Shaa Wasmund | Why having a tough start in life doesn't mean you won't make it.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Shaa Wasmund is an entrepreneur, coach and author whose hugely successful career has been forged from a catalogue of risks, chances and gambles. It’s made all the more impressive by her start in life; a tumultuous home life, moving countries and living in hostels… It’s why she’s committed, despite her success, always to be available to offer help, insights and support to those who need it.
Our conversation is raw, honest and inspiring, not least because Shaa makes very little room for excuses or navel-gazing. I’m confident this episode is one you’ll listen to once and then plug back into when you need a bolt of inspiration.
Shaa’s book Stop Talking, Start Doing is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | even more so for women, there's just not enough conversations around money. |
| 0:06.8 | I love being an entrepreneur, but people are being sold alike. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a bit like boxing, you've got to take the punches, right? |
| 0:12.4 | Luck is where opportunity and hard work meet. |
| 0:15.3 | Yes, we need two shirts for that one, right? |
| 0:17.4 | If I hadn't stolen that letter-headed paper, |
| 0:19.5 | I would never have got the interview. |
| 0:20.8 | Chris Ubank, at the time, he was without a doubt the most famous sports person |
| 0:25.9 | in the country, and he just went, |
| 0:28.4 | did you want a job? |
| 0:29.9 | And I became the first and only licensed female boxing manager in the country. |
| 0:34.4 | What did the other children cause of politics in there? |
| 0:37.0 | Now this is where she's legendary. |
| 0:38.8 | She said chills. |
| 0:40.2 | That story isn't amazing. |
| 0:42.6 | Like a lot of women, my mum stayed in a very abusive relationship |
| 0:45.5 | purely because she couldn't afford to get out. |
| 0:48.4 | That's some heavy stuff, you know. |
| 0:49.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.7 | You either give in or you learn to fight, |
| 0:53.1 | and I just can't give in and I have to fight. |
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