Description
Hiromi Okuyama was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She is a Content Creator, Martial Artist (5th Degree Black Belt, teaching Karate for 30 years) and Actress. She was also the CLUBHOUSE (Social Audio App) ICON from December to February 2023.
Hiromi is passionate about short form video content creation. As an actress since her teens, she has primarily worked on commercials and has been featured in many large company advertisements such as Walmart, Scotiabank, Pizza Hut, Nortel, McDonalds, Tim Hortons, Future Shop and much more. Working in commercials has helped her know how to be effective in Short Form Videos. Her main social media platform is TikTok, where she has over 200k supporters and her branded hashtag is at over 40 million views. She creates fun “Mom Acting Challenges” and has followers from around the world, who do her acting scenes.
Hiromi frequently Hosts and Moderates panels on CLUBHOUSE, the popular Social Audio App and is an early adopter (volunteer) as well as a Beta Tester (volunteer) for their new features.
In 2021, Hiromi started her own online e-commerce store hiromiokuyama.com with Merch inspired by her supporters and also featuring her Father’s famous calligraphy, continuing a legacy of her cultural heritages.
1. Coffee meetup on Clubhouse, starting merely as avatars!
2. Short-term video on TikTok and Instagram
3. Community based Houses in the Clubhouse App
4. Knowing your audience to understand how the help them find you
5. Owning your audience with email and using profile pics for branding
6. Martial arts, her father is a high ranking karate master
7. Being a teacher and empowering kids through the martial arts
8. Respecting boundaries
9. Store with merchandise and shifting to use the famous calligraphy from her father
10. How we are raised, the differences between Gen Z and Gen X
11. Pivoting and shifting to grow
12. Mental health and periods
13. Social barometer
14. Learning from our mistakes
15. Imposter syndrome, narcissist, having a therapist
16. Choosing how to promote yourself and with whom
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