OAK MAGAZINE: Featuring Samantha Wills
ISSUE 7 OAK MAGAZINE contains a 6-page feature interview with Samantha Wills as she speaks about the realities of start-up and the decision she made to close her eponymous jewellery brand while it was at the top of its game.
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Samantha Wills is bringing fifteen years of experience in world class brand building to an exclusive series of Masterclasses and Workshops designed for creative entrepreneurs.
Samantha started her self titled accessories brand on her dining table at just twenty years of age before taking it all the way to global distribution with a coveted celebrity following and offices all over the world.
Often referenced in the media as an ‘overnight success’, at the time Samantha’s response became ‘It took me twelve years to become an overnight success’. This was the catalyst for the launch of The Samantha Wills Foundation, a platform designed to empower women in business through sharing of information, vulnerabilities and support.
“The polished perfection we see on social media or the narrative of ‘overnight success’ is not a true reality of small business, but no one was talking about the realities of it, the 3am finishes, the isolation, the anxieties that all comes with pursuing a career as a creative entrepreneur,” Samantha says, “I wanted to create a portal that small business owners could log into at any time of the day and not only have access to helpful resources for running their business and developing their brand, but also to be able to see a part of themselves or their situation in other peoples stories and know that they are not alone on this journey. Thats why I created The SW Foundation.”
Having being quoted by Forbes, The Australian Business Review and also hailed as “Australia’s biggest export since Vegemite” by fashion writer Inez Mendoza, Samantha has also being featured in The New York Times and on Yahoo Finance. Samantha was a finalist in the Entrepreneur category of the prestigious Audi Instyle Women of Style Awards in 2017 and inducted in into the HER Business Womans Hall of Fame in 2016.
Enrollment for the Samantha Wills Masterclasses will open in early 2020, in this offering of courses and workshops Samantha combines her vast experience, insight, honesty and signature vulnerability with practical business methods and resources
“Wills is not afraid to talk about the challenges she faced throughout her career. “It took me no less than 12 years to become an overnight success,” she says, which is one of the reasons she also launched the SAMANTHA WILLS FOUNDATION to help empower women in business, by sharing her experiences – the good and bad – throughout her career”
“Still lost trying to figure out what your purpose is? When we move beyond the small self that is focused on ‘proving our worth and trying to become someone’ side of accomplishment then we connect to our true purpose. We align with the type of success that feeds our souls rather than what looks good on the outside to others.”
- Maryam Hasnaa