Stan

Creator Partnerships Manager

Customer Support Specialist

Alexander Wang LLC

Sales Associate

Saint Laurent

Providing excellent customer service to clients 
Creating connections, and maintaining long term relationships with clients

lululemon

Sales Representative
Inventory Receiving
Visual Merchandising
Fulfilment of online orders for shipment and pick up

Educator

Kumon Canada Inc

Guided students ages 5 - 15 in Math and Reading
Supervised in class students 
Graded student workbooks
Prepared homework packages for students

Teaching Assistant

Honda Canada Inc. - Finances 

Worked in collections department
Aided customers past due on payments

Collections Representative

Avison Young 

Accounting Intern

Creator Partnerships Manager @ Stan | Non-linear Career Advocate | No Longer in Retail, but can Still Rock a Fit 😎

From thinking I'd be an ACCOUNTANT to helping Creators build 6-figure businesses — my career path looks like me trying to draw a snowman blindfolded 😅

For real though, I spent YEARS forcing myself into boxes that didn't quite fit:

⚖️ Accounting (sorry papa, I tried 😭)
🧩 Project Management (Gantt Charts? ehhhhhhh)
🏢 Traditional corporate path (the voices in my head sounding like Shia LaBeouf: JUST DO IT!!!)

Plot twist: Every "detour" on the side was actually leading me to exactly where I needed to be.

👖 Those retail jobs at lululemon and Saint Laurent? Taught me the POWER of genuine connection
📱 The content creation at Alexander Wang? Sparked my obsession with the creator economy.
💜 Starting off in customer support at Stan? Changed my entire LIFE trajectory.

Today, I'm a Creator Partnerships Manager at Stan(Shoutout to my mama for advocating the relationship management path).

Now I get to witness MAGIC every single day:

🙆🏻‍♀️ Women teaching others how to conquer binge eating
👔 Finance Bros selling their budget templates
🎨 Creatives selling their art across the globe

I've spoken to hundreds of Creators and witnessed every single one of them create a life they were truly meant to live by starting their own business leveraging their expertise. 

What lights me up:
✨ Helping creators realize their "weird" passion is their million-dollar idea
🗣️ Talking/Yapping (catch me at Re:Create Summit 2025, Sep 6th!)
🧥 Fashion babyyyyyyy - still bringing the fits from my retail days
💪 Anddd movement, I hate sitting still, enough said

My journey in a nutshell: Trad. mindset of School to Corporate path ->Luxury Retail → Customer Support → Creator Partnerships

The lesson: Your path doesn't need to make sense to anyone but YOU

If you're feeling lost, pivoting careers, or think your skills are "random" — we should definitely chat! I've been there, and I promise those breadcrumbs are leading somewhere beautiful 🥹

Let's connect and share war stories about non-traditional paths 🤝

P.S. Yes, I still rock my fits at Stan, so don't you think you'll catch me wearing any Patagonia 🫵 😤

15 BETA SPOTS LEFT and I need YOUR BRAIN 🧠

Stanley Coach for Instagram is about to go STUPID HARD but I need Creators who aren't afraid to tell me when something SUCKS 💀

🫵 You GET: FREE access to an AI coach that actually GETS your vibe

🤝 We GET: Your BRUTAL feedback on everything

I'm talking:

🤔 Why you started creating and what's keeping you up at night

👀 What you EXPECTED vs what Stanley ACTUALLY delivers

💰The price that makes you go "NAH" vs "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY"

Did it surprise you? Disappoint you? Make you go "OH SHIT THAT'S FIRE"? 🔥

I don't want nice. I want TRUTH.

The kind of feedback that makes product teams CRY, but products a whole lot BETTER ✨

If you're down to help shape something that could change how Creators level up...

Comment "I'M A SILLY LITTLE BETA" 

OR

If you're not about that

Slide into my DMs if you’re interested

Let's build this FUTURE TOGETHER!!!!!!

P.S. this is like Stanley LinkedIn, but for Instagram

Jonathan Tsugawa

Chief Vibes Officer @ Stan | Non-linear Career Advocate | No Longer in Retail, but can Still Rock a Fit 😎

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Ring ring ring, banana phone 🍌📞

"Herro, is this is Stan?”

"No, this is Jonathan"

"Is this STAN???”

