“It's okay, you can start incrementally”

“Sometimes what your soul guides you to do, doesn't always make sense to your mind, and it's not always convenient”

“Sometimes it felt a little hard to say the truth {in business partnership}, like we were being polite”

“We didn't spend any money on marketing or advertising because we didn't have any money to put behind it, it was just like, okay, let's just start”

“I really wanted to start heading towards making change, but I didn't know how.”

“The fear of remaining where I was, was greater than the fear of taking that risk and making the leap”

“It's constant learning, constant trying, constant frustration, But it's balanced with success and with recognition”

“You have to clean out the Garage before you can get something new”

“Drawing on the experience that you have, you'll surprise yourself, how well you can do by just simply knowing what's worked for you in your corporate career and then applying that into your own business”

“If we’re curious, and we're willing to learn and we're resilient - you can achieve anything”

“When we can look at the pursuit of something new, and what we achieve in that pursuit, not as the goal but the pursuit itself as being the thing of value, something magical happens”

“When you are starting out and stepping away from that corporate sector and you soon realize that there's just so many ways to move forward”

“I definitely had a lot of imposter syndrome early on, even in my Instagram bio, for years after I started getting photography work I would still only ever have food blogger in my bio!”

“I did absolutely everything and just sat on it for ages and I was like, when's gonna be the right time? which, you know what? There isn't a right time.”

“I just cannot describe the feeling of finally deciding to go out on your own and do something, I had no idea that I would one day be selling fish homewares!”

“If you have something that you really want to start, just go and do it. Just go and do it on the weekends, do it after hours, and then just see what happens.”

“I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do financially, but I’m not doing this anymore.”

“I firmly believe that everything we do in our lives sets us up for the next thing, even if those skills don't necessarily feel transferable in the moment.”

“You've really got to dig deep and go, do I want to live my life like that? Or am I prepared to be a bit counterculture and choose different things?”

“It does feel daunting to relaunch, but you can literally be anything you want”