Starting A Charity In Australia

“I think if you’re clear on what you’re passionate about and the actual change and impact you want to have in the world, the first thing you need to do is to register your business and work out how you want to create that impact.”

And then my number one recommendation is to know your finances inside out. I think that I am someone who dropped maths at the end of year 10 and I didn’t know what I was doing, but I have great people around me, a treasurer on our board and a finance person in our team now who’s training me on how to better understand my own numbers.

But it’s so important from the very beginning that, you know, what money’s coming in, what money’s going at, how you’re spending it and how you want to create that impact with often very small amounts of money as well.

I think that my one piece of advice is that if you’re incredibly passionate about what you’re doing.

“One of the main ways that you’re going to succeed is by surrounding yourself with really supportive people.”

It is incredibly hard to run your own business. I love being able to sugar coat it, and I wish I could because everything is wonderful and there’s butterflies and flowers. And I love what I do every day. But it’s insanely hard and it takes literally blood, sweat and tears to be able to run your own business.

And I think that you need the right network and support network around you, friends, family, loved ones, the random guy at the coffee shop who gives you your coffee every day. Because those are the people that are going to get you through the really tough times. Otherwise, I reckon I would have stopped this probably 11 and a half years ago if I didn’t have the amazing network that I have.