Author: Hebe Tan
Company: Halo World
Expertise: Women’s Empowerment · Personal Growth · Wealth & Abundance
Profession: Entrepreneur
《I Once Thought A Million Was The Answer》
I once believed that making a million was the answer to life.
I grew up in a family that didn’t have much. My father passed away when I was young, and my mother raised six children on her own. From an early age, I learned that if I wanted a different life, I had to create it myself.
So I worked hard.
I started from the ground up in sales and tried different businesses along the way. At 29, I entered the direct sales industry. Within a year, I earned my first million and was finally able to give my family greater stability.
For years, my life kept moving upward—achievements, recognition, opportunities and people around me.
From the outside, it looked like I had everything I once wanted.
Yet somewhere along the way, I began asking myself:
If I have achieved what I once wanted, why do I still feel that something is missing?
In 2024, I closed a major chapter of my life.
For the first time in years, I had space to slow down, look inward and ask questions I had rarely stopped to consider:
Who am I beyond my title?
Who am I beyond my achievements?
What do I truly want my life to stand for?
For most of my life, I had learned how to achieve.
Now, I had to learn how to be.
I began understanding myself more deeply—my patterns, relationships, fears, choices, and the parts of myself I had neglected while constantly moving towards the next goal.
And slowly, I realised something that changed the way I saw success.
We can spend our whole lives becoming successful in the eyes of the world and still forget to become ourselves.
Money is important. Achievement is meaningful. Ambition can create extraordinary things.
But none of them can tell us who we are.
True fulfilment, I discovered, comes when what we create on the outside is aligned with who we are on the inside.
Today, I still believe in dreaming big. I still believe in creating wealth, building meaningful things and living abundantly.
I simply no longer want success at the cost of myself.
I want to live fully—with health, love, meaningful relationships, freedom, abundance, growth and purpose.
And this journey has become bigger than me.
I want more women to know that we don’t have to choose between success and ourselves.
We can build, achieve, love, create and contribute to the world without losing connection with who we truly are.
That has become my mission: to help women come home to themselves—to know themselves, love themselves, become themselves, and create a life that truly feels like their own.
I am still discovering who I am—and perhaps that is the point.
So beyond every title you carry, every role you play and everything you have achieved:
Who are you?
And are you truly living as her?
— Hebe Tan