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, September 15, 2018

Jaw Drop... Saturday, September 15

No Spartan Beast race today on account of the potential typhoon, which meant I stayed in the Fort BGC and resumed life as usual -- early morning client, worked on Empowered and then killed it at weight training.

6:00am     Wake up
6:45am     PT client training
8:30am     Breakfast 
10:00am   Errands at Market Market (the mall)
1:30pm     Laundry and work on Empowered Clubhouse financials
6:00pm     Weight training: leg day!!!
8:45pm     Mexican Independence Day party at Hacienda
10:30pm   Light groceries
11:00pm   Arrive back at home... and pretty much crash shortly there after.

With no Spartan race, I assumed my day would be pretty chill but it was kind of opposite.  I spent a good chunk of my day working on my financials for Empowered, trying to play with the numbers to see how the Poblacion location would work and how the BGC would compare to it.  

It's a big chunk of money, regardless of what location I go with.  

I talked to a friend about it and she commented about "how cheap things are in the Philippines".  I was annoyed at her comment.  The so-called "cheap prices" of the Philippines aren't cheap when you compare what we're all making here, the general public that is.  Sure, it's cheap for Canadians in Canada, Americans in America, but I'm a Canadian in the Philippines, making pesos and no Canadian dollars.

Let me give you an example...

In Canada, my PT client pays $70Cdn for an hour of one-to-one boxing coaching.  That's 2,800Php.
In the Philippines, that same client only has to pay $12.50Cdn, 500Php. 

And before you drop your jaw at the realization of the price difference, I should note here that the average person in the Philippines only actually makes 500Php a day, so the fact that I make that in one hour of coaching, ya, now you can drop your jaw.

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