Lessons from the Frontline: 5 Aussie women in business share their learnings
Article published by Kochies Business Builders 27 Aug 2020
By Annette Densham
Go into business, they said. It will be fun, they said. Be your own boss and run your own race, they said. What ‘they’ didn’t tell you was being in business is like a rollercoaster ride, with incredible highs and sometimes crushing lows.
In this COVID-19 world we live in, so many small businesses are facing challenges they didn’t count on, and no idea on how to navigate through it. But the entrepreneurial spirit is strong; with many businesses pivoting and changing, adapting to a new way of doing business.
Running a business is one of the most powerful personal and professional development times of a person’s life. There is so much you don’t know until you have to know it. But when you do ‘get’ the lesson, it is incredibly empowering.
These five women in business have learnt some valuable lessons about running their own race and share their stories on what no one tells you about being a start-up to the power of asking for help.