Khim Teoh was born and raised in Malaysia then immigrated to California at seventeen in pursuit of a higher education and better opportunities. She then went on and graduated UC Irvine with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and a Minor in Business Management. She left the corporate world to start her own business running hotel gift shops. By age thirty she had acquired and operated six gift shops in Orange County and was featured in the OC Register as a young successful entrepreneur. She seemingly had everything until the fateful day when her life took a turn and she had to start all over again...