She's The Boss Chats

Nat's story is incredibly inspirational. Nat grew up in the Illawarra region with parents who both worked in the steel works, and her father was a narcissist whom she could never seem to please. Despite the fact that she was an ideal student (getting 99.9 for her HSC), her Dad never really 'got' her or supported her. After finishing school, she won a number of scholarships and eventually chose Economics/Law as her focus, much to the vocal disappointment of her father who preferred her to take the opportunity that paid the most money. Despite this, Nat finished her degree at the same time as working full-time in the area of economics.

In fact, her first boss was so impressed by his young protegee that he made her the 'face of economics' in the Illawarra region where she hosted events, was the media spokesperson, and wrote numerous articles around economics for the media. From there she ended up moving to Canberra where she took a role writing policy, got married, had two kids, and worked so hard that she ended up burning out. This was followed by a stint working for Apple before she finally, during the lockdowns, decided it was time for her to work for herself. The description of why she called her business Aliferous Leadership will probably give you goosebumps. It's very powerful! you will love Nat's story.

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Santosh is such an inspiration! After growing up in Punjab in India, the daughter of a businessman and an academic mother, Santosh had loads of female role models who were doctors and academics on her maternal side, making medicine an easy choice for her when she finished school. From there she moved to Delhi and started her own private practice, and also ran a Health Clinic, before deciding to move to Australia.

Once she got to Australia, she decided against completing another 6 years of study to qualify as a doctor again, and instead, she worked as a nurse and focused on aged care. This led to her 'lightbulb moment' when she realised that with the advance of technology, there had been so many improvements to the medical profession, but wound care was still a very manual process, based on anecdotal evidence and experience. She wanted to change that!

SmartHeal is a clever new app that uses AI and can measure the length and depth of wounds, and provide advice on the best way to manage the wound. It also allows the users (currently Doctors and nurses), to access help remotely if needed.

Santosh is determined to leave an impactful legacy, where she has made a difference, and there is no doubt that she will do that. She's amazing and you will be inspired by her story!

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Lauren grew up with both parents in the fashion industry. In this interview, which was also live streamed into the Motto Fashions Facebook group, Lauren talks about how she grew to 'hate' Motto as a young woman after years of having to hang around in the factory while her Mum and Dad finished work. Always a bit rebellious, in year 9 she was asked to leave her school after disrupting classes and forming a bit of a posse with some of the other girls. Her parents told her that she had to find another school on her own if she wanted to continue. Lauren applied for, and was accepted into a wonderful school where she really enjoyed herself as much as possible!

Following school, Lauren started a small business where she embellished clothing with jewels before her parents invited her back to Motto to look at the online business. At that stage, very few fashion labels were selling online, and Motto only had about 15% of its sales coming from the website. Luren changed all of that. She describes what it was like during the pandemic, and how they managed to keep going, turning online sales into 85% of the business. These days they have a huge online fan base (and their customers are really like fans!) and they run live sessions on Facebook every day. Lauren is just such a hard-working and inspirational woman, you will love this episode

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Junie is such an inspiration. Wait til you hear her adventurous life story! Born in Canada to Haitian parents, Junie was a competitive ice skater as a child (from the age of 4!) and she had an inherent curiosity and wanderlust that has taken her on a lot of adventures in her life. After being discouraged from continuing in her ice skating career (grrr!) she completed school, and then uni, with the intention to start traveling as soon as she could. She did have a 3-month stint in India working with an NGO which was inspiring, but somehow along the way she worked in a bank and ended up staying, as she was really valued as a staff member, for longer than she intended. It wasn't until she was 23 that she resigned, packed her bags and left on a one-way ticket to Mexico where she taught English as a second language. After a year in Mexico, Junie found her next job in China - a very brave move considering she knew no Mandarin! She stayed in China for another year and then decided to come and investigate Australia as a destination, starting off in Perth.

Junie has all sorts of insights that she shares around Australian culture, and the exciting bit is that on International Women's Day this year (2023) she finally became a Permanent Resident, after a 9-year wait, and she is now on track to build an empire! She is conscious that there are no real women of colour in technology in Australia, so watch this space as she builds Propel innovations into a force to be reckoned with!

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Elizabeth's story is totally captivating. Having grown up in the outer suburbs of Adelaide as an only child with an older mother and a distant father, Elizabeth was always out exploring the neighborhood. She felt a bit of an 'outsider' due to her background and the sterile, racist, and small-minded community she was surrounded by. And then, the day after her 13th birthday, her Mum died. Her father didn't break the news to her, the Principal of the school did, and she wasn't allowed to go to the funeral (even though the school sent a delegation). She wasn't comforted or nurtured through grief at all. School was not a place of happy memories for Elizabeth, and as soon as she could get away, she did. She had always been fascinated by social justice and conflict resolution (not surprising given her background), and so she trained to become a social worker. After a brief marriage at 19, she decided to go overseas to explore the world and then came back to Australia determined to work in the social justice sector.

