The Tao of Self-Confidence

Kat Gumabao is an international plus-size model and women empowerment advocate.  She is making a name for herself in the modelling industry and has been seen in major fashion shows such as Paris Fashion Week and the New York Fashion Week.  She is redefining what is means to be beautiful in your own skin and changing the definition of fashion and beauty in the modelling world. Kat shares how she is...

Samaira Mehta is a 9-year-old girl who lives in Silicon Valley, California.  She is a Founder, Speaker, Inventor and a Maker who created a board game called Coderbunnyz and a company to teach coding among kid of age 4-104. CoderBunnyz is the most comprehensive coding board game available.  Besides coding, Samaira is a blogger, songwriter, singer, swimmer and an ice skater. She does workshops at li...

Paige McPherson (aka McFierce) is an Olympic taekwondo competitor from the United States.  She represented the USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women’s 67 kg taekwondo event, and in the preliminary round secured a surprise defeat over Team GB's Sarah Stevenson. Paige went on to win a bronze medal by defeating Franka Anić of Slovenia 8-3.  After winning a Gold medal in the 2016 Pan American G...

Jules Reyes is a matchaholic, a matcha blogger and co-founder of the matcha blog called Saint Matcha.  Jules has created one of the biggest matcha communities on Instagram featuring the very best matcha finds in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.  The blog, Saint Matcha, is also the ultimate resource for the matchaholics everywhere. Jules shares how she used to settle for less and broke out...

Marilen Faustino- Montenegro is an Interiors and product stylist, a digital content creator and a design and lifestyle blogger.  She is also the founder of the lifestyle blog called Marilen Styles.  creating space by carefully curating furniture and decor is what Marilen does best.  She believes in making the home beautiful one step at a time because surrounding yourself with clean and pretty surr...

Valerie Grace is a Holistic Success Coach at the Speed Of Grace Holistic Breakthrough Coaching Program.  She helps female high achievers breakthrough their 'impossibilities' and achieve success in career, relationships and health.  She has also been featured in numerous publications such as Cosmopolitan, Channel NewsAsia and more. Valerie shares the importance of empowering yourself.  When you emp...

Precious Angellyn Sanchez is an International flight attendant and travel blogger.  Travel has always been a passion of Precious and she is living her dream while inspiring others to do what they love by sharing her travel photos on social media. Precious shares how looking back at her past accomplishments that she achieved gave her the confidence to fly higher in her career and live the life of h...

Lauren Toyota is a former MTV Canada host and a YouTube sensation. Her channel and blog, Hot For Food, attract a wide and engaged audience of young people curious about how to make vegan food fast and fun. In less than two years, her YouTube channel has gained 330,000 subscribers. She lives in Toronto, Canada.  Her cookbook, Vegan Comfort Classics: 101 Recipes To Feed Your Face (Coming out Februar...

Danah Gutierrez is the co-founder of Plump.ph.  She is also a body positive advocate, model, and author.  Plump.ph is an advocacy website aiming to raise awareness about everything body positive in the Philippines.  The website has been featured in numerous top publications online and offline across the nation.  Danah loves Jesus, good food, make up artistry, and 90s hip-hop (in that particular or...

Anastazcia Gutierrez (also known as Stacy) is the co-founder of Plump.ph.  She is also a body positive advocate, model, and author.  Plump.ph is an advocacy website aiming to raise awareness about everything body positive in the Philippines.  The website has been featured in numerous top publications online and offline across the nation. Stacy shares how she was able to come out of an eating disor...

Bonnie Chiu is the Founder and CEO of Lensational.  She has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30’s Social Entrepreneur in Europe in 2017 at 24 years old, was awarded Young Achiever at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards and the Hong Kong Youth Service Award. The Entrepreneur.com has listed her as one of 30 International Entrepreneurs Really Are Solving the World's Problems. Lensational is a non-profi...

Tiffany Lo is the Senior Supervising Video Producer at BuzzFeed working on the Facebook pages such as Goodful and Tasty. Tiffany manages the teams that create content for Buzzfeed's Facebook distribution, including Tasty, the short-form video cooking instruction and discovery site that we all love to watch. Tiffany shares how she started from the bottom and work her way to where she is today.  She...

