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About Me

Working with a trade facilitating organization for the last 25 years and prior to that was with a mining company. Previous roles include registry clerk, legal secretary, senior secretary, marketing officer.

With current role, I would like to work at empowering women in small business by providing them information on marketing, customer care, using of internet and social media, etc.

Location:
Fiji Islands, Suva
Current organization:
Lapita Marketing
Past organizations:
Dome Petroleum, University of Calgary, University of the South Pacific, Cromptons Solicitors
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Marketing + Branding + Management + Leadership


More About Me

I'm passionate about

working with small group of women and men that believe that they have resources that can make a difference to your livelihood and so as others.

An idea worth spreading

Do not underestimate your capability
Try and say a good thing about your partner, child, parents, friends, coworkers etc at least once a week.
Share what you know to help another person

Talk to me about

Anything and everything - need to widen my understanding of everything in life that makes a difference to me or anyone close to me.

People don't know that I'm good at

writing business plans
provide customer service training

My TED Story

A woman - over 50 years of age
Married
4 children - all grown up
1 grandchild
Plan to run a small business full time when I retire

Comments

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  • A comment on Conversation: With recent worldwide monetary issues, would a society without money work?

    Nov 8 2011: Yes, a society can still work without money. Barter exchanges between society can be a way ... but I must say that if the society had been reliant on money, they may find it a little difficult to adapt. From where I am sitting in Fiji, I see that it is possible and people can still have a life through exchanges.
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    A comment on Conversation: What is the first thing you tell yourself when you wake up to give yourself energy or courage?

    Nov 8 2011: Astra, I admire you and thank you for taking care of the hands that rocked you with lullabies. Now it is our turn to rock them - hang in there. Don't talk about the people that are not coming to join you look after Mum - just thank the Almighty that you can say yes, and he will provide. Feeling bitter about someone can close alot of doors to luck and blessings - just do what you have to do wholeheartedly and with joy. Someone out there is looking and will make things happen for you and Mum. Say BULA to Mum from Fiji - (Bula means hello)
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    A comment on Conversation: What is the first thing you tell yourself when you wake up to give yourself energy or courage?

    Nov 7 2011: I thank the almighty if I wake up and I can open my eyes to see the light, my limbs are moving and I can move out of bed. THAT GIVES ME COURAGE TO LOOK AT OTHER THINGS

    Secondly, I look for all the members of my family (husband, 3 daughters and 1 son) to check that they are all well, and then I look at what is required to be done for the day. I usually look at what my target is and remind myself of my mission and objective. THAT GIVES ME THE ENERGY
  • A comment on Conversation: A People's Fund To Share all Profits from Natural Resource Extraction on a Per Capita Basis (like the Alaska Permanent Fund)

    Nov 7 2011: Bula Lindsay, thank for the warm welcome and your note on the water and gold resources here. At present, there is increased taxes on water harvested so that money will go to the basket of funds to be distributed to the landowners.
    A number of other mineral resources explored recently have had payout to the landowners and to the government. The income obtained is really not distributed per capita but to the landowners to look after developments like education, health, etc.

    I think that the interim government has found out how the previous investors have done to the earlier investments that were approved by previous governments, where the cream is harvested and the country is left with close to nothing, eg. the tourism industry investors.
  • A comment on Conversation: A People's Fund To Share all Profits from Natural Resource Extraction on a Per Capita Basis (like the Alaska Permanent Fund)

    Nov 5 2011: interesting to see what is happening in the US. In Fiji we are going through the same processes where all our resources that used to be shared and sold within the domestic market and exported are now having to pay the State and the landowners royalty. companies that are using our water, mining our minerals and exploring to look for oil.

    I still feel that not enough is given to the landowners - the working out or calculations do not take care of the future generation who will have to live without being able to use their land to plant their taro, vegetables, fish from their shores etc.

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