TBJ 13TH MEGA ANNIVERSARY: The highlights!

Last October, the Beshies and I have celebrated our 13th year and as always, it was WONDERFUL. The talks were amazing and inspiring, giveaways were grand, spirits were uplifted, and another environmental charity was helped, thanks to all the amazing TBJ Beshies who supported the event through the VIB beauty bags.

2023 is here and let me reminisce one of the best moments of my 2022!

TBJ 13th Mega Anniversary was entitled POWERFEST: TAKE BACK YOUR POWER, TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE. The goal was to inspire the viewers to take back their power and make them realize once again that they own their lives and they can control what happens to it. The talks focused on beauty, confidence, entrepreneurship, and financial management- aspects of life that we all need to take care of and fix in my opinion if we want to truly empower ourselves.

The first talk was about beauty by yours truly. I shared my best beauty finds for 2022 featuring our partner brands. Lots of new, good discoveries from the beauty bags that I'll definitely take with me to 2023!

The next talk was by Ginger Arboleda, COO for Taxumo, a tax- filing and bookkeeping app targeted towards freelancers and SMEs to help them manage taxes and stay up-to-date on tax filing.

Ginger talked about the financial lessons that she has learned that have helped her become smarter about finances.

My favorite part was when she talked about how much we need in order to retire securely. I'd gladly share the formula here:

ANNUAL SAVINGS RETIREMENT = ANNUAL INCOME X 25

The first step is to determine how much do you need per year in order to live comfortably. This is where you will base your annual income. Ginger has also mentioned that in your first years of retirement, you can withdraw the 4% and if you follow this strictly every year, it should be enough to last your retirement years.

In order to increase your income, of course you need to widen your opportunities and with better confidence, you can increase your chances that's why Miss Philippines 2006 and CEO of Mafae Management, Mafae Yunon-Belasco, talked about developing confidence.

My favorite tip of Mafae's is about the affirmation called 'the power of I AM'. Confidence starts in believing that you are that person who you want to be so you have to affirm to yourself everyday all the positive qualities of that person until you become that person. 

To develop your confidence, start your day with I AM affirmations:

I AM HEALTHY

I AM BEAUTIFUL

I AM SMART

I AM CONFIDENT

Do it consistently and see how much your self perception will change and watch yourself grow.

I have always believed that entrepreneurship gives you power and control over your life that's why I had to invite once again one of the strongest female entrepreneurs I know, Pavi Mclean of Pavi Elle Cosmetics. She has talked about the benefits of and de-mystified entrepreneurship, and my most favorite takeaway from her talk is BUSINESS NEEDS MONEY IF YOU WANT IT TO GROW. Yes, you can start small, but you gotta grow that money/capital if you want to grow your business. Don't be fooled by many entrepreneurs who are claiming that you only need a small, initial investment and your business will skyrocket; no, it doesn't work that way. You need to continuously pump money into it and continuously increase the pump if you want it to thrive. 

After their individual talks, I have called them back on screen for a quick Q&A with the guests.

After the inspiring talks, it's time for my signature workshop called Billion Dollar Brow Workshop where I shared my signature brow tips and tricks, and updated list of brow products to help them achieve billion dollar brows. :)

Finally, I have revealed our charity of the year and it's PHILINCON or Philippine Initiative for Conservation of the Environment and the People, Inc. PHILINCON has decided to use the donation to help set- up their fund- raising concert entitled 'Music Fest para sa Northwest' for the benefit of the Panay Peninsula Natural Park rangers and enforcement.

And we have ended the program with the exclusive giveaway for the VIBs. Around 16 additional prizes were given away to the 130 VIBs of the event.

And that's a wrap! TBJ 13th Mega Anniversary was really special because I never thought that I could pull it off because 2022 was really exhausting for me, but as always, the TBJ Beshies and awesome brand partners have helped me pull through. I can never do this without you, TBJ Beshies and my amazing brand partners, so thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart. I can't wait to have you all again on TBJ 14th Mega Anniversary!