Two women. Two paths. One quiet realization.
To be the highest version of ourselves, and to do what we love, we need to start from a place of peace, mental, physical, emotional wellness and health in us first.
Our story
Not a startup. Not a passion project. A reckoning with ourselves, with what was missing, and with what we knew we had to build.
Alice had built a career spanning startups, Y Combinator, and leadership development across four countries. Liah had channeled her gifts into education, floral design, and a deep understanding of what it means to hold space for a community. From the outside, both of them were doing it.
But achievement has a shadow side, a particular kind of loneliness that lives inside it. A quiet gap between who you are becoming and the spaces that can actually hold that version of you. Dating apps, networking events, wellness content — none of them were built for people who want depth, not performance.
That's where Slllo began. Not in a whiteboard session. In a real and honest conversation between two women who had done enough inner work to know it deserved a real home.
What is Slllo?
To us slllo is a reminder to slow down and pace ourselves, afterall, life is a marathon. The three “L”s signify a Chinese character pronounced “chuan”, a symbol for river. As the river flows from high to low elevation, there’s many stones, rocks, and pebbles, but it patiently weave it’s way past it, always
"We weren't looking for more connections. Doing the inner work led us to let go of a lot of people in our lives. We wanted to be fully us, as complex as we are, and invite the right ones."
One of us learned it through burnout. One through belonging. Both paths led here.
LIAH
Liah is a floral designer and soon-to-be mental health practitioner. Her path has been one of intentional convergence — bringing together beauty, community, and the science of human wellbeing.
She has always lived in the in-between. Between languages, cultures, and versions of herself. For a long time, she thought the goal was to resolve that tension — to find the place where she finally fit. It was therapy, and her own self-awareness journey, that taught her something different: the in-between isn't a problem to fix. It's where the most interesting people live. It's where she lives. And it became the foundation of everything she builds.
Her years in higher education, her grounding in what it means to serve a community and her training toward becoming a licensed therapist inform every corner of Slllo's design. She believes wellness isn't abstract. It lives in the details: a room that feels safe, an event that gives people permission to exhale, a community where you don't have to explain yourself to belong.
She's been doing the work of healing long before the credential.
Liah completed her Global Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she’s pursuing an additional degree in Social Work.
Higher Ed Professional · NYC Floral Designer · MSW Candidate · Polyglot · 1.5 Generation Korean Chinese American · First Daughter
ALICE
Alice is a neuroscience-based leadership coach whose work lives at the intersection of identity, change, and organizational culture. Her coaching practice, Flllow, is built around a single conviction: that navigating change — whether in a company, a career, or a life — is fundamentally a question of who you are, not just what you do.
She brings the discipline of a former athlete, the perspective of someone who has lived and worked across China, Korea, and the US, and the hard-won wisdom of someone who chased achievement long enough to know what it costs. She didn't arrive at her convictions from the outside. She lived them first.
Her clients describe feeling genuinely safe with her. That's not an accident. It's the work — and it's exactly what she brings to Slllo.
Returning to her roots in Psychology at UCLA and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
EdTech Product Manager & Startup Veteran turned Neuroscience-based Executive & Leadership Coach (ICF PCC Candidate) · Certified Pilates Instructor · Trilingual · 1.5 Generation Korean American.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Self-care isn't a treat. It's the foundation everything else is built on.
We understand our experiences might spark or deepen a journey of self-care and self-development — because change starts with yourself, and ripples outward to everyone around you.
Growth is a muscle, not a destination
We're not here to tell you to arrive somewhere. We're here to walk alongside you as you keep going. The kind of people who find their way to Slllo aren't looking for the next milestone to hit — they're looking for fellow travellers.
You can't pour from empty
The most generous, present, and impactful version of you comes from a place of genuine fullness — not depletion. Wellness isn't selfish. It's structural. When you take care of yourself, the people around you feel it.
Community is the catalyst
There is something that happens when you're in a room full of people who are also doing the inner work. The quality of connection shifts. The conversation goes deeper. You remember that you don't have to grow alone.
Every Slllo experience is designed around one idea: that the right environment changes what's possible. Not a lecture. Not a networking event with a wellness theme. Something slower, more intentional — where you actually have room to be a person.
And we're building more — online workshops on self-awareness, inner work, and personal development. Because the work doesn't stop when you leave the room. It's just getting started.
OUR EXPERIENCES
Slow Dating
Slow Dating is our signature — and it's not what you think. It's a space where coaching and mental health practice are woven into the dating experience. You might meet someone. You might not. Either way, you leave knowing yourself a little better than when you walked in. That's the point.
Flow + Bloom
Flow+Bloom is where Alice's world and Liah's world meet — movement and florals, coaching and creativity. Inner work made tangible. An experiment in what happens when you tend to yourself the way you'd tend to something living. We'll keep experimenting.
The Mixer
The Mixer grew from there. A space for Slow Dating alumni to find each other again — people who've already shown up vulnerably, already done the work, already proven they take their inner life seriously. We wanted to keep that community together.