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John:Ever wondered how you could turn your side hustle into a full time gig and spend more time together?
Vikki:Hi. I'm Vikki, a number one best selling author.
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Vikki:Welcome back. Welcome back to dig the well. I am so excited to be here with my good friend and fellow entrepreneur entrepreneur, Joy Rica Miyatake. And I'm gonna inter introduce her in a second, you guys, but I wanted to tell you a little bit about Joy. I've gotten to know her through several of the women's networking groups that I'm a part of.
Vikki:And, I was just immediately drawn to her. You guys are gonna be fascinated about her different businesses that she has. And you know here on Dig the Well, we're all about multiple streams of income. We just think it's so smart. You know, I think back in the day, when people were new entrepreneurs, they needed to focus on one or we only this was ten, twenty years ago.
Vikki:We would talk about, you know, master of the, jack of all trades, master of none. But that's not true anymore, you guys. That really isn't. It's super smart to diversify. It's smart to, grab on to things that you're passionate about and do that, but you can also have other businesses too.
Vikki:So I asked Joy if she would jump on with us here at Dig the Well. So, Joy, welcome to Dig the Well.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Thank you for having me. Exciting. I'm excited to be part of this and and and learn more about the community that you're creating here.
Vikki:Definitely. Definitely. So I know you live out in the Los Angeles area. We won't say what city. You know?
Vikki:We gotta be being a police officer's wife, we gotta be smart that way, not tell the exact city, but it's funny. Joy and I met in Orange County the first time, at an event, and then we met at another Orange County event. So I know, Joy, you're all over the place. But but most of your businesses are, you work in person with people, but you also have, you could do things online. So I wanna just dive right in.
Vikki:So tell us about your original business. How about that? Tell us about the first one that you start.
Joy Rika Miyatake:I mean, it's interesting because as we're talking about things through the lens of entrepreneurship, I come from a very entrepreneurial family. So my stepfather's side and my father's side both run businesses. And on my father's side, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father were all photographers. So I inherited a photography business and I inherited just the work ethic of a photography business owner to start with sweeping floors as an eight year old child to learning how to develop prints, which is an archaic and we no longer need to know how to do this, but also to customer service and to having the entrepreneurial work spirit, which is something that I think you're either born with or you gotta learn by trial or fire to get into and it's this, it's something that my that I I was born with. My father was like, well, Joy, you're a leader, you're gonna have to just learn how to do this.
Vikki:I love it. I love it.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. So photography is the first business that I was in growing up with it. My great grandfather was a photographer during World War two and he as he was interned, he became, very impassioned about sharing the story and being able to help and and show generations to come what happened, what happened when Japanese people were interned. So that created a curiosity to start my personal business so that my personal business is all about healing generational trauma and all about healing people through somatic therapies like yoga. And so that's my second business.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And often I tell people I have another business too, which is having property because owning property and having passive income is definitely part of a business strategy because it allows you some sort of a stable income base in the world of chaotic entrepreneurship.
Vikki:So true.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So photography business. I have my yoga therapy business, and then I have my property business, which I have a building manager for, which I you know, as you're speaking, it's like, wow. Of course, you have to talk about the multiple streams Yeah. And all the hats that you wear, which is different on daily day to day.
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. And I'd love that. And those of you that are fans of the podcast, John's not here with me because sometimes when we have an individual guest, I love to just get you all to myself, Joy.
Vikki:So that's why John's not here and anyone listening. But John is half Japanese, And you heard Joy talk about, World War two and her relatives being interned. And I know for me, that was, just growing up in the Los Angeles area. That tugged at my heart when I found that that out that that happened. And then when I met John and then married him and our I we have Japanese kids, their quarter.
Vikki:Of course, we learned even more and have gone to some events and, you know, honestly, not to get on a soapbox, but I just hope we never repeat history that nothing like that ever, ever, ever happens again. But what an honor to know you and to know your grand your dad and your grandfather through you because I've gone to your studio, and your studio is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And that's in the city of Gardena. Right?
