Rachel Power was an experienced entrepreneur who had started successful family businesses. After a round-Australia trip the family decided they were up for another adventure. In rapid time they settled on Tasmania and haven't looked back.
Show Notes
Rachel Power and her family moved to Tasmania a few years back and now own Waterfalls Café & Gallery http://www.waterfallscafe.com.au/, in the Mount Field National Park.
They are just about to embark on a new venture - the Mount Field Retreat, a multimillion-dollar accommodation and conference center.
https://parks.tas.gov.au/explore-our-parks/mount-field-national-park
She admits it's a big step but knows also it's a game-changer for her local community.
As a family they had started their first business, the Great Aussie Road Trip (a blog), while on a road-trip around Australia.
The decision to move to Tasmania was an extension of the family's openness to another adventure in a place they all loved and thought had great potential. In our discussion with Rachel we cover;
- The story behind a round-Australia family trip and the creation of a family business
- Traveling as a family and the opportunities that can bring
- Working with family in small business
- The potential she saw in Tasmania and especially the Mount Field National Park
- The quick and instinctive decision to pack up and head to Tasmania, an how they all ruled out other places to move to
- Buying their existing business
- Taking calculated risks
- The early and ongoing challenges of running a regional business and the strategies used to overcome them
- Local business
- Local arts and produce
- Tasmanian
- Creating local employment and prosperity to keep regional towns viable
- The upside of treechanges and seachanges
- The upside of working with local artists and producers
- The value of getting involved in local community groups
- The importance of collaboration between local businesses and local communities
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