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VIA FORBES

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Samantha Wills has been in the spotlight as one of Australia’s most dynamic speakers and creative personalities since launching her self-titled jewellery brand at Australian Fashion Week in 2004, at just 21 years of age. 

After 15 years, and stating that she felt the SAMANTHA WILLS jewellery brand had achieved all it had set out to do, Wills announced that she was closing the jewellery business in January 2019 to focus on her profile work as a speaker, writer and creative.

Passionate about supporting women in business, Wills continues her work with the SamanthaWillsFoundation.org, and is an advocate for gender equality and conscious kindness.

Based in New York City where she is currently writing her first book, Samantha travels globally as a creative ambassador and keynote speaker. 

 
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My Mum grew up on a dairy farm in Wauchope, NSW. I just sent her this photo and she said “oh Darling, what on earth are you wearing? Those white overalls are about to be covered in pig shit.” While she has a point, I dont mind. This part of the world is so beautiful, I’m happy as a pig in (sh)it. Sending love from the country side -SWx 🐷
Today in a little London cafe, we showered our best girl @melyudi, who is expecting her second bub in November.... I can only hope this baby likes me as much as her first does... (IMAGE TWO ) ⠀ ⠀ Just kidding. Naya clearly loves me, as you will see in VIDEOS THREE + FOUR (and I may or may not make her cool things in a simple bid to buy her love). ⠀ ⠀ Love you, MJ. Love you, Naya xx love YOUR Aunty Samantha xx
Arrived in London today.. check out the wallpaper in my hotel. Four-year-old Samantha was a Paddington Bear MEGA-FAN, so this is a little bit sweet (and so beautifully British). -SWx 🇬🇧❤️🐻🧳
I used to always cover my face with my hand when I laughed. I did this because a boy in high school who didn’t know my name once described me as “the one whose nose looks really weird when she smiles”. ⠀ ⠀ About 18 years later, I asked the person who I was sharing dinner with if they wanted any more, to which they replied, “yes. Two of your smiles, please!”⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ And from then on, I consciously decided to stop covering my face when I smiled or laughed. (I can even see myself instinctively (habitually!) going to do it in this photograph!) ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ I hope everyone’s nose looks a bit weird this weekend, because when you smile big enough and true enough...it’s meant to. ⠀ ⠀ ✨Wishing the happiest weekend ahead to all. -SWx
I chose to work with Australian photographer @scottehler on a job eight years ago...and we have worked together ever since! Photography / being photographed is a very personal process and the relationship on both sides of the camera must trust the other. Over the years I have surrounded myself with a very small, but very trusted group of people who I feel so grateful to collaborate and create with. Scott shot me for a magazine interview recently and these pics are ✂️from the cutting room floor —- magazine / profile / campaign shoots can take all day (sometimes many days!) to shoot and most shots that are taken are never used. ⠀ ⠀ It’s not uncommon and for many-a-reason - without a doubt - the cutting room floor see’s more images than printed pages ever will. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ While I will forever miss the entire process of shooting film (the anticipation of the 1-Hour Kodak Express counter in the local Soul Pattinson’s Chemist, anyone?),digital platforms now allow us a place to archive what didn’t end up being used. ⠀ ⠀ Thank you the incredible Australian creative team (who are now dear friends) who I have worked with for many years now and who work tirelessly and generously, with both time and energy, to create these shoots — 📷 @scottehler + @zeevybeev 💋 @maxmade — some of my fav pics are archived right there on the (digital) cutting room floor. -SWx ⠀ ⠀ Shot at: @laporte_space
I have been working with @BondiBoost for two months, which means I’ve been trialing their product for three months now. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Here are some of the key things I love about it and that are important to me: ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️Female founded company ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️Product is salon grade + no silicone. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️Aussie Made + Cruelty free. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️My hair felt thicker after first three uses (the exact products I am using are shown in next two slides). ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️Whatever is healthy for your hair also impacts your nails… I knew this scientifically, but I noticed it significantly after about a month of using this product. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️The Elixr Oil is my fav product out of this collection. Oils work their magic by soaking IN to the skin/scalp (straight to the source!) ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ✔️Bondi Boost are a successful business (because the have a high quality product) and they choose to use that success by supporting other women, *partnering with @Mettle_Org (an organization that supports women escaping situations of domestic violence) ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ I don’t endorse many things, but the things I do, I whole heartedly believe in – both brand and product. -SWx ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #WomenSupportingWomen #BoostYourRoots #BondiBoost #Ambassador ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ *More in video on stories / highlights ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 📷 @scottehler ⠀ H+MUP @maxmade
🎧PODCAST: A few months ago I spoke with @womenshealthaus on their #Uninterrupted Podcast. It’s stripped back and raw and it’s the type of conversations I prefer to have. If you wish, you can have a little listen via link in bio. -SWx
The Whitney Museum of American Art @whitneymuseum is showing the 2O19 Whitney Biennial til late October...and I finally got myself to it. It showcases 75 contemporary artists (painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance, and sound) and their views of how they see America in the current climate. It shows frustration, anger, hope and resilience. I highly recommend it if you are in NYC while it’s showing. -SWx
This is my dogs face when I force him to snuggle with me, the second photo is when he gets to hang out with his best mate, George. 😏🐾
“Who you are right now is the most perfectly imperfect, bravely resilient, ever evolving, unfolding, beautifully unique masterpiece of a soul, made exactly the way you are — to give love and be loved” That is what the scrawley note in the top right hand corner says. I wrote it to myself the day I started writing my business memoir (out next year w @allenandunwin) and it’s been pinned above my desk ever since. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Working on creative projects is not foreign to me, but the process on this one was like no other I have experienced. The recalling of events in your life that held turmoil (and as such - with time - many lessons), times of a hurting heart and darkness is a very confronting process to retell to the page, let alone the world. But I believe it is important for us to tell our stories. Not just mine, everyone’s. I know my platforms have a strong following of female entrepreneurs and I take the responsibility to share the story behind the story of my entrepreneurial journey, and that’s what I’ve poured my heart into on this project. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Before we launch / submit / reveal a project we have been working on birthing into the world, the vile voice of doubt and fear pipe up to obnoxious levels of hindrance (well I know they do for me!) They lurked around my computer most of the 300+ days that I sat down to write this book. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ I don’t know if they ever will not. But I’ve come to accept their presence, but not their words. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ I wanted to share this part of the process in case you are working on something you are preparing to bring into the world and you too have the same pesky old-mates in your ear also. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ I want to let you know that the world needs what you’ve got. That’s why The Universe delivered the idea to you in the first place. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Keep going with it. And as someone once said to me in the early days of this project, every page you write will make you feel metaphorically and physically lighter. At this stage of the process, I can confidentially say that he was right. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ If still in doubt, please re-read note in top right hand corner. -SWx ⠀⠀ ⠀
148,000 words. 1000 plus cups of coffee. One deadline extension and one huge stack of paper containing one massive part of my journey. My first draft manuscript for my business memoir was submitted today! While this pile of papers is a weight on my chest, the words on them actual have taken an incredible weight off it. it’s been a journey, not only to where I find myself today, but the actual journey of writing memoir is like no other process I’ve experienced. It feels like the true meeting of my personal and creative worlds. Excited to share it with you next year. Ok. Now, into editing! -SWx