Podcasts Culture Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel SO6 Episode 06: Sonoko Sakai Salary Woman No More!

SO6 Episode 06: Sonoko Sakai Salary Woman No More!

Published: March 26, 2021, 1 p.m.

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What are we talking about when we talk about \\u201creinventing\\u201d ourselves? Our conversation with writer, teacher and Japanese home cooking guru, Sonoko Sakai, reveals how failure\\xa0is\\xa0a pathway to discovering long-standing passions and new opportunities. After two decades as a successful film buyer and producer, Sonoko confronted financial and career loss. To heal, she discovered \\u201cputting my hands in flour was the most therapeutic way.\\u201d In 2008, she took a noodle-making class in Japan and went on to teach Japanese home cooking in her house in California. Her reputation grew, her soba noodles were celebrated, her classes were sought after for birthdays, corporate events and by individuals, she developed a community project to preserve heirloom grains,\\xa0and wrote a popular cookbook. Then, in 2020, COVID hit. At 65, she shifted again and brought her classes online, grew her audience fivefold, brought in young women to co-create with her, and built what is becoming a women\\u2019s cooperative venture. Sonoko keeps learning and innovating, proud that, at 65 she\\u2019s got more energy than most millennials and hopes to follow in her grandmother\\u2019s footsteps and live to at least 100.\\xa0Try her cookbook recipes, shop at her online store,\\xa0and listen to our delicious conversation with Sonoko to get a flavor of the joy that reinvention evokes. \\xa0
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Order Sonoko\\u2019s book \\u2013 Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors (https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Home-Cooking-Authentic-Flavors/dp/161180616X)
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