CEO of Monday Swimwear
“I like to incorporate yoga and small stretching in between each exercise to Rees and re-align the body but it’s important to listen to your body throughout the routine.”
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FOUNDER OF GISOU, INFLUENCER AND BEAUTY ENTREPRENEUR
Gisou has been born naturally out of my passion for bees, the bee garden and beauty. You could say beekeeping has always been in my blood. My father learnt it from his father, who was taught by my great-grandfather and so on. When moving to the Netherlands, my mother started experimenting with her own hair care solutions. One thing my mother knew for sure was that my dad’s honey was going to be the key ingredient. Now, I got the opportunity to combine my love for family and beauty into the brand Gisou.
Four years ago, when I started on Instagram with inspirational fashion posts, I acknowledged that a lot of people were interested in my hair. After receiving so many questions about my hair, I felt like I had something to offer, and I decided to share the healing powers of bee products. This resulted in Gisou, a bee-based hair product line. I knew that the story was of a special nature. However, I never thought that people would be interested in bees or the bee story behind the brand. I definitely believe that people can resonate with the story as it is very authentic and real. I try to share my personal story via my Instagram account and YouTube channel, where my followers can see me work in my father’s bee garden or my moments with my mom when she is doing my hair.
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Sunrise newsreader, journalist, mum of two
‘Do what is right for you and your family.
My childhood was idyllic. I grew up in Bunbury, two hours south of Perth in WA. Mum and Dad made a pact when they started a family that she’d stay at home and look after myself and my two younger brothers, while my dad would work. Dad had a real estate agency partnership and building company, and was involved in golf administration. We all went to the local Catholic school right through until Year 12. We would play in the sand hills that ran from our house through to the back beach in Bunbury and not come home until we were hungry.
I had two dolls but once I’d dressed them a couple of times I couldn’t really understand what else you did with them. Our street was full of boys so I practised my ‘death roll’, went outside, got on my bike and played ‘Cowboys and Indians’ or ‘Wars’.
CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER
My first job was at Ann Waldrodt’s corner store just down the road from my house. I packed the milk fridge, stocked the shelves, learned to use the meat slicer, served the customers and – my favourite – made up the bags of mixed lollies. My first pay packet was about $14 and I was beyond excited. From there I moved to Neil Lloyd’s hot bread shop on Saturday mornings, where I got to take home free doughnuts and buns for our weekly barbeque. (Mum thought that was a winner.)
From an early age, my father used to joke with me to get my notebook and start taking notes because I loved listening to adult conversations at my parents’ dinner parties and barbeques. I was the first in my family to get into university and excitedly moved to Perth.
I loved Perth but hated uni. I was the country kid who was just so intimidated by everything and everyone around me. My parents told me I could only drop out if I got a job. So I wrote to every newspaper, radio and television station in WA, and only one boss asked me to come in and have a chat.
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Fashion Influencer
“Learn how to do your own hair, master your makeup, sew, alter your clothes and create your own aesthetic. When you can build your image with your own hands, your style stops following trends and starts telling your story and you’ll be able to express yourself with authenticity. If you really want to stand out, invest in skills not
just trends.”
Fashion Influencer
“I always make sure my looks go well with my personality. I love bags as I have been collecting them for a while now.”
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Fashion designer | Community Builder
“Fashion is a silent yet powerful social language. I’m drawn to futuristic fabrics with a luminous quality that reflects my forward thinking spirit and my love of the mermaid fairy tale. I’m not attached to labels. I care about cutting-edge design, the philosophy behind a house, and craftsmanship. The moment an idea turns into impossible beauty. I believe it goes further than language: fabric carries energy and frequency, and through what we wear, we can raise the energy of a room and our own being.
Fashion Influencer
“Follow your heart and trust your spirit even when the destination is still invisible to everyone else. Keep walking, because the women who succeed are not the ones who never fell, but the ones who
refused to stop. From a wheelchair in Moldova I founded an NGO and co-created a South East European network of disability organizations; I later served a diplomatic posting in France and continued my International career at the Council of Europe and the United Nations in Vienna. None of it happened because the world believed in me first. It happened because I believed in the mission, and in myself, long enough for others to catch up. Your dream does not need permission to begin. It only needs you to keep moving.” – Natasha Brouwer-Buga
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Model and Influencer
“Cultivating your ambition means developing a clear vision for what you want to achieve and having the determination to work towards it. Ambition gives you direction and encourages you to keep growing, even when progress is slow or challenges arise. Rather than comparing yourself to others, focus on becoming the best version of yourself and setting goals that challenge you..”
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Founder of Still Standing, Still Speaking
“Women need to stop waiting to be credentialed by pain we’ve already survived. So many women — myself included, for a long time — wait until we feel “healed enough” or “articulate enough” or “over it enough” before we let ourselves speak. We stop ourselves from using our voice because we think influence requires having all the answers. It doesn’t. Some of the most powerful things I’ve said publicly were said while I was still in the middle of the mess — still months without my children, still fighting to be heard. Women need to stop treating their unfinished stories as disqualifying.”
“Honestly, it was the silence itself — the silence around parental alienation, the silence I was told to keep about my own experience — that gave me no choice but to speak. I didn’t grow into confidence gradually; I grew into it out of necessity, because staying quiet was costing me and other mothers like me too much..” – Sabrina Treffeletti
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A pioneer at the forefront of luxury wellness for over two decades, Christina is the founder of two award-winning UK wellness brands, the Hot Tub & Swim Spa Company and the Sauna & Steam Room Company, and Asia-based Mantoura—creating beautifully designed, bespoke wellness spaces in Singapore.
“We spend enormous amounts of time thinking about our families, careers and our homes, but none of those things matter if we don’t have the health and energy to enjoy them.” – Christina Mantoura
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