I started work when I was 14 because I failed Year 10 miserably - school wasn’t for me.

When I was 18 I owned my first hairdressing salon.

I had two Hair Magic salons in Logan City for about eight years before I went travelling around Australia, met the man of my dreams, sold the salons and progressed into motherhood.

My husband worked for the weather bureau, so we lived in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and then Ceduna in South Australia.

I had two children and there was nothing for them to do, the only thing was football and playgroup.

So we came back to Brisbane in 1998 and I put my kids into something different every day of the week. It was exhausting but the only things that stayed were swimming and Kindermusik.

It brings out the best possible potential in children, from birth to age seven, through music and movement classes. I happened to meet the international CEO in the US, he asked me how I thought the company was being run in Australia.

I was honest and three months later he asked me to put my money where my mouth was and I became CEO, like that old Gillette ad: “I liked it so much, I bought the company”.

We had 3000 children enrolled in my first year as CEO and now, six years later, there are more than 10,000 children and 250 educators all over Australia.

I think that success is all to do with attitude. Knowledge is power but it’s useless unless it moves you to action.

My dad had a saying: “Good, better best. Never be at rest until your good is better and your better is best.”