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, May 18, 2017

Plugging in the Numbers... Thursday, May 18

I’ve been given a heads up – we’re doing financials on Friday.

This heads up meant that today I slaved away at Starbucks, Googling and researching, emailing my main supplier and typing up numbers I’ll need to have tomorrow. 

CANCEL ON FINANCIALS ON FRIDAY… my main business mentor is flying out to Boracy. I got invited to join but that’d mean missing out on my training, more importantly my boxing, plus trying to figure out what to do with Balboa. 

Slaved away figuring out all the needed numbers only to be told around midnight that our meeting will be postponed. Can’t say I’m sad but I can’t say I’m happy either. Financials are something I hate doing but need to do.

Highlight of today was getting word back from someone I wanted to hire for Hulk’s back in the day. She’s Filipino and she’s in the country. I had anticipated her being out of country like she usually is but low and behold she’s here. I reached out to her today and offered her a job for my company. She may or may not take it, it all depends on if her out-of-country deal goes through or not, but she was super excited. I’ve got about 9 different job positions to fill which means I’ll have to hire about 20-25 people. My company is going to be a women-only business – for women ran by women – which is fantastic but it means it’s super hard finding these rare women to fit these stereotypically men-filled roles. 

My crew is going to consist of 20-25 fabulous females and the more I think about it the more I’m super excited about it. I built Hulk’s and I absolutely loved it but I worked mainly with just Snickers. We had hired trainers and random help but they were always just an accessory and we never got attached to them, beyond Kato that is. This time it’s going to be different. I’m going to be as in love with my crew as I am with my Second Dream. I’m going to be the best boss to work for and I’m going to love it more than I ever loved Hulk’s. Hulk’s was just a warm-up for what’s next.

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