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Speaker, Author, Energy Master, Performing Artist, Philanthropist
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Forbes Article Publications
August 11, 2020
While the world may pull you in many directions and introduce distractions, how can you cut through the noise to stay focused on taking action on what truly matters for you? Forget time management. It’s about managing your energy — not your time. How do you master your energy?
July 9, 2020
Day to day, you might deal with many triggers to your survival brain, unleashing a host of emotions, thoughts and body sensations each minute that can feel chaotic or out of control.
April 27, 2020
As our global economy shifts from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the age of digital information, to the Fifth Industrial Revolution, the age of transformational impact, you and your business must evolve your consciousness within to stay competitive and relevant in the marketplace.
Feb 3, 2020
There have been several measures for the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit, but it’s critical to integrate a fourth bottom line of business: presence.
Jan 8, 2020
By taking a few hours to map this out, you’ll save yourself a ton of time and gain clarity, focus and more energy
Nov 27, 2019
What is the best step to take right now, at this stage in business, that’s a fit for your strengths and your market?
Oct 4, 2019
Ten mindful minutes three times a day will go far and have lasting effects on the quality of your day-to-day life.
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Podcast Interviews
Interview Questions
1. What inspired you to become an energy coach?
2. What are simple ways to replenish your energy?
3. What are ways to be more emotionally intelligent?
4. What does burnout to brilliance mean?
5. Is work life balance or time freedom a myth?
6. Who do you work with and why?
7. How can people best reach you?
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Energy Master & Black Belt
"World peace starts with inner peace." --Anna Choi
Anna Choi serves high achieving conscious entrepreneurs to catalyze a tipping point in elevating humanity’s consciousness who want to quiet the mind chatter, cut through distractions, and tap into boundless energy. An avid energy student the last couple decades, her vision is world peace through inner peace through her signature energy mastery training workshops, classes, and ALIVE program.
She is a student of enlightened living energy master, H.H. Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi, honored as living saint, and the first female Jagadguru in more than 2,700 years of the Vishnuswami lineage. She is also an Awakened Life Meditation Teacher distilling down H.H. Sai Maa’s unique esoteric teachings for conscious business leaders through her work as an Energy Coach.
Anna is also a Korean Tai Chi Qigong instructor, based on the work of enlightened living energy master, Ilchi Lee. His mind body and brain education training method is based on the 10,000 year old Sundo tradition helping humanity create their own health, happiness, and peace for the benefit of all.
As a Taekwondo Black Belt, Anna’s trained by 40 year veteran Grandmaster Todd Norcross, a 7th degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and Founder of Cross Martial Arts Academy. Anna started martial arts after age 35 inspired when taking her 1st grade son to class. She applies principles that span across all energy practices to her clients for their own inner peace.
She is also certified Brain Management Consultant, Flow Consultant, Dahn Master healer, and Brain Power Wellness Instructor specializing in working with high achieving conscious entrepreneurs including former NFL athletes, a Harvard Neuroscientist, a Mayor, and Emmy award winners.
Anna Sun Choi, CEO & Founder of SolJoy, started out as a broke art major with zero experience or connections.
In 5 years, she started and sold her first business as a socially responsible financial planner.
The next decade, Anna served on faculty as 1 of 182 global leaders for a multi-million global enterprise, starting a second business in event consulting for social impact, landing in the tech industry.
Burned out from the hustle and grind, she pursued energy mastery in 2014, as a student of two living, enlightened energy masters H.H. Sai Maa and Ilchi Lee.
Now an Energy Coach and Trainer, Tai Chi Qigong Instructor, Taekwondo Black Belt, Awakened Life Lead Teacher, she brings 20 years of coaching experience blending ancient wisdom and healing martial arts to help high achieving conscious entrepreneurs go from burnout to brilliance to feel 10x more energy so they feel more inner peace, joy, and aliveness.
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Anna has spoken to live audiences of over one thousand people since she was 14 years old running for Vice President to being elected to ASB council.
Nearly 30 years later, experience Anna’s aliveness activating thousands on stage and virtually through highly engaging, creative content alongside rockstars, Olympic athletes, and Neuroscientists.
