Exec uses life savings to start an online yoga community: 'I'm going to make an investment in myself'
Excelling in college and getting a good job was the only path Boston native Caroline Vo, now 36, felt she could follow. "I come from Vietnamese immigrant parents: It was very much ingrained that you go to school, work hard, get good grades, and then you go to college, get a good job, and kind of find your way," she explains.

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Vo attended American University's Kogod School of Business, studying business administration with a specialization in marketing and management. After graduating, she says, "I interviewed with a company and I secured a job and then worked my way up the corporate ladder to get that high-paying salary."

Even as Vo worked her way into new roles and jumped to different companies, she felt stuck. "It was actually a constant struggle for me to fit in," she says. "I didn't feel like I had an authentic voice. ... I did that for about 10 years before I quit."

She left her job in April of 2018 and ended up in Houston, Texas, creating a company where she could share the art of mindfulness to the world. First, though, Vo needed to reset.