Emily Hazell

Well, I guess also to learn a little bit more about me, I also have ADHD, so that helps with being a high achiever.

I can't sit still for more than two minutes.

But dad is a property developer.

Him and his two brothers have been doing it for 30, 40 years.

So I grew up around it, seeing them buy blocks in the 80s and 90s and

knock them down and build townhouses.

So I think it was definitely in my blood and we'd sit down at the dining table and he'd show me, you know, floor plans and how to draw windows and doors.

And when I was in primary school, he sat down with me and we drew a townhouse together and then he ended up building that off my design.

So it's something that I was very passionate about.

And I actually opened my, yeah, the eatery when I was 24 and I'd been working on that for

like nearly 10 years and I'd been saving.

I ran this nanny agency from when I was 15.

I started working when I was 12 and I just had this goal of putting away $500 a week for nearly a decade.

So I opened up my cafe, but then the day I opened it, I actually used all those savings and I had $246 in the bank account.

And then I had to start saving again from opening the cafe.

So owning your own food venue, you do save a lot of money because food is such a huge cost for us.

So I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner there for the next four years until I purchased my first property.

And I guess because I've got that design blood in me, I did my first flip.

I held onto it, but I used the equity to go for the second one.

Yeah, I guess something that I learned through a few different entrepreneur courses that I did was just jump and build your plane on the way down.