It is a tough lesson to learn, but not everyone has the luxury of pursuing their dreams. While every young child has fantasies about what they want to be when they grow up, the harsh reality is that not everyone has the familial support, financial stability, or the opportunities to pursue their dreams and make them a reality. Many people have to struggle twice as hard to get the same distance in life, and this alone can be disheartening. However, there are people who have fought against great odds in order to make their dreams come true and they carry with them valuable lessons about never giving up, never making compromises, and never settling for less than what you want.
For Donna Kao, pursuing your dreams was not something that she always felt entitled to. Growing up in Taiwan, both of her parents were medical professionals: her father was a medical physician and her mother was a registered nurse. She always assumed that she would be entering the medical field as well and it therefore came as no surprise when she accepted a scholarship to the University of Public Health and Nursing in Taipei. She received her Bachelors Degree in nursing and was genuinely happy to be working in a hospital where she got to help others, despite the fact that she always felt there was something more intended for her life. As luck would have it, life presented her with a difficult choice and an opportunity to follow her dreams and push for the happiness that she always wanted to pursue in life.
She met two real estate developers while she was working in a hospital in Taipei. They were currently in the process of building multiple hospitals, clinics, physical therapy centers, and other medical facilities. This put her work as a nurse into sharp focus and she realized that although she was helping people in significant ways, her dream had always been to help as many people as possible. She saw the positive impact that these real estate developers were having on the local community and she realized that she wanted to be able to do that as well. She shifted careers and quickly got her real estate license in Taiwan before moving to the United States where she also got her real estate license in the state of California.
It was clear to Donna Kao, community experts in practice had a unique position to help a large amount of people. She saw this with her relationshps in Taiwan, and she saw a need in the Asian community of Southern California as well. She used her backgrounds in the medical field and real estate to open a free clinic for the Chinese community, as well as a specifically Asian marketing and consulting office in the Monterey Park Hospital.
For Donna Kao, pursuing your dreams was not something that she always felt entitled to. Growing up in Taiwan, both of her parents were medical professionals: her father was a medical physician and her mother was a registered nurse. She always assumed that she would be entering the medical field as well and it therefore came as no surprise when she accepted a scholarship to the University of Public Health and Nursing in Taipei. She received her Bachelors Degree in nursing and was genuinely happy to be working in a hospital where she got to help others, despite the fact that she always felt there was something more intended for her life. As luck would have it, life presented her with a difficult choice and an opportunity to follow her dreams and push for the happiness that she always wanted to pursue in life.
She met two real estate developers while she was working in a hospital in Taipei. They were currently in the process of building multiple hospitals, clinics, physical therapy centers, and other medical facilities. This put her work as a nurse into sharp focus and she realized that although she was helping people in significant ways, her dream had always been to help as many people as possible. She saw the positive impact that these real estate developers were having on the local community and she realized that she wanted to be able to do that as well. She shifted careers and quickly got her real estate license in Taiwan before moving to the United States where she also got her real estate license in the state of California.
It was clear to Donna Kao, community experts in practice had a unique position to help a large amount of people. She saw this with her relationshps in Taiwan, and she saw a need in the Asian community of Southern California as well. She used her backgrounds in the medical field and real estate to open a free clinic for the Chinese community, as well as a specifically Asian marketing and consulting office in the Monterey Park Hospital.
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