The Tao Of Self Confidence With Sheena Yap Chan

Jella Jornales is an ethical fashion blogger currently based in Manila, Philippines.  She is passionate about sustainability, minimalism, conscious living, and social justice.  She also volunteers for Fashion Revolution Philippines which is part of a global movement that fights for greater transparency and ethics in the fashion industry. When she not busy doing those things, you’ll probably find her in a coffee shop with a new friend.  She also loves connecting with new people and finding out what they’re passionate about. Jella shares what she used to struggle with back then and how she able to be unapologetically her true self to be the confident person that she is today.  She also shares her tips that can help you in your own journey to self confidence. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Jella's episode, Jella's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Ginni Saraswati is the host of the podcast called The Ginni Show.  The Ginni Show invites listeners to follow the hilarious journey life of a young Sri Lankan immigrant woman growing up in Australia.  She always knew she had to work in an industry where she could have a voice by sharing stories, and unleashing her comedic charms and dancing moves on unsuspecting audiences.  Ginni has worked in commercial and community Radio & TV for over 7 years working with some of the world’s leading professionals from artists to performers, politicians, influencers and public relations powerhouses in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, London, New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. Ginni used to fear of living her truth because she was afraid of being judged.  A random night at a dance club gave her the opportunity to learn about living her truth to be the confident person that she is today. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Ginni's episode, Ginni's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Anja-Vanessa Peter is a Filipina-German who was born in Saudi-Arabia and raised in Germany. Currently, she is taking up her online masters in Organisation and Communication at a German University.  Anja used to be a professional tennis player.  She played SEA Games and FED Cup for the Philippines in 2005 and she played College Tennis for the University of Hawai’i in 2008/09.  Anja is based in the Philippines now where she is working as a model, blogger and host. She entered pageants, too. In 2015, she joined Binibining Pilipinas and made it to the top 15. That same year she became Miss Universe Germany First Runner-Up. As of now, she is Miss Supranational Germany. Anja used to play it safe instead of pursuing her dreams but she realized that it was upto her to take charge of her own life regardless of the situation.  Anja also shares her tips that you can use in your own journey to self confidence. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Anja's episode, Anja's website, resources, gifts and so

Marguerita Cheng is the CEO at Blue Ocean Global Wealth. Prior to co-founding Blue Ocean Global Wealth, she was a Financial Advisor at Ameriprise Financial and an Analyst and Editor at Towa Securities in Tokyo, Japan. Marguerita is a past spokesperson for the AARP Financial Freedom Campaign and a regular columnist for Investopedia & Kiplinger. She is a CFP® professional, a Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM, a Retirement Income Certified Professional® and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. As a Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) Ambassador, Marguerita helps educate the public, policy makers, and media about the benefits of competent, ethical financial planning. She serves as a Women’s Initiative (WIN) Advocate and subject matter expert for CFP Board, contributing to the development of examination questions for the CFP® Certification Examination. Marguerita also volunteers for CFP Board Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) hearings. She served on the Financial Plannin

