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.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

I Rather Just Focus on Canada, Please... Thursday, September 18

Renovations have started in Korea, Phase Two is in full swing, and yet here I am in Canada totally missing out on all of it.  I can't even begin to tell you the array of mixed emotions I have over it because I don't even know to what extent things have evolved over there.

I don't want to talk about it.  It stresses me out so this means my conversations with Snickers is limited and few.  We have to move out of our current location, I get it and I agree, but it doesn't mean it's any easier to accept the fact that I'll be returning to a club in Korea that I hadn't even so much as lifted a finger to help in the making of it.
I feel bitter about it, to tell you the truth.  Bitter about it going down with out me, bitter about not really having a say about it, bitter about the fact we now have an actual business partner with the Phase Two location, and bitter that I'm totally not involved.
I can deal with a year away from Snickers, our Hulkies and our club, but to ask me to come back to a club that I never had a say in but uses half my money and has my name attached to it...wow, you're asking for a lot.  I never even got to say goodbye to our soon-to-be old club.  I didn't even know it'd be our soon-to-be old club.  Phase Two was a 5-10 year plan but it seems like no sooner did I leave the country but it was launched.

A part of me honestly wants to say screw you Korea and just start a new life here in Canada because it's not like I even have my club to go back to.  I lived for that club. 

1 comment:

Mrs. Kim said...

I realize that you're only revealing as much as you want to in these entries but honestly, it sounds like you and your husband are not only on different pages, but reading completely different books...and that's not a recipe for a strong relationship. Having mixed feelings about whether to make a life in Korea or Canada is one thing (and I know what I'm talking about, having made that choice several times) but you and your partner should be doing it together. In spirit if not in body!