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Designer Sushi podcast is about the everyday life of a UX designer through the perspectives of two career switcher UX designers that have a shared lived experience in Japan. UX Design is a hot industry and popular among people that are looking to transition from their previous careers. But it also comes with struggles especially when you’re working in a different country. This show will give an insider look at our UX career where we discuss our wins, growth, and challenges as we navigate our ...
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The Bacon Bits 'n' Bytes Podcast is where a bit of business and byte of technology come together. This podcast is like the bits n bytes party mix for your listening pleasure. Karen Swyszcz, the host, (founder of Makinthebacon) chats with various entrepreneurs on what it's like to run your own business, how to stay productive, the importance of learning certain technology-related skills and more. Visit the website to learn more about the host and read the blog - makinthebacon.com
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9: UX Designer Hot Line Part 2 ft. Teresa Fong
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Hey everyone! We know it's been a while since our last episode, and we sincerely apologize for the gap. Life got a bit hectic, and we got caught up with work and other commitments. But we're back and super excited to bring you the part 2 of our UX Designer Hot Line episode with the lovely Terry Fong! In this episode, we continue to answer the rest …
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8: UX Designer Hot Line Part 1 ft.Teresa Fong
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Happy New Year! あけましておめでとうございます！今年もよろしくお願いします 🥳。We hope 2024 will be a great year for you all! We would like to apologize for the extreme delay in our new episode as our life has been getting busy lately. But we have an exciting 2 part episode to kick off the new year! Our guest on this episode is the loveable Teresa Fong! Teresa is a senior produc…
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7: Being a Product Designer as a Nigerian in Canada ft. Mosope Adebowale
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Our content has been heavily focused on UX in Japan, however, some listeners have reached out to us because they were curious to know about the UX industry in Canada too, especially as a foreigner or newcomer! We invited, Mosope Adebowale, a very talented Product Designer at Meta located in Toronto, Canada. Mosope was born and raised in Lagos, Nige…
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6: Being an Entrepreneur as a UX Designer in Japan ft. Raphael Hodé
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Some UX mentors and educators recommend you freelance to gain experience for your first role when starting out as a UX Designer. But what if you want to do it full-time and even start your own company? Entrepreneurship and freelancing are one of the many career options you can pursue and it can be a very rewarding (or challenging) experience. We ta…
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5: Working in-house vs consulting vs digital agency as a UX Designer ft. Nicole Ha
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“To work at a product company you have to love the product. To work at an agency you have to love the process.” Have you ever wondered how many industries you could work in as a UX Designer? We have always wondered this ourselves and we’re here to discuss this with you all! And, to help us with this conversation, we have brought in our FIRST guest!…
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4: The gap between theory and practice in UX
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Welcome to Season 2 of Designer Sushi! First off, we’d like to make a huge apology to our listeners for the delay in releasing the new episodes. Life got in the way for both of us and Designer Sushi had to take a back seat. But now that 20% of 2023 has gone by, we really wanted to get the ball rolling to release more episodes for you! 🚀 This episod…
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Ep. 043- Lori Chai: How One UX Designer Transitioned From Travel To Tech
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In this episode, I chat with Lori Chai - a UX Designer and Co. Lab Alumna, about her experience living and working abroad in Japan (one of my bucket list destinations!). She shares what drove her decision to transition in a UX career, the state of UX design in Japan at the time and how she started her own co-hosted podcast: Designer Sushi. For the …
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Ep. 042 Ali Shah - TapeReal: Where human connection, authenticity and meaningful content come first
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Note: This episode was recorded in March 2022. Hi everyone! This is the final episode for 2022. I'm hoping to get back into a podcasting groove next year. I really enjoyed interviewing Ali Shah - co-founder & CEO of TapeReal. TapeReal is a social platform where human connection, authenticity, and meaningful content comes first. I came across his co…
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New to Designer Sushi? Give a listen here to see what we all about!
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By Lori Chai & Mikah Razon
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BONUS EPISODE: Checking In With a Life Update and Reflecting on My Podcasting Journey Thus Far
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*Correction: I have been in my current role as a Product Manager at an e-commerce startup for just over a year now. The previous year and a bit, I was working on trying to break into the industry. Popping in with a solo episode to share some life updates to explain why I've sort of been MIA. Hoping to add a few more solo episodes to the mix in the …
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3: Dealing with stress in the UX industry
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While we love our career and don’t regret the switch, we have been feeling stressed about the UX industry and want to share the stress we are dealing with to provide more transparency in our UX career. Some of the stress we talk about are: Trying to stay up-to-date with the tech industry trends Maintaining our UX portfolio while still working full-…
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Ep. 041 - Alexander Morsink: How Equivesto is Leveling The Playing Field in The Angel Investing Arena
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NOTE: This episode was recorded back in February 2022 The idea of helping people who never considered themselves to be investors, to be individuals, investing in a variety of different busineses where they could start creating more intergenerational wealth was something that was really meaningful to the both of us - Alexander Morsink , Co-Founder a…
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2: Our experience with Japanese work culture
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Japanese work culture is a world wonder mainly when you live outside the country. Well, we are here to spill the tea on this topic in both our previous careers and as UX Designers! We share our experience of how we dealt with Japan’s work culture as foreigners while working in both Japanese and international companies. This was a fun topic as we id…
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To kick off our first episode, we discuss our journey in career switching into UX while working in Japan. Mikah talks about how being a software engineer and coding for car audio wasn’t fulfilling for her, and Lori shares that the travel industry wasn’t as glamorous for her. We both had the same desire to be creative and work in the tech industry. …
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Welcome to the launch of Designer Sushi! In our pilot episode, you can get to know us as hosts as we discuss our professional background and our current job in UX. We also talk about why we named our podcast “Designer Sushi” and why we have such a huge connection to Japan. You can also get a sneak peek at some of the plans and goals we have for thi…
