{"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":"Spend your time not on predicting the future, but on becoming someone with more options for whatever future comes.","slug":"spend-your-time-not-on-predicting-the-future-but-on-becoming-someone-with-more-options-for-whatever-future-comes","published_at":"2026-06-02T21:44:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/spend-your-time-not-on-predicting-the-future-but-on-becoming-someone-with-more-options-for-whatever-future-comes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Spend-your-time-not-on-predicting-the-future--but-on-becoming-someone-with-more-options-for-whatever-future-comes-e3k8lah","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120918801/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-2%2F56e9e4c5-e46a-2c3f-3164-2209f774a930.mp3","summary":"This episode reflects on a shift in thinking about how meaningful connections actually happen — not through luck or timing, but through the accumulation of small, consistent actions over time. It touches on the pattern that real encounters tend to arrive on days when something was already in motion: a blog post written, a thought put into words, an effort made without any particular audience in mind. The interview request that came out of nowhere is offered as a quiet example of that. There's also a distinction drawn between what can't be controlled — timing, other people, the flow of circumstances — and what can be prepared for: staying in a state where you're ready to catch something when it arrives. The Everest climb appears here not as a grand metaphor, but as a lived example of flexible thinking under conditions that kept refusing to cooperate. A brief note on where mental energy tends to go — spinning through dark scenarios with no real basis — and a gentle suggestion that time spent reading, listening, or deepening a curiosity builds something more useful than prediction ever could. A quiet argument for accumulation over strategy: that the person who shows up for the quiet days, in whatever shape they're in, is the one who ends up with more options when something unexpected finally arrives.","meta_description":"This episode reflects on a shift in thinking about how meaningful connections actually happen — not through luck or timing, but through the accumulation o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":174,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/spend-your-time-not-on-predicting-the-future-but-on-becoming-someone-with-more-options-for-whatever-future-comes/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/spend-your-time-not-on-predicting-the-future-but-on-becoming-someone-with-more-options-for-whatever-future-comes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}