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Monday, October 24th 2022

There must have been something in the water when recruiting for the Cultivate Hills program. Emily Shipway is another participant who cannot speak more highly of the program, particularly of the other business operators in the group.

We were all in the same situation, people changing careers and realising we were not competitors at all.

I have always learned through formal university as I am a qualified Nurse. But I had no idea where to start to learn the business’s basics. How do you set everything up? I felt like my accountant was speaking another language.

I needed the foundations of business, which is exactly what the Cultivate Hills program has given me. I absolutely loved the legal part of the program, it has 100% saved me from issues down the line, for example developing terms and conditions. Maybe that seems logical to existing business people, but how do you find all this out if you are just starting out?

As part of this program, I found my Business Mum’. Amanda from the local bushfire recovery centre has been incredible, I walked in to see her and announced that I am a Nurse who wants to be a farmer and an entrepreneur. 

Being in business has been a total change for me. In nursing, there are procedures that you repeat every time. But in business, it is nothing like that. I thought being in business meant being fairly cold and a harda5re’, it blew me away how much we talked about our values and really considered why we were doing this? What did it mean to us to be in business and what did we want to achieve? 

I really have gone on a journey of personal development.

From when I was 11 years of age, I was always going to be a Nurse. I was going to be a Nurse until I stopped working altogether. But now I am my own boss, and I get to decide what happens every day and what my business will achieve.

And the best thing is that we have an incredible business model we can take nationally. All of the Cultivate Hills program was helpful in working through this … so now, what is stopping us from setting up a farm in every state? We have done all of the planning and cannot wait to see how this all goes.”

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