Wild Women Part 2 : How to Make Money From What you Love

                                The next blog on women who have inspired me is specifically based around boss women who have turned their creative passion into their business. To me, they still come under the ‘Wild Women’ category because they’ve gone off the beaten track of ‘normal jobs’ and done what they love.

Annie Mac

My favourite thing about this woman is her dedication to and passion for dance music. She’s combined this with starting a hugely successful brand (Annie Mac Presents or AMP) from scratch. They host incredible nights and produce a compilation CD every year as well hosting a whole festival themselves! I’ve seen her DJ a few times and she is always the consummate professional – even when she’s being heckled directly in front of the DJ booth at a tiny club in Brighton. When you hear Annie talk about music and clubbing culture it’s obvious that’s she does what she does for the pure euphoria of that perfect night out when there’s an amazing sense of community and belonging, everyone has an incredible time and the vibe is electric.

Jo Malone

I was lucky enough to hear the perfume guru Jo speak at Stylist Live last October (FYI anyone who can go to Stylist Live totally should – a whole room full of inspiring ass kicking boss women – it’s amazing) and her passion for smells just leapt off the stage. She spoke about how she has synesthesia (the very rare condition where every smell is heightened) and it really occurred to me that the secret to her success was using her biggest strength and building her career around it. I think too often people try and force themselves into a career that someone else wants for them or that they have stumbled into, so Jo’s way round really inspired me.

So there we have it – a couple of butt kicking women who have developed what they truly love into hugely successful and much loved businesses.