"...no, this is JONATHAN" 😤

I can’t believe no one wants to talk Jonathan 🙄

All they care about is this Stan guy URGH

Rick Owens said "Working out is modern couture" and I'm TORN between loving fashion and loving GAINS (lmao that was cringe to write, but whatever let’s go with it)

"Buy less clothing and go to the gym" hits DIFFERENT when you've got 47 SSENSE tabs open of pieces you're trying NOT to cop 💀

But here's what Rick got RIGHT:

The BEST fit you'll ever wear is YOUR OWN BODY 🔥

I hit the gym and suddenly that basic black tee looks OUUU SOO GOOD.

Even my silly little Stan office fits hit DIFFERENT when I'm feeling myself.

It's not about choosing between drip and discipline.

It's realizing that when you feel STRONG, when you're CONFIDENT in your skin...

EVERYTHING looks better on you.

The clothes? They’re just there to amplify because YOU ARE the statement piece 😤

So yeah, I'm still gonna cop that piece I've been eyeing. But I'm also gonna make sure the canvas underneath is dialed IN.

I let myself SLIP and I'm PISSED about it 😤

For months I convinced myself pull-ups and walks were enough. "I'm busy too busy with work" EXCUSES 💀

The other day, the Stan boys dragged me to the gym and something CLICKED.
Watching them put in that work, feeling that burn again... I remembered who I USED to be.

Not this watered-down version settling for "good enough."

Yeah I'm angry at myself for letting standards drop. For choosing easy over STAYING HARD (oh god)

But that anger? It's amping me TF UP.

Because mediocrity in fitness bleeds into EVERYTHING. How you do ONE thing is how you do EVERYTHING.

Chief Vibes Officer can't bring 100% energy running at 60% capacity, and is mad at himself when he wakes up groggy, looking in the mirror seeing a sad excuse for a man.

Time to go BUCK WILD in the gym again 😤

This is how we team bond at the Stan Toronto office 🕺

Every day I hit the STUPIDEST dance moves in our elevator and my coworkers just have to DEAL WITH IT 💀

3pm energy crash? NOT ON MY WATCH.

Is it professional? No. Does it keep me sane during 10-hour Stanley Coach grind sessions? ABSOLUTELY 🔥

Chief Vibes Officer duties include mandatory elevator performances whether people asked for it or not 😤

What's your weird office ritual that keeps you going

Everyone's got OPINIONS about my life and I'm DROWNING in advice 😤

17 different people told me 17 different things this week and my brain went BRRRRRRR like a broken printer 💀

"You should do THIS"
"No actually do THAT"
"Have you considered THIS OTHER THING?"

I'm sitting here like a deer in headlights trying to process ALL OF IT AT ONCE.

Don't get me wrong - perspectives are VALUABLE. I genuinely appreciate when people care enough to share their thoughts.

But when everyone's advice contradicts each other?

When you're getting hit from EVERY angle with "shoulds" and "musts"?

That's when you gotta remember: They're not living YOUR life 🔥

They don't know your full context. Your struggles. Your actual goals.

What worked for them might be POISON for you.

So yeah, I listen. I take notes. I say thank you.

But at the end of the day? I trust MY GUT.

Because being scatter-brained trying to follow everyone's roadmap gets you NOWHERE.

Pick YOUR path. Even if it looks UNHINGED to everyone else 😤

Who else is dealing with advice overload? How do you filter the noise?

Episode 3: Hiring Gabe (aka the MOST trustworthy man alive) 🎬

This man showed up to the interview with CONFIDENCE 💀

We pretty much hired him ON THE SPOT.

Trust levels? THEY'RE ALL THE WAY UP 🚀


Follow @professortsugawa on IG for the full journey to 200 paid customers

Rock climbing is HEALING parts of me I forgot were BROKEN 🧗‍♂️

Started back up 3 weeks ago and my brain is doing this WILD thing where it remembers how to be HAPPY without checking engagement metrics every 5 minutes 💀

When you're on the wall, there's NO room for "what should my next content angle be?"

It's just you, the wall, and figuring out how NOT to fall on your ass 😤

My girlfriend and I are solving problems TOGETHER instead of separately doom scrolling. 

I even brought my family last weekend and my mom CRUSHED a route that showed me that she still had it.

Every route is a puzzle that has NOTHING to do with algorithms or Q4 targets.

Just pure problem solving. Move here. Grip there. Trust your body.

