Being a "Foreigner" English Girl Born and Raised in Japan | ft. Jazmine Sachiko Ross

Episode #28 of the “Live in Tokyo” Podcast Jazmine Sachiko Ross appeared 4 years ago on this channel, discussing her upbringing in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, as a "foreign" girl raised in Japan by 2 English parents. 4 years later and 7 million views later, she is back to tell everyone what she has been up to all this time. Watch Jazmine's Homecoming video to Noto, Ishikawa: 👉   • Everyone Assumes I'm a Foreigner - I Grew ...   💰 Want to Support the Growth of the Live in Tokyo Podcast? https://gofund.me/67ccb3c5e 👉Follow Jazmine: YouTube: ‪@sachi.liminal‬ Instagram:   / sachi.liminal   👉Follow Live in Tokyo Podcast or Max D. Capo Instagram:   / liveintokyopodcast   Instagram:   / maxdcapo   Tiktok:   / maxdcapo   X: https://x.com/maxdcapo 🎧Live in Tokyo Podcast audio only: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XdRNqW... Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/486frwfz Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/bdh7wpjd 📙Like the Live in Tokyo Podcast? Please Support me on Patreon!   / maxd   Patrons get Exclusive Early Access to Interviews, Behind the Scenes discussion, and more! ✖️Thank you to the below Patrons and YouTube Members for helping me create videos✖️ Dana Tarantino, Jon Ruben, Kang Garnic, Anonymous x2 Joshua Titus, Kazuo Jin, David Morales, Alex Capo, Ken, Andy, YahikoLey89 , briangraf2653 Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:07 Who is Jasmine Sachiko Ross 1:57 Growing up in rural Noto, Ishikawa 4:17 What was really going on during our first video 4:58 Selling everything and quitting the corporate job 5:48 "I had the perfect life, but something was missing" 6:57 Growing up visible: TV crews in the house 9:13 Going viral and freezing up 10:15 A TED Talk, and "am I supposed to have a message?" 11:44 Van life with no plan 12:28 Goen (ご縁): trusting serendipity 13:35 First time in Thailand 14:16 Why Japan felt "confined" 16:10 Solitude, soul searching, and inner work 17:14 Feeling inauthentic online 19:34 Identity crisis #2 22:30 How she feels after four years 23:20 The parts of herself Japan never let her see 26:24 The UK, and being a "fake gaijin" 27:11 Laughing at labels takes their power away 28:35 Comfort zone, fear zone, growth zone 30:43 Cultural codes vs. cultural wisdom 31:29 Underneath culture, we're all the same 34:20 Is culture just a big cult? 35:02 The chance meeting in Bulgaria 36:34 The 2024 Noto earthquake 37:15 "Would they even want me back?" 39:47 Going home for the first time in a decade 41:45 "I'm culturally Japanese" 43:15 Slipping back in as a Noto local 45:09 Eating Noto fish and crying 47:16 Standing where her childhood home used to be 48:46 The neighborhood moms and old classmates 50:31 "So this is what community is" 52:20 Learning she can just be herself 54:47 Arinomama, goen, ma wo toru 56:21 What's next: sharing Japan's wisdom 56:44 "Ki" (気): energy as everyday language