​We're excited to be hosted by Venture Cafe for this special mini session — two speakers, all the Fail Club flavor you know and love, in a more compact package. Low fat, full flavor. Come join us.

Tokyo Fail Club is a community where creative people share their real, vulnerable stories about failure. Our goal is to create a place where people can celebrate failure, and challenge ideas of what success looks like.

For this special Venture Cafe session, we'll gather to hear two speakers talk about a time they experienced failure and lessons they learned through the experiences, before opening up to Q&A and open networking time.

Preserving an authentic, human brand voice while leveraging the speed of AI is one of the greatest challenges in modern business. In this event, the Community Manager Team at TIB will be hosting a salon-style discussion. We will dive deep into how to use AI tools as a strategic partner without letting them smooth out the uniquenesses that make your brand storytelling actually connect with humans.

Whether you are a startup founder, a freelancer, or a corporate innovator, the fusion of "creativity" and "entrepreneurship" is essential in modern business. In this event, community manager Heather Dobbin will moderate a fireside chat with Dr. Daniel Harris Rosen, CEO and Creative Director of TokyoDex, to break down the essential mindset needed to transform creative thinking into business success.  

The first half of the session features Daniel sharing his "Art Thinking" frameworks and candid stories from over a decade of building TokyoDex without outside funding, providing actionable insights for leading through uncertainty. The second half is a networking session where participants can interact, share their projects and visions, and find mutual inspiration.  

Neurospicy Founders is a home for neurodivergent founders to connect, reset & build.

In my coaching sessions, the topic of neurodivergence comes up quite a bit. It’s a common occurrence in the founder community, where thinking, building, and relating differently are a matter of course. Yet, it can be years or even decades before founders realize that difference, which can lead to burnout, isolation, and less than desirable business outcomes. That’s where Neurospicy Founders comes in.

​📚 English Book Exchange Pop-Up

​Bring a book, take a book!

​Join us for a relaxed pop-up book exchange for English-language book lovers! Whether you're clearing your shelves or hunting for something new, this is a lovely excuse to connect with fellow readers over good books, great snacks, and a drink in hand.

​We'll also sweet baked treats from Nippon Viajero to make the afternoon extra special. Moshimo member Heather Dobbin will be behind the bar, ready to talk about your favorite book.

​It's time to complete my piece for Jinny Street Gallery's Michibiki 2026! For those of you in my community who wrote what you wanted to release — your hopes and your prayers — the weather is finally getting nice enough to send them to the flames at sunset.

I’ll be speaking for the first time at My Japan Story SLAM!

This time, the theme is LOVE HURTS: Stories of Hope, Joy, Loss, Heartbreak, Humiliation, Humor, and Unrequited Love. 9 raw stories, no slides, no notes. 5 minutes.

​Japan’s startup landscape is at a historic turning point. With a national mandate to 10x our startup output and a growing recognition of the "untapped well" of female talent, the future of the economy is already here—it just needs a central hub.

​For one night, we are transforming Venture Café Tokyo into a high-density "Innovation Commons." We are collapsing the distance between founders and resources to create a friction-less environment for what matters most: deal-making, mentorship, and action.

​As a founder, your mental health is your business’s most critical asset. But “hustle culture” is leading to record levels of burnout, loneliness, and strained relationships.

The Tokyo startup event scene is gaining new momentum with Go Global Hub #4, a flagship program by Startup Lady, backed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

​Join us for an interactive and informative session featuring a presentation by Lindo Korchi, followed by a fireside chat with Heather Dobbin.

HerRise is an action-driven entrepreneurship program empowering women founders to grow their businesses across Japan and beyond. The fourth session of this ongoing series takes place on Wednesday, November 26, bringing together investors, founders, and startup mentors in Tokyo for a focused session on investor readiness.

In the fast-paced world of startups and creative ventures, it can be challenging to maintain clarity and align your daily actions with your long-term vision.

To celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, FAJ invites members of FAJ, FEW Japan, and Startup Lady to a vibrant evening of connection and inspiration at Impact HUB Tokyo.

The Tokyo startup event scene is gaining new momentum with Go Global Hub #3, a flagship program by Startup Lady, backed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Join Women in Science Japan (WISJ) for their 3rd Annual Flagship Event, an inspiring half-day program bringing together students, professionals, and allies across Japan’s STEM community. 

Get ready to elevate your pitch and bring your startup story to life. This one-hour workshop, hosted at Venture Café Tokyo, is designed to help founders and innovators refine how they present their vision, product, and purpose.

Getting people to pay attention is arguably one of the hardest challenges every young business faces.

Join Heather Dobbin at a powerful startup pitch event in Tokyo designed to spark collaboration across borders. Taking place on Monday, October 27, 2025 at Plug and Play Japan’s Playground venue in Shibuya…

Some weeks feel like a blur—constant motion, background noise, no real pause. By the time Friday arrives, we’ve often run out of attention for ourselves. That’s why I’m holding space again on Friday, October 17th, for our third Moshimo Mindfulness session at Moshimo Space Hayama.

I’ve come to see how easily our thoughts slip into the spiral of what ifs—What if I say the wrong thing? What if I fall behind? Before the sun is even fully up, our minds can already be racing. 

I’ve spent a lot of time noticing how our minds tend to spiral into what ifs—What if I mess up? What if I’m not enough? These questions can stir up stress, doubt, and disconnection before our day even begins.

Join us for a peaceful, women-only mindfulness hike designed to create space for reflection, meaningful connection, and renewed clarity. Step out of your daily routine and into nature for a grounding, restorative experience led by experienced facilitators.

The Theme for 2025: Year of the Snake: The snake symbolizes wisdom, charm, elegance, and transformation.

This full-day experience is crafted around the idea of generativity, which the psychologist Erik Erikson defined as “a concern for establishing and guiding the next generation.” While Erikson believed that this was something that happened in midlife, anyone can tap into generativity at any point in their adult lives, and it’s a topic that’s more important than it’s ever been before. For everyone, but especially for leaders. In this full-day We’ll time travel to the end of our lives and take a look back. We’ll explore our Ikigai, often translated as your purpose or reason for living. We’ll do a “social energy audit” to have a look at the influences that your community has on your ability to give. We’ll help you “find your impact” so that you can decide when and where to invest your time and energy. And finally we’ll wrap it up with a session on self-care, because in order to give to others we must be well ourselves.