Maga Woman Magazine - issue #4

Making a difference
with Shoes
Written by: Kathy Wong
More and more women are
discovering who they truly are:
their values, life purpose and
what they stand for, after perhaps
decades of living by the
beliefs and values of others. I know because
I am one of these women. I now run the social
enterprise Moeloco, which donates shoes
to children in India through sales of flip flops
(thongs in Australia), but it took many years to
find my true calling.
I still carry some of the beliefs and values I
was taught as a young girl: family, hard work,
respect and kindness. Others, however, were
very fear-based: money and security were
everything too. I also was taught to believe
that a good person was a martyr, like millions
of women around the world. As these beliefs
came from the difficult lives my parents led, I
have learnt that people often teach and speak
from their stories, not ours, but we should never
hold this against them.
For 19 years I had a design business, which I
loved until I became burnt out, but being financially
successful was all that mattered. Material
wealth and retiring at 45 were my goals, and
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