“It’s only when we look back that we see a path, and it’s only there because we blazed it.” Twyla Tharp How have you been? An acquaintance whom I’ve never met in 3 years asked. While I blurted out ‘I’m good’, I wondered if there’s one word that could fully represent the path. Or a state…
“You change the world when you create something that never exists before.” — Srinivas Rao When Frankie and I started Own Your Story community event, we were not inspired by such a noble reason. We both spent a lot of time figuring out ourselves, went through 10-days of silence in Vipassana meditation, felt that something is missing in our society…
A friend saw my frequent posting on FB and asked me why I started a podcast when he knew that there was no money involved. I didn’t tell him that I felt ‘called’ to do it, I wonder what he would say. After finished talking about the 12 chapters in my self-published book on FB…
After so long, your life is still so fluid. A friend told me recently. It caused me discomfort and transported me back to a similar conversation we had one and a half years ago. I was emotionally crushed when he told me that I was ‘floating’. I didn’t know myself well enough to stand up…
After self-publishing my own story, I realized that a book doesn’t sell by itself. I started to think about what more I can do to inspire millennials to own their story and create a life they love. When a person reminded me that I am not in the writing industry but the personal development industry,…
There were times people questioned my decision, the way I drifted in life. There were times I felt hurt and angry when people close to my heart didn’t understand my values. Feeling that the world owed me an understanding, I was struck by a moment of truth — isn’t this diversity? That we are all different and…
When the idea of writing a book for millennial first came to me, I jumped at it in excitement. As the idea sank in, I was overwhelmed with fear. ‘Am I good enough?’, ‘Do people care about what I say?’, ‘How will people judge me?’, ‘Will it hurt?’ These thoughts sucked the excitement of the…
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…
Brene Brown’s TED talk, ‘The Power of Vulnerability’, is one of the most popular TED Talks of all time for a reason — she shines a light on ‘shame’ that all of us experience silently at some point in our life, pointing that authentic connections are built in the space of vulnerability, imperfection, and brokenness. Inspired by…
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…