Best Steven Horowitz Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 020 Talking with Screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue 34:47

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USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston (Hokkaido 2003-06) talks with Hollywood screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue (Nagasaki 2002-04) about her recent #1 Netflix movie, A Tourist's Guide to Love, and how JET did and continues to inform her work.

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Ep 019 JETAA-sphere: USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston chats with Table for Two 28:52

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In this episode, USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston chats with Mayumi Uejima-Carr and Miwako Felix of Table for Two, a non-profit that started in Japan and has expanded globally with the goal of educating people about healthy eating and Japanese food culture. Learn how you or your chapter can easily host a Table for Two event that makes a positive impact…

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Ep 018 JETAA-sphere: MIIS/JET alumni - Scott Pulizzi and Rebecca Guttentag 41:12

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Did you know that as of September, 2022, there are 107 JET alumni who are also alumni of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)?* And with good reason! Listen to this interview with JET/MIIS alumni Scott Pulizzi and Rebecca Guttentag to learn more about the JET/MIIS connection. Links: Professor Scott Pulizzi https://ww…

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Ep 017 JETAA-sphere Mothra Storytelling Hour - SUCCESS 32:25

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Our second installment in the submission-based Mothra Storytelling Hour, where JET alumni submit their stories related to the chosen theme. This episode we share the theme of SUCCESS. We'll hear some classroom stories, travel experiences, life accomplishments, and post - JET successes. Listen to our 7 submissions from fellow alumni! Hosted by Saman…

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Ep 016 JETAA-sphere: Interview with Nathalie Ng and Eden Law of JETAA International 56:13

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In Episode 16, the JETAA-sphere interviews recently re-elected JETAA International President Nathalie Ng (Shizuoka-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA Singapore as well as JETAA International Webmaster Eden Law (Fukushima-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA New South Wales to learn all about what JETAA International is, what it does, and how it exists. We also get to learn …

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Ep 015 JETAA-sphere: JET Professional Identity & Interview with author Takaaki Hiratsuka 50:37

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In Episode 15 of the JETAA-sphere podcast, we interview Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka, author of Narrative inquiry into language teacher identity: ALTs in the JET program. Click this link http://bit.ly/VBL-Register to register for the May 28 book launch event! Ep 15 Co-hosts: Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94) Mark Frey (Kumamoto-ken, 2002-…

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Ep 014 JETAA-sphere: The Perfect Show - "Ten Yen Arcade" - by Scot Maupin 51:23

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The JETAA-sphere is very fortunate and honored to be able to share an episode of Scot Maupin's (Hokkaido, 2005-09) podcast "The Perfect Show" in its entirety on the JETAA-sphere. This episode is entitled "Ten Yen Arcade." And if you enjoyed this episode, you should definitely check out The Perfect Show's other episodes, especially "Multilanguage So…

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Ep 013 JETAA-sphere: Stacy Smith - Interpreter Extraordinaire 42:57

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Thank you to DSA International, our sponsor for this episode!If you’re interested in working with DSA International, either as a future applicant or a company looking to hire someone, please send them an email at: [email protected] with “Attention: JET-PODCAST-TANAKA2022” in the subject line.Episode 13 is JETAA-sphere's interview with Stacy Smith (C…

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Ep 012 JETAA-sphere: JET alums in Children's Publishing - Alexei Esikoff (Managing Editor) & Roseanne A. Brown (Writer) 59:14

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Ep 012 JETAA-sphere: JET Alumni in Children’s Literature - Alexei Esikoff (Editor) & Roseanne A. Brown (Writer) Publishing: Alexei Esikoff Fukushima-ken, Fukushima-shi, 2001-02 McMillan Publishing, Henry Holt imprint Writing: Roseanne A. Brown, Ishikawa-ken, Nomi-shi, 2017-19 https://roseanneabrown.com/ Twitter: @rosiesrambles Instagram: @rosiesram…

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Ep 011 JETAA-sphere: Mothra Storytelling Hour- MISTAKE 52:40

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Our first installment in the submission-based Mothra Storytelling Hour, where JET alumni submit their stories related to the chosen theme. This episode we begin with the theme MISTAKE. We cover silly cultural slip ups, mistakes at work or in the classroom, and some regrets. Listen to our 15 submissions from fellow alumni! Hosted by Samantha Lastres…

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Ep 010 JETAA-sphere: JET Coordinators - Grant Minagawa (LA) & Tye Ebel (Nashville) 49:51

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An interview with JET Coordinators Grant Minagawa (Okinawa-ken, 2010-14) who works for the Japanese Consulate in Los Angeles and Tye Ebel (Kagawa-ken, 2007-10) of the Japanese Consulate in Nashville, TN.

