Todays plan was to meet with the Japanese women that worked for me in San Antonio and would travel with me to Japan. In the early days of traveling to Japan ( 1989- 1992) I hired a translator when I came to Japan. It was the most cost effective, but soon learned that you are only as good as your translator.

In 1992, I hired the first Rann Med lady, Masako. then Rumi for 7 yrs, Madoka for 4 yrs and Kyomi for one year.

Another was Saako, she did not work for me directly, but for our importer. She came to Rann Med for one month for training and when I came to Japan, we worked together going to hospitals.

Today we were having abit of a reunion with their families. These women, came back to Japan and have all had children and are some of the rare, career women with children. Typically, women in Japan quit work when they get married for for sure when they get pregnant.

We met for a tempura lunch with their children and two with husbands.

For many years, I felt like a failure in Japan, and tried to seek if there was a purpose in all my hard work and investment. Maybe this is my purpose, to have influence in the future women leaders in Japan.

I did a short video interview with each of them and asked…..what did you learn while working at Rann Med and Ann Hardee that helped you be a careet woman in Japan. Each of their answers were surprising…I thought they would say that I taught them to speak up and give their opinion, but they all had different answers. For me it was so touching.