Who is Midori and What’s she about?

Felt amazing to delete my professional bio from this page. Instead, here’s what you get.

First of all, Midori really does mean green in Japanese. I swear! You know you can’t make that kind of stuff up! Someone once said it was divine intervention that I would have green eyes, a name that means green and a total professional commitment to sustainability in the meetings industry. I like that idea.

Second, I am a wife and a mom. I don’t talk about my kids often because they are sacred to me and I feel like if I blab about them like other parents then I’m diluting their energy somehow. Kind of like the tribes who believe that if you take a picture it’s stealing your soul and trapping it in the camera. Hard to explain, but they were one of the biggest surprises to a girl who was never going to get married, never going to have kids. Until I met Mike. He changed everything I thought I believed in, then the kids flipped that one more time. Nuff said.

Third, I like to have fun. I mean, a LOT of fun. Snowboarding, surfing (body and board), golfing, racing, motorcycles, horseback riding, wakeboarding, hiking, traveling, dining, soccer, computer games, reading, talking, listening, speaking, daydreaming, drinking beer (is that appropriate to say?). I’m always, always doing something. And, I am happy. Not like idiotic grin happy, but deeply, fundamentally happy. Purely by choice, not by circumstance.

Finally, I am an entrepreneur and visionary. I see the future in everything I look at. When I listen to someone talk about an idea, I can see the appropriate path for them to take like it was actually happening. I’m not a psychic or anything like that…I just…see things. No dead people, but certainly I’ve been known to predict one or two major events in my family. Makes for a great party trick! Also makes for a serial entrepreneur. I know when I hear a good idea, and I also have lots of them. With a little more time and a good partner I will turn out several successful businesses in my lifetime.

Love,

Midori