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.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Feeling Kind of Spent... Thursday, October 24

I'm going a little MIA for the next few days as I prep for the big Spartan race.  My body feels like it's been pushed to the limit and I felt it at boxing today when after shadow boxing, I felt like I was already running on empty.

(Kind of also pointing the finger here at someone who cooked me breakfast today with no carbs!)

Physically, my body is doing great but it's needing a break.
Mentally, my mind is craving a disconnection, a kind of "leave-me-alone" break.
Emotionally, I'm craving some quality time with my friends in Canada. 

While talking to one of my best buds in Canada, I got word that one of our friends had a brain tumour and then days after, his appendix ruptured!  He's had a few surgeries, consequently, and is on the mends.  That was rather rough to read that, even rougher is digesting the reality that I can't be there for him or his girlfriend who is also a close, long time friend of mine.  I lack friends like them here in the Philippines and that's probably the one thing this country is missing for me.  This weekend I have my first ever Spartan and while it'll be great having Skittles at the finish line waiting for me, it'd be even nicer to have close friends here to do it with me or be there with Skittles.  

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