{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fba435e6c-b73b-4eba-af2c-50602f745d39","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Nina Cataldo: Legend of Community Building","description":"Season Two Episode Two\r\n\nIntroducing Nina Cataldo, legend of Community Building and The Hafu Ladies Community!\r\n\n\r\n\nNina was born into a family that treasures internationalism and was raised in a bi-cultural and bilingual household. Raised between Tokyo and America's beautiful Pacific Northwest, she used her passion for words and storytelling as a powerful tool to connect people with the world.\r\n\n\r\n\nIn this Podcast\r\n\n\r\n\nNina shares with us so much rich information about her experience as a Japanese and American citizen and the experience of being both and moving between those worlds. The tale of her parents' meeting and their quick and surprise marriage and what being an only child means to her. Also just how their continued love and support is central in her life.\r\n\n\r\n\nThe lines of artists and journalists in the family and how that has influenced Nina.\r\n\n\r\n\nHow international her family is and the deep connection the US family has to Japan, then how she managed her move to the States aged 8 and her schooling, her transition through school, how she found the people who were 'like' her in school and university.\r\n\n\r\n\nI have a breakdown hearing how she used to write stories about the class rats PG and Snowball (rodent disco anyone?) in the USA.\r\n\n\r\n\nThe great influence on of her teacher, Ms. Monroe and another champion had on her and how that encouragement was the fuel to her fire and how she pays that forward to be an amazing mentor other people, both the upcoming generations and reverse mentors people like me.\r\n\n\r\n\nShe takes us through her school and university years in the USA and how she vowed never to come back to Tokyo after a visit, then came back here for one year to follow up on an opportunity. 5 years ago.\r\n\n\r\n\nJoining the dots backward - she notes that the subjects she chose at school actually support and inform a lot of her work today. Bizarrely - she was too Japanese for the Japanese society but she stays optimistic and moving forward at all times.\r\n\n\r\n\nHer first boss in Japan had a really healthy attitude to work-life balance and she brings some of his style of leadership and life cultivation into her leadership now.\r\n\n\r\n\nNina took a huge leap of faith and took a Peaceboat Voyage back on September 2019, she explains all about Peaceboat and her experience and what it is like to sail on a ship for 4 months.\r\n\n\r\n\nIn September 2018 she saw a gap in what she wanted in the Hafu (mixed race Japanese) community in Japan and started Hafu ladies, at first a brunch club. This group has grown to 900 women and Nina has full embraced the 3 pillars of the community: Educate, Empower, Embrace. And 'Fake it til you make it' or what that means to her.\r\n\n\r\n\nNina has been educating in cross-race and culture matters with a leading news agency in Japan, hoping to educate in ways to do less harm to people of mixed race or different races.\r\n\n\r\n\nAt the end of this conversation there is some background noise as Nina is at a place that has in indoor skateboard ramp!\r\n\n\r\n\nHuge thanks to inspiring Nina for sharing her background, her first 27 years and giving us a taster of the future. It's exciting - cannot wait to see what happens next.\r\n\n\r\n\nFind Nina here:\r\n\nPublic Page https://www.facebook.com/hafuladies (https://www.facebook.com/hafuladies)\r\n\nPrivate Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/hafuladies (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hafuladies)\r\n\nInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hafuladies (https://www.instagram.com/hafuladies)\r\n\nMy LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-m-cataldo/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-m-cataldo/)\r\n\nWebsite (WIP) https://www.ninamcataldo.com (https://www.ninamcataldo.com)\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0ac9fe95-9348-49a9-a962-df91ed8bdfff/2251919-1599710939891-223b9e50f1cfe.jpg"}