Jim
Life mission: Empower - to be able to help anyone in 5 minutes, now and 300+ years after I’m gone. Now building 2 businesses and consulting/assisting multiple others. Lifelong partner in entrepreneurship, real estate and self-actualization - always cross-cultural and/or cross-border. A focus on business and real estate in/between Japan and the Netherlands. Also involved in activities in India, Italy and Benin/West-Africa. ---- Me in 30 seconds ---- After business school I planned to become a professional football/soccer coach. I joined a startup instead, helped grow it to 25 people before having to fire half of them. I moved to rural Japan to join a corporate incubator, couldn’t handle the bureaucracy and quit after 2.5 years to start my own thing. Then I drop-shipped, day-traded, consulted startups, did digital marketing for local businesses, and coached young people and small businesses. Along the way, I found my calling. I call it Empower: to be able to help anyone in 5 minutes, now and 300+ years after I’m gone. I spend my time reading in foreign languages, taking care of health and family, and building empowering businesses. (With some coaching on the side.) As part of my work, I write, podcast, and organize/host small events and international business trips. Dutch native turned global citizen, lived 7+ years in Japan, now splitting time with my japanese wife between the Netherlands and Japan.