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.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Finding the Time, not Making it... Sunday, June 16

After everyone left and 8pm rolled around, it was time for Snickers and I to close the club and head out for our usual Sunday “date night dinner”.  It felt funny though, being able to leave at 8pm when most days we’re here till midnight or later, even on our day off too. 

At dinner, we talked about our goals for the club and personal fitness goals.  My initial one year goal of acquiring 70 members is now becoming a quick reality in the span of our first month of business.  Snickers let it known that he wants to get into UFC fighting and I talked to him about my frustrations with my own training.  This past week Snickers became my new official coach which only has made it that much harder to get in training considering we so busy training our club’s members and Snickers training me ties both of us up.  

Business has been great but training for us has been bad, our own personal training that is.  So we’ve decided that Snickers will train at the start of our work day and I’ll train closer to the end.  In addition to all the training of members and trying to squeeze in our own training, there is of course the background work that most don’t see – preparing the juice bar, dealing with our suppliers, ordering additional things and meeting with sponsors. 

I’m struggling to do the next issue of the Fab Gals Gab for Flipside Fitness -- a 10 page magazine that I only have two other contributors adding to it.  It’s been a matter of sneaking into the office to brainstorm a couple of ideas or search online.  Tonight after we ate and then made a set plan on how to really attack our own personal goals, we headed back to the club.  Snickers brought all our pups to the club and played with them so that I could get in a couple of solid hours of steady work on the magazine and a friend’s bodybuilding homepage I manage for her.  


Around 1am we got a text from Mouse Doctor, Pacquiao's mother had just had puppies.  Instantly we locked up the club and raced over.  I counted nine puppies but I was sure there was more -- there was 13.  Add that to my list of things to do now -- helping them all find proper homes.  

After, we returned to the club to work some more.Today we were scheduled to work from 2pm to 8pm but left at 3:30am.  


2 comments:

Jacky said...

man, why don't they get that dog spayed?! Also, I think you're putting too much pressure on yourself for that magazine. 10 pages is a lot! Maybe switch it to bimonthly or until you can get more contributors.

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hi Jacky,
Oh, I TOTALLY agree with getting that dog spayed or the other one neutered! The father dog doesn't usually stick around the house though, it's been known to jump the 8 foot stone wall and leave so I think it just wasn't coming back. Apparently it did and when it did it got the other one pregnant. 13 babies though... ouch!!! Last time she had 9 and two died.
As for the magazine, I was thinking of doing it bimonthly but I think if it's bimonthly than perhaps the interest in it may die. Not sure. Just wish others would help.