But fast forward a few months later, I was in a Zoom session with a six-figure coach in Singapore, and I was trying to seek her advice because she seemed to be very experienced. I told her about my dream to become a speaker, trainer, and coach. I asked her if she thought I could make it because back then I was a nobody. I wasn’t a coach. I didn’t know how to become a coach. She just looked at me and said “Hui Hui you don’t speak well. You’re so shy and introverted. You don’t even have a social media following to become a coach.” She poured cold water on me and on my dream. I’m sure many of you have experienced that before. It was like a needle had pierced through my heart. And because of what she said I just gave up. I gave up on that dream.

It was only several months later when I attended a Tony Robbins event that that dream was reignited. I heard him say it’s okay for me to become a coach, even if I’m just one chapter in. He told me I didn’t have to be perfect. I could improve along the way. That’s how I started, with one of my first clients, after she took a few free classes with me. By then I had 10 people in my Facebook group and I was giving out free classes. This lady came to me after two weeks and said Hui Hui, can you become my coach. I was so touched when she told me her story. She told me that she wanted to quit her full-time job. She wasn’t feeling fulfilled. And she really wanted to help women after menopause. After she told me her dream, I said to myself, “This is someone that I really want to help”. At the time, I had no idea how to be a coach but I said yes anyway.

I realized that when someone places their dreams on you, you could impact their life by helping them fulfill their dream. How wonderful is that? And that’s how Impact University started. That’s how I started inner world training and that’s how I started my coaching business.