Hi, I’m Betty

AUTHENTICITY LIFE COACH, SPEAKER & FACILITATOR

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I help exhausted entrepreneurs and first-gen professionals create success without losing themselves.

In our time together, I help you get clear on what matters and build the kind of self-trust that shows up in everyday moments—how you listen to your feelings, make decisions, and follow through. I don’t believe you need fixing or another system to manage. Most of the time, what’s needed is space to slow down and hear yourself again.

This work is personal for me. As a child of immigrants, I learned a lot about hard work and very little about letting go. I learned how to fit in before I learned how to build a life on my own terms. I know how disorienting it can feel when the rules that once kept you safe stop working. These are the hidden skills many of us were never taught.

Clients often tell me they feel deeply seen, and more confident through our work—and I’d love to help you do the same.

Let's get to know each other

Wisdom from an uncomfortable journey.

For years, I did everything “right.”

As the only child of Chinese-Burmese immigrants, I followed the expected path: good grades, steady jobs, leadership role, and being responsible.

By my early 30s, I achieved a ten-year career and was managing a global department but on the inside, I felt deeply lost. I couldn’t tell you who I was outside of work because that version of me didn’t exist.

And rather than pause to look at this growing pain, I kept going—excelling, over-functioning, and quietly hoping that my fulfillment will show up. It didn’t. What showed up instead was burnout.

Not only from the 50-70 hour weeks or feeling like I had no room to make mistakes, but because I kept denying what I truly wanted and needed.

That’s when coaching came along. For the first time in my life, I was in a conversation that didn’t tell me what to fix. Instead, it gave me permission to trade in my “I can’t” for “I can,” and that changed everything.

Now, I coach exhausted leaders, quiet disruptors, and first-gens professionals to stop shape-shifting and to start showing up authentically, at work, at home, and in their own story.

Sound familiar?

What I Stand For

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Authenticity

Honor all parts of you: past, present, future

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Kintsugi

Embrace mistakes as progress

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Bridge

Find ease in being together

I believe that:

Authenticity is a liberation tool.

Under pressure isn’t the only way we grow.

Confidence is about being present, not perfect.

Anger and resentment are maps back to ourselves.

Love, worth, and belonging begin with how we treat ourselves.

Let's work together

Credentials

    • Trained ontological coach with over 700 hours of coaching experience

    • Certified facilitator for workshops and retreats

    • Public speaker at US and UK conferences

    • Over 10 years’ experience in people development and project management at digital agencies and global mission-driven organizations

    • Accomplishment Coaching Graduate, International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited program for ontological coaching

    • Certified Workshop Facilitator, High Tides Facilitation Certification Program for inclusive dialogue and discourse.

Interviews

Listen to my select interviews on Spotify.