Meet our featured beauty with brains Amanda Sluiter, a businesswoman based in Sydney, Australia. She is truly inspirational, running a successful clothing business based on sustainability and recycling, despite having some major setbacks.
Amanda used to work as an embryologist, helping couples through the whole cycle of having a child. She herself had difficulty conceiving, as she had kidney problems since she was eighteen. She also had endometriosis. Because of her own situation, she could empathise with her patients, and could understand what they were going through.
After surgery and fertility treatment, she got lucky and had two beautiful children. But ten months after her second child was born, she had to have a kidney transplant. She was thinking of going back to work but her husband felt that it won’t be a wise decision for her to go back to work after a kidney transplant.
So she bought ‘The Old New’ (a clothing business) and decided to run it and see where it goes. She got a very pleasant surprise one day, when Joanna Griggs from ‘Better Homes and Gardens’, came up to her and said they would like to renovate her backyard for her. They renovated her backyard and garage and turned her garage into a boutique. Tara Dennis designed most of it.
Having a space for business at home means a lot to Amanda. It means less exposure to bugs (she is immunosuppressed due to the kidney transplant) and more time with her kids who were both born prematurely.
Amanda is a very brave, determined and remarkable woman. She has managed to have a beautiful family and a successful business, despite the odds.
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