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Anna Choi

What is pride and its purpose

part of a series on Pride

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Anna shared the different frameworks of pride and encouraged us to reconsider the roll of pride in our lives.

In sharing some of Anna Choi’s many accomplishments, as well as challenges, she provided an example of how pride can leverage your culture, lift you higher, and take you further than if you were to hide your pride.

About the speaker

Anna Choi, Founder of the mind-body training company SolJoy.Life, is a 2x TEDx Speaker, Performing Artist, Taekwondo Black Belt, and Forbes Author serving high achieving coaches, consultants, and creatives through training programs the last two decades.

Her vision is that world peace starts with inner peace by helping high achievers relax their mind and body to be less stressed, embody peace, and tap into boundless energy through mindfulness and moving meditation training programs. Ultimately, she’s out to magnify your presence, unleash your brilliance, and catalyze a tipping point in elevating humanity’s consciousness by igniting your power within.

A 20 year entrepreneur, she started out as a broke art major with zero experience or connections, starting and selling her first business as a financial planner. The next decade, Anna served on faculty as 1 of 182 leadership program leaders for a multi-million global enterprise, starting a second business in event consulting for social impact, eventually landing in the tech industry.

A second-generation Korean American social entrepreneur and philanthropist, Anna founded the Conscious Leadership Foundation funding scholarships for educators in mindfulness and emotional resilience training for their students.

Her proudest accomplishment is water birthing her son Eli entering middle school. She's married to her best friend and “reincarnated viking” husband Leo for 20 years in Poulsbo, WA. Anna loves being a singer songwriter, being in wild nature, dancing, cooking plant based meals, and you might see her face on a billboards or subway trains as a BECU model.

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