Nataly Tormey Nataly is a true trailblazer in business. She is raw, real and honest and is taking business leadership to the next level. As a self-confessed bogan leader (and proud of it!), Nataly invites like-minded women to join her in her campaign to encourage and empower others to build their very own bogan empire…moccasins and all!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“well I had nothing, I started my business bankrupt so clearly not good with money to start with. It wasn’t a good skill set. I started the business bankrupt because I was a single mum really early on in life, I was a young mum, didn’t have a laptop, didn’t have paper, I just had a really strong idea. So I came across every struggle every single entrepreneur would come across and I am very proud to say that I never really spent any money in the first few years of my business. And everything was done on the basis of trade swap and relationships. So I had so many struggles, I probably couldn’t even list them. I think I had no knowledge, I had no idea what the hell I was doing, tried to do everything myself to begin with – doing the whole website on your own, doing everything on my own. So every single struggle you could have I had but it was all worth it in the end.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené Brown
Favourite Quote:
The Man in the Arena by Theodore Rooseve
lt It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Surround yourself with people that will support you. I think it is also important to understand how you accept and receive support because we all do it really differently. So whether that means you need to be around people that will give you healthy criticism or does it mean you need to be around people who will give you a million compliments or does it mean you need to be around people that will always ask you how you are and how your business is going. You need to decide where your healthy place is to be, and go to that place and take that first step. You don’t need to be in every single network. I don’t still to this day. You don’t need to be doing everything what everyone else is doing. You don’t need to attend every single event. You have to find what is right for you and surround yourself with the right people.”…[Listen for More]
More About Nataly Tormey:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.” Gemma Malley
Other Quotes From the Chat with Nataly Tormey:
- “it is so easy to have people who are not even in your arena, who can be your closest family and friends, who judge you in business. And that for me was the moment where I said you are not in my arena you don’t even get to make judgement. So I only want judgement (because it can be positive) and feedback from those in my actual arena. For those that aren’t in my arena I respectfully understand your opinion and I brush it off”
- “it all comes down to you know what you know, you know what you don’t know, you don’t know what you don’t know… so you know what you need to learn”
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