the gracespace was born from lived experience, not theory.
OUR STORY
Every woman behind this work has walked through her own season of collapse, and chosen - not always gracefully, to go inward rather than rebuild the same way. That is what we offer others: accompaniment from someone who has been there.
OUR PURPOSE
We exist for one reason.
To create spaces where women can stop performing and start being — honestly, unhurriedly, without needing to justify the pace of their own becoming.
We believe the most profound leadership begins when a woman knows herself - her patterns, her wounds, her wisdom, and the quiet intelligence of her own body. Everything else flows from that.
the gracespace is not a program or platform. It is a quality of presense - one that we carry into every coaching session, every circle, every retreat we hold.
FOUNDER
Giang (Grace) Phan
FOUNDER - HOLISTIC EXPERIENCE DESIGNER - MINDFULNESS COACH
Giang spent 14+ years building a career in PR and marketing inside large corporations including billion-dollar technology firms and diversified private conglomerates.
Everything looked good from outside, but only she knew what it truly costs a woman to lead in demanding professional environments.
She witnessed it in the women around her, and lived it herself: the invisible weight of managing upward and downward simultaneously, of returning home after a full day of professional leadership to step seamlessly into another set of roles — daughter, wife, mother, caregiver.
The quiet effort of maintaining performance while navigating a body with its own rhythms that corporate culture was never designed to accommodate. The relentless work of making everything look fine.
For years, Giang operated almost entirely from masculine energy - control, output, planning, problem-solving.
It worked, until it didn’t.
A significant personal experience brought everything to a halt - and in the stillness that followed, she made a choice: to turn inward rather than rebuild the same way.
What followed was a committed journey of inner work - through the practice of Theravana Buddhism, through healing intergenerational and relational wounds, through learning to be present rather than perpetually in control. Gradually, she found her way back to her authentic feminine nature: not as a performance of softness, but as a grounded capacity to receive, to flow, and to lead from wholeness rather than depletion.
Today, as a Holistic Experience Designer, Giang accompanies women who sense that something within them is asking for change — even if they are not yet sure where to begin.
She does not teach women how to perform better or achieve more.
Instead, she creates and holds spaces where women can slowly return to themselves — to the woman beneath the roles, the responsibilities, and the carefully maintained appearance of having everything together.
PARTNERS
Annie Phan
OWNER & FOUNDER, ROOT & RISE | SPECIALIST IN MINDFUL OPERATIONS & LEADERSHIP
Annie Phan is a Strategic Operations Expert and the Owner and Founder of Root & Rise, a holistic Operations & Creative Studio. With over 6 years of experience architecting backend systems and managing remote, cross-functional teams for international businesses, Annie operates at the intersection of operational efficiency and mental well-being.
As a mother of three and an advocate for sustainable ambition, Annie’s core philosophy is that true workplace wellness does not come from simply taking time off, but from creating an operational environment where team members are empowered to take initiatives and step into their leadership. She specializes in streamlining workflows, and training leaders to foster psychological safety through structured, empathetic management.
Core Competencies: The "Operational Wellness" Approach
🌿 Eradicating Cognitive Clutter & Burnout
Annie specializes in helping teams identify operational bottlenecks and replace them with "breathing systems," significantly reducing the mental load and anxiety of individual contributors.
🌿 Empathetic & Heart-Centered Leadership
Drawing from her deep experience managing international teams, Annie champions a "Heart before Hustle" leadership model. She trains managers to build containers of psychological safety where team members can proactively communicate their bandwidth, establish healthy boundaries and maintain high standards of excellence without sacrificing their mental health.
🌿 Empowering the "Self-Led" Teams
Annie helps shift corporate cultures from a "reactive task-taker" mindset to an empowered, "self-led" architecture. By teaching teams how to manage their energy alongside their time, she helps organizations boost morale, enhance deep-work focus, and increase long-term retention.
Thuy Nguyen
MSc PSYCHOLOGY | ART & MINDFULNESS FACILITATOR
Thuy holds a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Essex, UK, and has trained in creative arts therapy, dance/movement therapy with practitioners from the US, UK, and Australia, and forum theatre through the LifeArt program.
With over 6 years designing and facilitating circle-based programs for educators, healthcare workers, social workers, and corporate employees — and a career spanning retreats, workshops, and community programs for organizations including Lean In Vietnam, Tron Lanh Vietnam, and the Mental Health Aids for All project — Thuy brings a rare integration: academic rigor, embodied practice, and genuine warmth.
Her work creates the conditions for sustainable wellbeing — through rest in nature, creative practices, and the quiet intelligence of the circle. She co-facilitates the Corporate Retreat program.