HOW I REBUILT MY BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY

By Melissa Woodward –Fearless Health

For the past three years, I have been no stranger to rebuilding my business after the two significant lockdowns in Sydney. I am the owner of a Health and Wellness business offering Remedial Massage and Personal Training services to women, in particular pregnant and post natal women. Alongside my husband, we were growing a strong business in Campbelltown NSW when the first lockdown occurred.

We made swift decisions to ensure the continued viability of our business but it also meant letting go of premises that we had worked so hard to transform into our space, as well as staff that we loved working with. When the lockdown occurred we lost every avenue of income that we had built in one day. Everything stopped. Our contracts, working with children at a community centre, fitness classes and of course my hands on massage clients all stopped.

It was an intense time made worse when my Dad was diagnosed with Leukaemia and later lost him to the disease. It was a period where I felt like I was losing everything I loved or worked so hard to achieve.

During the second lockdown and after the loss of my Dad, we decided that we couldn’t keep living like this with so many hours dedicated to work. Also watching the rising costs of housing taking our dreams of home ownership further away. We felt the urge to make a change as life could be taken away at any moment.

Then the idea of relocating came up in conversation. We started looking at the Domain property app to find which areas still had homes available within a price range we felt we could comfortably afford. This took us on a wild ride over the next 12 months as we made a change for our family and rebuilt the business one more time.

I wanted to share the process I went through in relocating and rebuilding my business in a new town to highlight the simple steps and resources you can access should you feel the urge to make a change too.