Hong Yee Mei, 2018 Positively Powerful Educator Says, “I Never Gave Up!”

Hong Yee Mei, 2018 PPW Award Recipient

Positively powerful people are visionary leaders.  They make their vision into reality without any evidence, permission, or authority from others that it will occur. Yee Mei is one of these leaders. She is a Positively Powerful Woman Award recipient of 2018 and this is how she brought her vision for an Asian woman’s empowerment training to life, and why. 

The flame she never gave up.

Yee Mei says “I watched my Mother and learned from her. I wanted all women to know that life is more than just duty and obligation. Women want to do better, they just don’t know how. 10 years ago I wanted to have a women’s training but there was no one who could do this until Dr. Joel Martin came to work with Milestone. She’s a transformational trainer who focuses on women’s leadership and empowerment.”

Yee Mei watched her Mom die from cancer never having taken the trips that she wanted to take. Even when Yee Mei said she would take care of everything, her Mom said, “No, I will wait for your father.” Her Mother put family first as a dutiful wife and mother. Yee Mei continues, “When Mom passed away in 2004 I was shocked. It spread so quickly. I spent Mom’s final days with her in the hospital.”

This experience, as well as others having to do with women’s beliefs, became a flame within Yee Mei for a women’s empowerment training.  Yee Mei is a single Mum who refused to let stereotypes stop her from having her baby, Caleigh. Most ordinary people, women especially, give up on their dreams and don’t think that they even deserve one because of the prevailing beliefs about women, marriage, family, values.

Don’t give up your dream!

Unlike too many who give up too soon, Yee Mei Hong never thought her dream for Women’s Empowerment was impossible. 10 years after she imagined it, talked it over with Milestone CEO Douglas Chee, she declared it. Then on 2016 October 28, 29 and 30th, 110 women joined Yee Mei and Dr. Joel Martin in the manifestation of both of their dreams and declarations. With Yee Mei Hong’s successful pioneering of the Women’s Empowerment Workshop in Malaysia, they have created “her-story”. She has produced two Women’s Empowerment Events for Asia.

Meet Hong Ye Mei, May 17, 2018.

Manager and Co-founder of Milestone Trainings in Malaysia, Yee Mei has had 20 years of experience in the transformational training industry. In the last 6 years, she has been instrumental in building Milestone Trainings from an idea to an organization that has seen 1368 new students in the transformational training program in 2017. This work which bears the hallmark of her role and contribution has changed the lives of the graduates and cascaded into their families, workplace, and communities.