{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"Korea, Day One. Keep Going, Quietly.","slug":"korea-day-one-keep-going-quietly","published_at":"2026-07-07T05:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/korea-day-one-keep-going-quietly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Korea--Day-One--Keep-Going--Quietly-e3lq4oh","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/122540241/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-8%2F570591c0-368e-afa8-917e-2f5ce9949322.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at what comes up during a sourcing trip to Seoul — specifically an unannounced visit to a brand's head office that turned into an unexpected meeting with the founder. She started the brand fifteen years ago. Her co-founder left within six months, and she spent the next two and a half years making things alone. Fifteen years later, the brand is in twenty countries. It touches on a pattern that keeps showing up among the makers encountered on overseas sourcing trips — in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan. Not talent, not luck, but stubbornness. The willingness to stay when the team shrinks, to keep working when nothing seems to be moving. There's also a quiet observation about how hardship looks different from the inside. On social media, struggle tends to get shaped into a narrative in hindsight. But in the middle of it, there's no arc — just difficulty, and far more reasons to stop than to continue. A small reflection on eighteen years of building quietly, and the idea that stubbornness, sustained over time, opens up a gap that almost nothing else can.","meta_description":"This episode looks at what comes up during a sourcing trip to Seoul — specifically an unannounced visit to a brand's head office that turned into an unexp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":147,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/korea-day-one-keep-going-quietly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/korea-day-one-keep-going-quietly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}