Vikki:You have people that come in there. Right? So we could say where that is if we wanted
Joy Rika Miyatake:to. Yeah. So there's a couple of my my great grandfather started his business over a hundred years ago and my uncle currently runs it, but my father created his own, you know, out branch of it because he had the he just has the passion. He's the only thing he ever wanted to do. He was a photographer for over fifty years.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And he can't imagine his life in any other way. So when he started his own business, he created something called Metamorphosis, which was an interesting take in the eighties and nineties where people wanted to do the glam makeup. So he had like a glam a glam studio back in those days. And then he did focused a lot on weddings. So he's done photography through different decades of his life.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. And my grandfather was a community photographer, wedding photographer, event photographer of the community. And my great grandfather started in the pictorial age. So he was contemporaries with Edward Weston and and Ansel Adams. So when he was interned during World War two, one of the stories is is that Ansel Adams had come through and said, hey.
Joy Rika Miyatake:You know, I have a friend who's a photographer in this camp. He's a very famous photographer and he's a very well known well, he's very accomplished photographer. We should let him take pictures. So they did. They allowed my great grandfather to secretly take picture or to unsecretly take pictures Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:For the first time. And when they did that, it allowed this new expression of more openness of like taking pictures of what he saw to be the problem. So he had photos that were very pictorial based and you'll see them in there's one in the Whitney Museum. I think they purchased a few photos and then you could find them in Manzanar themselves, like some of the work that he's done that expresses his discontent over the situation. And so that's something like I keep saying it draws to me
Vikki:to
Joy Rika Miyatake:this day because I see the discontent of my great grandfather and how he expressed it artistically. And then I wonder, you know, why is it that my grandmother on my other side never spoke once about this internment experience? She won't even say what happened. She just she just hushes it away. Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And so those kind of questions came to me as like what's going on here and what's the effect on me? Because during my formative years when I started to get interested in the topic of understanding the internment experience, studies that would come in because I did interdisciplinary studies, things that came up for me were understanding what's called intergenerational trauma. And a lot of the studies were done with Holocaust survivors and in times of slavery, where we have what is the effect of this generation experiencing trauma, this experiencing the first hand, and then what's the second hand and the third? What what happened? And there are definitely some interesting things out there and we can see the effects of them.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And what I found is that I was having responses. I was having these, why is this happening? This anxiety in me.
Vikki:Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And this depressed like, I would have these fits, these mood spells. I mean, I was diagnosed with a few conditions at a young age and I've worked a lot to not to say overcome them, but to reduce their symptoms. Right. And when you reduce the symptoms of something, is that not a healing of it?
Vikki:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Wow.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So yoga therapy, we don't necessarily need to look at the cause of something, but we look at the symptoms of something and how do we reduce the symptoms of the thing.
Vikki:Right. Wow. That's fascinating. I knew I wanted you on here for a reason. So fascinating.
Vikki:So that kind of led you down the trail of being a yoga therapist, getting into human design. Should we talk about that? Because I find that fascinating and I still I know.
Joy Rika Miyatake:I mean, my whole life is fascinating because when I find something fascinating, I really wanna go down that rabbit hole. And so as, yeah, as a as somebody who's trained as a yoga therapist and certified in that world, there are definitely tools that you pick up along the way that help. Right. So I've actually done a lot of faster EFT, which is the emotional freedom technique. I've done a little work with understanding fascia.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And then, of course, there's human design, which is it seems completely out of this world. Right. Right. And unrelated. And yet it does once you study it a bit, it does feel like it's a blueprint to all underlying things and it helps you find, let's say, the what what's happening inside of you.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So the things that you're so for instance, one of my motivations is desire and knowing that my motivation is desire helps me understand that for me, looking at the world through this lens of like, okay, this is what I want and I wanna see this in my life. Picturing it, visualizing it, that really works for me, but that may not work for five, six of my clients who don't have this this motivation, the same motivation. Oh. And so helping somebody with that is just an extra layer or tool that I can use as a yoga therapist or as somebody helping somebody grow their business. Got it.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Because there are certain things that you'll learn. I'm I'm not sure where you are in your human design journey, but if somebody's never heard of a human design and they're wondering what it is, it's just a way of looking at I I've been calling it your energetic blueprint. I've been calling it your cheat code, things that you are born into because they say what is above is below. So the moment you are born, you have these codes that you're that you're born with. It's the same way as and it's it was tough because I've all my life, I've been interested in astrology and it's very similar but kind of different.
