For July, we present Kate Sikora!  Kate has been in Tokyo, for the most part, since 2005 with a few years back and forth to her home state, New Jersey. Coming to Japan on a whim, she has continued to follow her passions for writing and playing music and teaching, and she became a mum in 2014. Kate plays with her band pretty regularly and also teaches kindergarten full time. She occasionally gets to do voice work and also creates music for commercials. 

We are already into June (how fast is this year going?!) and it's time for our next TMG Mums Spotlight - Corin Kanazawa!  Corin is a South-African born, Australian from Melbourne. She's a personal stylist and mum of 3 (2 girls 11 and 9, and a 5 yr old boy.) 

1. In one sentence, how would your closest friends describe you?

Fun, honest, good for a laugh, loyal.

2. What is your family weekend ...

It's May the 1st 2019 in Japan and that means it's the start of the Reiwa - a new Era with a new Emperor!  What a great time for our next TMG Mums Spotlight entry!

Today, we interview Katie Sudo, one of the driving forces behind the fantastic Roppongi Cooperatve - a great meeting spot/playgroup for parents in Tokyo.  

https://roppongiplaygroup.wordpress.com

1. In one sentence, how would your closest friends descr...

For this post, we have chosen to interview our own Jocelyn Saito!  Jocelyn has been living in Japan for 3 years. She is originally from Seattle, USA but lived in San Francisco for most of her adult life. She runs an active blog, www.mymotherhoodtokyo.com, where she posts on a range of topics surrounding motherhood in Japan. She's also on YouTube and Instagram as My Motherhood Tokyo!

1. In one sentence, how would your closest friends descr...

For our next TMG Mums Spotlight post, we bring to you Carmela Fleury! Carmela is a Certified Martha Beck Lifecoach, a Certified Holistic Health Coach, a Yin Yoga teacher (studying towards the Insight Yoga Certification with Sarah Powers), and the Village Crazy Mama. She is passionate about raising happy and healthy humans and currently leads “Raising Happy & Healthy Mamas” retreats worldwide. This, along with avoid...

For our second instalment of TMG Mums Spotlight, we bring to you Katie Sextone!  Katie is a full time working mother of two boys. She keeps herself active and fit with sports; namely skiing, yoga and cycling. She manages to juggle her family life and professional life as well as keeping her health and wellness in check. On top of all this, she’s warm, full of positive energy, and a very down to earth person.

Welcome everyone to the start of our new Tokyo Mothers Group blog!  It's been many years since we last had a blog for our members to enjoy and get value from.

We will be starting with TMG Mums Spotlight, where we'll be interviewing different women in our TMG network - many of whom you may have already heard of through their work and support that we are all in this motherhood journey together in Tokyo!

For our first instalment, we present to you