The Tao of Self-Confidence

Cola Paclibar is the founder of Good Vibes Only Movement which is a positive content media platform that showcases their capability to produce content through your passion projects, partnerships and collaborations.  Cola is a third culture kid. She was born in Manila, and raised in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong in a semi-traditional but usually funky and open-minded Cebuano household. Her background is...

Ruby Lee is an online entrepreneur, a podcaster and a side hustle coach.  She was once nearly fired for having a side hustle, and today she dedicates her life and business to enabling early stage entrepreneurs everywhere to create options in their career and abundance on their own terms, some whilst balancing a day job. She is also the co-founder of Tribe9, a platform dedicated to helping funded s...

Lynn Pinugu is the co-founder of She Talks Asia and Mano Amiga.  She is a passionate advocate for women's empowerment and quality education for all.  Mano Amiga is a nonprofit organization providing high quality education and community development services to children & families from low-income communities.  Mano Amiga uplifts communities through increased student learning outcomes, improved acces...

Ai Addyson-Zhang is an entrepreneur and educator. As an educator, she connects the dots between technology/social media and education. She believes in using technology to effect positive changes in higher education.  Inside the classroom, she teaches Public Relations and Social Media courses.  her goal as a teacher is to bridge the gap between education and practice, exemplify what she teach esby...

Ikumi Schuckert is Mindset Coach and Mompreneur.  She was born and raised in Osaka, Japan and came to the United States during her sophomore year in college as an exchange student and pretty much never left ever since.  Ikumi currently lives in Lake Tahoe with her family.  She really enjoys being a mom of a 4-year-old daughter, and owns a successful wine fusion restaurant called Toast Tahoe in Zep...

Cathlyn Choi is a TV Producer/Host, Celebrity chef and community activist.  She has over 20 years of business development, sales and marketing executive background within the consumer electronics, wireless, media, wellness, health and beauty industries in North America, South America and Asia.  Since 2009, Cathlyn is best known for hosting and producing Cathlyn’s Korean Kitchen, the first Korean T...

Katie Chung Hua is a fitness professional. She used to live and breathe ice hockey and graduated from the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid, NY, where she was the hockey team's starting goaltender. Katie always worked out to become a better athlete, but as she moved on from hockey she kept lifting weights to stay in shape. With her competitive nature, Katie was convinced by her dad to try bod...

Patricia-Ann Que has over 10 years of experience in Project Management, Learning and Development, Events and Communications. She has organized various events in South East Asia, Middle East and now in North America. She also enjoys traveling and trying new things that brought about her personal blog, Crayonized. The blog is a reflection of her lifestyle focusing on fashion and traveling.  It is al...

Rukshana Hassanali is the founder of 2 startups in the education industry called Protohack and Startup League.  ProtoHack is a group of adventurers, dreamers and conceptualists who have successfully transitioned from wantrepreneurs to bona fide entrepreneurs. Startup League is teaching high school students how to solve problems through applied creativity in a fun, competitive, and low-stakes envir...

Natasha Che is the founder of Soundwise, the #1 mobile-focused audio publishing platform for experts, influencers and solo entrepreneurs to sell on-demand audios and build an engaged audience community for their podcast that delivers business results. Natasha is an award-winning podcast host and has coached over 200 experts and entrepreneurs on how to use podcasting to grow their business. She is...

Tanvi Mehra is a yoga teacher, professional dancer, and owns a dance/yoga studio called Tangerine Arts Studio in Mumbai.  At Tangerine, they take a fresh approach to create something new, unexpected and exciting. If it involves expression, movement, conversation and education, they are the studio for you.  In her free time, you will find her cuddling and kissing her baby Tara, her pet dog and or e...

Francesca Nicasio is a professional writer and content strategist, specializing in retail, technology and SMB.  Her work has been featured on various publications, including Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, and Thought Catalog.  She is also the content marketing manager for Vend, a cloud-based point-of-sale and retail platform for small and medium retailers.  Francesca has always loved writing. ...

Pradeepa Narayanaswamy is a Fertility Coach helping women, men and couples infertility journey SUCK LESS!  She believes couples, men and women who feel empowered during their fertility journey, have a more positive experience.  With 3 miscarriages, 3 failed Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI) treatments and 8 back-to-back In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments, she can understand what other couples...

