September 9, 2023
I’ve never felt like I belonged. “Never” is a really long time to feel like you don’t fit in, but being the only half-Asian person in my entire small town reminded me daily that I was “different.” My childhood was spent trying to fit in. …
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September 8, 2023
I remember the day I realized I was “old” – or I guess I should say I remember the day when I started looking old. It was after a photo shoot with a new photographer. As the proofs came across my computer screen, I opened the files and sat in s…
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September 8, 2023
I was married at the ripe age of 22. Fresh out of college with a degree in one hand, a part-time job at the church I loved in the other. I was following a dream that I thought I was “supposed” to have: Go to college, go to a small group, meet the…
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September 6, 2023
At the age of 19, I found myself in a rather imperfect situation. I was a single mom, unwed, and unhappy. Things didn’t work out with my high school boyfriend the way I had planned, so after a failed shotgun wedding, I returned to college with a ba…
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September 5, 2023
I don’t think of myself as a business owner but rather, a community builder. Over the past ten years my co-founders and I have imperfectly built a business out of building communities. Specifically, fitness communities. These communities are built …
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