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.

Tuesday, January 08, 2019

No Space Here... Tuesday, January 8

I saw my condo pool today.  It's been under renovations for the past few months and today I decided to check it out.  It was almost completely empty, just a bit of water near the drain, so I jumped in it and snapped the above picture.

So often I feel like I'm drowning with running Empowered, to tell you the truth.  I've got a clothing line I'm launching, a boxing gear line already up and selling, personal training clients I coach daily, the Lil' Sistas Project where I coach a total of 86 girls now, and three packages of designed Lil' Slay gear I designed for them is sitting at customs, waiting for me to pick it up.  I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to store all these gloves and hand wraps for these girls but I also didn't think I wouldn't have my private boxing studio up by now.  

My goal was December, 2018.  

It's now January, 2019.

Oh, and the "Snail Mail Sista Program" I'm creating for some of my Lil' Sistas here in the Philippines and others at a particular boxing club in Canada, yeah... I also have that I'm looking to launch in the next month.

It's a lot I'm juggling and as well as I'm juggling it and in love with what I'm doing, I question how sustainable it is for me to be sprinting through life like this, with no team to fall back on, no assistant to catch me if I trip, and no actual physical space to call my own.

Honestly, it all comes down to me just really, really, really wanting my own space. 

Empowered needs a space.

I'm feeling like a gypsy lately with carrying all my gear from client-to-client and with trying to find yet another random corner or space in my condo to tuck all my training and coaching gear.

I have no idea where I'm going to put all those Lil' Slay gloves and hand wraps.

I just want to get my place up and running.  I'm beyond eager for it now.  I've got entrepreneur blue-balls, seriously.

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