Joy Rika Miyatake:But in a way, you're born with this cheat code and you can look into it and and find out all sorts of things about yourself to make life easier. Right. And for people who say they don't believe it, it's well, it's kinda like the tides, you know, like you you see the moon, it changes in a position.
Vikki:Right. And the tides
Joy Rika Miyatake:magic unless you see how it works. But if you can read the read the codes, then it can it can make sense to you.
Vikki:Yeah. So okay. Let's let's talk about that really quick because some people I'm sure listening don't have never heard of humans.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Was like, how do we go there? I know.
Vikki:And it might be too deep, but if you could give us a very brief description of what human design is, because I'm actually still learning. I know I still wanna go to you and have you read me. Is that is that the right term?
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. I do readings. So
Vikki:so you what you yeah. Maybe you could explain.
Joy Rika Miyatake:What is So I try I try to make things applicable. So I could tell you the history of human design that it was invented in a certain year, but I'm not sure that would be the applicable piece. The applicable piece is how do you make decisions? The applicable piece is how do you how does your aura work? If your aura is very penetrating, does it make sense to make it a business plan in the same way that it is if your aura is very open and receiving?
Joy Rika Miyatake:Because if you're a certain type, like a certain type that has a very penetrating aura, people will feel you entering the room.
Vikki:And they
Joy Rika Miyatake:can feel things that you may want from them and that may put unnecessary pressure just by the experience. And if you're somebody who is the opposite of that and you're the type that's here to inform because you are here to say, hey, you guys, didn't you know we all need a big party at my house? We should all come. Right. Everyone's like, yeah, we should all come.
Joy Rika Miyatake:That's a great because you're here to inform versus, hey. I want you to come to my part. Like, this energy that you can have where it's like, people are like, I don't wanna go to your party.
Vikki:Okay. Yeah. Okay. So I have a question because, I started networking, I wanna say in 02/2010. I've been a business owner for years, but never went to a networking group.
Vikki:Went to chamber of commerce, things like that, but not like a true networking business networking group that you get to know people. Because chambers of commerce, sorry, people that are part of that. I don't I don't feel like they dive into relationships as much as and maybe I'm saying the wrong thing, but as some networking groups. So, anyway, I at one of my first events, somebody said, I love your energy, and I honestly had never heard that before. So is that part of human design?
Vikki:I'm like, entered my energy. I didn't know I had energy. You know?
Joy Rika Miyatake:I think that energy can be part of everything.
Vikki:Okay.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Because that part could be, you know, there's in human design, it could be that you've done a bit of deconditioning to on on certain levels. And I think that you can come into levels of deconditioning in in different ways, but it does take time. And then it could also be with yoga. Like in yoga, we say that there's prana in you and that, you know, inside everybody you have all this good energy. And if you can clear your vessel so that your energy is coming through and showing through, you can easily share that energy with other people versus if you have lots of holes in you, say you let people tell you, you know, tell you things and you believe them like some negative things.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Let's say that you make promises and you're not keeping them to yourself, that can make another hole in you and you leak all this energy, then people will see like you don't have much good energy. You're like, you seem depleted, you seem deflated, you seem low energy.
Vikki:Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Okay. People can it it could be a combination of all the things, all this. But what I mean by if people are loving your energy, usually the generator and the we're getting I'm trying not to not try not to use the terms to make things complicated, but there's 80% people have access to their sacral energy. And when you have access to your sacral energy, it means you're here to have a good time. You're here to feel satisfied.
