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, December 28, 2014

Working in Overdrive on a "Day Off"... Sunday, December 28

I didn't leave the house today.  I didn't even really leave my bed actually.  Instead, I worked on my Indiegogo campaign for Hulk's.  I worked on it for a good chunk of the day.  I'm hoping to launch it this week and some friends have really been helping me out a lot with it so I'm very optimistic about it all.  Whether it's bouncing ideas around about what perks to add, when I should start it or a friend willing to read it over and give detailed ideas, I'm very grateful for those who are on board with helping me out... very cool.

Working on my Indiegogo campaign today meant I worked on the following...
1. Editing the write-up of the actual campaign presentation.
2. Trying to connect PayPal with the campaign (which meant emailing both Indiegogo AND PayPal).
3.  Brainstorming perks.
4.  Contacting several sellers in the States to help me out with bulk ordering for the perks.
5.  Emailing back and forth to a fellow boxer who ran a similar campaign a while back.
6.  Brainstorming intro video ideas.
7.  Calling several sponsors for their input.

A friend of mine works for a local radio station in Seoul and will be sneaking me into their show this week, to help give Hulk's some publicity.  He's not really supposed to because the radio has a strict policy about their shows -- things must be passed through the big guy first and they have to stick to their set schedule and tight script -- but he's doing it anyways.... so very cool.

I have to get this campaign all typed up, edited and figured out by this week.  I'm hoping to launch it on New Year's day but time is ticking and I think I'll be pulling an all-nighter for this as well as milking it till the last minute.  Perhaps January 2nd would be the best day to launch it.  It'd give me an entire day off work to work on this, how ironic, plus with the time difference it'd be New Year's day in Canada anyways.... hahaha.  Way to milk the time zone difference, nice job.

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