The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

itself. At the times when you feel stuck, the right thing to do
is take a risk and go “all in” with whatever the scariest
option might be. So that’s just what Ginny did. She took the
leap.
Fast-forward ten years. Ginny now runs Four Trimesters,
a full-time doula business and the largest company of its
kind in Singapore, with seven employees. She has been
featured on TV programs and in news articles and has had
the opportunity to speak at a TEDx event. Hers is a story of
defying the odds, of persevering until passion became
reality. If there ever were such a thing as a self-made
woman, Ginny is it. But did she really do it all on her own?
She would be the first to tell you no. It was difficult to
get that ultimatum from her boyfriend and even harder
having her mother throw her out of the house. Those were
difficult experiences and are still painful memories. Even
now, a decade later, she gets cross looks from strangers
when they learn she’s not married.
If you were to ask Ginny when she was a little girl what
she wanted to be, she wouldn’t have said “a doula.” That
idea hadn’t even occurred to her until someone else
suggested it. She always wanted to run her own business but
didn’t know how to make that happen. Through a series of
accidents, though, she found her way. It wasn’t by design
(not her design, anyway) and she didn’t understand what
was happening as the events were unfolding, but with the
help of a handful of people, Ginny was guided to her
calling.