After being fired multiple times, Sarina Russo knows a thing or two about persistence and determination. They helped her become one of the nation’s richest women. Listen to the How I Made it podcast for free.
podcast that after losing another job, she decided she would start her own company. She set up a typing school in 1979.But things were tricky for female founders then. She remembers her accountant telling her that for all the rent she was paying, she could probably buy her own offices. “We started looking and not one real estate agent would take my call,” Russo recalls.“And of course, they took his call. And the rest is history. I bought 82 Ann Street [in Brisbane], which I still own today.
“I didn’t believe I failed. Every job I went for, I learnt more than the last job. I was not a failed legal secretary, I was different. I challenged the status quo,” Russo says.When Russo was fired from her job at a typing school, the students demanded she be brought back, she tells the podcast.
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