MAKE A BOOKING: FOUR OF OUR FINEST WOMEN – 28 AUGUST 2013

Being Women’s month, we have selected four of our fine women members to share their journey of entrepreneurship with you!
Each represents a different field of business, each has a great story of endurance, motivation, up’s and down’s and most of all – achieving their dreams!
These Four Fine Women will inspire you, share their secrets and growth pains, their successes and how they got where they are now!
Women’s month is the month to salute inspirational women – and here are four of the finest!


ABIGAIL KLOPPER - PHOTOGRAPHER.

I shoot love. I shoot for love and I shoot with love. I'm a Wedding and Beauty Photographer for fun, everyday people. Not only will you be reminded of this chapter in your life, but you’ll also remember the fun you had making these memories. I aim to create something beautiful from everyday people and settings in a fun, relaxed way.
Having moved to Cape Town 3 years ago, Abigail has grown her business and her network far bigger than she was ever able to in Johannesburg, having lived there for most of her life.
Through ambition, determination and a whole load of online and offline network, Abigail has finally found her niche and her passion which she feels is on the brink of catapulting her business to the next level. She attributes this pathway to success to her move to the Mother City and the thriving entrepreneurial spirit she found here.


 DEBBY SATCHEL – BROOKSIDE ADMIN

Debby Satchel was born & raised in Cape Town. By the late 90's she was a single mum & sole supporter of 2 small boys. With just a matric, a well paying job in Knysna was out of the question. Debby became a Pastel VAR dealer & self-employed.  In the Garden Route - everyone knows everyone else. It is easy to spread your business name. There was also The Boys Boerewors Bash 1 Friday a month, for the business owners of Knysna - The girls went along too! We changed their time honoured tradition :-)
Debby became the treasurer of the Knysna Chamber of Commerce. These where her introduction to networking.
When Debby moved back to Cape Town in 2002, she needed to find a way to build her brand in the much larger environment. 11 years of consistent networking later - she can guarantee that it works!
Cape town is a very small City if you network effectively.
In 2010 Debby started a bookkeeping business. She started a Franchise in 2011. Debby sold the bookkeeping business, with 4 employees, in 2013. There are currently 2 franchisees employing 7 staff. The purpose of the franchise is Business Growing Business.
Debby has grown from a shy, quiet person who was scared to talk to others into a confident educator who loves to share life's business lessons.

ANN MACKRILL – HEALING SLEEP PRODUCTS

My dream was to become a Textile Designer.  This  didn’t happen, but some 30 years later I now sell  Household Textiles and love it!
I have worked in many fields, been fired for being too cheeky a few times, sold Gold Coins, sold Foam Rubber, run a Recruitment Business , worked as a designer in a factory making clothes for middle aged women ( firing number 1) ,  Run a small coffee shop ( firing number 2) and held down the job of Training Manager for Environ Skincare for 17 years.
Finally however  I’ve come home. My story is really about paying attention to ones passion and how life can take some really strange turns if one ignores the voice that speaks to each of us….


JENNY HOWARD - CHEZ GOURMET


Chez Gourmet is a specialist short course cooking school and bespoke caterer, located in Claremont. We are a group ofpassionate Cordon Bleu chefs who love nothing better than good food, learned, served or made in a professional yet friendly environment. Our plan was to become a foodie destination of note, where we could teach people how to really cook, and enjoy doing it!
4 ½ years later, we find ourselves teaching internationally –accredited professional courses in patisserie and professional cookery, (1 of which we wrote ourselves and is an industry first in SA), we are an accredited international exam centre, we have been chosen as the top school in the Western Cape for the Dept Tourism/SACA training project, we are featured in a new book on Chocolate, have been profiled in Good Food and Home, AA Traveller magazine, Chef!( our professional body magazine), had a slot on the Home Channel and are opening our school in France in July. We have partnered with the Fine Women Excelleration Bursary Fund and will have had 3 candidates learn the art of Patisserie.

Presenter: ABIGAIL KLOPPER, DEBBY SATCHEL, ANN MACKRILL, JENNY HOWARD
Date:28 August 2013
Time: 08:00 for 08:30
Venue: Barristers in Newlands off Kildare Road
Cost: R165 (incl vat) for non members, and R135 (incl Vat) for members.

MAKE A BOOKING: FOUR OF OUR FINEST WOMEN – 28 AUGUST 2013
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