Nicky is a self-love and mindset mentor for women, and the founder of HER Self-Love Academy. Before this, she spent over twenty years as a licensed real estate broker and mortgage professional, building her own security from the ground up, in Orange County, inside two industries that have never made it easy for a woman to do that.

She's stepped back from both now, not out. She still supports her agents, still advises, still picks up the phone when someone calls. But her attention has moved to the work she believes she was actually built for.

What moved it was self-love — not the phrase on a candle, the real, uncomfortable practice of it. She had spent years becoming extraordinary at holding everyone else and had never once practiced holding herself. Learning the difference changed everything. She walked her way across that bridge alone. HER Self-Love Academy exists so you don't have to.

The work runs through generational trauma, because healing it is what opens the door to generational wealth — not the other way around. Nicky has built real wealth, so she knows exactly what it can do and exactly where it stops. She's unusually clear that the inner work has to come with the outer success. Not after it. Not once you've “made it.” Alongside it, or it doesn't hold.

She was six years old the first time she learned what it costs to survive — in a refugee camp in Thailand, on the way out of Vietnam, long before she had words for any of it. That's where the weight started. Everything since — the two industries she built from nothing, the wealth she earned the hard way, the return home to Vietnam decades later, this entire academy — has been the long road out of that beginning.

A room that closes its door.

There is a particular relief in walking into a space that exists for one purpose. No treadmills in the corner, no smoothie counter, no music chosen by a corporate playlist. Warm wood floor, string lights, plants in every corner, and a Buddha on the altar with a candle lit beside him.

The photographs here are from a sound bath held in the room — a full gong on its stand, a frame drum, and a complete set of chakra crystal singing bowls arranged in a circle on the mandala rug, candles low along the floor. Those instruments belong to the practitioner who brought them. What stays is the room: the floor, the light, the plants, the altar, and the quiet.

It is a dedicated commercial suite ten minutes from Little Saigon, ground level, with easy freeway access and ample free parking. It holds the monthly silent circle and private sessions with Nicky — and it opens to other practitioners who work in the same spirit.

If you teach, facilitate, or hold sessions, you know the problem: the yoga studio with the fluorescent lights, the community room with the stacking chairs, the borrowed living room that never quite settles a group.

The Self-Love Healing Sanctuary is a calm, supportive environment designed for healing and connection. It is a beautiful room, thoughtfully decorated, that works for sound baths, meditation, breath work, reiki, restorative yoga, workshops, trainings, and meetings — and it can be arranged collaboratively or classroom-style.

A note on who we rent to. Nicky is intentional about this. The space is offered to healers, wellness practitioners, coaches, teachers, and mission-driven small businesses — people working in the same spirit — because the energy in a room is cumulative. Keeping that energy intact is the whole point.

What the journey includes

• Weekly lessons and practices you can put to work the same day
• Journal prompts, affirmations, and gentle rituals
• Live group sessions — questions, shares, and a judgment-free space
• A private community of women walking the same path
• Guidance from Nicky, who shares from her own experience where it helps — the focus stays on you
• Optional one-to-one Active Listening Sessions

Dates, format, and pricing are being finalized. Join the list and you'll hear first — and you'll help shape what the first cohort looks like.