AP 001: Heather Fujikawa ll Choosing to live joyfully and productively amidst years of health struggles and infertility

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

I know I could not ask for a better person to be my first guest of my podcast. If you know Heather Fujikawa, then you love, love, love her. Pure and simple. Everything Heather touches is made golden! Alongside her twin sister, Heidi, Heather is a successful entrepreneur, writer, and interior designer. With her built-in-business-partner, Heather created an incredible jewelry business (True Birds), published a beautiful children's book (Fairy Birds), and is now officially delving into her interior design business and online shop. Heather is always working on something, including herself! Right now, she is also working on adding twin brothers for her toddler son. Heather is loving, genuine, joyful, and encouraging. She is a champion for all those around her. Behind this cheery disposition though, was a purposeful decision Heather made to choose happiness amidst the many health struggles she faced the past ten years, including thyroid cancer and six years of infertility. These burden-filled years taught her to make balance and self-care a high priority every day, amidst all of her incredible passion-fueled projects. Related, Heather and her sister also made the tough decision to step back from their opportunity-rich fashion accessory business in order to pursue their greater desire to write children's books. Heather intently prioritizes what is most important to her for each day, does the best she can for those areas, and lets the rest of it go. We have so much to learn from her! Additional Show Notes: See blog for links to Heather's book Heather's website (and be sure to check out her shop) Song credit: "Sweet Promise" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to About Progress, a podcast devoted to ordinary people who are striving to make realistic improvements in their lives and reach their goals, however big or small.
0:27.1	We are building a community of men and women who love to push themselves,
0:31.4	to overcome obstacles and make something special of their lives all
0:36.0	when maintaining a healthy balance. In short, people who know life is about
0:40.8	progress, not perfection.
0:43.0	Today I am speaking to Heather Fujikawa.
0:50.0	You might know Heather from her many successful endeavors she has done alongside her twin sister and business partner Heidi
0:58.0	Together they created an incredible jewelry business published a beautiful children's book, and are now diving into an interior design business and online shop.
1:08.8	Heather is always working on something including herself. Right now she is also working on adding
1:15.0	twin brothers for her toddler set. Heather is loving, genuine, joyful, and
1:20.1	encouraging. She is a champion for all those around her. But behind this cheerful
1:25.0	disposition was a purposeful decision Heather had to make as she encountered years of health
1:30.8	struggles, including thyroid cancer and infertility. These burden-filled years taught
1:36.9	her to make balance and self-care a high priority every day. So while she still pursues passion-filled projects, she also takes care
1:47.6	to prioritize what is most important to her and let the rest go. Heather is remarkable. You will love this interview.
1:57.0	All right, welcome Heather Fujikawa to About Progress. I'm so excited you're here. Thank you I'm so
2:05.4	excited to be here and be chatting with you. It'll be great. Okay so tell us a
2:10.4	little about yourself I'm familiar with you, but, well, more than familiar. I know you really
2:15.4	well, but a lot of our readers might not be. So tell us a little about yourself.
2:22.1	Okay. Well, first of all all I'm so like excited that I get to be Moni's friend.
2:26.6	She's the cutest in person and online and I just love her so I'm so excited to talk here tonight.
2:33.0	So, okay, myself, well, I am in my 30s, oh my goodness, and I am a mother. I am currently pregnant with twin boys and I have one other little
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