August 2, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of I Am Refocused Radio, we sit down with Mayumi Pachkoski—an energy healer, holistic beauty expert, and business coach who turned her private Maryland salon into a six-figure success story. But this isn’t just about skincare—it’s about soul care.
Mayumi breaks down the power of inner healing, balancing the nervous system, and why clearing your energy field isn’t just spiritual—it’s strategic. From her immigrant journey with no safety net to becoming a nationally featured wellness voice, Mayumi shares how beauty, business, and belief intersect in powerful ways.
Tune in and learn how to align your inner world to create outer success—without the burnout.
🔗 Connect with Mayumi: https://askmayumi.com
📍Host: Shemaiah Reed – https://www.iamrefocusedradio.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.
Mayumi breaks down the power of inner healing, balancing the nervous system, and why clearing your energy field isn’t just spiritual—it’s strategic. From her immigrant journey with no safety net to becoming a nationally featured wellness voice, Mayumi shares how beauty, business, and belief intersect in powerful ways.
Tune in and learn how to align your inner world to create outer success—without the burnout.
🔗 Connect with Mayumi: https://askmayumi.com
📍Host: Shemaiah Reed – https://www.iamrefocusedradio.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You are listening to I Am Refocused Radio with your
host Shamaya Reid. This show is designed to inspire you
to live your purpose and regain your focus. And now
here's your host, Shamaiah Read.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome till you Focus Radio once again. We're here today
and we have another show on it for you all.
We have our guest today, Mayumi Pauskowski, and she is
a listed Scancare Expert in Business coach where energy Healers
who has spent over twenty years plus mastering the beauty
industry in the United States for building her own practice
and business in Maryland based along into a six Fear
(00:41):
of Business. She is also a great power story as
integrant with no family or support network, she used everything
her time and energy to scale her business and she
is now a mentor helping others do the same. We
have amazing people on the show, but checked this out.
(01:01):
She's been on some of the biggest media outlets that
you know of, AP News, Yahoo, Finance, ABC, just to
name the few. It's because her work has impact. We're
to learn all about that story. But first so and
welcome to the show. Our guest today, Mayumi.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
How you doing I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I appreciate beyond. So let's start from the beginning. What
brought you to the world skincare and also in Hilla?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Okay, So what brought me to sink here is.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I started out My first career was flight agent, and
I worked in different airline companies. And while I was
working with the US airline companies, I met my husband
and I married and moved to the United States, and
then I decided to follow in a different career. The
(02:02):
first one was I thought, Oh, I'm gonna I want
to do something beautification, empowering women, make them feel better
and empower so I went into the cosmetology. You're like,
you used to be a bubby, right, So I studied
as a hairdresser. But after five or six years, I
(02:27):
decided to I'm gonna start to understand more skin care better.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
At that time, I thought about.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The spa, having a spark creating as far as my goal,
and then went to the skin care school and that's
where I met that person.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Her name is Carol Voodoman.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She's called a legend in the United States aesthetic industry.
And I really really went into the skin care. Indeed,
in death, and she is.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
The one also introduced the energy healing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And in our school, it's already closed because Missus Woldeman
has retired.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Uh, but I used to call the school name is
Bondi and we.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In a massage technique. There was already energy healing component.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
What's there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
In there? And I wasn't. I knew, but I didn't
know that was for ski.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So when I started doing the official uh not having
a real real energy healing training, my clients start to say, Miami,
this is not the facial. You're doing modern facial. You're
healing people. I said, well, what do you mean? No,
you you are healing people. You need to name your
(03:55):
menu like a gat offacial, and then you need to
sell it because this is not a it's beyond that.
So I was like, okay, but I don't know what
I'm doing. And by the way, what is reiki. I
even didn't know what the reiki is. It's the energy
healing modality. Came from Japan. But I grew up in
Japan and I graduated you know, college there, but I
(04:18):
never even one time.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You know, hard the reiki. So I thought that I
was very skeptical. I believe.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I believe the energy healing. It's in our culture, in
the Eastern medicine already we have energy healing, so that
aspect energy healing, I was a believer, but reiki wasn't.
