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Why I Left A Six-Figure Job To Build A Breakup Bootcamp

If you told me that a heartbreak would be the basis of me starting a company, I would’ve called you batsh*t crazy.

Amy Chan
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6 min readSep 12, 2019

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IfIf you told me that a heartbreak, debilitating depression, and thoughts of suicide would be the basis of me starting a company, I would’ve called you batshit crazy.

But maybe I was crazy all along. Because that’s exactly what I did. I’m now in my third year of building a startup that helps the brokenhearted, having moved to the city that never sleeps, and am living a life I never dreamed possible. And it all started with a breakup.

What I wanted to be when I grew up was the stuff of little girls’ dreams: Model. Fashion Designer. Wife. What my tiger parents wanted me to be was a striver: Lawyer. Doctor. Accountant.

And what actually happened? Club promoter. Marketer. And now, Entrepreneur-author-heartbreak guru.

Growing up in a suburb in British Columbia, my idea of “making it” was to get a six-figure job, buy the occasional designer handbag, and get married. I steadily climbed the corporate ladder, knowing eventually, I’d get off the ladder completely. I was dating an entrepreneur, we were living together, and…

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