Living Your Mission with Tech Icon Yoky Matsuoka

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Episode 185: From aspiring tennis pro to world-renowned technologist for Apple and Google, today’s guest has Nat fangirling. On this episode, the founder of Yohana, Yoky Matsuoka, graces the pod and shares her fruitful journey of becoming a leading female in the tech world. She shines a light on the importance of following your personal mission and how having the confidence to fail could lead you to something even greater than you could have ever imagined. If you’re an aspiring female technologist, or anyone with a burning passion inside of them but feeling stuck in pursuing it, this conversation is worth tuning in to and could be the push you need to finally go for it! Today’s episode dives into: The art of delegation, balance, and prioritization as a successful founder Downsides of technology and the importance of boredom in childhood Yoky’s fascinating journey into the tech world and what inspired Yohana How weaving your mission into everything you do is the ultimate motivator The reality of women in tech through the eyes of society and her personal experience The importance of user experience research and asking the right questions Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Yoky at @YokyMatsuoka and check out Yohana at www.yohana.com Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: SHOPIFY – Go to shopify.com/realreel to start your FREE trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast nation.
0:03.0	Nation.
0:04.0	About twice a year I think there's no way
0:10.0	could go on to tomorrow. There's just no way.
0:15.0	And those moments what gets me going again is the mission.
0:19.0	It's that mission that, hey, like it is worth leaving those kids at home sometimes to go and kick
0:26.1	butt out at work because what we do at work will change lives of other people which
0:31.6	just by raising kids I can't do.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Real Rail where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real
0:40.0	lives of entrepreneurs content creators and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.
0:45.4	I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.
0:50.9	Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast with me Natalie Barboo.
0:55.2	Today is an episode with an amazing guest and I'm so excited to share it but
1:00.8	before we get into that I want to give you a little recap on my week because I was just in San Francisco and it really got me thinking about content and just the type of content I want to film and record and produce and all of that stuff.
1:16.5	So obviously I have this podcast which I love and you know obviously half the episodes are a bit more casual,
1:22.0	half of them are a bit more casual. Half of them are interviews with
1:23.4	usually entrepreneurs, business owners, influencers, people like that. But the
1:29.0	other ones are like the solo ones. They're somewhat casual. Sometimes I think I give, you know, business tips and things like that. But I would say my
1:36.5	podcast falls into the business category, but just I guess a longer form of it and giving other people my platform.
1:41.5	Anyways, that's not what I'm talking about.
1:43.0	I'm talking about what I'm going to post on TikTok and YouTube because I have felt such a rut.
1:47.0	And being in San Francisco, I realize that the tech world is incredibly broy, but there are so many women that are still in the
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