I thought that those people are scammers, and then I
was just so first workshop was I want to see,
(04:48):
you know, who are they, what kind of workshop they're
going to do, and then if I find out that's true.
So that went into that load to learn many different
energy modalities, and then I start to combine everything, and
then I had a unique, a different type.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of offacial studio, and.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Then that was in need for the many of my clients.
So I became a somewhat basic level of like a
kind of success.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Were you thinking about the growth process of scaling that
sometimes be fun but also scarier times When you look
at your personal experience being able to be a business
owner and grow your clientele and have that same quality
of impact, how did that look for you were on
the growth spots that you needed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I was lucky enough that I had the background of
my parents own the restaurant business, so I grew up
seeing how they conduct the business. In the beginning, you know,
we slept on the flower of the restaurant, but the
tatami flower, so it's not the flow or flower of
(06:07):
the western style housing, but in the tatami floor at night,
just moving a table and we slept at night inside
of the restaurant. That's how my you know, parents were committed,
and they looked so happy doing it. They they never
had to pity party or grudge against anything.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They were just being.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So grateful and having fun and so much aspiration to
get better. So by the time I was in high school,
they had a total of like a five restaurant and
then they became successful.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So by seeing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Them just gave me the hope of oh, when I
walk hard and then when I committed and people start coming.
So there one moment, Yes, I slept in my studio
some of the night in the winter because of the snow.
I lived farther away, and if I went back to
(07:09):
the house, probably next next morning, you know, snow may
not be cleared.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So next days, you know, I needed the money, so
he slept in the studios. I did the same thing.
But I always had that, you know, a faith, and
then when I kind of deflated.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Always my client, all my clients are very very supportive.
So that's how I sustained and I think I made
a growth even though I didn't have anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, to begin with.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
We got to jump into that once again to our
guess today Miami Helskowski and go to their website cs
A resource group in the show notes. But your website
Askmiami dot com. That's as m a Yumi dot com.
My last question is, yeah, I want to get into
that struggle because you come into the United States, it
(08:09):
was like you flip on a licenwitch and both it
goes your business and here in the game, right, what
were some of the challenges that helped you to have
this platform you have now? Because everyone has a journey,
so what was those challenges that you first had endure.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
My first taranty is nobody knew me. I never grew
up in here in Maryland. We moved here in nineteen
ninety nine from Hawaii. We used to fight are based
as a flag attendant was there, and then we decide
to move here. So I don't have any immediate families
(08:49):
or friends, so nobody knows me.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What I do. I'm just a foreigner in here. So
what I.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Did was I start to Bulanteer the local elevent where the.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Small business owners who.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Participate, and I you know, joined the committee. Basically I
had to know people, so I have to push my.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Shyness you know away.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I attended every network meeting that it was available around
the you know area, majority over them, one for me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But I start to know, you know, some of the people.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Then I found the one network meeting about it's more authentic.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It wasn't the business business because my business is you know,
facial and energy heating, so it's more personal.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So at the business you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Know networking meeting is people don't want to show that interest.
They are very focused on developing their own business and clientele. Right,
So always I felt like, ah, I'm not in a
good place because they don't want to talk about their
concern about the skin care or anything like that. They
rather want to connect with other business owners. But I
(10:14):
found that some network meeting that women gathers and their
life stagies has been shifting emptyinisters or something like that.
And then that network meeting was really you know, authentic
and for me. And then from there I start to
know people and then I just you know, started building
(10:36):
one person at the time and.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
One person at the time, and then that start to.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Kind of snowboarding and then here I am.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
When you think about just being the take of thing
is growing because at one boy, you're just trying to
get someone in the door, and the next point you're
trying to sustain that flow. And sometimes that foster turns
off and you're wondering what happened when you trust the
process and turns back on what mentally? Uh, how I
(11:11):
should say mentally, were you able to endure those those
crazy uh seasons in business? Because when it's fasts on
and everything's great as happy, it's all sudden that But
when that thing turns off and you have to trust
the process, how did you mentally sustain that?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yes, those moments.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
My case is that I'm a solo entrepreneur, so I
don't have any other employees, so I cannot really multiply
uh in the same hour in you know about the business.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
But uh, you you are correct. Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
If I don't work, there is a zero money comes in.
