Anne Phung Nguyen

Anne Phung Nguyen. I am an American Vietnamese business owner living in the city of Orange, California. Alongside my amazing partner JP and my jolly dad Henry. A lot of people know me as @annephung on Instagram which is where I share my life from ups to the downs. My parents took me to America in 1990, when I was just a year old. It wouldn't be possible to share my story with you today if my parents didn't work to the max and sacrifice. When I realized that I had the potential to achieve a better future and I wanted to be successful and do my parents proud. I thought my life would go the same way as I graduated from college, get a corporate position, marry and begin a family. That was my ideal of what success would look like. But life had other plans. My corporate job in 2013 was something I dreaded. Status and money didn't bring me happiness. I felt I wasted my time to make a living. I possessed a love of exercising and enjoyed having fun and helping people as I navigated towards the new direction in my life. I found my calling in personal training. It was in 2014 that I started my own small business and I will celebrate my 7th year anniversary by 2021. Within this industry it is not a lot of Asian women. As an instructor, my aim is to motivate people to live a healthy and enjoyable life by establishing sustainable lifestyles that cater to the individual's goals and needs. Furthermore, I try to motivate others to follow their dreams and goals in order to achieve whatever they wish to do. As my professional career took the air, I lost my mother. It was the most devastating of them everything. She won her eight-year fight with Scleroderma. She is now resting in Heaven and I will keep her in my heart. We can learn a lot from our experiences, though it may be difficult to see it now. It was my mother's abrupt death that altered my life for the better. In my opinion, it gave me an opportunity to live my the next stage of my life. She passed away in the morning of Tet/Lunar New Year Day it was time for her to begin her next life and for me to have my second chance at living an enjoyable, fulfilling and meaningful life. As I approach my 30s, I have a sense that I am alive and living. I don't feel like I just exist anymore. My intention in sharing my experience is to let you know that, you are not alone. I want you to feel that love is real and that therapy can be regular. Your health is truly the most important asset you have. As death is all there is in this world, I hope you enjoy living your life to the fullest and leave with no regrets.