Yetnayet Tamrat: Born with Entrepreneurial Mindset By Samuel Teka /ABN/ Entrepreneurs help bolster economic development, create jobs, and invent products and services that can make the world a better place. Being a successful entrepreneur requires outside-the-box thinking and larger-than-life ideas. Most can come up with a new idea but converting it to a successful business around is the entrepreneurial challenge. The entrepreneurial mindset is unique in that one must be creative, communicative, and highly motivated to succeed. In the journey of success and through exploring several approaches, tenacious female entrepreneurs could create strong waves in the business community thus laying a solid base for limitless creativity. In a country with limited number of female entrepreneurs, few have stood out to prove their potentials and achieve their lifelong dreams of owning their own businesses. Yetnayet Tamrat AKA Mimi Tamrat is a mother, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and an artist who was born in the Addis Ababa in 1986 GC. She grew up with her two brothers in a very loving family. Being the only daughter in the family, she had to stand up for herself and learn to become independent at the earliest stage of her life. She was raised to become self-sufficient and confident. She has learnt to mind her manners with strong self-discipline as nurtured by her parents. At early age, she used to travel to the countryside during holiday seasons to visit her grandparents. She still has the memory of the bliss and the smell of the flowers, the magical scenery of the magnificent landscapes and movements of the trees as if their symmetric movements have been choreographed by nature. Above all, she still remembers the heartwarming smile of her grandparents. She enjoys living the now, connecting with nature, discovering different personalities from the countryside. These sparked thoughts and lead to develop some of her hobbies that is related to taking care of nature and helping others. Among the many hobbies she has, gardening is one that gets her connected to nature; she believes that every being on this planet has a way of communicating if one cares enough to listen. Walking In her garden she feels like her plants speak to her and help her transcend into the comfort and calmness. This experience also allows her to listen to herself and connect to her inner peace. Yetnayet doesn’t usually take no for an answer. She always fights for what she believes in. she never sleeps until she sees her dreams come true. Every day she tries to learn new things from different people 12
Abyssinia Business Network / ABN / 2022