Known to activate, energize, and inspire a crowd, she’s become a trusted go to keynote for corporations, non profits, schools, and government agencies.
Companies Hiring or Featuring Anna as an MC or Speaker:
“Exceeded all expectations! What a thoughtful, inspiring presentation.”
“Wow! I am touched, moved and inspired!”
“Valuable, relatable and potent practices…”
“Was having a hard time with anxiety and extra energy. The yoga movements really helped me feel balanced.”
“After hearing this talk, I realized I have the power to create energy in myself and the world.”
“Loved the journey of how she found her passion and the energy exercises!”
“I needed this!!”
“Your talk really impacted me …”
Live On Stage
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Interview Questions
20 minute episode:
1. What inspired you to prevent burnout and better manage your energy?
2. What is energy? What is burnout?
3. What are common pitfalls or myths when high achievers try to prevent burnout or achieve more energy mastery? OR What are the biggest challenges people face around replenishing their energy?
4. How have you helped people in those situations?
5. Who do you work with?
6. What’s your process in working with you?
7. What’s the best way to reach you?
Other possible questions
- What are simple ways to energize your daily flow?
- Why does energy management matter?
- How do you know if you need help with energy management?
- What’s the overall trend with energy management?
- What have you noticed is generally the source of burnout for most people?
- What energy management practices are best?
- What is making resilience such a hot topic these days?
- What are ways people build emotional resilience?
- Who do you serve and why?
- What do you mean by reclaim your energy?
- How do you cultivate resilience?
Social Entrepreneur
In Good Company of Impact Driven Leaders
Enjoying the sun with Thailand Top Supermodel Joy Vanichkul
Trip to India, Nepal, Tibet with NY Times Bestselling Author, Social Entrepreneur, and Futurist Rogers James Hamilton
Fletcher Cox, Superbowl Champ and 6x Pro Bowl NFL Player for 5 day business retreat at his private ranch
Hanging with former Chief Happiness Officer of Zappos Sandi Herrera for many business weekends
Hosting fundraiser with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
Eric Levine, Former CEO of Gold’s Gym and 24 Hour Fitness sold for $1.8 Billion
Journey of Lights Trip with 4x Free Diving World Champion, Multiple Guiness Book World Holder, PhD in Medicine Stig Severinsen
Traveling with CEO, Actress, Model, & Motorcycle Racer Carol Carpenter
Enjoying the sun with former Thailand Top Supermodel Joy Vanichkul
Trip to India, Nepal, Tibet with NY Times Bestselling Author, Social Entrepreneur, and Futurist Rogers James Hamilton
Karaoke with Superbowl Champ and 6x Pro Bowl NFL Player Fletcher Cox at his private ranch
Hanging with former Chief Happiness Officer of Zappos Sandi Herrera for many business weekends
Hosting fundraiser with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
Eric Levine, Former CEO of Gold’s Gym and 24 Hour Fitness sold for $1.8 Billion
Journey of Lights Trip with 4x Free Diving World Champion, Multiple Guiness Book World Holder, PhD in Medicine Stig Severinsen
Traveling with CEO, Actress, Model, & Motorcycle Racer Carol Carpenter
Mission Driven Energy Coach for High Achieving, Creative, Conscious Business Leaders
Anna’s first business was InsideOut Investing, as a Wealth Manager and Certified Wealth Consultant, with her Series, 6, 7, 63, and 65. She specialized in sustainable, responsible, impact investing and heritage legacy planning for ultra high net worth families to pass on values not valuables to the next generation. By age 28, she sold that business to another advisor to start her family.
Anna’s second business was in event marketing consulting for social impact, eventually landing in the tech industry. She founded TEDxBellevue and curated speakers for several local TEDx events committed to transforming our economy from solely profit based to the quadruple bottom line of people, planet, profit, and presence.
She ignited a Presence Movement through several annual events, including the Conscious Business Summit fundraiser that launched the Conscious Leadership Foundation.
