What Success Taught Me About Living Well with Alliv Samson

Let's go back to childhood because I think in order to understand who you are now as a woman, as an entrepreneur, as a mum, wife and probably a friend, I think a lot of your roots are really what make you you and what drive you.

So you didn't grow up rich and you've always tried to find solutions and I think that it's also a Filipino way.

Can you talk to me a little bit about that?

You know what I just learned recently, like Philippines apparently is the country with most natural disasters around the world.

Like we get the earthquakes multiple times a year, we get the typhoons, and we have a very challenging political climate, too many things to worry about in the Philippines.

But I never thought of that.

Growing up when I was there, I thought it was a normal thing.

We would have flooding probably twice a year.

You can see up the road, your neighbor's furniture is getting moved to the end of the river and everyone's fine.

We know how to deal with calamity.

to actually survive from it, but also how do we move on after it? It was like nothing had happened.

And then we would have a big fiesta in celebration, even though we've had a flooding a few weeks before that.

I feel like the Filipino mentality, looking back away from it, is that we know how to deal with the biggest challenges in life.

And we always put a smile on our faces.

And like, look, there's always a silver lining.

And we're quite optimistic people.

of our future.

That's why we're like, nothing's going to stop us kind of thinking.

Despite the odds? Despite the odds, right? Like all the odds are against us, but we always find a way to like, hey, there's always something better and you can easily get that.

And I've always had to have that mentality growing up as well.

So I think that really ignited that entrepreneurial spirit in me, knowing that, hey, you know, I want to achieve this, and I don't care if I have all these challenges that face me.

Again, I grew up not rich, so there was a moment that our family even didn't have any food to eat.

That was hard, and I told myself, look, I don't want to be in this situation again.

There's got to be a better way.

And when all the opportunity came, we just took that opportunity and made the best out of it.

Let's go back to childhood because I think in order to understand who you are now as a woman, as an entrepreneur, as a mum, wife and probably a friend, I think a lot of your roots are really what make you you and what drive you.

So you didn't grow up rich and you've always tried to find solutions and I think that it's also a Filipino way.

Can you talk to me a little bit about that?

You know what I just learned recently, like Philippines apparently is the country with most natural disasters around the world.

Like we get the earthquakes multiple times a year, we get the typhoons, and we have a very challenging political climate, too many things to worry about in the Philippines.

But I never thought of that.

Growing up when I was there, I thought it was a normal thing.

We would have flooding probably twice a year.

You can see up the road, your neighbor's furniture is getting moved to the end of the river and everyone's fine.

We know how to deal with calamity.

to actually survive from it, but also how do we move on after it? It was like nothing had happened.

And then we would have a big fiesta in celebration, even though we've had a flooding a few weeks before that.

I feel like the Filipino mentality, looking back away from it, is that we know how to deal with the biggest challenges in life.

And we always put a smile on our faces.

And like, look, there's always a silver lining.

And we're quite optimistic people.

of our future.

That's why we're like, nothing's going to stop us kind of thinking.

Despite the odds? Despite the odds, right? Like all the odds are against us, but we always find a way to like, hey, there's always something better and you can easily get that.

And I've always had to have that mentality growing up as well.

So I think that really ignited that entrepreneurial spirit in me, knowing that, hey, you know, I want to achieve this, and I don't care if I have all these challenges that face me.

Again, I grew up not rich, so there was a moment that our family even didn't have any food to eat.

That was hard, and I told myself, look, I don't want to be in this situation again.

There's got to be a better way.

And when all the opportunity came, we just took that opportunity and made the best out of it.