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Today\\u2019s episode is with a Vietnamese entrepreneur, Milena Nguyen. She s a conscious business coach at Soulforest Education.
\\n\\nMilena\\u2019s story is about tasting failure at a young age when her yoga studio closed after 2 years.
\\n\\nYou will love today\\u2019s interview as we discuss entrepreneurship from the perspective of inner and outer journeys.
\\n\\nWe spoke about permission and transitions and that entrepreneurship is learnable and why women should own their own brilliance.\\xa0
\\n\\nHer story began with a successful stint in Europe, working for AIESEC, the world\\u2019s largest organization for youth leadership development, overseeing 127 countries.\\xa0
\\n\\nRight after leaving AIESEC and coming back to Hanoi, Milena was buoyed by a desire to live her passion. In her early 20s, she decided she didn\\u2019t want to get a job. She loved yoga and at 24, decided to open her yoga studio in Hanoi, Vietnam.\\xa0
\\n\\nShe believed she was a great yoga teacher and in many ways she was but she wasn\\u2019t a great yoga business owner.
\\n\\nMilena says that two years into her studio, she closed it because \\u201cwe were barely getting by. I told everybody the reason for closing was that I wanted location freedom, which was true, but it wasn\'t the full truth.The other reason for closing was that we were struggling so much financially.\\u201d \\xa0
\\n\\nMilena took that lesson of failure and decided to bet on herself a second time.
\\n\\nToday she is in a very different place and a much smarter and successful entrepreneur because she says finally she has created a business that serves her best.\\xa0
\\n\\nListen to the episode for the story of how she pulled herself out of feeling like a failure and the mindset reset that she had to undergo with the help of her coach.
\\n\\nThis episode is sponsored by Redbox Studio.
\\n\\nGet the full show notes and more at WomenpreneurAsia.com
\\n\\nLike this episode? Check out the other seasons and other Asian women entrepreneur stories on the website.
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