Katherine Nguyen: From an 18-year-old girl moved to live in France to the successful businesswoman of characteristic inspiration

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Katherine Nguyen is a Vietnamese but living and working in the United State for second part of her life. At the age of 62, she has impressed people not only because of youthfulness and dynamism, but also because of the spirit of positive, optimistic characteristics.

Confront with Zero numbers

In 1975, Katherine Nguyen just attained 18 years old which was considered as the best age of the woman’s life. However, after finishing high school, she faced the first troublous milestone of her life: her mother wanted her to go to France to find her father. Since then, she began her solitary and resilient journey in the foreign country.

With limited information from her mother, she asked the Ministry of Social Affairs to help her looking for her beloved father.  After a few months of waiting, she received a letter from the Ministry of Social Affairs writing that they had found her father but he had refused to meet her. The young woman at that time did not have any relatives or anyone. She did not have money and did not speak any other languages rather than Vietnamese, but she still stood up and knew that she needed to be stronger to overcome the great challenge. During that difficult time, she had to live with a friend of her mother in France for a while; she asked for permission to get a part-time job and was accepted to work as a waitress in Vietnamese restaurant, while learning French.

After two years working there, the owner of the restaurant decided to re-sell this restaurant in order to open a larger business. She immediately took the opportunity to rent this restaurant. Seeing her efforts, laborious work as well as her determination, the restaurant owners loved her like their own daughter, and they took the guarantee so that she could loan the bank money, then officially bought that restaurant. At the age of 20, having just owned a restaurant in France, she was able to take all the positions herself, from waitress  to cook during business hour then doing all accounting work in order to manage it efficiently. During that difficult time, she married with a Vietnamese man and had 2 wonderful sons.

However, happiness did not prolong, after 7 years of marriage, it had had many obstacles, she and her husband could not find a common voice therefore they divorced. The pair decided to divorce, this strong woman once again remade from the zero in France. This was the most difficult milestone in my life when I just has to face the burden of life earning, just suffer from the obsession of leaving my little children. Ms. Katherine Nguyen sincerely say : I decided to sell the restaurant, a property that I hardly worked to care. I moved to insurance sale, then to business of travel, real estate, … I tried in any field where I’ld make money and indeed I learned the precious and valuable lessons of different stature. In 1989, she decided to return to Vietnam after 14 years leaving overseas. At this time, the pink thread once again led her to meet an ideal man, who later called her husband. After the fate meeting with Mr Dean Nguyen – an American overseas Vietnamese, she decided to married 2nd time and settled in America.

“Once again, I was charmed again with the round Zero in United State. But fortunately this time I really has a sublime companion, he was not only a reliable husband, but also a strong fulcrum every time I felt tired or insecure. I was grateful for this arrangement of destiny as the first days in France. Thanks to the difficult experience, I became stronger and more stable on the later journey” Ms Katherine Nguyen happily confided.

Thanks to positive living spirit, get victory

Currently, Ms Katherine Nguyen is a Presidential Directress of Nu Skin Enterprises in the USA. Ms Katherine Nguyen said : I really like doing business even though I know that it is full of difficulty and challenges. It becomes even more difficult to start if not have knowledge, no capital, and no relationship.

But it is okay, for me, I still get through everything and achieve success! If you ask what is the know-how of my career building ? I sincerely share my own opinion, I only need two things :  proactivity and optimistic spirit. The rise and fall can happen to anyone’s life, and my life is no exception. At the most painful and desperate time, I still remind myself that “I can do it”. It was hard to survive in France without family and empty pocket, but I did survive. So instead of complaining about yourself, being inferior, grieving, I choose my self-belief, let’s face challenges as it is my motivation to be stronger and take control the situation. It is easy to be listened but really hard to be done again, you have to have stamina, strong self-belief, perseverance, … and sometimes a few luck.

I do not like sitting in a place waiting for everything to come to me. I always take the initiative and being a decider for a start or an end. I know a lot of women who have an unexpected marriage life, but they don’t dare to change, they are afraid of gossip, they are afraid to walk alone, afraid to restart. I do not encourage to divorce but I think that we should decide our own life and choosing our own happiness. We have the right to obtain better thing, to choose our best and to keep our love.

Not renouncing the old thing which cannot lead to a new one. Knowing what you want and always looking at the positive side of the problem are the key of success besides understanding deeply the true power of great optimism and autonomy. In addition, once you set your goals, you need to complete them well. Do not hesitate to start but then be responsible for your own choices. That is how I overcome all difficulty to build my life.

New sky of sixties age

For many people, age of sixty is a time of retirement, even waiting for an end. But with Katherine Nguyen, at this age she thinks that everything is just beginning. The 60-years-old woman who started her walking journey through Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City during 60 days. At the age of 62, she continued with a 100 km route from Ho Chi Minh City to Long Hai for 30 hours. Since 2017, she has walked with her husband every day to carry out “The Challenge of 10,000 steps every day”. Challenge posed by herself and her husband to train their health and discipline.

 

 

 

 

She has walked all the time, even while cooking, waiting in the airport, on the plane or even in the emergency room of the hospital. At the same time, she worked out in the gym to keep her body in shape. In addition to healthy body, Katherine Nguyen also has a happy spiritual life when her children love each other, and love their parents. “My two sons and two daughters with my current husband are really a family. This is what makes me the most happy and proud, not the splendid career or the luxurious life”.

From a lonely girl who set up a career in France with a suit of 2 sets of clothes and $ 100 at the age of 18, Ms Katherine Nguyen of age 62 is a positive inspirational character to everyone. She is always young, working hard and enjoying life. “Today I have all what I need: Money, freedom, health and happiness.

Every day I feel thankful to my life. I don’t think about retiring because I love my job and my life so much.” When I reached the age of 60th, I was very excited, I planned my birthday, and started with weight loss by doing exercise, and as a result I was confident enough to wear a bikini to dance a hot Salsa in front of more than 200 friends at the party night.

I decided that from the age of 60th that every birthday should be a special mark for me. So on the 61st birthday, 30 friends and I climbed the mountain to camp and spent the evening. It was a very happy and amazing birthday organized on the high mountain at 1,700m crest. Life will be great if we know what we want and work hard to achieve it. Live for ourselves; love ourselves so we can love the people around us. Live as if we only have one rest day to live and fulfill all our dreams when we can” -Katherine excitedly shares.

Mr le Nang Hung – Ho Thao