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.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Woman Up!... Wednesday, August 29

For the record, the word "empowered" is not about skinny girls staying skinny and big girls getting skinny.  Empowered is about owning who you are -- mind, body and spirit.  It's about learning to love the skin you're in, self love and respecting your body.  Being beautiful on your own terms and being whomever and whatever your gorgeous little heart desires.  It's about you being you... you being MORE of you, expanding yourself.

If healthy isn't a size than neither is being empowered.

I just wanted to throw that out there.

So woman up and get with the program.

Also, while it's still fresh on the brain, just because you used the word "empowered" with your business does not imply that you're suddenly competition for me.  Don't flatter yourself.  You're neither the poster child of empowerment but instead, and to be truthfully honest here, kind of a bandwagon jumper and a privileged brat.  Just saying. 

...wow, Amy, tell them how you really feel.  I know, I know.  A bit harsh.

A lot of shit has hit the fan lately with haters coming out, one of which is someone that was pretty close to me and another being a self-proclaimed "competitor" who has the look that the fitness industry thrives on but not the experience or expertise to back it up. 

Okay, enough with the venting.

I'm cool if people think they're my competition.  They're not me and I'd appreciate it if they and others stop referring to them as being like me.  They don't even box.  I just wish more people would be themselves.  You be you and I'll be me, because no one is them and no one is me and that's our superpower.  That difference is what is our selling point, that we each bring different things to the table.  

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