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Pricing for Speed Meeting to launch your brand. 40 brands launched in an hour.
Speed Meetings are $10 per participant for the one-hour session — accessible enough for a first-timer to join without hesitation. But the price doesn't reflect a few weeks of prep — it reflects 34 years: host family at 12, first trip to Japan at 14, a year living with a host family on a Tokyo Metropolitan Government scholarship at 18, teaching English professionally for three years starting in 2007, marrying into a Japanese family and living there since 2009, a year as a business consultant in Tokyo learning how companies actually connect with people, running my own school in Minokamo from 2013–2015, and years as a travel writer and YouTuber building the cultural context foreigners actually need.
This program is built for people curious about Japan and want real-world experience talking to people, not just reading about it. Through an internship connected to the Chamber of Commerce, you'll train as an ambassador — learning to hold a genuine one-hour conversation with a Japanese participant, listen for what they actually care about, and give them one real suggestion by the end: who they should meet or what they should do. As you do more sessions, you'll build skill across 12 categories of collaboration, the same conversation skills I'll be describing firsthand when I'm back in Minokamo, Gifu, telling Japanese partners about the students I've personally prepared. You'll also build your own profile and start connecting with Chamber member businesses along the way. Finish the path and you can go from participant to host — running your own Speed Meeting sessions instead of joining someone else's.
This is a quiet project I've been building and is now ready.
I spent years in Japan, and I kept noticing the same gap: people curious about Japan, and people in Japan curious about English, but with no real way to actually talk to each other.
So I'm building that bridge — starting with an internship for aspiring ambassadors, connected to the Chamber of Commerce.
Your first step is one real conversation: a one-hour Speed Meeting with a Japanese participant. Just listening, and by the end, one real suggestion for who they should meet or what to do.
From there, the internship spans 12 real categories across the county — ESL, non-profits, local podcasting, university partnerships, city government, tourism, the Makers Lab, and more. You'll also help connect future Japanese visitors to real local businesses. I live part of the year in Japan and I'm building membership in both the Chamber in NY and the one in Japan. When I'm in Japan, I'm the one introducing you — by name — to the partners there.
Book a Discovery Call or register for your first Speed Meeting below. Let's talk.
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