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Ep 009 JETAA-sphere: JETAASC Leadership Podcast by Joe Moore - Ep 01 Jon Harwell & Cristela Reyes 15:12

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The JETAA-sphere podcast is excited to share the first episode of the JETAA Southern California Leadership podcast hosted by Joe Moore (who also co-hosts episodes of the JETAA-sphere.) This first episode, which interviews former JETAASC presidents Jon Harwell and Cristela Reyes, is the first of three special episodes focusing on current and past le…

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Ep 008 JETAA-sphere: Lee-Sean Huang - Designer/Educator/JETAANY Board Member 44:06

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Designer, educator and longtime JETAANY contributing member Lee-Sean Huang (Oita-ken, 2003-06) joins co-hosts Zach Piper (Kochi-ken, 2001-04) and Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) to talk about his path to JET and since JET as well as his longtime role as JETAANY Webmaster and how he helped get JETwit started. Plus hear Leesean singing enka!…

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Ep 007 JETAA-sphere: Board of Advisors & 3.11 53:39

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Three members of the JETAA USA Board of Advisors--Monica Yuki (Saitama-ken, 2002-04), Jessyca Livingston, formerly Wilcox (Hokkaido, 2003-06) and James Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94) join Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and special co-host Matt Gillam of CLAIR NY (aka the Japan Local Government Center) to talk about the JETAA USA Board of Advisor…

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Ep 006 JETAA-sphere: Ryan Hata (AJET, JETAANY, JETAA-I, JETwit) 32:52

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Ryan Hata (Tottori-ken, 2014-17) joins Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) to talk about the many hats he wears in the JETAA-sphere--from AJET to JETwit to JETAANY to JETAA International--and his passion for helping JETs find work opportunities and connect with each other and helping the JET alum community continue to grow stronger.…

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Ep 005 JETAA-sphere: Adam Lisbon, JETAA Rocky Mountain 45:34

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Former JETAA Rocky Mountain chapter president Adam Lisbon (Kobe-shi, 2004-07) joins Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and Zach Piper (Kochi-ken, 2001-04) to talk about JETAA Rocky Mountain, his work as Japanese & Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado's Japanese-American history, and JET days of yore.…

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Ep 004 JETAA-sphere: Part 2 of 2 Matt Gillam & Bahia Simons-Lane 33:19

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Part 2: Matthew Gillam of CLAIR NY (aka the Japan Local Government Center) and Bahia Simons-Lane Gunma-ken, 2005-07), Director of USJETAA join Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and Joe Moore (Saga-ken, 2010-13) about what CLAIR and USJETAA are, what they do, how they support JETAA USA, and how they each ended up in their current roles.…

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Ep 003 JETAA-sphere Part 1 of 2 Matt Gillam & Bahia Simons-Lane 36:08

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Matthew Gillam of CLAIR NY (aka the Japan Local Government Center) and Bahia Simons-Lane Gunma-ken, 2005-07), Director of USJETAA join Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and Joe Moore (Saga-ken, 2010-13) about what CLAIR and USJETAA are, what they do, how they support JETAA USA, and how they each ended up in their current roles.…

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Ep 002 JETAA-sphere: Mari Rueter (JETAA Alaska President) 27:46

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JETAA Alaska President Mari Rueter (Tokushima-ken, 2009-14) visits the Lower 48 to educate co-hosts Zach Piper (Kochi-ken, 2001-04), Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94), and Joe Moore (Saga-ken, 2010-13) about the JET alum community and how they survive and thrive in the wilds of Alaska.By Steven Horowitz

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Ep 001 JETAA-sphere: What is JETAA? 43:05

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Zach Piper (Kochi-ken, 2001-04), Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94), and Joe Moore (Saga-ken, 2010-13) have a frank conversation about what the heck JETAA is, why it exists, what its components are and how they work.By Steven Horowitz

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Rachael Horowitz, Comms Executive from Coinbase, Twitter, FB, and Google 45:00

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Rachael has played a pivotal comms role at the biggest consumer internet companies of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Coinbase, where she was recently VP of Comms. And she's just taken her next leap, joining the crypto team as a partner at A16Z! We talk with Rachael about the often misunderstood role of comms at a start-up…

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Brianne Kimmel, Founder of Worklife VC 34:15

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Brianne Kimmel launched her first fund for Worklife in the fall of 2019 and has quickly broken out as a new emerging fund manager. She funds companies building the future, in her own words: “Where work is more creative and anyone can start something. Where life is more flexible and not tied to an office. Where everyone is a triple threat.” She’s ba…

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Steven Galanis, CEO and Co-Founder of Cameo 49:53

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Steven Galanis, CEO of Cameo, has built one of the most fascinating companies in the creator economy and Jana and Katie sit down with him to hear how he did it. They explore his early entrepreneurial roots of running a party business in college, how he overcame the cold start problem of getting a marketplace flywheel going, and how he founded the c…

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Merci Grace, Advisor, Investor & Product Builder 42:49

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Today’s episode is full of real talk with Merci Victoria Grace. Merci is an investor, advisor and product builder. She was previously a venture capitalist at Lightspeed, Director of Product at Slack, and started her career as a founder of a social gaming company after pursuing a degree in fiction writing from USC. Jana, April and Merci talk about t…

