Unlocking Your Potential

What potential? How do you identify your potential? How do you unlock your potential? If, like me, you're a serial networker, always looking for practical ways to improve yourself and your business, then this article will naturally stimulate your interest.

Enterprising Women and Othella LLP organised a conference as part of the International Festival for Business this year. The conference 'Unlocking Your Potential' was held in Liverpool to empower, inspire, challenge, change, grow and motivate women in business or those with business ideas. The event featured successful female speakers who shared their success stories as well as their struggles of running a business.

The conference focus primarily on- emotional resilience, digital marketing and measuring business performance. Emotional resilience is a consequential part of successful personal and business development. Eileen Lennon said "emotional resilience is the grit to life or business. You have to get it right, once you do, everything else falls into place". Eileen's useful tips for developing your business are:-

1. Awareness of your impact,
2. Positive in your abilities (CAN do attitude),
3. Social networks (always keep them active),
4. Change (sometimes we need to do things differently. Change can be daunting but it is inevitable).
5. Be optimistic- once your emotional resilience is in check, then, you are able to position your business in a fitting manner particularly on social media.

Digital marketing is a fundamental business tool in today's business environment. Kate Hayes from NextGen highlighted some key functionalities useful for increased visibility on search engines. As a blogger, SEO and social media are two familiar tools I use on a daily basis. However practical tips for creating and managing online presence is never easy. Not only do you need good marketing contents, you also need time and finance to support your strategies.

Once you've put your emotional resilience to practice, it is time to recreate relevant content for your brand and measure the impact of your hard-work.

You can contact Othela LLP and Enterprising Women for business support.
Othela LLP> admin@othela-llp.com
Enterprising Women> farhana@enterprising-women.org

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See Who's Wearing Eighteen Forever

This is how you rock Eighteen Forever LBSF Sleeveless Shirt. Gertrude bought this sleeveless shirt almost 2 years ago and she is still rocking it! 

Show her some Eighteen love!

Thank you Gertrude for sharing xo 

Photo credit: Gertrude

Eighteen Forever Spring/Summer 2014

The moment you've all been waiting! Our Spring/Summer range is here and we are absolutely delighted. This time we are inspired by Vlisco print, full stop. Vlisco is a Hollandaise wax company based in the Netherlands. We use Vlisco prints with the intention of creating simple yet renaissance design for every lady.

What our creative director said-

"I've always loved Vlisco wax. The prints are vibrant and would make every woman stand out. Eighteen Forever is about simple and unique designs, so using unique prints just makes perfect sense"- Sally Kah

Design: Miss Maya £85
Brand: Eighteen Forever
Range: S/S 2014
Look out for more images from our range.

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Let's Talk Ethical Fashion (Discuss)

So yesterday was our first year anniversary as a social enterprise fashion brand. We celebrated with a forum titled: Let's Talk Ethical Fashion at Liverpool Hope University. A lot of issues were raised in relation to ethical sourcing but, it became apparent during the discussion that, the definition of 'ethical sourcing' is unclear. Without a clear definition of what ethical sourcing is, we will never understand- where our products come, how they are produced. More about the discussion in our article coming soon.

Founder and Panelists discussing sweatshop labour in the fashion industry. 

L-R: Michela Insenga (Funding and Event Coordinator) and Sally Kah (Founder and Creative Director of Eighteen Forever 

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ACISE Gala Dinner

It was a great pleasure to be invited to the ACISE Colloqium Gala Dinner last night. I'm not quite sure the Irish dance was my thing but I loved every minute!

I was wearing Red Mesh Dress designed by me and courtesy of TheCelebrity Dresses. Darlings.....it was an Oscar inspired moment. #MyOscarMoment

With a friend and student at Liverpool Hope 

With Merina in her Nepalese attire. Simple beautiful!

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#BeautyIs

Since the rise of Lupita Nyong'o, we've been mesmerized by the concept of 'beauty'. Is there such thing as 'ideal beauty'? What does beauty mean? Do we generally feel beautiful? What is the difference between been 'beautiful' and 'attractive'?

In light of this, we have decided to hit the streets of Liverpool to find out more. Join us on the 26th of April, 2pm at Liverpool One just by Starbucks facing New Look.

In case we move to a different location during the day, please contact us via email- eighteenf@gmail.com

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Funding & Events Coordinator

We would like to formally welcome Michela to Eighteen Forever team. Michela (on the right) is our Funding & Events Coordinator. 

Welcome to the team!


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