Joy Rika Miyatake:You're here to like boom, boom, boom. Let's have fun like an energized bunny. And you do things that are fun. You do things that are satisfying. You're gonna create more energy.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. You're living your human you're living correctly for your design type. Okay.
Vikki:Okay. That's me too. You're just Yeah. Yeah. I know.
Vikki:It is. We need
Joy Rika Miyatake:to have a good time. It's fun. Yeah. But
Vikki:now I need to now I need to sit down with you one on one and go over all that stuff. So we gotta plan that. So fun. So yeah. So that's part of your yoga therapy is the human designer.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So the yoga therapy is all bundled into my one program right now that I'm promoting, and that's joyful presence. So Joyful Presence has a bit of yoga therapy. The techniques are how to help somebody get from one step to another in a sustainable method. Sometimes it does use bits of somatic therapy and sometimes it uses bits of the human design element because it's it helps inform somebody's practice. So if somebody has a ton of energy and they need to expend it every day and that's part of their human design, I might say, hey, what are some ideas that you can have to expend and be satisfied at the end of the day versus somebody who needs to just spend more time alone and that's written out in the design element of, hey, you know, you need you need actually more time alone, more time with nature because you're constantly gonna be absorbing everything around you.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And I know that there are people who are thinking who might be even thinking, oh, that's me. That's my type. It's hard to say unless you really look at look at your chart.
Vikki:Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Right. There's a lot of of times where even for myself doing the deconditioning work and the deconditioning work is thinking that you're supposed to be something else because you watch somebody else do it. Especially when the world of, like I said, 80% of the people have access to this energy, a certain specific type of energy, their sacral source, and you may not. If they're telling you, well, you know, you need to make sales calls like this and make sure you schedule 20 of them a week and then, you know, call, call, call, pick up the phone. If you're saying to somebody to act a certain way and that night may not be there, you're gonna break them.
Joy Rika Miyatake:You're gonna kill them. You're gonna hurt them. Oh.
John:And it's very because and actually, your type I
Joy Rika Miyatake:just remembered your type right now. You don't have access to that sacral energy.
Vikki:I don't. Okay. No. Okay.
Joy Rika Miyatake:We do. Actually, I think we looked you up. You're part of that, like, or 14%, like a smaller percentage as I recall. You're here to be successful.
Vikki:Yes. I am. I am. And I don't know if I learned that, but I know from an early age because my parents were and I feel like I took that on or could I be born with that? What do
Joy Rika Miyatake:you think? It's also what I think you're is that over time, you've learned what works and what doesn't work.
Vikki:Yeah. That's true And
Joy Rika Miyatake:you've learned what how to approach people. Think you've learned that you if you approach people too directly, it seems like people are always may be saying to you, well, who asked you? Yeah. Exactly. That opinion.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And 99% of the time, your type is going to be correct.
Vikki:Oh. You specifically, Vicky. Right. You're totally
Joy Rika Miyatake:right about all the things that you have hunches on. Oh. And you just gotta keep your mouth shut.
Vikki:And I do. That that is so funny, Joy, because I do that. I've learned, like, with my daughter and other people, like, I don't give unasked for advice. If they ask me, then I so that's something I've learned. How funny.
Vikki:Wow.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Wow. That is your type. As as I recall, I just remembered reading your chart just I thought you were part of that other percent, the generator manifesting, but I think you're part of the projector types.
Vikki:Okay. Can you yeah. You did say I was a projector. That's right. And I didn't I still don't know what that means, so we'll have to talk even more.
Vikki:But can people cross over? Can they, have mask, if if you will? I read a personality book that was about having masks too. Could they have a mask, of a human design or no?
Joy Rika Miyatake:Well, I think it's just about people trying to fit in and that's that's part of their conditioning aspect. So when you're conditioning and you're, creating, you know, you're like, oh, everyone tells me that in order to be a successful entrepreneur, I need to do this, this, and that. So you may wear yourself out doing the thing that other people have told you to do. And will it catch up to you? Yeah.
