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Our Friend Jin – from Housemaid to Harvard

Posted on 25. Aug, 2008 by admin.

We met Yuri through our friend Jin Robertson – another incredible woman.  Jin was a Korean factory girl who immigrated to America as a housemaid at age 22 with little English and $100 to her name. Through determination, imagination, and sheer will, she became a U.S. Army Major and later graduated from Harvard with a [...]

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Amazing Dinner with Japan’s first female entrepreneur

Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by admin.

Tonight, we had dinner this evening with an truly incredible and inspirational person – Yuri Konno – Japan’s first female entrepreneur and President and CEO of Dial Services. Yuri set up her first business in 1969 – unheard of for a woman in Japan during that time.
Yuri took us to her club – where [...]

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