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, March 01, 2019

Still Moving Forward... Friday, March 1

This time a year ago, my goal was to have my actual physical location for my company up and running.  I imagined a few staff members, an extra coach, and regular work hours.  

Thank God that never happened!!!

It's funny that what we think we want and what we end up needing are totally different because my business vision for Empowered is so different now compared to where it was a year ago.  And even a year and a half ago, when I thought I needed a partner so I sought out one, things were so completely different.

I now am backing to being a one-woman team with a different mission and a different vision.  And the big bold boxing club that I once craved has evolved into this boss babe, exclusive facility that's definitely deserving of the name clubhouse.  It's going to be elite, it's going to be discrete, and it's going to be more badass bold and fiercely fierce than ever imagined.

I used to think that I couldn't compete with the others in the fitness industry but once I realized it wasn't about competing and trying to be like them then things dramatically changed.  It was about me being more me.  I will never be that sexy, skinny trainer because that's not me and that's not what I want to be anyways.  I'm not sexy and I'm not skinny.  Sexy is overplayed and distracting, and skinny doesn't necessarily mean healthy.  I see all the time these self-proclaimed female trainers in the Philippines who look like they couldn't do a pushup to save their life.  That's not me.  That will never be me!!!  And, if anything, I want thicker legs, a core like a tree truck, and a smaller chest.  I want to look like I could seriously kick anyone's butt without a question of a doubt.  I want to look intimidating and fierce, not tiny and feeble. 

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