That was the first like a winter Wow, even I'm booked,
if there is a snowstorm and I cannot work for
three days, then my income is zero. So I really
have better applet for something else. So I start to
developing different plans. Maybe during those winter months, I have
(12:15):
you know, Christmas package for the products that people can
purchase beforehand and then sustain until spring. Or I can
do something, you know, start teaching webinars or you know
this type of energy heat. It doesn't have to be
in person. I do remote, meaning that I can work
(12:35):
from home. So those type of things you're gonna think
and then oh, you know there is if there.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Is a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Another time is a summertime people go on vacation, and
then they may go away a certain period of the time,
you know, winter bird, and then some of the people
may go to winter time.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Into certain locations.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sometimes some of the people have a different housing more nose,
then they may spend you know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Those time there. So each time when I find.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Out something as an obstick all I was okay, there
is an every single year, same sing will come by.
So next year, what how can I make the even
and not having this.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Up and down.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You think about the impact you already have Right now,
I send the intro the MEA outlets you have over
twenty two plus MEA outlets that has showkay share business
and your work when you understand your why and what
gets you going, no matter if it's rainy or shanni,
(13:41):
your why is important. I'm sure that's been echoed on
these media outlets shows, including this one right here. How
do you stay excited about your business? Because I love
the fact that you mentioned about your parents and how
much they love their business and it was willing to
make those necessary adjustments sleeping where you sleep, chat work,
(14:04):
We're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Uh. Probably that's from my upgring bringing time. Being Japanese.
Now many CEO talks.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
About the itchy guy or kaising or different Japanese wording
like oh, you know, I do kaiser meaning is forever improving.
So Japanese always make something better every single day, make faster, better,
more seamless. That's imprinted. You know how I was raised
(14:39):
in Japan, and also.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We love what we do. I love what I do.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's fundamental difference is that, yes, income is very very important,
but in Japan there is no word as oh this
is this job is professional. Every single job is in professional,
so everybody takes pride up, you know, on themselves, and
(15:08):
garbage collectors or government employees they attracted spotless.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Everybody take care of it. They have pride what they do.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Even you know, cleaning people, we appreciate how great they
clean everything in such a shorttlement of time. So like
an airport the world the best cleanest the airport is
Tokyo Haneda International Airport and the best I didn't know
that even there is a you know, this type of
(15:41):
competition or award that the best cleaner the worldwide. The
airport cleaner is Japanese who works for Hanida Airport. So
everybody takes the pride and everybody appreciate what they do.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So there is no oh, this job is low high.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So when we choose our job, we tend to pick
something we love. So every single day I wake up excited.
If I don't get excited, maybe I it's time to
change my career or move on something else. Sometimes my
(16:24):
clients ask me that, oh, Miriammi, am I the last
person that's salon today? And I said, yes, oh God,
you can go home, IGHTI?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And I'm like, oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But I never feel if I want to go ardi,
probably I will block my schedule.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And I go home Adi.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It never occur to me that way. Oh I cannot
wait until I go home. I'm seeing the clock, you know, ticking,
and I feel that, Oh, some of the people in
order to get that you know, monetary exchange, some of
the people are working in a very very.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Difficult, you know, area that they don't even know. So
it's paying for them spending.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Eight hours a day or even five hours a day.
That's that creates a lot of stress. But I never
feel that way. If I feel that way about my
career or job, I will quit. I will stop and
start doing something else I just don't want to do
because of the sake.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Of something.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Once again less some sorry Focus Radio talking to her guessterday.
