When I read Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection ‘Milk and Honey’, I was moved by the simplicity and strength in her words. I was inspired by how powerful words can be. She cracked her heart open like a walnut. I could resonate with her words, like how she wished she could connect deeper with her father,…
After four years of wandering, hitting roadblocks and exploring, I quit the café industry for good and committed fully to content writing with a few projects in the pipeline. The first day I transitioned from café industry to a full-time solopreneur, I woke up in fear. Out of desperation, I tried to seek comfort from…
At 26, I went back home, back to having nothing in life. When I left the company I started, I knew I was following a path that felt like my path. Even though I was not sure where it would lead to, I was ready to find out. I was scared of a blank page,…
‘It was the biggest fall in my career that defines who I am.’ Nastia Liukin said this in a recent interview on Impact theory. As a reigning Olympic all-around gold medalist in 2008, she fell flat and hard in her face during the uneven bar routine in the Olympic trial 2012. She got up, hopped…
In 2016, when the café consultancy company I co-founded evolved over time, it became a trading company which I was not inspired to be part of. I lost motivation to grow it even though I knew what I could do. Was I living at my full potential? Why had I stopped exploring? What do I…
I felt scared a lot lately. I asked a friend who started a specialty coffee shop in our small, remote hometown, ‘don’t you feel scared to hold on to your vision when nobody saw what you saw? She told me about her ‘worst-case-scenario’ test – what is the worst that could happen? When you know…
In the midst of getting a book out, I wanted to hide. After frequent posting and shouting about myself, my book, my work, approaching people to collaborate, and asking for help, I was ambushed by a profound moment of doubt. What am I doing? Even though the ball was rolling, I had a breakdown. Ryan…
When I started a café consultancy company with my partners, my vision was to make a name in the industry that I was interested in. I didn’t quite understand the essence of building a business or creating unique value for people. Growing up, I wasn’t exposed to business world. I never thought it would be…
I had 3 partners when we set up a café consultancy company in in 2015. After a celebration lunch, I felt sick. I was drowned in emptiness and anxiety – what have I done with my life? I remembered walking up a hill and gazing down at the city, feeling the warmth of sunshine and…
It started with an idea, a desire. It grew stronger and stronger. The manuscript sat in my folder until a friend came onboard and said, ‘hey, let’s do this together’. When I announced my book launch to friends and family, I stepped past the point of no return. From a passion project it elevated to…
I caught up with a friend right before the year ended. After telling him what I had been through this year and what I’m working on, he told me that I had a good life. He made me think. I started 2017 with nothing After withdrawing from my first venture, I went back home, back…
As my upcoming book, ‘The Art of Owning Your Story’, is turning into reality, I was often torn between excitement and doubt. It’s a book about my experiences, struggle and growth as I went through life transformation from corporate, coffee to entrepreneurship. Putting my thoughts and emotions out there, raw and naked, I knew it…