Mum’s the Boss member Geta Gill is a Mona Vie distributor. Having spent 18 years working in the Government sector, she reached a turning point in her life in 2005 when she had an accident. After the accident Geta became depressed, put on 5 stone in weight and became a virtual recluse. “I think I needed to let my health deteriorate both physically and mentally before I realised the damage I was doing to myself.”

Now Geta’s work is all about promoting a healthy lifestyle. She started with Mona Vie in March 2009 and built her team with no product. Mona Vie is a nutritional beverage whose main ingredient is the Acai berry from the Brazilian rain forest. The berry has been blended with 18 other highly nutritious fruits and people who drink it on a regular basis have reported significant improvements with back pain, neck pain, eczema, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis, and many other chronic illnesses that have a negative impact on your quality of life. People also report that they look and feel younger. The product is not sold over the counter, as it is being sold solely by word of mouth or relationship selling. Geta has been using the product herself since its launch in the UK in early September and has noticed significant benefits to her health.

What inspired you to start your own business
The thing that inspired me most to start up my own business was my children. I have a picture of my children in my diary, in my car and on my laptop because they are the main reason for doing the business.  In the early years I didn’t spent that much time with them and I felt that I had lost that time. Nowadays, my life revolves around my Faith, my Family and my Business. I have learnt to take tiny steps to reach my goals and take every day one at a time – I learnt this from my children.

What has been your biggest challenge
Having not worked almost five years and not mixing with anyone except direct family I had become a loner. So I had to pick myself up and rediscover the old Geta that had been buried under the depression and excessive weight for so many years. 2009 has been hard work but looking back it has helped me built the foundations for my success.

What have you learnt about yourself since you became self-employed
I’ve learnt that I can do anything I want to do. I have started to believe in myself and have started dreaming again – and it’s nice! I was a very confident, strong personality when I used to work could sometimes be a bit tactless and insensitive. Since becoming self-employed I have been able to polish all my rough edges and I quite like this Geta now!

What has been the best thing about being your own boss
The best thing about being your own boss is that you make all the rules, you have no-one to answer to and you have your own working structure that can be based around your family’s life. I can finally choose to wake up, to get dressed, to go to work and etc. It’s not something I have to do, it’s something I like and enjoy doing now.

If you could give one piece of advice to an aspiring ‘mumpreneur’ what would it be?
One piece of advice that I would give is ‘Never give up, no matter how many negative reactions or how much negative energy you get’. When you’re feeling low, do what I do – find another inspiring woman and meet up for coffee and try and absorb as much of that positive energy as you can - kind of like recharging your batteries.  I have met so many great people on my early journey in networking and look forward to helping many other people who want to boost their health, their wealth and have loads of fun doing it….like I am.

You can contact Geta on 07976 644341 or email her at getagill@yahoo.co.uk and for more information on Mona Vie visit www.monavie.com 

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