Samantha Wills is a young businesswoman and Australian jewelry design. 12 years ago, she left her small hometown of Port Macquarie, to try life in Sydney, a journey easy for someone 20 years dreamed of opening their own business.
Over the months she struggled to open her shop, she contracted a debt of $ 80,000 with the Australian government. He settled it at 24 and made his first million at 26.
Today, at age 34, Samantha controls a deal worth US $ 10 million, based in New York and with teams in Japan and France.
The entrepreneur started their trade before the era of Facebook and Instagram. His jewelry brand came from complete anonymity in a time when there was no e-commerce.
The first sales were made on foot, on a beach called Bondi in 2004. For four years, she invested everything he earned to buy and mount other necklaces, rings and earrings.
Your brand only gained international spotlight when Hollywood stars and music, as Eva Mendes, Rihanna and Drew Barrymore, used their pieces on the red carpet. Some jewelry even appeared in the second film "Fri and the City" in 2010. It was then that Samantha decided to take their business to the United States.
"It took less than 12 years to achieve success," she said during the launch of Samantha Wills Foundation, an institution that encourages women to have their own business.
"There is no glamor. There is anxiety, nervousness and invisible barriers that we need to spend every day, "he said. "We must help us to overcome this world still so male entrepreneurship."
The entrepreneur says that the main ingredient for success is patience.
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