he exited his own startup and wrote a book. Talking about crazy!

What you'll hear:

• Who are you without the job title?
• What do you do when the role everyone respects is already starting to feel like the wrong fit?
• Is it crazy to do the work nobody's paying you for, because you believe it actually matters?
• How do you balance ambition with presence after you become a parent?
• What if you didn't have to leave your job to start the thing on the side?

Check his book if want to learn from his experience leading teams and culture at hyper-growth >> Teams in Hell: How to End Bad Management.

Want to follow Hugo's work or reach out directly? Find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugosbpereira

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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Meet Bunny Young, not just my coach. She’s a mom, a serial entrepreneur and a source of inspiration. At 14 she was diagnosed with a heart condition and told to choose a quiet life. She didn’t, and chose to test the limitations instead.

Since then it feels like she has lived multiple lives: stuntwoman, therapist, she built 16 companies while raising 4 kids. But the real story isn't the companies or the resume nobody would understand. It's the lessons, like that in every situation you have a choice.

What you’ll hear:

• what happens when you stop orienting your life around the diagnosis, the limitations
• the questions most of us avoid: What is my choice? Will I argue for my limitations or for my dreams?
• how she took her power back
• why building trust in yourself is one of the most valuable assets in your life.

Want to follow Bunny's journey or reach out directly? Find her on Instagram: @thebunnyyoung

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Alessio Pieroni is the Founder and CEO of Scale for Impact, a marketing agency for online course creators. But he wasn’t born an entrepreneur.

This episode is about the shape of an unconventional path with at least 3 major “Is It Crazy?” moments. 

In the conversation we cover several questions that most high performers avoid: 

• What is my frustration for the current situation trying to tell me?
• What if the role I worked so hard to earn is not the destination, but just a stepping stone?
• Is it too late to change?

Want to follow Alessio's work or reach out directly? Find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessio-pieroni/ 

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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That little nudge, “Is this crazy?” can be the most honest career signal you’ll ever get, especially when your life looks great on paper but something inside still wants more. 

I’m Eleonora, and for the very first episode I’m going first with my own story so you know exactly why this space exists and what kind of career and life reinvention we’re here to normalize.

What you'll hear:

• The 6-year dream I kept postponing
• The real life shifts behind the podcast
• The moment everything looked perfect on paper, and something still whispered “is this it”?
• The decision that looked like a step back and turned out to be the door to a whole new world
• How a Japan dream that started almost 10 years ago finally came true

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Want to follow the journey or reach out directly? Find me here:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleonoravalenti/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humancareersbyele/ 
• Website: humancareers.com/podcast

If this conversation sparked something or if you have a "crazy dream" brewing, join the next Career Accelerator, a 3-month experience of Coaching + Community to speed up clarity, confidence and satisfaction in your career. 

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