Things I did today...
- Meeting with my landlord regarding my rent and housing contract.
- Worked on paper work for Flipside Fitness.
- Tweeked the Flipside Fitness webpage.
- Had a couple of meetings at the boxing club.
- Had to go by and talk to the print shop regarding my revised business card getting made.
- Created an advertising flyer for Flipside Fitness and then went to get it printed.
- Did a timed run with one of my personal training clients.
- Light grocery shopping turned into trying to hunt down chicken breasts.
- Caught up on some emailing.
- Coffee break with Cat at 3pm.
- Headed into boxing for training in the evening, making it the 3rd time I went to there today.
Decided I am going to resign from running the Sisters Of Seoul (S.O.S.), for various reasons, of which Flipside Fitness is one of the major reasons. For every event I organize for them I have to attend which means a lot of time traveling to and from Seoul. I have to travel anywhere from one to two hours out of my way just to get there, dish out traveling expenses plus the expense of the actual activity, and it’s just really starting to interfere with my new company. I’m very appreciative of those who have attended my events and have signed up for future meetups, I’ve meet some really great gals whom I hope will continue to contact me, but it’s a lot of time, money and effort running an all-girl group of over 100 members out in Seoul and at this point I really rather and really need to direct my attention towards feeding the success of my new company.
I took on Sisters Of Seoul because it’s a group that I wish I had really had available to me when I first arrived in Korea. I’ve been in Korea long enough to know just how hard it is to make it here on your own. Even with a husband by my side I too often crave the companionship of close friends left back in Canada. My friends will never fully be able to understand just how much I miss them but I know what it’s like to be here without them. Sometimes it really down right sucks. This girls-only group isn’t a means of replacing those significant friends in our lives, it’s a means of adding to the collection of them and helping to make Korea feel all that more of a real home for however long we’re here.
If I really want to run an all-girls group, I think I’ll make a Cheonan chapter of Sisters Of Seoul. It’d be called Sisters Of Cheonan, S.O.C.
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.
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