This REAL Eyes Realize podcast episode with Pear Urushima is an honest and insightful conversation about a successful marketing executive in the tech sector figuring out how to unleash her creative spark, make friends with her inner critic, and become a successful author and filmmaker in her “retirement” years. Her recent documentary, “Because of You, I Am” has won accolades at foreign film festivals and her poetry book titled “When the Critic Sleeps” is a vulnerable peek inside the ways in which our inner critic can be integrated into the whole of who we are versus running the show.

Pear Urushima. Author, poet, writer, publisher, producer, and filmmaker. Pear Urushima is founder of Kanreki Productions, is a third-generation Japanese American with a background in marketing, production, directing, and writing, and hails from Los Angeles. With over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley’s high-tech marketing and branding landscape, she has skillfully navigated countless creative challenges. Her portfolio highlights the intricacies of marketing, multimedia content creation, and storytelling. Her corporate experience gave her the foundation to leap into producing and publishing new works independently. In addition to Kanreki Productions, she founded Slow Drum Press as a woman-owned small business based in California. Both ventures were born from a commitment to community service—to share stories, poetry, and prose from and for people who quietly inhabit the earth, whose voices are an integral part of our culture.