A Social Enterprise
As a social enterprise, 100% of our company profits fund the Conscious Leadership Foundation through our fiscal 501c3 sponsor Kitsap Community Foundation.
We fund grants and scholarships for educators to be trained to help primary and secondary school kids develop mindfulness, SEL, stress management, and leadership through the proven Power Brain curriculum in over 500 schools, 25K teachers, and 500K students.
We are training the next generation to catalyze a tipping point in elevating humanity’s consciousness through
We Support UN Goal 4: Quality Education
Energize with Anna Cable TV Show
Half Hour Energy Practices, 18 episode season, Premiered on BKAT local TV, 2021
Founder and Host of Social Impact TV
26 episode Social Impact TV, interviewing diverse thought leaders on their social impact
Founder, Conscious Business Leader Podcast
Hosted by Gabby Douglas, a 2020 Olympic qualifying athlete. 80 Episodes, 2021
Founder, Host of EnergyTV
Break a board for your corporate team for a fun team building event.
Coming in 2023...
ALIVE: An Awakening Journey to Inner Peace, Love, and Joy
Performing Artist
Performing Artist
Since age 6, Anna competitively played the violin at competitions, on stages, youth symphonies, and as a soloist backed up by a symphony until college.
A gold and silver medalist, and winner of many competitions. She completed that chapter as a performing violinist by opening the renowned Seattle’s Benaroya Hall in honor of Dr. Suzuki playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concert in E Minor, Op 64 3rd Movement with fellow Book 10 graduates of the Suzuki series.
In her college years, Anna became a dancing performing artist and activist organizing several surprise flash mobs for climate justice on street corners, churches, and corporate events–culminating at the Seattle Center pavilion on Earth Day and flash mobbing corporate events.
In recent years, Anna is a singer songwriter on the ukulele and piano. She now incorporates singing into her keynotes.
Commissioned Artist
Anna has a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington. A scholarship recipient for the Milnora Arts Scholarship and International Study Abroad Exchange program where she lived abroad in Rome, Italy for 3 months with her art class. They had a finale art show at the Campo de Fiori plaza where Anna transformed and painted fish carton crates used each day in the daily market into a wall installation.
She was commissioned by Wells Fargo in partnership with Seattle University District’s Chamber of Commerce, to create an outdoors installation that could withstand heavy rains for over 10 years. Her public installation was displayed for over 12 years.
She was also commissioned to design a Nepalese handwoven rug for a renowned Art Curator, whose home was full length featured in a prominent Home Magazine. After many gallery showings, her rug work was on display at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Commercial Model
Anna’s image and commercial footage was selected for a large offline and online campaign by the credit union BECU (Boeing Employee Credit Union).
For over five years, Anna’s smile could be seen from subway trains and billboards to bank walls and windows. The commercial aired during the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2016 Superbowl.
The online ads and interactive in store wall size touch screen display were prevalent in several stores statewide.
For various industry wide events, Anna’s image has been given permission for ads for several non profit causes as well.
Philanthropist
World Peace Starts with Inner Peace – Igniting a Presence Movement
Anna was awarded the Leadership Kitsap 20 Under 40 Awardee in 2021 for demonstrating philanthropy, business, and community spirit, selected from 80 nominated applicants by a panel of judges.
INSPIRATION
Empowering our next generation of leaders is critical to fulfilling the vision of world peace and global enlightenment.
When Anna pulled her son from first grade public school due to a bullying environment, she was inspired to found the Conscious Leadership Foundation, providing grants to schools and scholarships for educators to bring mindfulness training and movement through the proven Brain Power Wellness curriculum in over 500 schools nationwide.
In 2019, she held a Conscious Business Summit to launch a Presence Movement with 100% of proceeds supporting the Conscious Leadership Foundation in partnership with Kitsap Community Foundation hosting many fundraisers. Recent fundraising efforts include a World Peace Concert on World Peace Day.
Over the last 20 years, she has served on various boards of WA State Social Enterprise Alliance, University of Washington Alumnae, eWomen Network, Women’s Funding Alliance, BKAT Television, and Olympic College.