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Ep. 040 - Unlocking the Potential of Human Longevity with Cole Kirschner of Age Rate
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In this episode I chat with the CEO and co-founder, Cole Kirschner of longevity tech company Age Rate. We chat about how AgeRate began as a capstone research project in university and how the company is empowering the world with tools to demystify and optimize aging. Use the code BACON at checkout or by using this link: https://age-rate.com/discoun…
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Ep.039 - Beau McCoy: Disrupting and Decentralizing The Education System
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Note: This episode was recorded back in the end of August. Imagine a world where teachers are doing Tik Tok inspired videos to educate their students and these short-form videos can be accessed by anyone from around the world. Beau is CEO & Founder of SOLcademy - a new short-format educational video platform. He is on a mission to improve the quali…
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Ep. 038 - Kishan Vasani: Leveraging Food Science and AI to Predict The Future of Food
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"Food is a choice we make 3,4 times a day, what to eat, when we're hungry. We do it every single day of our lives and that is a very personal choice for various reasons." - Kishan Vasani , Co-Founder & CEO of Spoonshot. Kishan has worked in the food-tech industry since 2011. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Spoonshot, an AI and food science-powered in…
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Ep.037 - James Mulvany: How To Leverage Audio For Your Brand and Business
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NOTE: This episode was recorded back in May 2021 That feeling when you get to interview the creator of a product you are absolutely in love with. I was beyond thrilled to have James Mulvany, founder of Radio.co, Podcast.co and matchmaker.fm (my fave platform to connect with podcast guests and other podcasters). Really enjoyed learning about his ent…
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Ep.036 - Amira Polack: Elevating Music-Inspired Fitness Experiences
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Amira Polack is the Founder & CEO at Struct Club, an app for fitness instructors who design motion to music - and their fans, starting with spin (indoor cycling) & treadmill running. Amira's career has centered around technology, startups, and social impact and her opinion has been featured in TIME, Forbes, and the World Economic Forum Agenda. She …
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Ep. 035 - Breaking Into Tech By Thought Diversity, Community & Collaboration
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Note: This episode was recorded during the beginning of April 2021. After having recently gone through the Product Management track of Co.Lab, I have a conversation with the co-founders Sefunmi Osinaike and Helen Huang on their difficult path to product management and why they want to provide confidence and practical experience for those looking to…
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Ep. 034- Lena Sesardic: Build Stuff That Solves Your Own Problems
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Lena is a product manager turned entrepreneur, writer and speaker. After running an innovation lab as a product manager and getting her first taste of entrepreneurship, she quit her job in February 2020 to take a break from the corporate world and test her own ideas. Lena's projects include a self-published book called The Making of Product Manager…
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Not ready to commit 30-60 min of listening time? What about 1 min? Check out this trailer for The Bacon Bits 'n' Bytes Podcast. Ciao for now!By Karen Swyszcz, Podcast Host and Social Entrepreneur
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Ep.033 - Journeying Into The World Of XR with Eugene Capon, Social Media Futurist
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A social media futurist, Eugene's forward thinking attitude towards how we connect using technology has been at the forefront of his mission to connect the world. In 2014 he graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on "YouTube Studies" from Evergreen State. Upon graduation he went to work at the YouTube consulting Agency, Press Play. In…
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Ep. 032 - Connecting People Through Shared Passions
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UPDATE: The Passionfruit App is now available on both The App Store and Google Play app store and can be found by searching for "Passionfruit." Trying to connect with people can be quite difficult if your goals are not aligned or you don't share the same passion for something. Passionfruit is the brainchild of creator Paul Deng who came up with the…
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Ep. 031- Making Work, Work Better For Everyone
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Jennifer Hargreaves is the Founder and CEO of tellent. tellent is a flexible work recruitment and social impact organization with a mission to create more equal opportunities for women to lead and earn. Through a job board and virtual networking platform, she supports women on their journeys to finding work that works for them (flexible work). tell…
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Ep. 030 - Empowering Women To Rise In Entrepreneurship
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Women entrepreneurs account for only 16% of business owners in Canada. It's time to invest in change. ELLA is a community and an accelerator for women, by women. Their mission is to reduce the gap of gender inequality in entrepreneurship. They believe that every woman entrepreneur should have access to the community, information and resources neede…
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Ep. 029 - What It Really Means To Be An Entrepreneur
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"You never know what the market wants until you go and talk to them' - Ardalan Benam, AI scientist and serial entrepreneur. Ardalan is someone who really understands what it means to be an entrepreneur and provides some honest, no BS advice for those who are looking to get into this world. As he puts it, there are so many easier ways to make money …
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Being a former personal finance blogger, but still a personal finance nerd, I loved having this type of discussion with Sandy Yong, Keynote Speaker and Award-Winning Author of The Money Master Book. Sandy Yong earned a business degree at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. After graduation, she started her career and began saving her hard-earned…
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Lee Chambers is one amazing individual. He is a Wellbeing Consultant, Workshop Facilitator and Sleep Specialist. Through relearning how to walk after illness, working in different industries, and building 2 businesses, and studying a number of advanced qualifications, he has now brought all this together to improve wellbeing advancement. He does th…
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Ep. 026 - Breaking Down The Barriers Around Financial Literacy
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From online banking to digital payment processing, the fintech industry has evolved and continues to evolve tremendously. In this episode, I have an open and honest conversation about finances with FinTech entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CEO of Ostrich, William Glass. His mission is improving financial well-being globally. As founder & CEO of his comp…
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