Shuang-Min on Traveling, Mindset, and Surfing

Summary

“One woman’s journey to finding her own place and success in her original culture and out in the world was an unconventional one.”

Shuang-Min Chang Bio
My journey as a woman finding her own place and success in her original culture
and out in the world was an unconventional one.
I was born and bred in Taiwan, a pan Confucius culture and moved through my
childhood into university days checking every expectation the family and society
had for me as a girl and as a person who was expected to & succeed. Right after graduation, I moved to Mumbai, India to start my career with one of most reputable
Taiwanese companies.
While scoring everything outside, I found no anchor and identity inside. I was rotten
inside. I started doubting everything I was taught about having a success and
happy life and plunged into depression at age 23.
I prayed not to wake up every single night in vain for 6-8 months till a point I told
myself either to kill myself or to pull myself up because I couldn’t stand living in that
black hole anymore. I chose life and this was the beginning of my pursue and
growth in personal development & spiritual realm and the beginning of knowing
myself. This was when I told myself that I would never live my life for anyone else
ever again.
Then, I moved to Milan, Italy to pursue my childhood dream of working in Fashion.
In a country I didn't know anyone or speak the language, I built everything from
scratch, the career and my own identity. There were more challenges, especially
when it came to getting my immigration papers; at the same time, I had to get my
ends meet. Among the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine, delicious gelato,
passionate language, I had my fair share of crying on the street and handing out
hundreds of resume with no result.
To a point, I had to decide again what kind of life I wanted to lead and what the
priority really is in life. I took an offer from an Italian luxury fashion house and
moved to Shanghai, China. At the time it seemed to be a compromise and only

later I knew this was one of the best decisions I have ever made. While climbing the
corporate ladder, I learned to “hack” time and life. With that demanding and fast-
paced career, I also managed to reach my first best state of health & fitness; started
writing again (2 articles got picked up by a well-known platform in Taiwan); got
certified as a psychology counselor in China; learned a bit of French.
After 10 plus years in luxury retail and reached the goal I set out for myself at 25 to
be in charge of one of the biggest market in the world in a prominent luxury maison
with USD 6-figure income, it came the question, "What's next?"
With every expansion of life experience along with my career, I want more and I
know it's possible to achieve more, not just professionally but in all areas in life.
Most importantly, I want freedom, the ability to own my own time fully and I want to
surf everyday.
Ive learned from my own life experience, every success and realized dream started
with a leap of faith with a clarity. I took a leap again in 2019, quit the corporate world
and started out on my currently journey as a surfer, a writer and a coach, founded
Freedom to Success program and supporting driven women who have career
success with 6-figure package and yet, always put their work before everything to
walk on a new path in this "win or lose" corporate environment and create success
in their own terms by claiming their innate freedom & femininity, show up with love
and dare their deepest and boldest dreams.

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