That dopamine hit when you finally send a route? LIKE A CRAZY HIGH!!!

Rock climbing isn't fixing everything. But it's reminding me that not everything NEEDS fixing.

Stanley Coach for Instagram is 60% OFF for Cyber Monday and I'm about to LOSE IT 🔥

$19/month instead of $47 for TODAY ONLY!!!!!

That's 60% OFF because apparently we've lost our DAMN MINDS over here at Stan and decided to give away Stanley IG for less than your daily coffee budget 😤

Stanley's been helping Creators on LinkedIn level up their content game and now Instagram Creators get to EAT too.

You're getting a coach that ACTUALLY gets your vibe. Not some generic bot spitting out "5 tips to grow your following" BS.

This MFer learns YOUR voice. YOUR style. YOUR energy.

While everyone else is using ChatGPT to write captions that sound like a corporate robot had a MELTDOWN, you'll be dropping FIRE content that sounds like YOU 🎯

December 1st ONLY. After that? Back to $47 and you'll be PISSED about missing this.

$19 for a coach that helps you create Banger IG content??? Unheard of.

I've already gotten a few concerning messages from our finance team on how much this is gonna cost us, so you better act quick before they shut it down 😭

Here's the link to get your deal: https://lnkd.in/eHwXu3rW

Feel free to slide into my DMs if you want too 😉

P.S. This deal expires at MIDNIGHT December 1st!

P.P.S. We had to bribe John and Vitalii for pitching this price.

Q4 is giving me EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH and I need to CRASH OUT about it 😤

One minute I'm vibing with Snow Duckies thinking "wow life is BEAUTIFUL" ✨

Next minute my calendar EXPLODES with deadlines while someone's ABSOLUTELY SLAMMING the gas pedal like the shoved a CINDERBLOCK on that MFer and the brakes are GONE 💀

I LOVE the holiday vibes. The family time. The cozy-ness of it all.

But I HATE that everyone wants everything done before December 31st like the world is ENDING.

Creator wants a demo on December 23rd. My family wants me to help with Holiday stuff by the 22nd. 

Stanley needs to have been sold to 200 people yesterday.

I'm trying to be JOLLY while my inbox is having a complete MELTDOWN 🎅

We're HURTLING toward that dump truck at 140km/h and everyone's like "just one more thing before holidays"

NO. THERE IS NO MORE ROOM IN THE TRUCK 😭

The vibes? IMMACULATE. The deadlines? LIKELY GONNA HAVE ME PLANNING A TRIP TO TURKEY SOON WITH ALL THE HAIR I'M LOSING.

Anyone else feeling this Q4 CHAOS or am I being dramatic?

Because I'm about to take the H's out of Ho Ho Ho and go OOO

Sales is 90% CULT LEADER ENERGY and I'm NOT SORRY 😤

You need that DELUSIONAL confidence where you believe your product could literally save someone's LIFE.

Not the fake guru "buy my course" energy - I'm talking about that warm, slightly UNHINGED belief where you KNOW you're solving something DEEP.

Show them the demo. Make it VISUAL. Make them FEEL it.

Because here's what I learned: People don't buy features. They buy that emotional MOMENT when they realize "holy shit, THIS is what I've been missing."

You gotta push WITHOUT sounding pushy. Come from that genuine place where you're like "I NEED you to have this because I KNOW it'll change your game."

Is it a little cult-y? ABSOLUTELY

But when you believe THAT hard, they start believing too.

That's when sales stops being sales and becomes something else entirely 🔥

Mahjong is training my brain in ways I NEVER expected 🀄🧠

Every tile I pick up has my brain going BRRRRRR analyzing patterns in 0.2 seconds flat 💀

Got my pattern recognition game on LOCK. I'm seeing combinations EVERYWHERE haha

But I’m getting the real mental workout when I gotta read three other people’s strategies while adapting to what tiles are left on that DAMN TABLE 😤

Someone's hoarding bamboos? PIVOT. That tile you need got discarded? ADAPT. Everyone going for the same hand? GET CREATIVE.

It's like playing 4D chess where everyone's stealing from the same pile and you gotta thug it out with whatever's left 🔥

My brain stays SHARP because every round forces quick pattern recognition, opponent reading, and strategic pivots based on what's AVAILABLE.

This ain’t just a game, it's like mental rock climbing and I'm ADDICTED 🎯

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