Jessica in the press

Our eldest daughter Jessica was featured recently in Business Review Weekly as a young female entrepreneur facing the challenges of the corporate world. Louisa and I are proud of our children - Jess the business woman, Daniel the extreme sports farm manager, and Rachael the mother of our grandchildren. In the BRW story Jess said she looked around at the males who started businesses at the same time as she did and they were further ahead, and she realised it was because they we risk takers and bullshitters. We males talk a big game while the girls don't like telling lies (or bullshitting). Fake it til you make it, as the saiyng goes. People don't want to hear the truth - they want dreams that you can fulfill. Jess's business - the Frank Team (formerly Youth-to-Youth),a youth training company, runs workshops all over Australia, teaching young people how to start and run their own businesses. Jessica started her first business - a home tutoring business - when she was still at university. She grew up in a household where her parents ran several business from home and one in the city. We weren't corporate hot shots, but we made a living. Jessica was a finalist in last year's Telstra Young Businesswoman of the Year Award and was the female leader of the Australian contingent of 12 on the multinational Ship of Peace, an oceanliner sponsored by the Japanese Government to carry several hundred young adults from all over the world as they visit nations on the Asia-Pacific Rim and discuss issues of world peace and environmental solutions. She has applied to lead the Australian delegation on the next cruise.