Vikki:Yeah. Interesting. Alright. Alright. Okay.
Vikki:So, so of your businesses and we haven't even talked about one hobby, but it's kind of a business too because you've you've brought it into the human design. But of the ones that we've talked about so far, what are you most passionate about of the photography, of the income generating
Joy Rika Miyatake:I thought you were gonna even ask me about my spearfish.
Vikki:I was. I was. Well, we can dive into that. We can dive into that. But of the ones that we've talked about so far, human design in yoga, the the photography, and the real estate, you know, where you're making the path the passive income.
Vikki:What's what are you most passionate about? I think I know the answer. But
Joy Rika Miyatake:Well, the yoga therapy, think That's what thought. Definitely. It's because that's what's it's the base of everything that I do. It helps inform all of the decisions. And I mean, I call it yoga therapy, but it's the joyful presence program because it gets to be what I it gets to be everything.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Right. So when I when I run my photography my photography shoots from calling them the embodiment experience because using what I know about yoga, using what I know about, you know, people and how how I would take a picture of them, it can show up in let's let's tune in. I think I had somebody and I were talking about the experience that they were in and I said I just said, well, what would it be like if you were to receive a gift from your husband? Because she's a relationship coach. And she
Vikki:goes, receiving.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And she could see her body shift and she said, thank you for getting me there. Because as soon as you said that, I just imagined being in receiving and it shifted her embodiment of being in power stance and being in like this. Yeah.
Vikki:She was
Joy Rika Miyatake:holding the business person aura, but she wanted more a variety of photos. And I said, isn't your brand about femininity and receiving? And she shifted like that. Oh, wow. So it's about, you know, understanding and that's part of my human design is that I have gated I mean, I have a right angle cross of penetration, which means I can see through a lot of things and I can get through understanding people's motivations very quickly.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And it also means that I have I have a couple of insight gates that just allow me to be quick with people about like, here's the fastest way to initiate this next experience for you. Right. And so those are the things that help me create my business because that's where my, you know, in human design, it's like, that's where my genius is? Hold on. Let me let me create a business that just allows me to be in my zone of genius.
Vikki:Got it.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And that's why I can help other people too is let's look at what where you are in your business. Look at look at your human design and how do we get you there the fastest using the yoga therapy tools or whatever tools we may Right. Might be
Vikki:may need. Right.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. How do we reduce the trauma that's existing? How do we reduce the symptoms out of the trauma that are persisting, that are showing up, that are interfering with your business? Because we all know when you get to a new level in your business, you're gonna go back to some ancient flight or flight techniques that have kept you safe for that long.
Vikki:Yes. 100%. Isn't that crazy? We always go back to that. Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. And I I mean, my my go to is like chipmunking is what I call it. I'm like, I I get caught and I'm like, oops. And you'll see it. I have a deflective laugh and I'm very aware of it and the good friends will call you out on it.
Vikki:I was told too that I have not a I don't know if it's a deflective laugh, but that I shouldn't excuse it. I shouldn't laugh so much. Like but yeah. And I didn't understand that. Isn't that crazy?
Vikki:I I still don't well, we could talk about that on a coaching call or something. But okay. But let's dive into Diving in. Yeah. Exactly.
Vikki:Spearfishing. And this is the coolest thing, you guys. So Joy alluded to the fact that she's also a spear fisherman, and that started in 2020. So take us back to 2020 when we were all closed down. Is that when it started for you?
Joy Rika Miyatake:Right. So Yeah. I'll I'll even back it up just a little before because the work that I was doing right before was all based in Cambodia because I said I was working with I don't know. Did I say I worked with Cambodian genocide survivors?
