Mae Chan Business Coach

06/10/2025

2025 has been a wild ride! After 10+ years helping leaders navigate big pivots, this year I found myself in one.

Last fall, everything shifted at once:

✨ Launched a focused Business Alignment Accelerator

🏡 Fulfilled my dream of owning real estate in Oakland

🌿 Stepped into a leadership role in my business community

At the same time, a new U.S. presidency was stirring fear and uncertainty across the Bay Area. (Remember Election Day 2024?)

By spring, every conversation revealed instability in businesses large and small, including my own: revenue down, contracts ending, clients pulling out. Business owners hesitated to invest. Employees braced for layoffs.

We all faced the same question: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗶𝘃𝗼𝘁?

And how do you decide from empowerment, not panic?

When I needed direction, I turned to my story.

- Where do I come from?
- How did I become the Mae of today?
- How do I envision my life in 10 years?

My story reminded me why I’m here: to help people live their mission through meaningful, fulfilling work.

✨ And now, I’m expanding that mission to support corporate executives ready to deepen their sense of purpose inside their workplaces too.

If the shifting tides of 2025 have you rethinking your next steps, join me this Friday for 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮, 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙚. We’ll use your lived experience as a compass for what’s next — whether that’s a new job, business, or mission.

YOUR STORY, YOUR MEDICINE
📅 Friday, Oct 10 | 10am–1pm PT in Oakland
👉 https://calendly.com/reallifeoakland/storymedicine (link in bio)

How has 2025 impacted your work life?

16/05/2023

Getting my heart and soul ready for this trip of a lifetime 👑🚀🦋

Lucky me…
💥Solo travel = exercising the muscle of JUST FOR ME: my enjoyment, expansion, my moment by moment experience.

💥New place = new thoughts, creativity, an invitation to love my life

Lucky you…
💥I’ll be bringing you with me, so my expansion is your expansion. Think EEAAO*

How? By joining me LIVE on Instagram each day at 9am starting Wednesday 5/17 for a dose of the SICILY VIBE and the LESSONS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR BUSINESS in whatever location you find yourself.

https://www.instagram.com/maechan510/

02/05/2023

Welcome to Mae!

23/04/2023

When I was a local shop owner, I talked all day BUT I COULDN’T talk about:

🗣️How hard it was to operate a successful retail business, managing margins, buying, cash flow planning, staffing, sales and marketing!

🗣️How stressful it was to periodically wonder if maybe the entire magical ride was OVER?? 😱

🗣️How lonely it can feel to be surrounded by people but you can’t totally be yourself because you’re supposed to be taking care of them!

The Oakland Retailer Circle is a new community for local shop owners who want to connect with others swimming a similar journey. Here you’ll get to drop the façade and get help. You’ll leave with ideas, energy and renewed vision for your business.

Our next free monthly gathering is this WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 6-8pm at the gorgeous Keena Showroom (Piedmont / Broadway).

https://calendly.com/reallifeoakland/retailercircle

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26/03/2023

Lots of downed trees in the Bay from the major wind and rain storms that just passed through.

Paying homage to our fallen friends AND considering the power of rooting deeply so we can sway a little more.

My power is to take action more BOLDLY while holding loosely to the result. It’s a slippery balance based on TRUST in ultimate goodness in me, you, and Creator. It’s how I dance with fear and disappointment yet remain devoted to creating the big impact I want to make while I’m still here.

💨What is the windstorm challenging you right now? Comment below or DM for support.

You are not alone.

19/03/2023

I loved my travels AND what a relief to sleep in my own bed in Oakland, California.

While our feeds are filled with far-flung destinations, let me be the one post in the scroll extolling the virtues of planting roots in one place. As long as we live in bodies, our greatest impact will be where our bodies are. Our neighbors are our teachers if we choose to stay engaged.

What’s your vision for your block, your neighborhood, your city? We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

14/03/2023

I thought I had been doing everything I could to grow my business, but this weekend revealed several energy leaks that I get to address TODAY and in all my todays, differently than I have in the past.

I’m GRATEFUL for evidence I can’t ignore because it’s an opportunity for an upgrade.

I’m GRATEFUL to have a coach and mentor to show me blind spots and call me into becoming my future vision with SELF-LOVE and out of my addiction to looking backwards with regret.

I am the business alignment coach and mentor who will help you see your blind spots AND your personal power. Working with me will move the rocks in your way that you haven’t seen before, and allow you to soar. In business AND in life.

There’s still time to book a 30min session in March to see what is possible for you. 🔗

https://calendly.com/reallifeoakland/coaching-session-30in30campaign

13/03/2023

Take this in, read it a few times, inhale it into your soul.

This is the mothertruckin revolution, and you and I are all irreplaceably essential to its unfolding. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

What is your greatness? I am ready to connect yours with mine with others to create a world where everyone’s gifts are expressed in peaceful abundant work.

09/03/2023

If your work is not that important, then keep prioritizing other things and other people’s things.

Otherwise this is your permission slip to commit to your business like you’re committing to your inner child asking you for attention, love and care.

How much longer will you tell her “Not yet, I’m busy.” ?

When really what you are is scared.

Look, I get it. Making a business requires an endless sequence of actions that require grit, courage, and self-belief.

I’ve been training in this ring for decades, and I’ve learned a few things. I’m just one day together you’ll have a push-start of momentum to take into your next business building actions. Click DEEP DIVE in my Linktree for more info and to book.

🖼️ Gerhard Richter, Cage Paintings

03/03/2023

REMINDER: You are the Queen of your Queendom. What makes us forget we get to make the rules?

Join me on my page live Friday morning 8am PST for a quick unpacking and discussion on what this looks like as entrepreneurs.
https://bit.ly/Queenofyourqueendom

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