Once you’ve bought the dream, you need to work really hard despite all obstacles, advises 90s supermodel-turned-super-makeup-artist Lala Flores. “If you don’t fight for your dream, who will? There will always be someone more determined than you. It’s really a race to the top,” she says about what it took for her to get there, but clarifies: “I just do my best every day with passion and determination” without pinning her hopes on the results, “and then the next day, repeat!” 

Lala shares her stories and secrets about makeup, modeling, motherhood, and making it big in whatever field you pursue. Don’t miss the highlight where she reveals her reactions to people’s “Anong nangyari sa iyo?” comments and society’s Weight Expectations in the modeling afterlife. 

Once you’ve bought the dream, you need to work really hard despite all obstacles, advises 90s supermodel-turned-super-makeup-artist Lala Flores. “If you don’t fight for your dream, who will? There will always be someone more determined than you. It’s really a race to the top,” she says about what it took for her to get there, but clarifies: “I just do my best every day with passion and determination” without pinning her hopes on the results, “and then the next day, repeat!” 

Lala shares her stories and secrets about makeup, modeling, motherhood, and making it big in whatever field you pursue. Don’t miss the highlight where she reveals her reactions to people’s “Anong nangyari sa iyo?” comments and society’s Weight Expectations in the modeling afterlife. 

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Christmas in Our Hearts is the Philippines’ bestselling album of all time, with its eponymous title song heralding the holidays every year on September 1. But for each of Jose Mari Chan’s hits such as “Beautiful Girl” and “Please Be Careful With My Heart” are hundreds of other songs and compositions that failed. When he was a teenager, his father told him his voice was ordinary and to just make music his hobby and run the family business instead. 

He listened—and was a massive success in both. His hobby turned into a musical career that has lasted over five decades, throughout which his guiding motto has been “The blow that doesn’t break me only strengthens me.” 

Christmas in Our Hearts is the Philippines’ bestselling album of all time, with its eponymous title song heralding the holidays every year on September 1. But for each of Jose Mari Chan’s hits such as “Beautiful Girl” and “Please Be Careful With My Heart” are hundreds of other songs and compositions that failed. When he was a teenager, his father told him his voice was ordinary and to just make music his hobby and run the family business instead. 

He listened—and was a massive success in both. His hobby turned into a musical career that has lasted over five decades, throughout which his guiding motto has been “The blow that doesn’t break me only strengthens me.” 

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Dying to be your own boss and to finally give in to those entrepreneurial urges and give birth to your very own business? Listen to this mini-master class by serial entrepreneur and venture builder RJ Ledesma, an Agora Awardee for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Accredited GoNegosyo Mentor, CEO and founder of the award-winning Mercato Centrale, and founder of Bounce Back Philippines. Learn about the importance of having an entrepreneurial mindset, facing your fears and “failing forward,” and bouncing back come what may. 

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Dying to be your own boss and to finally give in to those entrepreneurial urges and give birth to your very own business? Listen to this mini-master class by serial entrepreneur and venture builder RJ Ledesma, an Agora Awardee for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Accredited GoNegosyo Mentor, CEO and founder of the award-winning Mercato Centrale, and founder of Bounce Back Philippines. Learn about the importance of having an entrepreneurial mindset, facing your fears and “failing forward,” and bouncing back come what may.