Now you meet Paskowski, go to her website. It's real simple,
it's as noumi dot com. My next question for you
is what do you wish people will understand better when
it comes to the connection of skincare versus self worth, Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Skin care versus so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Firstly, when people feel that they look better, their energy
vibration really started radiating and then go really much lighter
as people start smiling, and then they are even you know,
searching that how they hold themselves and standing or you know,
(18:26):
sitting will change.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So it's very important to take care.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of yourself, especially. I think women have the difficulty. They
tend to be a caretaker and they take care of everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And they're the last. But it doesn't have to be
that way.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
My belief is that women in household miss books like
a sanshine. When you're happy, when your mother or a
wife is happy, you know, your family going to be happy.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Household all the you know, the atmosphere, you know, it
gets happier and lighter. And I have a.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know, quite few probably considering in the industry mail
clients too, and they have a business or they have
a career, but also they know the importance of you know,
taking care of themselves and then have a.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Time to really relax with the energy you know, or
work and flow.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They will even a short amount of time, my official
is probably between eighty ninety minutes, they get really deep
quality of the sleep, so they feel really rejuvenated after that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
A lot of business owners out there here listen to this,
I'm sure don't appreciate your story. Let's talk to someone
who see themselves as an immigrated They're trying to start
the business, they're trying to get things going that's their dream.
Knowing what you know now, it was always different, it
was processed different. But what would you share with them
(20:12):
to encourage them to stay with the process of building
their business and that's what they truly.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Want to do. My first advice is get out from
your community, meaning it is that all the immigrants has
a tendency I'm Japanese. Then they're going to trying to
find the somewhere Japanese community in the United States.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Right, that becomes a kind of a curse.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Sometimes many times you don't brush up the language and
you stay so comfortable. You may be living in a
foreign country, but you carry out the same culture language
in a different country, then you don't grow And to
me American people, when you are trying to do the
(21:00):
best you can, even the language, people know that that's
your second language. If somebody makes fun of your English,
probably those people don't know how to speak another language.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So you know confidence. You know when you have an accent.
I said, that means you can.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Speak another language. So products yourself and then get it
out there. And especially this skill typeable. You know, work
is your skill. The results gonna speak itself, so people
will refer you when you do that, you know, great
work and you just need to get out of the
(21:41):
comfort zone, get in touch with the local business are
the owners and start to no more local you know people.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
That's my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's well the point you made about speaking because people
who can't barely speak English. So there you go. Uh
I mean by that it's people actually from it and
they can't do that right. All jokes aside, when you
think about the position you have now to get back
and help mentor people and coach people listening now and
(22:18):
they want to hit you up and say, well, shoot,
I need some mentor I need some help and guidance
with some of the ways that or what is the
way that they can get connected with you so that
they can tackle these resources.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, so I have a I do a business.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm a business coach for the energy hitters. And there
are two resources. If you know you are the audience,
if there is a person who are you know, haven't.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Really developed the business as a business here as an
energy heater.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There is a free resource page asking by you mean
dot gom and free resource page is There is a
Heller's Conden Confidence Boost. You can download the BDF. That's
one free resource. And another thing is that as too
(23:14):
Miami dot Com, there is a book called thirty minutes
Transformational Session that I will listen what their struggle is,
and I can advise some type of action plan that
they can implement.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yes, so, and then yes if they like it. Of course,
you know, coaching would be great.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But I know that many people just a frozen doesn't
know where to start or how to take the axcept
because they are so bombarded with all the different informations
and just frozen. And somebody like me, I don't have
a time to sit around.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I was an immigrant, so I just couldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I have to pay your renting and everything. So start
to moving taking action. So I will you know, you
can take maybe this action, this action, then this action.
Oh okay, and then start out there. That's thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That's free.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
When you think about your story, I can't help to
think and begin a conversation with your parents. I love
that part. I think that's awesome. Well you've been able
to not just learn from them and from your culture,
but apply it and take pride in what you do.
Like you said, I think people can see that sometimes
(24:37):
that speaks a lot louder down words. So when you
look back and see where you started and where you
are today, you're a success story. So how would you
see your legacy if you this all said? How would
you want your legacy to be as a business owner
(24:58):
and as an immigrant who who made it?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Oh? Okay, the legacy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I want people to remember that, Oh I felt so
easy and empowered and then get the energy, got the energy.
