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CAREER

The Sydney panel
on stage. RIGHT
In Melbourne, Kate
Morris, Jessica
Macpherson and Ally
Watson drew a crowd.

SHE MEANS

BUSINESS

All the tips, tricks and trade secrets from the marie claire

Small Business Brilliance series, presented by Salesforce

ou can’t be what you can’t see.”
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance.”
“Sometimes you just need to have a cry
and a glass of wine.” These were some
Yof the pearls of wisdom shared at the
marie claire Small Business Brilliance masterclass
series, presented by Salesforce, celebrating
“AS A BUSINESS OWNER, Small Business Month in October.
Given the number of female small business
YOU’VE GOT TO LIVE AND owners has increased by nearly 50 per cent in
BREATHE WHAT YOU DO” the past two decades, the panels were the perfect

– Pip Edwards of P.E Nation (above) opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs to pick
the brains of the women who’ve been there,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHLOE PAUL; HIKARI PHOTOGRAPHY. TEXT BY ALLEY PASCOE.
done that and built empires.
At Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art,
girl bosses Pip Edwards of P.E Nation, Bridget
Loudon of Expert360 and Sally Obermeder and
Maha Corbett of Swiish, took to the stage to reveal
the biggest challenges they’ve faced on their start-up
journeys and the lessons they’ve learnt along the way.
Rule number one: back yourself and ignore the haters,
because no-one is going to cheer you on every day.
In Melbourne at Two Ton Max, Kate Morris of
FROM LEFT Maha
Adore Beauty, Jessica Macpherson of St Kilda Mums
Corbett, marie
and Ally Watson of Code Like a Girl got candid about claire editor Nicky
how they built their organisations from the ground Briger, Pip Edwards,
up – inspiring the 120 boss women in the room, Bridget Loudon and
Sally Obermeder
over coffee and pastries. Watson’s rhetorical after sharing their
question summed up the morning: “If you’re wisdom at the Small
not being your true self, what’s the point?” Here’s Business Brilliance
masterclass series
to being our true (boss women) selves. in Sydney.

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