This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
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This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
Beyond the Résumé: Introducing Voices Across Borders
Voices Across Borders
8 minutes
2 months ago
Beyond the Résumé: Introducing Voices Across Borders
In this very first episode of Voices Across Borders, host Mina Kim Mok shares why she started this podcast and her own story of growing up and building a career across cultures and boarders. Discover what it means to navigate identity, belonging, and ambition when your life stretches beyond one country
Voices Across Borders
This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
