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Kim-Louise Liddell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

And then you see what's there.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So it's pretty straightforward, but it's your insurance policy so that you can dig a job safely and effectively.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

Oh, my gosh.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So many random things.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

Yeah, I think we did a lot of work in the centre of Sydney.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So there are a lot of artefacts and things like that, which was really cool.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So our principal contractors would deal with a lot of those things so that it was looked after effectively and safely.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

Yeah, amazing work.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

I was pretty much the only โ€“ I was definitely the only woman boss in town.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

Right on.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

But in the early days when I started in the early 2000s, it was a long time ago, but when I started there were a couple of companies and when things got hard, they just lent on their shovels and went, oh, my God, it's too hard, or they went home or they had a break.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So my goal was is that we would be โ€“

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

more efficient and more reliable and consistent and so when the going got tough we'd come in and fix the problem and so that what that became our trademark we were honest and reliable and just got the job done whatever it took and so that made all the difference we from a couple of companies we just grew and grew and grew so that i became this massive business multi-million dollar

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

exercise, lots of trucks, lots of workers.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

Yeah, it was incredible.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

And then we were able to impact the market and realize that there were only, we benchmark women and they're only like 4% women.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

And so, and 76% of those were in admin roles.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So not running companies, not out on the ground.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

So we worked out, you can't be what you can't see.

Living Your Legacy
From Single Mom to DirtBoss Empire Builder

And so we worked on that really quite diligently.