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.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Cleaning Is a Mofo... Tuesday, June 11

My days are a bit messed up, I must admit.  I sat down thinking it was Wednesday when it's really Tuesday. Days blend into days more so now than ever and I don't recall what I did yesterday besides work at the boxing club.  

We're now less than 10 people away from my initial one year goal.  Our members come in waves, almost like a bus drops them off because we'll be dead for about an hour, if that, and then all of a sudden 8 members will come in to train.  Most of our members come with a friend or two, we even have a couple that comes a trains together.  So we're doing great on the membership end of business but we're needing to get more workers in.  Right now we have Snickers, myself and Trainer Thor -- our Crossfit Circuit Training instructor for the 8pm class.  Next month on the 12th, Trainer Stark will be officially joining our crew, working full time for us as our assistant as well as hosting the earlier Crossfit Circuit Training class.  That'll bring our staff up to four of us but today we were asked if we could hire another -- our sponsor's son.  He's here anyways all the time and already he's been helping me with translate signs and forms.  Most of our members know him or at least know of him.  The problem now is finding an appropriate position for him.  He wants to mingle with our members, specifically our non Korean members.  However what we need, if we're going to take on another worker, is someone to help us clean.  We usually clean the floor in sections -- one or two sections per day at the start of work, depending on the section size.  The largest section, being the boxing and boxercise area, takes a good hour to vacuum and wash.  Then there is of course the fact that we have to clean the tiled areas of the floor on a daily bases but the bathroom and wipe down the mirrors, adding an additional hour to our cleaning.  Two hours of cleaning, that's if no one interrupts us, no members come in for training or we don't have anything else to do first.  

"Cleaning is a mofo", was the new English expression I tried to teach Snickers today.  When he tried to say it later on in the day however, it came out as "Cleaning is for mother".  Ohhhh Snickers, you don't even know how Korean you are sometimes!

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