Our Story

Kia ora! I'm Rach. I started She Owns It because I felt isolated as a business owner- without the right support.

I craved a cosy, uplifting space where I could show up as my messy self, have real, sometimes vulnerable & often funny conversations and grow alongside other Kiwi women who just get it!

Since then She Owns It's grown into a small but mighty biz. We've helped thousands of NZ wāhine to learn, collaborate & promote their brands.

I believe that if we empower our wāhine to thrive our communities, our families, our country will thrive too. I stand for all of you (big, small & tiny businesses included) & I'd be so very honoured to sit beside you on this journey.

Big picture, we know that when wāhine thrive, communities thrive.

Our vision is of a future where women are equally empowered to achieve financial independence and freedom. We believe we can play a part in making that happen through supporting women- owned businesses.

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About Our Community

From makers & creators to social media experts & life coaches, we come from all sorts of backgrounds have all sorts of dreams & live all around the country.

We are:

Product Sellers
Makers & Creators
Virtual Assistants
Social Media Managers
Online Business Owners
Health & Wellbeing Specialists
Business Coaches

Lawyers
Charity & Social Enterprise Founders
Teachers
Artists
Graphic Designers
Massage Therapists
and lots more!

From complete newbies just dipping their toes into business to million dollar plus founders, our backgrounds are SO
different- but we come together with a common purpose: to use the magic of community to craft a better future for women.

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Community Highlights

- June 2016 We launched to the world! A free Facebook Group that's now grown to over 12,000 strong

- 2017 Our Membership launched! Over 100 Founding Members who've gone on to help us shape the Membership and many of whom remain an integral part of our community today 🙏🏼

- 2018 A rebrand from our original name The WE (women entrepreneurs) Network to She Owns It! My son Timmy is born, completing our wee whānau (or so we thought) ❤️

- 2019 We launched an exciting brand partnership with Facebook

- 2020 Surprise!! We had another baby. In between lockdowns and world chaos, my second daughter Rosie was born- I now had three children, 6, 2 and newborn 🥴

- 2021- Today With over 800 Members in our Membership, I take a conscious step back from focussing on more growth to make it through Covid with my young family in tact! Celebrating still being in business, still supporting hundreds of incredible wāhine and looking forward to stepping things up a notch as we move to the next stage as a family and as a country too ❤️

W H A T W E S T A N D F O R

Our Values

Together, we facilitate a space of empathy, belonging, integrity, respect & aroha.

For the good of the whole we purposefully prioritise & promote our under represented wāhine & those facilitating movements that matter in Aotearoa

We prioritise people & planet over profit.

We support small, we support local. We support sustainable, ethical business. We celebrate slow, manageable growth- business that supports a life, not the other way around

We acknowledge that big or small our businesses matter.

With courage & support from each other we step into our own light to share our messages far and wide. We stand for our customers and our communities & we drive change for good.