I felt like I can do it when I spoke with.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
You, know, Mayumi.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's how I'm going to be remembered. Yes, my father
used to tell me that, oh, so many houses, so
many things. When you die, you cannot.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Take it with you. So how it's not how much
of what you have, but how you lived is very
very important. So I'm happy. I want other people to
be happy. You don't have to be struggle. You know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yes, it's not easy conducting your business, but you can
be cheerful and there are some people can advise you
and give you, you know, little not then you're.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Going to have lots of fun with it.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
H Well, I can feel into it myself. So I'm
sure people don't be successful when they connect and do business.
Ref So once again, let's not be focused radio. Watching
this a lot of time to try to guess today,
Miaimi Askoski, like always for you and like we always
say on the shelf, thank you for your time.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Thank you
You are listening to I Am Refocused Radio with your
host Shamaya Reid. This show is designed to inspire you
to live your purpose and regain your focus. And now
here's your host, Shamaiah Read.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome till you Focus Radio once again. We're here today
and we have another show on it for you all.
We have our guest today, Mayumi Pauskowski, and she is
a listed Scancare Expert in Business coach where energy Healers
who has spent over twenty years plus mastering the beauty
industry in the United States for building her own practice
and business in Maryland based along into a six Fear
(00:41):
of Business. She is also a great power story as
integrant with no family or support network, she used everything
her time and energy to scale her business and she
is now a mentor helping others do the same. We
have amazing people on the show, but checked this out.
(01:01):
She's been on some of the biggest media outlets that
you know of, AP News, Yahoo, Finance, ABC, just to
name the few. It's because her work has impact. We're
to learn all about that story. But first so and
welcome to the show. Our guest today, Mayumi.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
How you doing I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I appreciate beyond. So let's start from the beginning. What
brought you to the world skincare and also in Hilla?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Okay, So what brought me to sink here is.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I started out My first career was flight agent, and
I worked in different airline companies. And while I was
working with the US airline companies, I met my husband
and I married and moved to the United States, and
then I decided to follow in a different career. The
(02:02):
first one was I thought, Oh, I'm gonna I want
to do something beautification, empowering women, make them feel better
and empower so I went into the cosmetology. You're like,
you used to be a bubby, right, So I studied
as a hairdresser. But after five or six years, I
(02:27):
decided to I'm gonna start to understand more skin care better.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
At that time, I thought about.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The spa, having a spark creating as far as my goal,
and then went to the skin care school and that's
where I met that person.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Her name is Carol Voodoman.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
She's called a legend in the United States aesthetic industry.
And I really really went into the skin care. Indeed,
in death, and she is.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
The one also introduced the energy healing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And in our school, it's already closed because Missus Woldeman
has retired.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Uh, but I used to call the school name is
Bondi and we.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In a massage technique. There was already energy healing component.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
What's there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
In there? And I wasn't. I knew, but I didn't
know that was for ski.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So when I started doing the official uh not having
a real real energy healing training, my clients start to say, Miami,
this is not the facial. You're doing modern facial. You're
healing people. I said, well, what do you mean? No,
you you are healing people. You need to name your
(03:55):
menu like a gat offacial, and then you need to
sell it because this is not a it's beyond that.
So I was like, okay, but I don't know what
I'm doing. And by the way, what is reiki. I
even didn't know what the reiki is. It's the energy
healing modality. Came from Japan. But I grew up in
Japan and I graduated you know, college there, but I
(04:18):
never even one time.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You know, hard the reiki. So I thought that I
was very skeptical. I believe.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I believe the energy healing. It's in our culture, in
the Eastern medicine already we have energy healing, so that
aspect energy healing, I was a believer, but reiki wasn't.
I thought that those people are scammers, and then I
was just so first workshop was I want to see,
(04:48):
you know, who are they, what kind of workshop they're
going to do, and then if I find out that's true.
So that went into that load to learn many different
energy modalities, and then I start to combine everything, and
then I had a unique, a different type.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of offacial studio, and.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Then that was in need for the many of my clients.
