Sophia Chang: From Misfit to Hip Hop Management Icon

Dubbed “the first Asian woman in hip hop”, Sophia Chang has led a life filled with colour, adventure and empowerment. Having managed members of rap groups such as the Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest in the 1990s and 2000s, the Korean-Canadian life coach and content creator shows no signs of slowing down at 60 years old, and is as physically active and fit as ever. Chang’s fitness is linked to her self-discipline. She found the gym boring throughout most of her twenties, but discovered Shaolin kung fu at age 29, and stuck to it. Her shifu, or teacher, was Shi Yanming, with whom she would go on to share her life for 12 years. Chang gave birth to their two children at 34 and 36. They are partly the reason that she wants to stay in shape. “I want to make sure to be as strong and powerful for as long as possible [for my children],” she tells the Post. Exercising gradually became a lifestyle. Now she goes to the gym for three hours a day, six days a week. But she is also impossibly healthy outside the gym.