As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Monday, October 03, 2011

Closed for Business... Monday, October 3

Boo to holidays… What an odd thing to say, I know.

Holidays either require me to do things I don’t particularly want to do or mean I’m not able to do the things I want to do. Now that I’m married, I have family responsibilities connected to holidays and as for me saying holidays mean I’m not able to do the things I want to do, I was referring to my boxing and the fact that many places close for the holidays.

Today was a holiday, so downtown where I live was packed, the riverside path were I run was buzzing with people, the fitness gym was closed so I couldn’t do my weight training, my sponsor’s office was closed so I couldn’t drop by for cash, and the boxing club was closed so I was forced to train alone. I’ve got a spare key to the boxing club so I was able to go in and train but it definitely isn’t the same training without my overly-hyper High School Kiddies and awesome teammates.

Kept myself busy today by planning things for my girls-only club. The feedback I’m getting from those in my club is so positive, which only feeds my energy and eagerness to do more with and for them, so today I got down to business, working on various other activities and outings I’m planning.
Upcoming activities I’m working on:
Sunday, October 16 --> Private Boxercise Class
Saturday, October 22 --> Bras For A Cause (cancer fundraiser)
Friday, October 28 --> Rockin’ Halloween with the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sunday, November 6 or 13 --> Splish-Splash Spa Day
Friday, November 18 --> Livin’ It Up with Some Live Music

Got a great idea today – how about start an official club newsletter?! Good stuff. So that’s what I did today also. I created my own newsletter for Seoul Girls Night (or Day) Out, titled it “The Fab-Gal’s Newsletter” and emailed it out to all my members.
In November I’m hoping to run a spa event for my ladies, titled “Splish-Splash Spa Day”. We’ll be spending half a day at spa/water park and then heading off to dinner together so today I sat down with the manager of the restaurant where we’ll be dining. I know the manager actually, he’s one of Snickers’ good buds and is a good friend of mine too. I went to his wedding, a couple of weekends ago I watched scooter racing with him and I’m very familiar with his beautiful restaurant. Today I sat down with him to discuss arranging a private room for my club ladies, a possible set menu and we talked about his connections with the water park – what discounts he can get me and so forth.

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