So I became a somewhat basic level of like a
kind of success.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Were you thinking about the growth process of scaling that
sometimes be fun but also scarier times When you look
at your personal experience being able to be a business
owner and grow your clientele and have that same quality
of impact, how did that look for you were on
the growth spots that you needed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I was lucky enough that I had the background of
my parents own the restaurant business, so I grew up
seeing how they conduct the business. In the beginning, you know,
we slept on the flower of the restaurant, but the
tatami flower, so it's not the flow or flower of
(06:07):
the western style housing, but in the tatami floor at night,
just moving a table and we slept at night inside
of the restaurant. That's how my you know, parents were committed,
and they looked so happy doing it. They they never
had to pity party or grudge against anything.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They were just being.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So grateful and having fun and so much aspiration to
get better. So by the time I was in high school,
they had a total of like a five restaurant and
then they became successful.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So by seeing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Them just gave me the hope of oh, when I
walk hard and then when I committed and people start coming.
So there one moment, Yes, I slept in my studio
some of the night in the winter because of the snow.
I lived farther away, and if I went back to
(07:09):
the house, probably next next morning, you know, snow may
not be cleared.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So next days, you know, I needed the money, so
he slept in the studios. I did the same thing.
But I always had that, you know, a faith, and
then when I kind of deflated.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Always my client, all my clients are very very supportive.
So that's how I sustained and I think I made
a growth even though I didn't have anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, to begin with.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
We got to jump into that once again to our
guess today Miami Helskowski and go to their website cs
A resource group in the show notes. But your website
Askmiami dot com. That's as m a Yumi dot com.
My last question is, yeah, I want to get into
that struggle because you come into the United States, it
(08:09):
was like you flip on a licenwitch and both it
goes your business and here in the game, right, what
were some of the challenges that helped you to have
this platform you have now? Because everyone has a journey,
so what was those challenges that you first had endure.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
My first taranty is nobody knew me. I never grew
up in here in Maryland. We moved here in nineteen
ninety nine from Hawaii. We used to fight are based
as a flag attendant was there, and then we decide
to move here. So I don't have any immediate families
(08:49):
or friends, so nobody knows me.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What I do. I'm just a foreigner in here. So
what I.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Did was I start to Bulanteer the local elevent where the.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Small business owners who.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Participate, and I you know, joined the committee. Basically I
had to know people, so I have to push my.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Shyness you know away.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I attended every network meeting that it was available around
the you know area, majority over them, one for me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But I start to know, you know, some of the people.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Then I found the one network meeting about it's more authentic.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It wasn't the business business because my business is you know,
facial and energy heating, so it's more personal.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So at the business you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Know networking meeting is people don't want to show that interest.
They are very focused on developing their own business and clientele. Right,
So always I felt like, ah, I'm not in a
good place because they don't want to talk about their
concern about the skin care or anything like that. They
rather want to connect with other business owners. But I
(10:14):
found that some network meeting that women gathers and their
life stagies has been shifting emptyinisters or something like that.
And then that network meeting was really you know, authentic
and for me. And then from there I start to
know people and then I just you know, started building
(10:36):
one person at the time and.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
One person at the time, and then that start to.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Kind of snowboarding and then here I am.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
When you think about just being the take of thing
is growing because at one boy, you're just trying to
get someone in the door, and the next point you're
trying to sustain that flow. And sometimes that foster turns
off and you're wondering what happened when you trust the
process and turns back on what mentally? Uh, how I
(11:11):
should say mentally, were you able to endure those those
crazy uh seasons in business? Because when it's fasts on
and everything's great as happy, it's all sudden that But
when that thing turns off and you have to trust
the process, how did you mentally sustain that?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yes, those moments.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
My case is that I'm a solo entrepreneur, so I
don't have any other employees, so I cannot really multiply
uh in the same hour in you know about the business.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
But uh, you you are correct. Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
If I don't work, there is a zero money comes in.
That was the first like a winter Wow, even I'm booked,
if there is a snowstorm and I cannot work for
three days, then my income is zero. So I really
have better applet for something else. So I start to
developing different plans. Maybe during those winter months, I have
(12:15):
you know, Christmas package for the products that people can
purchase beforehand and then sustain until spring. Or I can
do something, you know, start teaching webinars or you know
this type of energy heat. It doesn't have to be
in person. I do remote, meaning that I can work
(12:35):
from home. So those type of things you're gonna think
and then oh, you know there is if there.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Is a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Another time is a summertime people go on vacation, and
then they may go away a certain period of the time,
you know, winter bird, and then some of the people
may go to winter time.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Into certain locations.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sometimes some of the people have a different housing more nose,
then they may spend you know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Those time there. So each time when I find.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Out something as an obstick all I was okay, there
is an every single year, same sing will come by.
