What I learned from Michelle is that it’s really not about putting in more hours. You could be slogging day and night and never get to where you want to be. Michelle learnt that it’s about getting your clients to the results they want and it has nothing to do with how hard you work…
I worked with a developmental editor once a week who would read everything that I wrote and helped me structure the book and build our table of contents, where all these stories were part of the second part of that book, which is the keys to success as female entrepreneurs East Asian ones. winnie wong…
The mentor has no skin in your game. Whether you succeed or fail, you know, he or she is happy you succeed. But that’s about it. A sponsor has a stake in your success and usually in the best case scenario, the best way I can describe it from my own experience, a sponsor is…
I wanted to show American Indians that there’s actually a really cool way to discover your culture that doesn’t have to be through your parents’ lens because a lot of kids grow up understanding their culture from their parents’ lens. And sometimes it’s not in the best way.There’s really cool things going on that kids…
During my university time, I did a lot of volunteer work. One of it was a chance to go to the Mekong Delta and I had a chance to speak to the farmers at the delta. They were doing unsustainable farming and the soil was really bad. A lot of the farmers had cancer and…
I did not have a clue what I was doing. I was just like, oh, you know, you have grammar errors there. Let me fix it. I didn’t know what a press release was, what a blog post, what a website was. But I just started doing [writing] and I fell into it and over…
It was just a dinner that I started with, not necessarily with the intention of turning it into a business, but really starting to plant the seeds of that community and understand the needs of women like me. So it happened very organically through that process of me orienting towards the things that really matter…
I lived overseas for quite a long time and sometimes we learn about the trends and styles of new tourism products through our international friends. My friends from Singapore and France were the ones who told me that dental treatment in Vietnam is very cheap and they have a number of friends going to Vietnam…
I grew up in a traditional Pacific Island household, I went to church and I pushed the boundaries with my outfits. I always got in trouble from my mom. Too short, too revealing, too much cleavage, not enough clothing. But I wasn’t trying to challenge my mom. I just really loved fashion, not knowing that…
Two years after opening the studio, I had to close it because we were barely getting by. Actually I told everybody the reason for closing was that I wanted location freedom which was true but it wasn’t the full truth. The other reason for closing was that we were struggling so much financially and that…