SheShed - working from home
Tell us a bit about what you do, what is your business all about and what is your goal?
The completed shed
I am a Food and Beverage Sector Specialist helping to grow the NZ Food & Beverage sector economy. I use my experience and connections in research, rural development, marketing, media, and tourism to present new methods for consideration and delivery. I work with start-up food and beverage businesses helping them to participate in programmes that help their business grow as well as with large, established companies looking to diversify. My goal is to develop and to grow the sector so that it is collaborative; supports business from start up to export level and showcases NZ Inc. as a producer of high value food and beverage to a global audience.
What do you love most about managing your business from home and do you have any advice for other women looking to start something from home?
The finished office
It used to take me 2 ½ hours each way to get to work with an office that was in the Auckland CBD. My new office is on my property on the rural outskirts of Auckland in a very pretty valley. From the doors I see countryside….from the window, a tall Elm tree and gardens and I am surrounded by greenery, birdlife, streams, and a waterfall (across the road), in an office that reflects the work I do in the rural sector with growers and producers.
My advice for other women looking to start something from home is this: “Find your passion and bring it to life. Do what you love and based on your skill set, your knowledge and your innate intuition about what is needed/where there is a gap in the market. Furnish your office so it becomes a reflection of the work you do and provides inspiration while you bring into being the business you have created. Your office should reflect who you are and also be an advertisement for your new business venture.