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.

Friday, September 28, 2018

A Friendly Reality Check... Friday, September 28

I know I work a lot but I think when people hear I'm an entrepreneur and athlete, they assume I have the leisurely life and a lot of time on my hands which really couldn't be farther from the truth.  I also think that because my company doesn't actually have it's own physical space, that people think I don't work as much as I do. 

People can think what they want, I know I'm hustling.

Today friends from Canada showed up and it was such a reality check to how much I hustle.  

Convinced that the last time I saw them was 4-6 months ago, we got into a big discussion about how I was so wrong. Turns out it's been exactly a year since I last saw them.  And, if my time wasn't totally off with that, when discussing things with Skittles, I told them it's almost been a year since I first met him.  Turns out it's been two years.

TWO YEARS?!

In my boss babe hustle I've totally lost track of time, woozers.

"I'm going to blink and tomorrow I'm going to be 40", I joked.  Funny, but there is so much truth in that.  I'm so busy working around the clock, grinding at making Empowered, hustling and juggling things so much that I'm really not stopping to take a break and just simply enjoy life.

I was asked if I wanted a plane ticket to Canada, to see my family.  I declined.

I declined to see my friends and family in Canada because I had promised myself, back when I made the decision to make my next business here, that I wouldn't fly back until I set up my physical space and bought my ticket with money made via my company.  My company is very much making money but I've yet to set up the actual physical training space I'm working so hard on doing.  My prediction, we'll sign the lease before Christmas.  Technically, if I sign the lease before Christmas, I could go back to visit, but now I fear stepping away from the momentum I've started.  The ball is rolling now, I've got such a good momentum going now, to pause it for a moment to visit friends and family in Canada, I'm nervous and uninterested in taking that risk.  

Let's just keep the ball rolling.  Canada will always be there, this momentum won't.
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