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, July 02, 2012

On A Mission, Several Missions Actually... Monday, July 2

Apparently I have been appointed as manager for a newly formed baseball team. It consists of 9 Korean men and though they don’t quite yet have a name, they have been calling themselves La Cubo Spaghetti. I was told of my role today at 7:40 in the morning when I rolled over to see Snickers on the phone. I hadn’t yet digested what Snickers had told me but then he jumped up and insisted I get ready. “We have a meeting at 8am”.

We?!
A meeting… meeting for what?!

I really had no clue what he was talking about though I vividly remember him mentioning something in passing the other day about wanting to play baseball.  As the story has it, all the male workers at the restaurant Snickers co-manages created a baseball game and today’s so-called meeting was to pick out equipment at a local baseball shop. 

Ended up spending a good part of the morning picking out baseball equipment after I opened my mouth and started giving pointers.  I have never played baseball beyond hitting the ball around with my brothers at the local baseball diamond but I used to watch The Blue Jays (Toronto’s professional team) religiously and I always watched the local peewee league.  Snickers and his newly appointed teammate ate up my tips and were loving it.  They say they’re going to give me an official manager jersey but that’s ok… hahaha. 

The rest of my day was spent preparing things for this weekend’s Seoraksan Get Fierce, Get Fearless, Get-Away event that my company Flipside Fitness is hosting.  I also spent a huge chunk of my day working on a new project I’m hoping to launch tomorrow – a Flipside Fitness newsletter.  I took the day off of boxing today on account that I’m definitely one of those people who hates to start something without finishing it, so that’s exactly what I did today.  I started it and finished it all in one sitting. 

Then it was off to Dongdaemun.  We arrived shortly before midnight and with two specific missions on our minds, we got down to business and then left.  By the time we arrived back in Cheonan it was creeping up to 4am.  

Mission One:  Uniforms for La Cubo Restaurant – the baseball team’s practice uniform and a work uniform
Mission Two:  Rain coats for the Seoraksan Get Fierce, Get Fearless, Get-Away (Flipside Fitness event)


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