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Varsha Rao, CEO of Nurx 35:21

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Varsha Rao is the CEO of Nurx, a leading telehealth platform focused on women. Through Nurx, you can get prescriptions, like contraception, acne treatment, migraine treatment, and at-home testing delivered to your door. Jana invested in Nurx’s seed round in 2016 and introduced Varsha to the company as an angel investor and, years later, Varsha was …

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Jessica Ewing, CEO and Founder of Literati 39:27

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Jessica Ewing has an infectious energy and unstoppable determination to create a business at the intersection of literature and consumer software. She and Katie overlapped in their early careers at Google and when we heard she was starting a company, Literati, Katie and Jess jumped at the chance to be early investors. Katie sits down with Jessica i…

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TLC Collective (Terri Burns, Lauren Stephanian, and Casey Caruso) 43:42

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We started #ANGELS (“Hashtag Angels”) six years ago as an investment collective to collaborate, pool our expertise and networks, and learn and grow as investors together. Over the years, we’ve often been asked the collective model and how it works. On today’s episode, Jess dives into this topic with the TLC investment collective, to learn from co-f…

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Claire Hughes Johnson, COO of Stripe 50:14

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For our latest episode, we welcome Claire Hughes Johnson, the COO of Stripe. Claire has been an executive at Stripe for more than 6 years, joining when the company was ~160 people. She’s overseen an incredible growth cycle for the company, which has most recently been valued at nearly $100Bn+ April and Jana talk with Claire about her path into tech…

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Tammy Sun, Co-Founder and CEO of Carrot 47:07

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For our latest episode, we welcome Tammy Sun, the co-founder of Carrot, a tech centric fertility benefits company that we've backed at #ANGELS. Carrot is making it cheaper, simpler and easier for employees to get access to fertility services through their platform. Tammy started her career in politics and made the leap to tech when she joined Evern…

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Adrian Aoun, Co-Founder and CEO of Forward 52:59

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For our latest episode, we welcome Adrian Aoun. Adrian is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company as a teenager, sold his second - Wavii - to Google, and is now building the tech-centric healthcare company, Forward. Jessica and Jana talk with Adrian about lessons from selling his company, how he ended up on the founding team of Sidewalk…

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Avichal Garg, Co-Founder of Electric Capital, a Crypto Hedge Fund 59:04

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Avichal Garg is a serial entrepreneur who started his career working on search quality at Google, had a tour of duty at Facebook (after his company, Spool, was acquired), worked with start-ups at YC and jumped full time into crypto in early 2018. Jessica and Jana talk with Avichal about the promise of crypto—imagine a future in which Taylor Swift a…

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Amy Chang, Founder and CEO of Accompany and Board Director at P&G 50:30

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For our latest episode, we welcome Amy Chang. Amy is a legend in the tech world. She has served on the Boards of some of the largest companies on the planet, like P&G and Cisco, after starting her career at McKinsey, eBay, and Google. She’s also been on the ground floor and in the trenches of a startup, having founded Accompany, which went on to be…

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Maia Bittner, Fintech Engineer and Co-Founder of Rocksbox and Pinch 33:20

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For our latest episode, we welcome Maia Bittner. Maia’s journey as an entrepreneur started as a kid when she was selling used cameras on the internet and learned HTML to customize her eBay page. She fell in love with computers and technology as a way to solve problems, but resists the notion of building software for software’s sake. As she shares, …

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Sima Sistani, CEO and Co-Founder of Houseparty 44:46

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For our latest episode, Sima Sistani joins us for a conversation that brings to light the personal side and vulnerable truths of trying to run a company, be a present parent, and deal with life changes and societal expectations of how to do it all. We share different perspectives on how to try and raise kids with a strong internal sense of self and…

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Claire Cormier Thielke, Managing Director - Hines Asia Pacific, Board Director at Zillow 41:08

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For our third episode, Claire Thielke joins us from Hong Kong, where she is based, having just completed 21 days of quarantine after a visit to the US. Claire shares how her path into a global career in real estate development started with an interest as a kid in throwing on her roller blades or running shoes and checking out all the houses in her …

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Heather Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv Health 55:14

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On our 2nd episode, Jessica and April catch up with Heather Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv Health and Board Director at Atlassian. Heather started her career working on the McCain presidential campaign before finding her first job in Silicon Valley at a PR firm. In her own words, “it’s ok to be non-linear! I think there's this meme in tech t…

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#ANGELS Introduction 47:42

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Welcome to the #ANGELS Podcast, where we bring you conversations about the latest tech trends with the people inventing and shaping them. Hosted by Jessica Verrilli, April Underwood, Jana Messerschmidt, Chloe Sladden, Katie Stanton, and Vijaya Gadde, the co-founders of the #ANGELS investment collective. For our first episode, we share our own journ…