Vikki:Because No. You didn't. So a
Joy Rika Miyatake:lot of the heavy the heavy lifting trauma work that I've done was working with Cambodian genocide survivors and then the youngest generation of yoga teachers that were emerging in Cambodia. So I was running retreats and running events and running workshops for people in Cambodia so that they could have access to tools of yoga therapy, the access of tools of positive psychology. And so this was January or just like November, December. January came home but I had this I this voice that said, you gotta go back to Cambodia. So February and March, I went back to Cambodia to continue some of the workshops that I was creating.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah. And it was that time that Yeah. The events started to just get cancelled. So I was there, I ran a couple of the events and I'm very honored to to have worked, you know, with with the amazing students and amazing teachers that I've worked with there and watching their progress. So it was that time and all of a sudden since the events were getting closed, I'm like, well, maybe it's time to go back home.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So I took a flight, a last minute flight from
Vikki:Good thing.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Cambodia to Taiwan to United States and I was quarantined for like those two weeks and I think I flew in March 14 the day that the planes just shut down from Europe travel.
Vikki:Isn't that crazy? Almost It it there.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Oh my There was a time. There was a time. And I love to exercise because I've I've been a personal trainer for some part of my life. So I would just say, well, you know, I'll just go I'll run around the hill and I went swimming. So I would go swimming every day in the ocean.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And one of those days, I saw somebody come out of the water with a spear gun and wet suit. And I said, what are you guys doing? And they said, we're spearfishing. And I said, well, that looks kind of fun. So I Google spearfishing and I think, maybe I should do this.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Get get some fish on the table in case the supply chain goes down. So it was a concern of mine. Oh, yeah. The supply chain would go down because people kept talking about it. Like, you know, if we run out of gas, if we and and already, we had the toilet paper.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yes. People running out of toilet paper. What if we ran out of food? Right. That's we got into gardening.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Everybody got into gardening, but I also got into fishing and spearfishing. Oh. So I went and I purchased spearfishing gear. There were no classes at that time, so you had to know people. So I tried to get on I got online and I met people and asked them begged them to take me out spearfishing.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Went out spearfishing and caught the bug of wanting to be in the water and and learn how to to get I I started with fish the size of my pan. I remember the first one I got, I took home and I just put it on the stove really quick and I'm like, I'm cooking my first fish. Yeah. Like, I'm providing for myself. It's such a interest it's a great feeling to know that you can you know, it's a survival feeling, I guess.
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. That is really cool. That and now Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:More. Yeah. This fish has just gotten bigger and bigger to fish that are over a 100 pounds that are or my size. Yeah.
Vikki:And and you guys, if you're if you follow Joy on social media or you don't, you should follow her, and we'll talk about the handles later, and they'll be in the show notes. But she has the most amazing you have the most amazing pictures, Joy, of standing and holding the fair shorts next to you. Right? And it's your height or taller on Instagram. Right?
Vikki:Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:That's a Yeah. That's my so the spearfishing version of myself, which is SpiroJoy has taken a life of its own. And I was I had another business for a while, which was just I had yoga therapy for spearfishers. I had retreats done in Mexico where I just let people come in and we'd free dive all day. That I it's kind of good to have the entrepreneurial spirit because you're like, how could I turn this into a business?
Joy Rika Miyatake:Yeah.
Vikki:I love it. And and employees, most you know, w two employees won't even think of that, but we just automatically go, how can I make make this a living, right, or make some money? Oh, that is cool. So tell us how you've weaved that. I know.
Vikki:I know the answer to this, but how have you weaved spearfishing, photography, and your joyful presence? Well, that is what joyful presence is then. Right? It's all those things.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Got it. You got it. Good morning. Yeah. So for me, the joyful presence is about what is bringing you the in yoga, we say that you're born with this essence of joy.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Right? You're born joyful. You're born I mean, you've have you if you've seen a baby, have you seen you've seen them. They light up in their face. There's a there's a light in their eye.
Joy Rika Miyatake:They're happy. They're excited. So everyone is born with joyfulness. And over time, you know, the conditioning effect takes place where we allow ourselves to, like, deplete the joy and we're like, oh, if I show up this way, somebody's gonna judge me or and then they start to have this lack of joy. And the lack of joy is only just a covering.
