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Yoky Matsuoka is the Founder & CEO of Yohana, an independently-led subsidiary of Panasonic, focused on building consumer technology products and services to help people live healthier and happier lives. As an accomplished executive and technologist, Yoky brings more than two decades of leadership experience to her role where she also leads global innovation and serves as the Managing Executive Officer of Panasonic Corporation.\nPrior to Yohana, Yoky was a VP at Google, a CTO at Nest, a senior executive at Apple, and CEO of Quanttus, a health tech startup.\xa0She has also spent time as an endowed professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington.\xa0She is the recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award for her work in robotics and neuroscience and the founder of YokyWorks Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with physical and learning challenges, focused on removing reading barriers to unlock the potential of every child.\nShe is also a Shameless Mom of four children, a dog, and a pet pig.\n\xa0\nListen in to hear Yoky share:\n\nHow she intentionally set goals and went after dreams based on what her mom regretted\n\nHer choice to leave big tech and build Yohana right before the pandemic\n\nHow her mentality\xa0around \u201cThe best way to do it to do it myself\u201d led her to build an innovative company that supports moms\n\nWhy embracing her attitude around \u201cI\u2019m different and different is good\u201d has served her well her entire life\n\nHow the pandemic highlighted the need for the services she knew she wanted to create as she started to build her company\n\nHow to get out of your own way to quit tasks that don\u2019t allow you to reach your bigger goals\xa0\n\nHer powerful two-part mindset reset to release mom guilt\n\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nGet the SMA Newsletter to learn about our January 2023 events: shamelessmom.com/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with Yoky: https://www.yokymatsuoka.com/\n\n\nLearn more about Yohana: yohana.com\n\n\nYohana End of Year Promo: get a free trial and save 40% a month on your membership (or gift Yohana to someone!) at yohana.com with promo code ENDOFYEAR\n\nYohana on IG\n\nYoky on IG\n\nYoky on Twitter\n\nYoky on LinkedIn\n\n\nSponsor info and promo codes:\n\nPlease find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/\n\n\nInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices