Establishing yourself as an entrepreneur
Nancie Ferron, speaker, made a 180-degree turn in her life when she went from journalism to entrepreneurship. Co-founder of Maison Lavande with her partner Daniel Joannette, it took her a while to feel comfortable and to give herself the right to be a businesswoman.
How do you take your place as a woman in the business world? How do you impose yourself on your employees without becoming a crony or a dictator? How to reconcile family life and work? How do you work with your lover and your children on a daily basis? How do you move from a life in the spotlight to a less glamorous life? How to get rid of the feeling of usurpation?
A crazy idea
A few minutes of discussion in a car on a road in Provence had just changed their lives forever. In 2008, after 20 years in television, they quit their jobs and founded La Maison Lavande with the ambition of turning it into a Quebec-based perfumery. Today, Nancie Ferron, speaker and Daniel Joannette, are at the head of a family business in which their two daughters are also shareholders.
In this conference-testimony, Nancie Ferron, speaker tells of the pleasure she and Daniel had in practising their profession, then in leaving it to become entrepreneurs. Today, their business (which the visitors call “a beautiful project”) occupies their whole life.
Did they hesitate to dive, were they afraid? What did they learn? How do they see the future? How do you keep from getting on each other’s nerves when you do everything together? Do we have to find compromises, share tasks? What about the children? If they had to do it all over again, would they do the same thing?
Nancie Ferron, speaker and Daniel Joannette, have worked together for 15 years and lived together for 15 years. Does 15 plus 15 make thirty…?
