Meet Grace Chin
Her many hats
Writer / Performer / Producer / Manager / Leader / Administrator / Motivator / Visualizer / Girlfriend / Cat Mom
Roots & Home
Fourth generation Malaysian Chinese, first generation Canadian
Superpower
I can figure out how to connect with most - basically, you can take me anywhere (caveat: this has not been exhaustively tested).
Mastermind Topic
Live a Life Less Ordinary - Hacks from Life That Learned Me Good
Top 3 Influencers
Brené Brown, Malcolm Gladwell, Virginia Woolf
Most impactful book/podcast
The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar
She used to be scared of...
Letting people love me and take care of me.
F*ck this shit moment
Left the leadership of a non-profit organization with a dysfunctional board-executive relationship perpetuated by "founder's syndrome," to found my own shit, and choose to work with people who collaborate, cooperate, energize, and lift each other up.
Advice to 13 year old self
Learn what you can at the time from each experience and person, good and bad, and move on without regret.
Best advice received
Me: I think I've spent my whole life trying to fill my mother's shoes. Friend: Haven't you already exceeded your mother? Me:
Income Streams
From project-based, contract content writing, arts administration, performing, and financial investment.
About her
One of the Hardest moments in your life?
My parents' separation when I was 22.
How did you overcome it?
Focusing on being an independent, self-aware, self-determining person with my own identified goals and dreams.
About her business
What is your business about?
Effective communication
Where do you get support? Or do you do it all yourself?
Myself, with a lot of help from technology!
Connect with her
(First Published oct 20, 2017)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Having lived, died and traveled 131 countries, 87 emotions, 16 career reinventions, and 46.5 traumas, Ellany Lea inspires and guides women overachievers, phoenixes, wisdom keepers, and entrepreneurs to free her genius, so it frees the world.