23/01/2026
Owning a business isn’t just about ambition.
It’s about where you come from.
I’m an only child of migrant parents who came to Australia with nothing. No safety net, no handouts, no guarantees. I watched them build a life from the ground up, quietly, humbly, without ever expecting more than what they were willing to work for.
That shaped me more than I realised.
I always knew I wasn’t meant to work for someone else. Not because I thought I was “better,” but because independence was modelled to me as survival. As dignity. As freedom.
I’ve had wins and I’ve had failures people don’t see.
A business I poured five years into that couldn’t sustain me.
Another where I lost over $10k in my mid twenties.
Moments where I questioned myself, my choices, and whether I was being reckless or brave.
But every setback thickened my skin.
Every failure taught me something school never could.
From beauty, to e-commerce, to creative work, to now running my own agency and building Skin & Soul — it’s all been a full-circle journey of following what genuinely lights me up. And I think that’s why it’s worked. Not without stress. Not without doubt. But with alignment.
Right now, I’m in another testing chapter(which comes naturally when you start to scale); staffing issues, pressure, responsibility, uncertainty. And some days it’s heavy. But I remind myself: business isn’t linear. It never was. Even years in, you’re still learning how to hold the weight without letting it harden you.
I don’t do this just for success.
I do it because of where I come from.
Because of what was sacrificed.
Because of the life I want to give back to my family and to myself.
And because somewhere inside me, that little girl always believed she could build something of her own.
I’m still doing it for her.
