Mega Man

ambition

I’m one of the lucky ones. The pandemic hit at a time when I had grown exhausted of always being out of the house. For years, I would always be in the office for over eight hours. I would be in and out of meetings and at times, I even had meetings while walking to another meeting. I was traveling so much. It became really bad when I would wake up in the middle of the night not knowing what time or where I was. I was spending so much time expanding my career. I was always in the company of colleagues and friends who would help grow my enterprise. I always made sure there was no empty day on my calendar, including weekends. I was so ambitious and my…

from behind the seams to behind the scenes: gino roque is the man to watch

His successful apparel-turned-events business Forza and flourishing career in the entertainment industry are ventures he actively pursued. One could even say he’s been working on them since he was a young boy of eight, selling Yu-Gi-Oh cards to his classmates as a precursor to bigger things. Among his many jobs at his parents’ retail business — a homegrown brand called Kamiseta, you may have heard of it — was as a tagger. From tagging, he went on to packing, sewing, and eventually, became a salesman. Just when he thought he’d reached his final form, the bright lights of show business started calling out to him. Now we’re here and Gino’s still evolving. We hear about this all the time: stories of heirs and heiresses earning their keep at dingy factories and working…

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