Ninety women business owners win scholarships to new mentorship program, including Mount Vic and Me founder Kara Cooper

Kara Cooper was scrolling through Facebook one evening when she came across an ad for a business mentorship program.

The New South Wales business owner almost didn’t apply. She was away from her home in the Blue Mountains, on a last-minute road trip to Broken Hill with her family. The internet wasn’t working well, and she’d never had much luck when it came to winning opportunities like this.

But after months of trying to keep going through devastating bushfires, floods and the coronavirus, and “feeling so funny about business”, the founder of design business Mount Vic and Me gave it a shot.

Filling out the application paid off. Cooper is now one of 90 Australian female business owners to be awarded a scholarship to a new mentorship program being run by Jo Burston’s Inspiring Rare Birds.

The one-on-one mentorship program will put business owners such as Cooper in touch with a high-profile mentor for the next nine months, to help them through the pandemic and beyond.

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Eloise Keating August 14, 2020