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.

Saturday, January 09, 2016

Getting Back into Workaholic Mode, Possibly... Saturday, January 9

Yesterday was kind of crazy -- morning sparring, evening sparring, late evening weights.

Yesterday was kind of crazy so today I wanted nothing more than to simply relax.  I had to coach my 2:30pm class so of course this meant showing up sporting an extra dose of hyperness.  I then headed off to System for weight training but only after I met up with my girl, Ginger Spice, for a much needed second caffeine dose.  

Weight training at System; worked on legs.  I love training legs.

Spent a good chunk of my day working on stuff for my Second Dream.  But,to t ell you the truth, I'm still hesitant as to whether or not I want to go this route, launch what will be my third business, or if I rather piggy back on two other businesses I'm very much interested in and approaching them with the business proposal I've been working on for the past little bit.  

Today -- Second Dream work, coaching, training, and then a meeting.

Tonight I headed out to meet up with someone, a manager at a local gym.  It was a first meeting and I embarrassed myself totally by mistaking some random person as being the person I was there to meet.  Here's how it all went down:

Him: Hi.
Me:  Hi.
Him: Ohhhh, hi!
Me:  Yes, hi. [stepped forward and hugged him].
Him: You look great.
Me:  Thanks, you're not so bad either.

Him: Where are you sitting?
Me:  ...where ever you're sitting.

Him: Ummm... I'm not sitting; I'm working.
Me:  Working or 'working it'?
Him: Working.
Me:  Okay, so this is awkward.  You're not ******?
Him: No, I'm not.
Me:  [turned beat red, covered my face, did about a 100 circles on the spot].

Turns out this mystery man who I had mistook as being the person I was suppose to meet was actually the restaurant's bar manager.  Yup, it's true.  And not only that but the person I was there to see saw this all go down and for the rest of the evening I squirmed every time the bar manager passed by me.  I avoided eye contact with him at all cost; I was so embarrassed.  

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