Paola Mardo is a writer, reporter, and producer of podcasts, radio, and creative projects including interactive audio fiction, criticism, and investigative journalism. She specializes in longform storytelling and stories about art, technology, and culture.  Paola is also the host of F This Weekly, a podcast which is about women of color in the arts and entertainment. The show included interviews a...

Samantha Jo is an actress and a martial artist.  She got her first introductions into the Hollywood stunt industry after her Olympic feat. By age 18 and with a filmography that already included Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Sucker Punch (in which she stunt doubled Jena Malone), Samantha moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career. It is here that landed her breakout role of “Kitana” in the...

Eliza Romero is a style blogger/photographer/pop culture critic at Aesthetic Distance.  She publishes outfit photos every week within a personal blog post about her feelings about race, especially when it comes to Asian American issues, fashion, gender, politics, anything really. Eliza also shoots fashion editorials for her blog using her own personal style aesthetic and she always tries to book m...

Phoebe Chongchua is a multimedia Brand Journalist, Brand Consultant & Marketing Strategist who is revolutionizing brand communication with consumers. She makes companies remarkable using brand journalism storytelling to grow their online presence, build a community, and gain greater market share. Phoebe is a former San Diego ABC TV News journalist who helps brands gain a competitive advantage by l...

Shama Hyder is the CEO of the award-winning agency, The Marketing Zen Group, and best-selling author of two books, The Zen of Social Media Marketing and Momentum. As a keynote speaker and CEO, she's worked with many leading brands, including AT&T, Capital One, Mary Kay, Dippin' Dots and Chase and has been featured across all major media channels, including MSNBC, Fox Business, Forbes, Inc. and The...

Tracey Nguyen is an ecommerce entrepreneur and cofounder of Lipstick And Muffin Media where she helps female entrepreneurs/bloggers to build their online empire. She provides you with services that customized to you and your business's needs. From one on one coaching, website building to SEO & social media management, Tracey has what you need to grow and succeed as an incredible female entrepreneu...

Florine Eppe Beauloye is the cofounder of mOOnshot digital and Top  50 Asia's Woman Leaders.  Passionate about digital alchemy, and a firm believer in the immeasurable value of the human touch in digital transformation, she is an award-winning marketing strategist and entrepreneur. She is powered by an impressive international marketing experience spanning over a decade and a strong network within...

​E​mily ​E​dwards is the co-founder/director​ of Huntrlnd​, has been a designer in the fashion industry since 2006.  During this time she worked for several prominent ​A​ustralian fashion brands, including ​Yeojin ​B​ae, ​W​hite ​S​uede and ​W​itchery.  The debut HUNTR collection was the first collection edwards released under her own brand name.  This collection sold throughout Australia and Germ...

Serena Poon doubles as a classically-trained chef and nutritionist to her clientele.  She passionately focuses on the importance of whole body and mind wellness. She is known for curating individual healing and wellness programs using integrative health, holistic nutrition and culinary alchemy. Serena shares how a major setback in her life gave her the opportunity to shift her focus into another c...

Joss Bacalla is the founder of JossBecause which is  a lifestyle and entertainment website. From fashion and beauty tips, to interviews with interesting minds, she thrives to create and evoke discussion.  With the help of passionate and vibrant contributors, Joss hopes to inspire, entertain, and spread a little bit of humor, just because.  Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario I’ve spent most of my...

Adrienne Na is a Board certified naturopathic doctor, fitness model and personal trainer.  She is also an International Level Bikini Athlete who likes to motivate/inspire others by sharing her own fitness journey. Adrienne shares how being in the fitness industry has helped live a life of passion and purpose, stopped hiding her true self  and is able to express herself again like when she was a ki...

Maggie Hsu is the cofounder of Mochi Magazine which is an online magazine dedicated to young Asian American women, and is run entirely by an amazing group of volunteers.  Maggie graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA and from Harvard College with a degree in biology. She has worked in the luxury and the hospitality industries and is currently at an e-commerce company in San Francisco....

Devika Srimal started her career at Ernst & Young, London in Financial Services and simultaneously qualified as a Chartered Accountant. She always had an entrepreneurial itch since she was little and found her calling when she moved back to Delhi and identified a gap in the footwear industry.  After a brief stint at Deloitte, she started KANABIS which is a brand for fashionable, high quality and P...