Khushboo Nangalia is a growth marketer and the host of Women of Impact.  She is also the founder of BEYOND99 which is a strategic, tactical marketing & technology agency driven by data and focused on results. Delivering business growth with digital strategy, innovation and execution that can be measured.  She helps Brands Win In The Connected World.   Her show, Women of Impact, is a series she bri...

Clarice Lin is a Marketing Strategist, Growth Marketer and founder of BaselineLabs.  Ten years ago, she quit her job and left everything behind in Singapore to move to London. After more than 100 rejections over four months, she finally secured a job.  Five years later, she  co-founded BaselineLabs which is a growth-marketing and rebranding agency.  In her company, she utilized a practical, creati...

Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant of the National Heart Centre, Singapore and Professor of Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Program. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, completed advanced specialty training in Cardiology in Singapore, and pursued her Research Fellowship at the Cardiorenal Laboratory, Heart Failure Fellowship at the Division of Ca...

Nella Lomotan is a marketing professional, a hiking enthusiast and a freelance photographer. Nella discovered her passion for photography as a way to document her experiences and share her love for the outdoors. She also uses her Instagram and photo site as space to promote sustainable tourism eventually leading to a project with Masungi Georeserve and National Geographic.  Nella Lomotan is also i...

Rona Tai is a body positivity advocate and won third place in The Amazing Race Asia Season 5.  She also has her own fitness apparel called Be Amaz1ng. She is also known for sharing her modelling content, lifestyle photos, her daily life and fashion related content with her over 30,000 Instagram followers which has inspired others to learn to love their true self and not be defined by others or by...

Anne Espiritu led global communications to Yahoo during its most turbulent times and also built PR function from the ground up at a startup company . She decided to forfeit this life to do something more purpose driven.  Anne has worked with Google, World Bank Group and Oscar Health.  While at Yahoo, she was named to PRWeek’s Innovation 50 list in 2014.  In her spare time, she enjoys mentoring and...

Hoang-Kim Cung is a blogger and TV journalist.  She absolutely loves being a TV journalist.  For her, it’s such an adrenaline rush covering breaking news, but she loves being able to tell impactful stories.  She also created her own blog called Color and Chic where she is to express her creative side.  Hoang-Kim  also does nonprofit work  called Legacy Organization of Vietnamese Enrichment (L.O.V....

Yingying Li is the founder at Yingfluence and Your "China Green Pass."  Born and raised in China, she is a trilingual and multicultural world citizen who has lived and worked in India, Turkey, Brazil, Finland, Mexico and now the U.S.  Her mission is to become a lifelong culture explorer, change-maker, an international entrepreneur and an influential bridge between China and the world.   She has ex...

Charito Soriano is a singer-songwriter for two bands called Eko Zu and AstraLogik.  She has been playing and singing professionally for about 7-10 years.  Born and raised in the Bay Area, but recently transplanted to LA, Charito  has survived 33 years of human life mainly through the strong relationships and bartering systems that she has created with her partner, Rowenalyn Conlu. Charito shares h...

Aileen Xu is a YouTuber and the podcast host of The Lavendaire Lifestyle.  She also created the blog called Lavendaire which is a blog about personal growth and lifestyle design.  In her blog, she shares weekly knowledge and inspiration on becoming your best self and creating your dream life.  Aileen is also an artist of life which is someone who owns her power to envision and create her dream lif...

Tiffany Sorya is a modern educator with a new twist and the owner of Novel Education Group.  She believes in having an open and flexible teaching schedule so that her students can focus more on exploring their hobbies and passion.  Her unconventional teaching philosophies which is has transformed the homeschooling and tutoring programs across Southern California.  She has tutored some of the bigge...

Cielo Superticioso is a cancer blogger and advocate.  She was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Sarcoma.  She started a cancer blog called The Cancer Voice where she aims to make the cancer voice heard in Asia, especially in Vietnam and to strengthen the education of cancer.  Cielo is also a community organizer for Filipinos in Vietnam Support Group where  she focuses on building social organiza...