Blogilates Creator Cassey Ho on Following Your Dreams: "Never Let Who You Are Stand in the Way"

"My parents always did a wonderful job at making sure I was proud of my Vietnamese Chinese background," Ho shared. They enrolled her in a Vietnamese cultural dance group, encouraged her to lead the Vietnamese Student Association in high school, and took her and her sister back to Vietnam a few times so they could be around her extended family.

Ho always understood the importance of her culture and learned to embrace it. "There were times I felt different from the other kids at school because my lunches required chopsticks instead of forks or included rice instead of bread," she said. Internally, Ho often struggled with being different and standing out, but she said, "I soon came to learn that my culture was one of the best parts of my identity."