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, February 13, 2019

The Juggle... Wednesday, February 13

I did the mistake and answered a business email... and then a business text.  Note to self, turn my phone on airplane mode when I step into the boxing club!!!  Falling into a funk wasn't what I needed, not now.

I don't have the luxury of having a team backing me up with Empowered.  It's me, myself and I. 

Lately I've been having a lot of extra people ask me do some extra work.  And, despite people labelling me quite anti-social, I am very well connected and know a lot of people, and some people have been asking me to connect them with others I know.  I'm more than happy to do so but it also means I've taken on a lot of extra work.  I'm currently working on getting a quote for 2,400 rugby shirts for a rugby camp and then working on a team training shirt for my rugby team.  I'm also getting a lot of printing down for some of my clients.  And while all this extra stuff is fine, I know I have some solid, solid connections that are super legit, the other day I was thrown a curve ball when my main printing guy resigned.  Holy O-M-G moment when I arrived at the shop and he wasn't there.  For the past year he's been such an amazing worker and I've leaned on him so much to help execute my ideas.

I've also been approached recently about possibly doing some motivational talks and even possibly an after school boxing program.  Both are things I'm most definitely interested in but it means a lot of extra work.  

I always think it's funny when people ask if I "just coach" because that's just the beginning of all that I do.  I also of course do my own boxing and now rugby, I also run my Lil' Sistas Outreach program, am helping with the operations of my boxing club in Korea (Hulk's), setting up my own clothing line, have launched my own boxing gear line, and am looking to open my own private boxing studio.  

I do a lot and sometimes it feels like I'm juggling too much.  

Sometimes the juggle is the struggle and not the individual things or the load of it all.  Sometimes it's hard to juggle things when things don't continue to go smoothly as planned, like today.  One business email and one business text, those two things were enough to throw my entire day off.  I have my little "training hacks" up my sleeve for getting myself out of my funk during training (see my IG for that list -- DeadAimAmy), but it's when I'm not training that the struggle is very much real.
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