Raised by a Catholic father and Buddhist mother, I’m a hybrid of opposites: a candid, hustling, ambitious New Yorker; and a yoga loving, meditating, spiritual Angeleno. I subscribe to the ‘Law of Attraction’, made popular by the book and movie The Secret, but said subscription is not free. For those who may not be familiar, the Law of Attraction is defined as our ability to magnetize what we desire from the Universe by simply focusing on the feelings we’d have as if we’ve alr

One of the most powerful women within my network is a petite and soft spoken colleague with the class of a geisha and the entrepreneurial agility of a ninja. When most in her bracket are revving towards retirement, she's perched in her eagle’s nest of success; both to admire the view and to call the shots. She leverages her tenure, experience, and clout to support the hustlers and dreamers who really distinguish themselves within her enterprise. She always knows where her tea

Rocky Balboa was inspired by the true story of my mother growing up in rural Taiwan in the 1950s. Well, I’d like to think so at least... My mom lost her father at three, and grinded through hunger and poverty for most of her formative years. She didn’t know a dress could be new, and it wasn’t until she was a teenager that she stopped wearing second hand clothes. She was fortunate to have government sponsored free education, but depended on ONLY one pencil and notebook that wa