Joy Rika Miyatake:So how do we remove the covering and experience the most amount of joy like we were babies? It's the work that way that I help people do. So it's uncovering their joy and it's for me myself, it's about like what is bringing me the most joy at this time. Oh, it's taking people on retreats or oh, it's bringing people on these journeys and it's it's it's doing exercise. To me, it's about consistency.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Think if people do a little astrology, I've got a Virgo ascendant. So it's about the consistency and, like, making a plan and then doing planning and scheduling is kind of fun for me. It's not gonna be fun for everybody. So there's different experiences and that's I think that's I think what I love about knowing a little about human design and astrology Yeah. Is that you get to have this, like, oh, I get it.
Joy Rika Miyatake:It works for me this way. It might not work for my client this way.
Vikki:Yeah. That's helpful. That is helpful with anybody who works with people. Right? To grow.
Joy Rika Miyatake:If you have a team. Right. Right. Team members works really well in this capacity, but I should not give them the other thing.
Vikki:Yes. Exactly. And and that's what employ employers need to know this. You know, they should actually take a class from you, I feel like. Anyone who's yeah.
Vikki:HR. Right? And then business owners for sure with their team. Yeah. Wow.
Vikki:So Virgo. Sorry. But I'm going back to Virgo. You said you're is that September? Because
Joy Rika Miyatake:No. It's just my ascendant is in Virgo. So my my birthday is January. I'm a Capricorn with a Virgo ascendant and a Scorpio moon.
Vikki:But are Virgos born in September? Because my mom was a planner is why I'm I'm, like, trying
Joy Rika Miyatake:to Yeah. Yeah. Out. It's early September.
Vikki:That's no wonder. Oh my gosh. My mom is the biggest planner, And I I took that on. I'm I'm Cancer. I'm July 5.
Vikki:I just had my birthday.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Well, we gotta know your the rest of your signs and what what houses that they're in. It's so it's the Cancer in you is just gonna be the the not to say the emotional part of you, but it is the more emotional than other signs. They say that Cancer is the mother of the zodiacs and that Capricorn, that's me. I'm the father.
Vikki:Oh, we're the mother and the father. That's funny.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Have the yin and the yang here.
Vikki:Is Capricorn January? My husband's January.
Joy Rika Miyatake:But I think he's later January, maybe? July 12. I mean, January 12. January 12.
Vikki:Straight up Capricorn. Yeah. So he's the father and the, oh my gosh. So we were meant to be together. It kinda seems
Joy Rika Miyatake:like I don't know.
Vikki:Oh, that's crazy. I think I'll tell him. Anyway, gosh. I find this okay. So, guys, listen.
Vikki:Those of you that are strong devout Christians listening to this, you might feel one way or the other. I am a god's girl myself, but I I do think god did if you believe sorry. Not to get out of religious soapbox, but I just feel like if you, you know, believe in God creating the heaven and the earth, well, then he created all the astrological signs. He created all this. So I, like, find this fascinating.
Vikki:I think it's all the universe, God, whatever you wanna call it. Right?
Joy Rika Miyatake:I'm very much into love the I mean, I'm another thing you've I didn't mention, I have a master's in or I finished I didn't finish my master's, but I did my master's in world religion at University of Hawaii. So I find religion to be fascinating myself. Yeah. I think the closest thing that you would come if if somebody is in the world of Christianity and they wanted to look deeper, I always say look at Christ consciousness because it's it's it's everything is there. Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:And Christ consciousness has a lot for a lot of parallel like, just basic parallels to the work that I do. In fact, I brought Christ consciousness into my work too. I just haven't how am I supposed to talk about everything?
Vikki:I know. I know. That's crazy. But I love that we are talking about this because, like, somebody might have just, like, tuned out, but, like, you should not tune out. Wow, Joy.
Vikki:I didn't even know that about you about
Joy Rika Miyatake:I forgot to mention that
Vikki:because there's so many other things. I knew I found you fascinating, and you just I keep learning more and more and more. You're just such a wonderful person and friend, and this is just amazing. And so are you offering let's, before we wrap it up, I'd love to have you share, you know, what now you're offering. Are you doing kind of a joyful presence?