Rach DiMare is a Data Acquisition Consultant, which entails managing data/portfolio from top tier 1 banks prior to getting it on credit reports.  She also runs a fashion and lifestyle blog called RD’s Obsessions.  Rach's blog started out as an outlet for my creativity, enjoyment in fashion, and now it is evolving to include young women cancer advocacy. In the blog, Rach shares her journey and thoughts, and gets raw about life with cancer. Rach shares how being diagnosed with breast cancer has helped her gain a newfound strength and confidence that she never thought was possible.  Tune into Rach's episode as you listen to her story and tips to help you in your own journey. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Rach's episode, Rach's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Maring Higa is an acupuncturist, a creative strategist coach and host of The Messy Middle Podcast.  She helps Curious Creatives awaken their biggest and boldest ideas and take action in a fun and playful way. She has worked with hundreds of people exploring the middle space in her aerial bootcamp business, acupuncture practice, and/or coaching my creative clients.  Maring watched as they embraced their light, made changes in their life, and started living a life that they felt had meaning.  She believes that when we feel seen and find a safe space to share our work we feel free to express our most authentic selves. Maring shares what she used to struggle with and how she was able to overcome them with the experiences she faced in life.  She also talks about getting messy and how we can embrace it to be a more confident person to keep moving forward. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Maring's episode, Maring's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Kat Gumabao is an international plus-size model and women empowerment advocate.  She is making a name for herself in the modelling industry and has been seen in major fashion shows such as Paris Fashion Week and the New York Fashion Week.  She is redefining what is means to be beautiful in your own skin and changing the definition of fashion and beauty in the modelling world. Kat shares how she is was able to come out of a dark time in her life by realizing her true beauty.  Realizing that she is beautifully made just the way she is has also given her the strength to be her love her complete self, live life on her terms by making a name for herself on the runway and continue to be an advocate for women empowerment. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Kat's episode, Kat's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Samaira Mehta is a 9-year-old girl who lives in Silicon Valley, California.  She is a Founder, Speaker, Inventor and a Maker who created a board game called Coderbunnyz and a company to teach coding among kid of age 4-104. CoderBunnyz is the most comprehensive coding board game available.  Besides coding, Samaira is a blogger, songwriter, singer, swimmer and an ice skater. She does workshops at libraries, tech events, corporations, community and schools with CoderBunnyz to introduce coding. Within no time kids learn basic and advanced programming concepts. Turns out all computer languages like Scratch, Python, Java, and C use these same concepts. So once a kid learns fundamentals playing CoderBunnyz, it makes much easier for them to learn any coding language. The idea is easy, play a board game, make code, and learn to code. Saimara has not only learned coding in the computer world but she's learned the confidence code and has applied it to her own life.  She has gone in the direction of her dreams and also

Paige McPherson (aka McFierce) is an Olympic taekwondo competitor from the United States.  She represented the USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women’s 67 kg taekwondo event, and in the preliminary round secured a surprise defeat over Team GB's Sarah Stevenson. Paige went on to win a bronze medal by defeating Franka Anić of Slovenia 8-3.  After winning a Gold medal in the 2016 Pan American Games, McPherson was selected to represent the United States as a member of the Team USA Taekwondo Team in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games if Rio, Brazil.  Paige believes in the three B's which is to breathe, believe, and be yourself. Paige shares how she was able to trust her own path with her God given talent instead of listening to what others were telling her.  Trusting on her own path gave the confidence to be the person that she is today and now is empowering others to move in the direction of your dreams. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Paige's episode, Paige's website, resources, gifts a

