Hello, friend! Let’s get acquainted, shall we?

If you have come across this article on Business Insider and wonder if the 3rd person in the photo is me. Then, the answer is yes. I am named to Business Insider’s 2020 inaugural list of the most innovative career coaches in the world. In 2021, I was a semi-finalist for Forbes Next 1000, celebrating small businesses still thriving through the pandemic. Am I proud? Yes, as a mom of young kids, having these achievements while nurturing our family’s happiness, means so much to me. But there’s more to who I am, which I share below. And I can’t wait to get to know you and help uncover your Happiness Infinity Zone and create your Happiness Infinity Story with you.

Semi-finalist for Forbes Next 1000

FIRST, LET’S OPEN THE PERSONAL DOOR OF MY WORLD (and I look forward to meeting and knowing each of you in person as well!).

  • First and foremost, I am a mother of three happy children, and a wife of a brilliant feminist husband, living in greater New York City area.
  • My mother named me after a great Vietnamese actress she loved, and not to her dismay, I once cast for a national TV commercial in Singapore where we had resided for over a decade.
  • When I was small, I wanted to be a diplomat. As I explored the bigger world around me, I no longer had the same dream. However, I had the chance to shake hands with the late President of Singapore S. R. Nathan, meet with Singapore’s late Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, shrug shoulder with the previous Minister of Women, Family and Community Development of Malaysia, exchange words with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long, ask a question to the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and have a brief chat in Chinese with Alibaba’s CEO, Jack Ma.
  • My family, friends, ex-colleagues and clients all would say that I am inspiring, passionate, energetic, creative, analytical, resilient, hard-working, results-oriented, and courageous. (Well, my helper – when we lived in Singapore, after staying with me for some time, branded me “organic, classic, natural” :))
  • My clients would tell I have vibrant energy, remarkable inspiration, happy personality, abundant positivity, great patience and empathy.
  • Astrologist would call me a Libra. MBTI test shows that I am an ESTJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judgment). Strength Finders identifies my five strengths: Individualization, Strategic, Communication, Relator, and Achiever. My Enneagram number is 3 (the Achiever) with wing 2 (the Helper).

NOW LET’S ALSO OPEN THE PROFESSIONAL DOOR OF MY WORLD…

  • I have done 7 different jobs in my career: Finance Controller (for my grandma’s shop at the age of 7), Business Owner (I started a profitable book rental business at the age of 9), Journalist, Researcher, Lecturer, Actress (with my son for a Singapore’s national commercial promoting Kindness), and Human Resources Professional.
  • My experience spans across 9 industries: Retail, Business, Journalism, Non-profit, Academia, Film, FMCG, Technology, and E-commerce.
  • I have worked and lived in 3 countries being Vietnam, United States, and Singapore.

ANOTHER DOOR TO SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW IN MY WORLD…

  • When I am not coaching my clients or my kids, I find myself reading, writing, painting, breathing in life from the streets of  NYC, doing yoga, cooking traditional Vietnamese food or making salads with spontaneous recipes of my own, travelling, or delivering free career workshops for my community. Recently, I have been trying a number of plant-based recipes and am loving them!
  • Apart from being a coach, I am a world and life traveler who has been to 5 continents and got lost in every little beautiful thing that life has to offer, in its truest sense of being a “traveler”. From the safari in Kenya to the streets in Cuba to a village in Ireland, I love discovering about nature, history, and culture as much as I enjoy conversing with strangers. 
One of my paintings: I painted this piece when I reminisced my childhood and a window from my aunt’s place. Reliving a happy memory through a creative medium is one of my brain-based happiness habits that helps me strengthen the positivity neural pathways in my brain so I show up for myself, my family and my clients fully present and energized.

AND LET’S GO TO THE BUSINESS:

  • 14 years ago, when doing my Master Degree in Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, I once asked Tony Blair a question after he delivered a speech to the professors and students of my school. Instead of getting the answer right away, I was happily heartened by his non-stop praise for about 30 seconds at first, “Wow, that’s a brilliant question! It’s the kind of question we ask in politics! You will have a great future!”
  • 14 years later, as I fully own my HI Zone, I believe I am where that future unfolds…

How about you? Are you ready for your Happiness Infinity Zone as well? If you are, please apply for a Free Discovery Session with me here.

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