Vikki:Because I know sometimes I'll just talk to the audience. So I took a took a a grouping of sessions with Joy, and one was a photography session. One was a it was oh, where we did the Joy spearfished the fish, and she we didn't even talk about that. She made sushi for us
Joy Rika Miyatake:because I That was that's the Envision workshop. So the refreshments are complimentary, as I always mentioned. And that's the the Envision workshop is what you came to my house for. That's So that's the Envision workshop. And then I think you signed up for the Gates workshop, but I said it was changeable if you'd like to come.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Right. Actually, this Saturday, there's the human design workshop if if you're able to make it at ten to two and I often have them on at on Saturdays or Sundays at ten to two for people who are interested in coming coming to see that. And Yeah. The offering for most people is $5.55 in public. But if you're listening to this podcast, of course, you're gonna get a special price of $98 and Oh, what I okay.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Have people do is a special discovery session. Right? So in these discovery sessions, I'm sure you've if you're into the self help world, you've had them before, but it's always good to get another insight. And so I'm offering that as a complimentary gift to any podcast listeners who are interested in learning a little bit more about themselves in the lens of what I've had spoken about or if they're just curious to connect. I'm always happy to connect and see how we could support each other as entrepreneurs or give each other references or referrals to other people.
Joy Rika Miyatake:I'm a big promoter in in the abundance mindset. Yeah? Yeah.
Vikki:You are and you are. So and most of you know, but maybe you don't. I haven't talked about it on the podcast a lot. This podcast is on the EWN Podcast Network. It's the EWomen Podcast Network.
Vikki:And, if you're listening to this, that's one of the groups that Joy and I are both part of. And I'm bringing that up because we have our meeting on Thursday. It this is dropping the day of our meeting. So if you're seeing this in the morning, come on out. We're at the Voco Hotel, and we take walk ins if you'd like to join us.
Vikki:But Joy, the reason I brought that all up was, Joy, you are so good at referring people, you know, to come to our e women events or go to a different woman's group or do business, but you gotta meet my friend. I think you guys would be great power partners or things like that. That's another reason I love you so much because I'm the same. I'm constantly looking for ways to connect people. We must also be connectors, the two of us somehow, some way, or maybe that's just the entrepreneur in us.
Vikki:I don't know. Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:You're a four six like me. So the four six generally has that big picture, like you're on the roof vision. Yeah. And then the core is just generally we work really well in networks. Yes.
Vikki:Yeah.
Joy Rika Miyatake:We do have that. We're both connectors.
Vikki:Well, awesome. It's been so much fun having you on here. I know this was short and sweet, but if you guys wanna get in touch with Joy and come on Saturday, if you're hearing this months and months from now, we're recording this in, what is it, July of twenty five. But I'm sure Joy is having something going on if you're hearing
Joy Rika Miyatake:We definitely have something on. And so there's that link that you can sign up for the calendar that I put in the and then That's Right?
Vikki:Yeah. Definitely. Types. Exactly. And you're on social media on so many different platforms, but they can find you as
Joy Rika Miyatake:Joy mostly. Is that right? Instagram is Joy period Rica. I've got my Spiro Joy, which is like the spearfishing one. I've got TikTok Joy Rica.
Joy Rika Miyatake:I've got Facebook Joy Rica. And my full name Joy Rica Miyatake. Find me anywhere that way too. I'm sure I'm on LinkedIn and all sorts of I'm very Googleable.
Vikki:That is so awesome. Well, thank you so much for being on. I can't wait
Joy Rika Miyatake:to for having me, Vicky. Can't wait to see you on Thursday too.
Vikki:Yes. Exactly. And, you know what? If you love this podcast, share it with a friend. Leave us a comment.
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Vikki:Have a great one. Talk soon.
Joy Rika Miyatake:Bye for now.
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