Bold Moves

Preface

Ella’s life was full with loving, eating and creating!

Edith Hallas

T his is a book for you if, like me, you want to celebrate living a bold life filled with ordinary and extra-ordinary moments. It all starts with those first steps. Bold, for me, means a rich and abundant life, although not in a monetary sense. It means a life full of adventure, full of new experiences, and full of lots of life lessons and risk-taking. It means a life unique to me. Bold is when you feel the fear and don’t always know how it’s going to turn out. Living out of your comfort zone and doing it anyway. Seeing self-doubts as the norm and breaking through that voice in your head that tries to stop you.

As CEO of Ella Baché, and Ella’s great-niece, plus a mum of two young boys, I’d like to help you discover how to own the skin you’re in … how to own your story … and what it takes to show up again and again to fight for something you believe in. Our skin is so much more than how the world sees us: it’s a reflection of our story. And it’s my pleasure to tell the Ella Baché story — the person, the product and the brand — for the first time.

To uncover what it really takes to show up and own your story, to push through in moments of self-doubt and to live a life playing at the highest level, I interviewed some audacious Australian women: women who know that being bold takes passion, courage and focus and means pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, challenging the status quo and breaking down ...