These days Elizabeth specialises in working with individuals, couples, and businesses around conflict resolution and the best way to work through issues where people disagree. Her calm, cool manner and her warm approach makes Elizabeth ideal to work in this space. She is also a speaker. We didn't even get to the fact that Elizabeth is living with a disability in this interview, there was too much else to discuss! You won't want to miss this great chat!

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Simone is just such a wonderful, wonderful woman that you will absolutely love her story. As an only child growing up in Liverpool, Simone left school and immediately joined the British Navy. This was at a time when women were not allowed to go to sea, so she started off in the office and moved to cryptography before learning how to be an Air Traffic Controller. Pretty cool stuff!

Simone has always been passionate about gender equality, understands the power of mentoring and knew the value of role models so she has always dabbled in this space through her various careers - after the Navy she moved into hospitality and events - and her passion drives her to create events that make a difference, and to work with purpose-driven people. Her first event 'on her own' was massive and she then realised how she could bring people together to make change happen.

Her story is incredibly uplifting as she talks about setting up Northern Power Women, and the Northern Power Collective, initially for school-aged students to talk to people in careers they were considering. She is a generous and warm woman and you can't help but be awestruck by her drive for change. This is an episode you would be mad to miss!

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Brenda is just so lovely that you will adore her! As the founder of Be Keane leggings and T-shirts, Brenda is focused on making cool, well-made leggings for women from size 6-38, which makes it the biggest range of leggings available in Australia. And it all started at a wellness retreat when Brenda and the women she was with, were challenged to come up with a business idea. Having tried to find larger leggings and fitness clothing for herself, Brenda realised there was a massive gap in the market - how could curvy women exercise if they couldn't find clothing to exercise in!

Not only does Brenda source the fabric and get them made in Australia, she also designs the prints for the fabrics. She has also partnered with all sorts of NFPs and has worked closely with Taryn Burfitt around body positivity and her Embrace movie (sounds like a match made in heaven!) as well as Friend in Me and The Hunger Project. Amazing!

Having grown up in the suburbs of Melbourne, Brenda has had a varied career that has led her from banking to HR to marketing and now to Change Management, mainly in the corporate and government sectors. Yet her leggings and clothing ranges will create massive change for curvy women (and kids) everywhere! She is a true role model.

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Shraddha and her co-founder Riya Sinha are extraordinary! In 2017 they created Fuzia to bring together women of all ages for support and networking. Within months they had a million followers, and to date, they have five million women in the group. Howzat! Shraddha knew from an early age that women were treated differently to men, and she didn't like it! Determined to make a difference, and after studying a degree in science, where she was very much the minority when it comes to gender, Shraddha, and Riya started Fuzia to connect women end empower them.

Focusing on creative women at first, Fuzia started to offer online courses and education for their members. Later, once those women were trained up, Shraddha and Riya started to think about how they could help the women in their community get paid work, in order to be independent, and Fuzia Talent was born! These days busy entrepreneurs can employ Fuzia women to help them grow their business.

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Kate is just such a delight to talk to! Having grown up in Melbourne as the middle girl in a family of five, with parents as teachers, she was always a great learner. Her Father had a couple of secondments overseas so she had the opportunity to go to school in England, and travel a bit of Europe as a child, which gave her a taste for it! Once she finished school she went on to study law, before taking a year off (just before her Articles) to travel around Europe again, this time with a friend. This was followed by a decade in law, whilst also getting married at 24 and having 3 kids in 3 and a half years. Crazy!

Kate left the legal profession following a stint in corporate law at Telstra, and started her first business - an online portal for nannies and babysitters - which never really took off. Then she decided to do a one-year business accelerator which gave her the idea of writing a book and consulting, around productivity and time management. Fast forward to today and she is now the author of four books - the latest is called The Life List - and she is absolutely living her best life, and helping others to do the same. A Life List is the opposite of a bucket list. It's the things you want to do to enhance your life, not before you die. You will adore this woman, she's an absolute powerhouse, and you need to listen to this episode to be inspired!

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Cassie is amazing! Based in Griffith, outback NSW, which is where she grew up, Cassie has done so much, not least of which is her latest side hustle (on top of running a successful digital agency), she has created CanTicket. CanTicket is software for designers and people who work in teams and need to measure the time spent on projects.

Cassie grew up on a grape farm (as opposed to a Vineyard!) and worked on the farm throughout her childhood, learning the value of hard work. She went to London as soon as she finished her education, and it was there that she discovered digital marketing.

After 5 years there, she came home to Griffith (quite a difference!), and soon after she hit rock bottom. Her marriage broke up, she was a single Mum with a young child living in a 20m2 home. But nothing was going to stop her!

She started a digital marketing agency, Candid Marketing, and has grown the business, employing a great team and has been working with some big (and small) clients. Her genius idea came through during the pandemic. She created CanTicket in order to retain her staff and give them all something to work on. These days she is winning awards for it! You are going to be totally inspired by Cassie's story.

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