“I didn’t grow up with jewellery or have any sort of affinity for it. I studied jewellery design because my boyfriend at the time was studying jewellery design.”
It was an unusual start for a designer who went on to win some of the most coveted jewellery design awards in the country and who is today, arguably, one of South Africa’s foremost fine jewellery designers.
“Work on your business, not in your business.
This is an approach I came across in a business group a year before I read the book by the author who made this phrase the credo it has become for small business owners worldwide.
One Day by Night is our monthly dinner event in Cape Town for young women business owners and entrepreneurs. It offers a safe and galvanising space to share our experiences of running a business. More a “book club” than “networking event”, it’s a chance to sit around a table with likeminded women in an intimate setting and talk frankly over a glass of wine about the daily reality of our work lives.