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.

Sunday, June 02, 2019

A Quiet Birthday... Sunday, June 2

I didn't tell anyone but today was Hulk's Boxing's birthday, my boxing club in Korea.

Today was it's birthday and no one but me noticed or gave any kind of recognition to it.  I'm celebrating by moving forward, launching Day One of the soft opening of Empowered Clubhouse tomorrow.  No cake, no party, not even a text message to Snickers to say congrats... I'm going to open the doors of Empowered Clubhouse and show that I'm moving past Hulk's.  I'm on to a whole new business that is so much different, one that holes a lot of significance and meaning to me.  That's not to disrepect Hulk's for all that it was for me, I did love that place, but Empowered is so much more to me.  It's where I found my purpose, it's where my passion can thrive.  

I've always know what I'm passion about but I didn't know how to fully put it into practice, how to merge it with my purpose.  I really didn't know my purpose actually until the Philippines.  I always thought I knew it in Korea and perhaps I did but it was so hard and there were so many obstacles and loops I was jumping through to even begin to make an impact.  That's not to say I gave up, I definitely didn't, but this here, what I'm doing in the Philippines, has a different impact.  I have a different purpose, one that is more meaningful and one that includes fighting for the silenced.  

It's just a different fight here, one I believe is more of my calling than what I was fighting in Korea.

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