ABOUT ME

MY JOURNEY FROM STRUGGLE TO HAPPINESS

My story is not a story you will hear every day, here it is in short.

CHAPTER ONE: BM647 – A REPLAY OF MY GRANDPARENTS

My grandparents escaped the Chinese communists and settled in Vietnam. I was born there just as the war was ending. War had brought us destruction, tragedy, and suffering, then left us with deceased loved ones. It also left us with the Communist Party's leadership.
For many, Communist Party leadership bears little significance. After the war, the Communist Party promise was to achieve equality for all. This wasn’t real. Instead, they seized wealth from entrepreneurial Chinese and other successful business owners to benefit the Party. They controlled who stayed at your house overnight and where you traveled. The penalty for violating these inhumane rules was death. The choices we faced were be shot at the scene of any alleged violation, or be taken away never to be seen again; we chose neither. Being of Chinese descent, we felt targeted, insecure, and threatened. When we decided to leave, the Communist Party had just declared it was illegal to leave Vietnam. We were left with a dangerous, uncertain boat trip to the island of Pulau Bidong, Indonesia, on boat BM647, escaping for a better future.
Leaving on 647 involved more than just the risk of imprisonment. Rough South China Seas threatened our overcrowded boat. Pirates intending on preying on defenseless refugees stole our food and water. A parallel life experience to my grandparents'.
Having escaped with only our lives, we survived the journey to Pulau Bidong, but our destiny now lay in the hands of the United Nations….what now?

CHAPTER TWO: WELCOME TO THE US – NOBODY IS BROKEN

In October 1987 we arrived to the US with intense life-threatening experiences casting long shadows on our future's prosperity.
Arrival to the US had its own challenges. Everything was different: the language, the belief systems, the family values. It was even more challenging to assimilate in this foreign country while dealing with the uncertainty of the future, the unfamiliar surroundings, and the sense of confusion about where I truly belonged. “Where is home?” I was trying to forget the past and move on with life.
Having experienced only a lifetime of challenges by the age of 13, I wondered, what could the future possibly hold for me? Motivated by the hope of a more rewarding life I enrolled in workshops provided by the world’s prominent positive thinking leaders. They changed me, but months later, sustainable life changes eluded me – I thought I was broken….. there had to be more.
Michelle Masters was a milestone in this journey of discovering a rewarding life. When Michelle said "Nobody is broken, nobody is stupid. We all have patterns that are not working for us. We just need to revise them." I knew I was in the right place. I remember that moment vividly, I won't forget how happy I was for being wrong about life. Michelle was speaking to the subconscious mind, where patterns formed by those life-threatening experiences are stored and replayed. You know, the ones that block you from achieving what you want. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what inspired me and led to sustained changes through immersing myself in transformational Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

CHAPTER NOW: Living Life - And you can too

With many life limiting patterns revised the world and life are both so very different now. The struggles established through experiencing war, Communist Party persecution, the journey on BM647 are transformed for the better now. Life is fulfilling, rewarding and thriving.

Today, my goal is to use my knowledge and experience with those that don't want to settle for continuous struggles, to help them remove the mind-blocks that have been there for many years and have the life fulfillment that they want.

As a certified transformational Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner and Family Constellation facilitator I help clients worldwide to remove lifelong struggles and mind-blocks, you know, the ones that have prevented you from having the success you want, the confidence to speak in front an audience or the business growth you hoped and dreamed of.

Above all, life is better, and I am here to help you overcome your own struggles and mind-blocks.