On 19th January 2018, I spoke at the joint Women in Business/Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Female Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs at Lagan Valley Civic Centre. Today on International Women’s Day I attended an event to celebrate local businesswomen in the area and it was such a pleasure to talk to people whom I had met on the 19th and hear how their entrepreneurial journeys are progressing. As Carmel McKinney, OBE and Samara Prentice from Evolve by Samara stated ‘Empowered Women, Empower other Women’