So next year, what how can I make the even
and not having this.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Up and down.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You think about the impact you already have Right now,
I send the intro the MEA outlets you have over
twenty two plus MEA outlets that has showkay share business
and your work when you understand your why and what
gets you going, no matter if it's rainy or shanni,
(13:41):
your why is important. I'm sure that's been echoed on
these media outlets shows, including this one right here. How
do you stay excited about your business? Because I love
the fact that you mentioned about your parents and how
much they love their business and it was willing to
make those necessary adjustments sleeping where you sleep, chat work,
(14:04):
We're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Uh. Probably that's from my upgring bringing time. Being Japanese.
Now many CEO talks.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
About the itchy guy or kaising or different Japanese wording
like oh, you know, I do kaiser meaning is forever improving.
So Japanese always make something better every single day, make faster, better,
more seamless. That's imprinted. You know how I was raised
(14:39):
in Japan, and also.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We love what we do. I love what I do.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's fundamental difference is that, yes, income is very very important,
but in Japan there is no word as oh this
is this job is professional. Every single job is in professional,
so everybody takes pride up, you know, on themselves, and
(15:08):
garbage collectors or government employees they attracted spotless.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Everybody take care of it. They have pride what they do.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Even you know, cleaning people, we appreciate how great they
clean everything in such a shorttlement of time. So like
an airport the world the best cleanest the airport is
Tokyo Haneda International Airport and the best I didn't know
that even there is a you know, this type of
(15:41):
competition or award that the best cleaner the worldwide. The
airport cleaner is Japanese who works for Hanida Airport. So
everybody takes the pride and everybody appreciate what they do.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So there is no oh, this job is low high.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So when we choose our job, we tend to pick
something we love. So every single day I wake up excited.
If I don't get excited, maybe I it's time to
change my career or move on something else. Sometimes my
(16:24):
clients ask me that, oh, Miriammi, am I the last
person that's salon today? And I said, yes, oh God,
you can go home, IGHTI?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And I'm like, oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But I never feel if I want to go ardi,
probably I will block my schedule.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And I go home Adi.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It never occur to me that way. Oh I cannot
wait until I go home. I'm seeing the clock, you know, ticking,
and I feel that, Oh, some of the people in
order to get that you know, monetary exchange, some of
the people are working in a very very.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Difficult, you know, area that they don't even know. So
it's paying for them spending.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Eight hours a day or even five hours a day.
That's that creates a lot of stress. But I never
feel that way. If I feel that way about my
career or job, I will quit. I will stop and
start doing something else I just don't want to do
because of the sake.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Of something.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Once again less some sorry Focus Radio talking to her guessterday.
Now you meet Paskowski, go to her website. It's real simple,
it's as noumi dot com. My next question for you
is what do you wish people will understand better when
it comes to the connection of skincare versus self worth, Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Skin care versus so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Firstly, when people feel that they look better, their energy
vibration really started radiating and then go really much lighter
as people start smiling, and then they are even you know,
searching that how they hold themselves and standing or you know,
(18:26):
sitting will change.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So it's very important to take care.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of yourself, especially. I think women have the difficulty. They
tend to be a caretaker and they take care of everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And they're the last. But it doesn't have to be
that way.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
My belief is that women in household miss books like
a sanshine. When you're happy, when your mother or a
wife is happy, you know, your family going to be happy.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Household all the you know, the atmosphere, you know, it
gets happier and lighter. And I have a.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know, quite few probably considering in the industry mail
clients too, and they have a business or they have
a career, but also they know the importance of you know,
taking care of themselves and then have a.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Time to really relax with the energy you know, or
work and flow.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
They will even a short amount of time, my official
is probably between eighty ninety minutes, they get really deep
quality of the sleep, so they feel really rejuvenated after that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
A lot of business owners out there here listen to this,
I'm sure don't appreciate your story. Let's talk to someone
who see themselves as an immigrated They're trying to start
the business, they're trying to get things going that's their dream.
