Hirsch\u2019s recently hosted their monthly Ladies\u2019 Networking Morning, with guest speaker Lebo Makhathini.<\/p>\n
Makhathini spoke about entrepreneurship and shared her personal story with the women at the event.<\/p>
\u201cI refused to fail,\u201d she said as she described how she had started as an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n
After starting her career as an estate agent, Makhathini is now an independent community developer, entrepreneur, micro start-up mentor, philanthropist, counsellor, robust agent of change \u2013 and July\u2019s winner in the Margaret Hirsch Women in Business Achiever Award competition.<\/p>
At the event, Germiston\u2019s Michelle Mills was introduced as the August winner.<\/p>\n
She is a project management professional (PMP), certified Praise Moves instructor (CPI), entrepreneur and author.<\/p>\n
She has a passion for helping people to improve their lives and finances, working on the principle of \u201cGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day \u2013 teach a man to fish and you feed him for life\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mills grew up as the youngest of three in a family that knew hard financial times.<\/p>\n
To this day, she and her brothers can still cook up 100 things with mince and 1 001 stews.<\/p>\n
She doesn\u2019t recall ever going to a restaurant as a child (they didn\u2019t have the cash) and even KFC was beyond the family\u2019s cash-flow.<\/p>\n
By the time she was a teenager and her eldest brother took her out to a restaurant, she was so overwhelmed at the idea she made herself sick with excitement and had no appetite by the time they got there.<\/p>\n
Business women on the East Rand are encouraged to join the next Ladies\u2019 Networking Morning, at 9am on September 22, at Hirsch\u2019s Meadowdale.<\/p>\n
Bring along your banners, business cards and pamphlets and meet local, like-minded businesswomen.<\/p>\n
For any queries or application forms for the Margaret Hirsch Women in Business Achiever Award, contact Hirsch\u2019s Johannesburg\u2019s regional public relations and marketing manager, Brigitte Thysse, at brigitte@hirschs.co.za.<\/p>\n
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