Jules Reyes is a matchaholic, a matcha blogger and co-founder of the matcha blog called Saint Matcha.  Jules has created one of the biggest matcha communities on Instagram featuring the very best matcha finds in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.  The blog, Saint Matcha, is also the ultimate resource for the matchaholics everywhere. Jules shares how she used to settle for less and broke out of it.  She started realizing that she deserves better and took action on it.  Her passion for matcha has given her opportunities that she never thought was possible.  Check out her amazing story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Jules' episode, Jules' website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Marilen Faustino- Montenegro is an Interiors and product stylist, a digital content creator and a design and lifestyle blogger.  She is also the founder of the lifestyle blog called Marilen Styles.  creating space by carefully curating furniture and decor is what Marilen does best.  She believes in making the home beautiful one step at a time because surrounding yourself with clean and pretty surroundings will help make your life better. Marilen shares what she used to struggle with growing up and how modelling helped her boost her own confidence which has enabled her to be happy with who she is and have a thriving career in the process.   Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Marilen's episode, Marilen's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Valerie Grace is a Holistic Success Coach at the Speed Of Grace Holistic Breakthrough Coaching Program.  She helps female high achievers breakthrough their 'impossibilities' and achieve success in career, relationships and health.  She has also been featured in numerous publications such as Cosmopolitan, Channel NewsAsia and more. Valerie shares the importance of empowering yourself.  When you empower yourself, you have the ability to empower others and that is how she was able to build her confidence.  She now helps others be empowered through the Speed Of Grace coaching program that she created so that others can see their own potential in themselves.   Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Grace's episode, Grace's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Precious Angellyn Sanchez is an International flight attendant and travel blogger.  Travel has always been a passion of Precious and she is living her dream while inspiring others to do what they love by sharing her travel photos on social media. Precious shares how looking back at her past accomplishments that she achieved gave her the confidence to fly higher in her career and live the life of her dreams.  Check out her episode to listen to her story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Precious' episode, Precious' website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Lauren Toyota is a former MTV Canada host and a YouTube sensation. Her channel and blog, Hot For Food, attract a wide and engaged audience of young people curious about how to make vegan food fast and fun. In less than two years, her YouTube channel has gained 330,000 subscribers. She lives in Toronto, Canada.  Her cookbook, Vegan Comfort Classics: 101 Recipes To Feed Your Face (Coming out February 27, 2018), is a fun and irreverent take on vegan comfort food that’s saucy, sweet, sassy, and most definitely deep-fried. Lauren's life back then wasn't so easy.  She used to be bullied for being mixed race which made her feel isolated.  It was in those moments of isolation that she was able to discover her inner voice that gave her the confidence to become her true self.   Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Lauren's episode, Lauren's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Danah Gutierrez is the co-founder of Plump.ph.  She is also a body positive advocate, model, and author.  Plump.ph is an advocacy website aiming to raise awareness about everything body positive in the Philippines.  The website has been featured in numerous top publications online and offline across the nation.  Danah loves Jesus, good food, make up artistry, and 90s hip-hop (in that particular order). In fact, she can rap Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony's Tha Crossroads flawlessly. Danah used to be obsessed with her external looks which made her unhappy.  Digging deep and seeing a Bible verse has helped her realized how beautiful she truly inside and out.  This grew confidence and has created a movement to help other women see their own true beauty.   Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Danah's episode, Danah's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Anastazcia Gutierrez (also known as Stacy) is the co-founder of Plump.ph.  She is also a body positive advocate, model, and author.  Plump.ph is an advocacy website aiming to raise awareness about everything body positive in the Philippines.  The website has been featured in numerous top publications online and offline across the nation. Stacy shares how she was able to come out of an eating disorder to creating the biggest body positivity movements in the Philippines.  Check out her episode as she shares her amazing story plus tips to help you in your own journey to self confidence. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Anastazcia's episode, Anastazcia's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Bonnie Chiu is the Founder and CEO of Lensational.  She has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30’s Social Entrepreneur in Europe in 2017 at 24 years old, was awarded Young Achiever at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards and the Hong Kong Youth Service Award. The Entrepreneur.com has listed her as one of 30 International Entrepreneurs Really Are Solving the World's Problems. Lensational is a non-profit social enterprise based in Hong Kong and London, aiming to equip underprivileged women with cameras and photography training to empower them emotionally and economically. Lensational has served 400 women and girls from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Bhutan, Cambodia, Thailand and Kenya.   She now manages 50 volunteers spanning across 18 countries. Bonnie used to question her own abilities but when she read stories of unsung heroes taking action and creating a positive impact on the world, that is when she also decided to start Lensational. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show no

Tiffany Lo is the Senior Supervising Video Producer at BuzzFeed working on the Facebook pages such as Goodful and Tasty. Tiffany manages the teams that create content for Buzzfeed's Facebook distribution, including Tasty, the short-form video cooking instruction and discovery site that we all love to watch. Tiffany shares how she started from the bottom and work her way to where she is today.  She talks about what she is willing to do to be more confident in herself and to go after her dreams.  Check out her episode to listen to her story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Tiffany's episode, Tiffany's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Paola Mardo is a writer, reporter, and producer of podcasts, radio, and creative projects including interactive audio fiction, criticism, and investigative journalism. She specializes in longform storytelling and stories about art, technology, and culture.  Paola is also the host of F This Weekly, a podcast which is about women of color in the arts and entertainment. The show included interviews and stories and was featured on NBC News, Angry Asian Man, and Reappropriate. Paola shares how she was able to take a step back to figure out what her path is to living life according to her design.  Check out her episode to listen to her story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Paola's episode, Paola's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Samantha Jo is an actress and a martial artist.  She got her first introductions into the Hollywood stunt industry after her Olympic feat. By age 18 and with a filmography that already included Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Sucker Punch (in which she stunt doubled Jena Malone), Samantha moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career. It is here that landed her breakout role of “Kitana” in the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web-series as well as “Car-vex” in the superhero blockbuster: Man of Steel.   Now, she has been studying at Studio 4, a Los Angeles based acting school for the past 3 years and steadily growing as an artist. You can watch her in episodes of TNT’s Agent X and look out for her in the blockbuster hits Wonder Woman and Justice League films. Samantha shares how doing what she loves has help her grow her self confidence to be the powerhouse that she is today while doing her part to be a positive impact in the world.     Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Samantha's episode, Sama