Fumi's Color Cycle

🔴Infantile Period

Born and raised in Shizuoka Japan

🟠🟡Toddler/School Age
・Had a quiet personality
・Hated being asked questions about my dreams and what I wanted to be when I grew up
・For some reason, I knew I wanted to visit Australia from a young age.

🟢 Adolescence/youth

・What am I good at? What do I want to do?
・Found what I wanted to do when I was a high school sophomore!
Homestay in the U.S. for 2 weeks!
・Interaction with foreigners/Interest in English and went to school in Yokohama

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2011
・Immigrated to the U.S.
・Got married
2014
・Obtained my Oregon nail license
・Worked at a beauty salon in the U.S.
2015
・Became the only Japanese nail artist in Portland
・Opened and managed my nail own salon
・While doing nails, began to notice the connection between color and the mind

Working Holiday to Australia for 1 year
・Traveled around all of Australia with friends
・Discovered nail art
Envisioned having a job that could be done anywhere, as long as I had the tools and skills
Took a short-term nail course at a beauty school in Australia

🔵 Adulthood
・After graduation, I worked in the customer service industry in Yokohama
・When I traveled to Australia, I met a lot of Japanese people on their working holiday, and I was inspired by them
・I wanted to do it! I changed jobs to start saving money

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Dark times such as self-doubt, agitation, anxiety, mid-life crisis, panic attacks, depression symptoms etc
Into a deep, deep journey of self-discovery

・Learned that it is very easy for people to lose their mental balance, and experienced firsthand the importance of wellbeing (not only physical and mental health, but also social and economic wellbeing and satisfaction)
・Looked deeply at the importance of interaction with people and connections with society, what I want to value in my future life, the activities I want to do, and the purpose of my life, and struggled and suffered and tried to crawl up little by little from there.
・Color session is one of the tool to face ourself and support our mental health, and that I want to connect with people all over the world by using this tool, and if I can be of help to them, I'd like to be that kind of person. Finally, it linked with who I want to be in the future

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Traveled in Thailand and Korea before returning to Japan
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Backpacked around 11 countries in Southeast Asia for about 5 months

🔵2022, my 12th year in the U.S.
Unable to control the urge to move on to a new stage in my life, I graduated from being a nail artist, which had occupied most of my time in the U.S.

My life theme is experience, confidence, and self-discovery

Maybe it is because I am not confident in myself that I want to see and experience the world.

It takes tremendous courage for a timid person like me to leave what I have built up and start something new. But I can't put a lid on the feelings of wanting to do something and remain unchanged.

My journey has taken me on detours, sometimes I couldn't walk and needed a rest, but I have started to take another step forward.

I have visited 23 countries so far. When I was in trouble during my jorney, there were people who reached out to me.
I was saved by the smile of that person I happened to meet in that one corner at that time.
How wonderful it would be if I could be such a presence in the middle of your life's journey.

If I can help people feel a little clearer, happier, and move forward again by bringing out the blurred feelings in their daily lives and the feelings deep inside that they were unaware of, I would like to become such a person, and such a way of life would be worth living for me as well. With this in mind, I am starting a new challenge.

I want to be a person who can smile with those who are working hard.

At the intersection of my journey and yours, I thank you for this opportunity!
May it be a wonderful encounter!