Prosple Australia/GradAustralia Profiles

Pursue your Ikigai - your reason to jump out of bed each morning.

Embrace every day and approach each challenge with vigor, as it is never as hard as you first think.

Enjoy the UWA life and develop an international network of friends. Don’t be afraid to travel and move to different countries early in your career.

Take a little risk and never be afraid to make mistakes – as long as you learn from them!

I find growing a business, coaching junior staff and helping clients, all to be equally rewarding. I especially enjoy working on transactions that are ‘live’ and are read about in the newspapers and other media.

Being a full-time working parent is a daily juggling act. However, working in a firm that promotes flexibility and work-life balance has greatly helped me with not only the advancement in my career but to also raise two children.

I think being a woman in a male-dominated arena is always a challenge – especially when it is largely relationship based and it at times feels like it will always be that way. Part of the challenge is dealing with this but still being authentic, i.e. work with “the boys” and earning their respect as an equal rather than trying to be something you are not.

Failure isn’t failure if you learn something from it – then it becomes a stepping stone. People don't like to talk about bad times so it's hard to know, but more ‘successful people’ than you may realise bombed at something else before they started succeeding.