Exclusive give us an insight on how you started your business and the growth so far? My entrepreneurship journey has been both depressing and exciting! But I want to acknowledge the help I got from other people to get to where I am right now. I started off selling from the back of a taxi and using my WhatsApp status to market my merchandise, I failed dismally twice; but I must say when I put my mind to something I go hard so I equipped myself with knowledge on financial intelligence and marketing etiquette. Most retailers overlook these things and face greater problems in the long run. Success comes with ridicule so half the time I have to put up with critics throwing stones at me but I remind myself that if the Confederation of retailers in Zimbabwe noticed my hard work, then I’m doing great.
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ood day Natalie. You are a young lady who wears so many hats, beyond any doubt you have an amazing personality and you are a true definition of excellency and distinction, what’s your secret? Hey Christine, thank you for the compliment! I’d like to think of myself as a person who dreams in color so by virtue of that I apply wisdom to
everything I do because my goal is soar higher than the sky. I understand I’m not meant for everyone I’m an acquired taste, but I put extreme effort in everything I do, be it in my work, my social life or parenting. I operate in the extremes so there’s no in-between it’s either I’m doing it or I’m not and that has helped me in a lot of things!
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atalie you’re an award-winning entrepreneur and a business woman something most people seem to forget, can you
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had a privilege of digging into your history of who Natalie really was far from the fame, in your own words, which things in your past can you point at in molding you into the Natalie you are today? I’m from very humble beginnings, I had to grow up way too fast as the first child to fend for my siblings as our mother got ill when I was about 15/16. My siblings have been my children since then so I naturally developed leadership and parenting skills at a very young age. 6
