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.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Back to the Grind... Monday, June 13

Today's Schedule:

7:00am  Running
9:00am  Phone meeting with the Ontario Athletic Commission
9:30am  Doctor's appointment for booster shot and boxing license lab results
12:10pm Financial adviser meeting at CIBC
4:00pm  Phone meeting with fan/company from Alberta
5:00pm  Phone meeting with company from France
8:30pm  Boxing 
10:30pm Tea with a friend
1:00am  Phone meeting with former PT client in Korea
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I haven't been to boxing since I returned from Mexico last Wednesday.  I mean, I've been boxing but at System.  Tonight was the first night I returned to training with Coach Perez.  We trained much later than usual.  I arrived at the club and pressed my hands up against the window.  He was already inside working away.  He unlocked the door and greeted me with a big smile and a hug.  I had missed him.  It was the first time I had since him since Mexico but not the first time I had talked to him since but I anticipated a lot of questions about the fight and my condition.  I feel okay.  I can't say I really much of the fight beyond two brief moments in it.  I think I just went into auto pilot, to tell you the truth.  I don't think I was mentally there.  I felt the most confident for a fight I had ever been -- confident but not cocky.  I knew I had trained hard.  I wasn't up to par with where I want to be or where I should be as a professional boxer but I knew I had given it my all during training.  I didn't have the raw talent like the others I had trained alongside had but I also knew they had also worked hard to make up where their raw talent perhaps had lacked.  They are always trying to master their craft and though I think I'm not on their level, I've trained hard to expand myself beyond the level I brought to Canada.  All I can do is keep on trying.  Better than yesterday.

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