Beyond the Hustle: A Founder's Toolkit for Sustainable Success
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.
Go Global Hub #4 Global Connector
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.
Building Community from Zero: Practical Tips from Online & Offline Community Experts Lindo Korchi and Heather Dobbin
Join us for an interactive and informative session featuring a presentation by Lindo Korchi, followed by a fireside chat with Heather Dobbin.
HerRise Step 4 — Investor Readiness Workshop
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.
Finding Your North Star: A Fireside Chat on Purpose, Career Clarity, and Sustainable Impact
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.
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Networking
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.
Go Global Hub #3 Global Connector Salon
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.
WISJ 3rd Annual Flagship Event
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.
Pitch Perfect — Crafting Your Winning Story
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.
The Magnetic Startup (HerRise Program Community Event)
Getting people to pay attention is arguably one of the hardest challenges every young business faces.
Go Global Hub #2 Cross-Border Startup Match Salon
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…
Moshimo Mindfulness Third Session
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.
Moshimo Mindfulness Second Session
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.
Moshimo Mindfulness First Session
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.
Mindfulness Hike and Picnic With She Loves
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.
Shed & Rise New Year’s Transformation Retreat
The Theme for 2025: Year of the Snake: The snake symbolizes wisdom, charm, elegance, and transformation.
Grow Your Impact: A Generativity Experience
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.
Aligned, Energized, and Clear in 2024- Half-Day Experience
Do you remember your 2023 resolutions? How did they turn out for you? How are things in your life as 2023 comes to a close and we look ahead to 2024? What do you want them to be like at the end of next year?
Join us for this intimate, in-person experience as we explore these questions deeply using simple yet powerful exercises and techniques. Gain clarity on your direction for the year, and give yourself the best conditions for a stellar and and energizing 2024. We can’t always predict what will come to us in the span of a year, but we can decide how we want to be and where we want to give our focus and care. Let’s come together and commit to being intentional about how we are in this next year.
In this session we’ll be exploring:
knowing what is truly important to you and prioritizing your time and energy
creating intentions and goals for yourself & breaking things down into actionable steps
learning the secret of tracking progress in a way that helps you stay motivated
blockers and obstacles that get in the way of the life you want to lead
utilizing body-based awareness techniques to stay connected to possibility and peace
And we’ll be wrapping it all up with a powerful group visualization exercise.
Details
10 spots available
In-person in Tokyo (to be updated when exact location is confirmed)
Healthy, vegan- and vegetarian-friendly lunch included
All workshop materials included in print & available for download after the sessions are complete
Participation fee $140 per person
What to bring— your favorite pen, something to take notes on if you prefer to use something other than the materials provided
Register here. Let’s make 2024 a transformative year for you and those around you!
(Workshop) Imposter Feelings & Entrepreneurship- How to redefine your relationship with this common blocker @Google For Startups, Shibuya
Imposter anxiety is one of the most common and troublesome career obstacles and a regular unwanted companion for many of us. But does the experience of imposter anxiety have to be purely negative, or does it have something to teach us?
In this session you’ll learn:
- Ways in which imposter anxiety can be a signifier of the presence of positive aspects in life, and a useful teacher
- A simple, accessible practice that builds the ability to move away from fear-based motivators towards more helpful ones
- Linguistic and cognitive techniques to shift your beliefs about yourself and your potential and to allow you to challenge yourself in your business, project, and life
This session is open to all career levels— freelancers, creatives, and future entrepreneurs are most welcome!
6:30 Doors open
7:00 Session start
8:00 Session wrap up, networking start
8:30 Networking wrap up
*This workshop will be run in English*
Please make sure to RSVP to this event page:)
This session is free of charge to all Startup Lady community members. There will be 30 minutes of casual networking before & after the event.
Hosted by Google for Startups, run by Startup Lady & Heather Dobbin
Tokyo Mindfulness Collaboration Workshop: How to Tap into Your Nervous System for Inner Joy and Harmony @Brighton Yoga Studio, Daikanyama
Do you still find yourself stressed and ungrounded after doing all the "right" things like meditation, yoga, exercise, good sleep and nutrition? If you do, then the missing key could be to regulate your nervous system.
In our daily lives we can often find ourselves out of balance- anxious, angry, irritated, exhausted, reactive— the list goes on and on. Luckily for all of us, there are easily accessible ways to bring yourself into a state of calm awareness— allowing you to live a life that is balanced, more joyful, and deeply satisfying.
Join Misha and Heather for an exploration of how to leverage inner resources through meditation and intentional engagement with your nervous system through “glimmers” to start living, loving, and working in a more fulfilling way, one mindful moment at a time. This will be in our usual spot in Brighton Daikanyama!
What are glimmers?
Glimmers are small, accessible, external cues to bring our nervous system back into a state of safety, connection, and joy. What is a glimmer for you may be different from that of another person, so it’s our aim in this workshop to help you understand the different states of your nervous system, notice when you’re out of balance, and find your own glimmers.
Schedule:
Part 1- Meditation Session with Misha
Part 2- “Glimmer” workshop with Heather
Part 3- Group sharing + debrief + hot tea
Price: 1,000 yen
Learning From The Failures Of Successful Women
As a member of the Less Effort, More Impact Movement, I’ll be moderating what is sure to be a fascinating, raw, and authentic conversation about failure between three successful women in business. We still have spots open for this in-person event at the French Chamber of Commerce— please join us! More details here.