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WAGGA’S Women in Business (WiB) is seeking entries from members for the second round of its Hear Them Roar series. After the profound success of the first series where 15 women from agriculture, finance, law, architecture, art and creative, tourism, podiatry, music and transport had short films made about them, WiB is facilitating the second round. New sponsors Agrifutures and Wagga Wagga City Council are joining the original sponsors ICG Construction, the Commonwealth Bank, Commins Hendricks, Bush and Campbell and the NRMA. According to the principal of Community Regeneration, Bob Neville from Urana, the number of women desiring to and then establishing a business far outweighs the number of men. “Women are more open-minded, willing to listen and are ready to change,” Bob explained. He should know because his experience culminated in winning the inaugural NSW award for Building Inclusive Communities in 2011 and he has more than 20 years experience specialising in micro-business and micro-economy, small communities, micro-tourism development and in advertising, marketing and small business across Australia and many parts of the world. “Business models and marketing are the keys to successful enterprises of any size and, of course, before anything else, every business needs people, customers and those who own and manage the enterprise,” Bob added. “Every business starts off as a seed of an idea from one individual and grows to become anything from a very small (micro) business and to a large corporation. In every community, every year, many individuals have many great ideas for business, some of which have great potential but most of which are never explored.” A similar thought process now becoming reality is taking place in the Narromine Shire Council where The Seed Scheme is commencing. The founder of Rural Woman, Rebel Black, explains “There’s a growing body of research (and evidence in the developing world) there is an enormous and very undervalued impact and opportunity from the development of successful microenterprises.”
Members of Women in Business: L-R: Hear Them Roar winner, Anna Lashbrook, founder of 365cups, Simone Eyles and principal of Mayfly Media, Alexis Neylon. “Imagine hundreds more women in rural Australia making an extra $20,000 to $50,000 a year, contributing to their families, sharing their unique talents and skills and growing as leaders. This will have far-reaching ripples which extend way beyond economics and embraces social, emotional and collective wellbeing,” Rebel said. When WiB member Elissa Bent and her husband purchased Langfields Transport just over a decade ago, it was then an owner-driver operation, with one van and one truck delivering to Albury on a daily basis. Today Langfields employs 17 full time staff, has a fleet of nine trucks, a hazardous/dangerous goods warehouse, three depots and has expanded daily freight connections to the Riverina, ACT, Greater Murray and Goulburn Valley. “What a great experience being featured in the Hear Them Roar series was,” Elissa explained. “Making the video gave us reason to
reflect and to see who we are through someone else’s eyes. It made us proud of what we’ve achieved at Langfields Transport and this was something we’d neglected to do until we were part of the series. “A side effect I hadn’t anticipated was how bonded I feel to all the other Hear Them Roar participants. We all have two main things in common – we are all in business and we all chose Wagga as our community,” she concluded. Co-ordinator of Hear Them Roar, Genevieve Fleming, explained the purpose of the video series is to celebrate the success of women who have achieved outstanding outcomes while living and working in regional Australia. “Another focus is to encourage more people living in urban centres to consider living and working in regional Australia and to encourage governments and businesses to prioritise the needs of regional Australia in the planning and
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allocation of funding. “Naturally, we promote the Riverina as a desirable place to work and live and each of the 15 stories in the first series of Hear Them Roar demonstrates that very strongly.” Wagga has a wealth of innovators and entrepreneurial supporters with Simone Eyles and Diana Somerville partnering with CSU’s AgriTech hub providing business incubation support for emerging enterprises. Diana also is the founder of the annual Agrihack which encourages teams to take on real-life situations and, in just a couple of days, create real-life and commercial solutions to take to market. “Wagga is the centre of everything, really and we are excited about who will nominate for this round of Hear Them Roar,” Genevieve concluded. Details and a nomination form are available at www.womeninbusinesswagga. org.au and close on 30 May.
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