Knowing what you know now, it was always different, it
was processed different. But what would you share with them
(20:12):
to encourage them to stay with the process of building
their business and that's what they truly.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Want to do. My first advice is get out from
your community, meaning it is that all the immigrants has
a tendency I'm Japanese. Then they're going to trying to
find the somewhere Japanese community in the United States.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Right, that becomes a kind of a curse.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Sometimes many times you don't brush up the language and
you stay so comfortable. You may be living in a
foreign country, but you carry out the same culture language
in a different country, then you don't grow And to
me American people, when you are trying to do the
(21:00):
best you can, even the language, people know that that's
your second language. If somebody makes fun of your English,
probably those people don't know how to speak another language.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So you know confidence. You know when you have an accent.
I said, that means you can.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Speak another language. So products yourself and then get it
out there. And especially this skill typeable. You know, work
is your skill. The results gonna speak itself, so people
will refer you when you do that, you know, great
work and you just need to get out of the
(21:41):
comfort zone, get in touch with the local business are
the owners and start to no more local you know people.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
That's my suggestion.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's well the point you made about speaking because people
who can't barely speak English. So there you go. Uh
I mean by that it's people actually from it and
they can't do that right. All jokes aside, when you
think about the position you have now to get back
and help mentor people and coach people listening now and
(22:18):
they want to hit you up and say, well, shoot,
I need some mentor I need some help and guidance
with some of the ways that or what is the
way that they can get connected with you so that
they can tackle these resources.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yes, so I have a I do a business.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm a business coach for the energy hitters. And there
are two resources. If you know you are the audience,
if there is a person who are you know, haven't.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Really developed the business as a business here as an
energy heater.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
There is a free resource page asking by you mean
dot gom and free resource page is There is a
Heller's Conden Confidence Boost. You can download the BDF. That's
one free resource. And another thing is that as too
(23:14):
Miami dot Com, there is a book called thirty minutes
Transformational Session that I will listen what their struggle is,
and I can advise some type of action plan that
they can implement.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yes, so, and then yes if they like it. Of course,
you know, coaching would be great.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But I know that many people just a frozen doesn't
know where to start or how to take the axcept
because they are so bombarded with all the different informations
and just frozen. And somebody like me, I don't have
a time to sit around.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I was an immigrant, so I just couldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I have to pay your renting and everything. So start
to moving taking action. So I will you know, you
can take maybe this action, this action, then this action.
Oh okay, and then start out there. That's thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
That's free.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
When you think about your story, I can't help to
think and begin a conversation with your parents. I love
that part. I think that's awesome. Well you've been able
to not just learn from them and from your culture,
but apply it and take pride in what you do.
Like you said, I think people can see that sometimes
(24:37):
that speaks a lot louder down words. So when you
look back and see where you started and where you
are today, you're a success story. So how would you
see your legacy if you this all said? How would
you want your legacy to be as a business owner
(24:58):
and as an immigrant who who made it?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Oh? Okay, the legacy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I want people to remember that, Oh I felt so
easy and empowered and then get the energy, got the energy.
I felt like I can do it when I spoke with.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
You, know, Mayumi.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's how I'm going to be remembered. Yes, my father
used to tell me that, oh, so many houses, so
many things. When you die, you cannot.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Take it with you. So how it's not how much
of what you have, but how you lived is very
very important. So I'm happy. I want other people to
be happy. You don't have to be struggle. You know.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yes, it's not easy conducting your business, but you can
be cheerful and there are some people can advise you
and give you, you know, little not then you're.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Going to have lots of fun with it.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
H Well, I can feel into it myself. So I'm
sure people don't be successful when they connect and do business.
Ref So once again, let's not be focused radio. Watching
this a lot of time to try to guess today,
Miaimi Askoski, like always for you and like we always
say on the shelf, thank you for your time.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Thank you
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