{"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":"Today's Mission: \"Just One Minute\"","slug":"today-s-mission-just-one-minute","published_at":"2026-05-31T02:22:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/today-s-mission-just-one-minute","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Todays-Mission-Just-One-Minute-e3k7a9r","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/120874747/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-2%2F903d65d1-7f3f-b73d-d0a5-c4ff44a49302.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at the specific friction that appears before beginning — not a lack of ability, not a lack of motivation, but something closer to the weight of that first instant before anything is set in motion. There's a story here about a piece of work that felt untouchable, and a quiet experiment: just one minute, genuinely meant as only one minute. Thirty minutes later, the work was still going — not because of effort or encouragement, but simply because starting had led to continuing. It touches on the idea that the brain tends to preserve its current state — stillness wants to stay still, movement wants to stay moving — and that the real obstacle is rarely what we think it is. There's also a small reframe drawn from seventeen years of running an eyewear shop: that the times things actually moved forward were almost always the times they started small, and that waiting for conditions to be right has a way of waiting indefinitely. A quiet reminder that motivation often follows movement rather than preceding it — and that shifting a day from "nothing done" to "one minute done" is, more often than not, where everything else begins.","meta_description":"This episode looks at the specific friction that appears before beginning — not a lack of ability, not a lack of motivation, but something closer to the w…","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/today-s-mission-just-one-minute/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/today-s-mission-just-one-minute.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}