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, December 27, 2019

Conclusions Realized... Friday, December 27

It costs a fortune to live in the city and the amount of crazies here is next level crazy.

Two conclusions I've reached in the limited time I've been here so far.  But I still love the city, or do I?!  Haven't reached that conclusion yet.  The conclusion I have reached though is that I miss my friends so much, they're a vital part of my life that is so clearly missing in my life in the Philippines.  I don't have friends there like I do have here -- friends I can just relax with and that aren't connected to my business.  

In Korea, I used to joke and say that if you didn't know my last name, it's because we weren't close friends.  In the Philippines, I think it's if you and I haven't had a coffee together than we aren't close friends.  That's not to say people like my fighters and rugby mates aren't important to me, they obviously are, but I have never had coffee with any of them because in my personal time, what limited personal time I do actually have, I'm very picky with who I spend it with.  Honestly, most of the time I just rather be alone in my down time.  My down time is super quiet, it's an ultra quiet down time.  Coffee out usually just means me drinking coffee alone, something I never did in Korea or in Canada, but it's something I do on the regular in the Philippines. 

Another conclusion I came to was the notion that my real life in the Philippines is so much better than my vacation life here in Toronto, Canada.  I miss so much about the Philippines and life for me is just more productive, more satisfying and happier.  I'm doing what I love there and although it sometimes feels like it's swallowing me whole and exhausting me, I feel like I've found my purpose and place and it's there in the Philippines.

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