"There are no wrong turns, only paths that we didn't know that we were meant to take" Annik said.

Annik, is the founder of coalitionskin in Vancouver, Canada.

She is a certified skin-therapist, wax-technician and group-fitness trainer and teaches yoga and Pilates. She is a certified holistic sports-nutrition, with specialty in cleansing/detox and Reiki.

At the beginning of her entrepreneurial years, she was the only technician seeing clients, teaching in her fitness + yoga studio, and doing all the entrepreneurial work and administration that goes on behind the scenes for any business to run. She was working 80-90 hrs a week for years. She felt that that was what was needed. But years later, she realized that her schedule was unsustainable and took a toll on her mental and physical health.

Alongside, since she was 15, her gut knew she was destined to live in a warm surf town, the opposite of where she is from: Toronto. All her years of heavy work-overload was with the goal to build a biz that she could eventually work for with location-freedom. She relocated to the tropics in 2017. Now she works on business growth, HR and training, marketing, CEO + CFO. She offers tarot readings, Reiki sessions, yoga + Pilates 1:1s, public classes + workshops within the community of Sayulita, Mx. She also teaches a free yoga + innerwork series online.

Contact her Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/annikpaprika/

https://www.instagram.com/coalitionskin/

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Photo credit: Matt Postal.