FIGHT CLUB MEETS NIGHT CLUB - Taking the leap with Christina Ching

After 25 years of engineering, law, real estate, mediation, fitness training, martial arts, and corporate law, Christina left her job to DIRECTLY make a difference in people’s lives. Two things happened, her 21-year marriage ended 6 years ago and COVID happened. Through her divorce, she realized that she had lost her true self and gathered the courage little by little to show her three children that their mom could put the pieces back together.

Show Notes

Listen to Christina’s story of Fight Club Meets Night Club, “we can't be our best selves for other people unless we are our best selves for ourselves. I was both physically and emotionally exhausted, but more exhausted with my life.” What it took was a pandemic! For me to really reflect on all my choices since I was a teenager, it was constantly doing things that were not on purpose and not my true passion. And instead, what society was expecting of me.
I was a corporate attorney for a Medical Products Division company and working long hours, but just kind of going through the grind. I had been an attorney for 25 years, but with you know, a 15-year break as a stay-at-home mom, full-time mom taking care of my children, and then got back into law. And you know, in the corporate attorney world, which I'm sure a lot of people know is a global company. So with timezone differences, I was on the phone literally from 5 am to about 8 pm without breaks. 
So, you know, the pandemic hit, all of a sudden all my kids are home, I'm home with them as well and we're all working from home.
I kept thinking to myself, what am I doing? What am I doing with my life?, and I like to say I was throwing my life away, which I actually was doing back, you know, 10 years earlier, as well, like, I'll just do it tomorrow, just stick it out, for another three years, when your kids leave, you know, the house, you know, just wait one more year, so you can get that promotion, or wait to know that, you know, wait till tomorrow waiting, this project is over. So, you know, it really took a lot of thinking, multitasking on my calls, to figure out what I really wanted to do, and, also thinking to myself, I really want to help people directly, as opposed to indirectly, you know, as a lawyer in a medical products company. I mean, arguably, you are helping people, but I'm not the engineer who invented the device. So I was just looking for something more.
So here I am now, you know, doing another thing that I didn't always want to do. Find out what Christina does next in our episode of Couch Talks!

This is how you can contact Christina: Tina@tinakilikina.com + www.rockboxfitness.com/scottsdale

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