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Drinks: Water (lots of it) and is a huge fan of fun girlie cocktails
Doesn't drink: Wine (despite being given lots of it as speaker thank you gifts hint hint!), beer, champagne, tea or coffee

Born: Darwin, Australia
Grew Up: Across Victoria and in Northern Tasmania, Australia
Lives: Launceston, Tasmania

Eats: Almost anything and loves Thai, Japanese, Chinese and Indian cuisine
Loves: Tim tams, peanut butter and fuji apples
Doesn't eat: Snow peas, raw mushrooms, capsicum (all alergies)
Cooks: Can cook toast, can burn water

Eyes: Green
Hair: Naturally - who knows (ok brown)
Height: In high heels? Still not very tall

Previous Business Ventures:

  • Age 15, Santiago Silver eventually importing jewellery from Thailand and selling it at markets and wholesale to shops
  • Age 15, Zephyr Web Authoring creating website with a friend
  • Age 21, M&M Real Estate (later Harcourts Launceston) set up with two business partners real estate agency in Launceston, Tasmania.
  • Tamar River Villas - on site motel ownership and management in conjunction with various owners.
  • M&M Harcourts North East - real estate agency in Scottsdale, Tasmania.
  • Harcourts Northern Midlands - real estate agency in Longford, Tasmania.
  • Harcourts Tasmania - co-CEO and owner of the franchise company for our real estate ventures in Tasmania.
  • Harcourts Tasmania Financial Services - mortgage broking company for the real estate offices.

Current Business Ventures through Inconceivable Enterprises:

  • kirstydunphey.com - speaking, training and consulting
  • unleashedknowledge.com - sales of coaching materials, books, cds and cards. Publishers of two of Kirsty's books.
  • reallysold.com - online tool to assist real estate agents in writing sensational advertisements.

Favourite Travel Destinations: St Croix, Thailand, Paris, New York
On the must see list: Prague, Vietnam, Russia, China, Santorini, the Maldives, Arizona, Egypt (followed very closely by EVERYWHERE else!).

Known Issues: Shoe and investment property addiction

Birthday: 15 March 1979
Married: Yes to a lovely man named Simon
Children: No, is still a child herself

Afraid of: Spiders, the dark, strangers, snakes and birds
Not afraid of: Heights (has bungee jumped and skydived twice), enclosed spaces (spent many of her childhood years in small boxes - don't ask)

Favourite Movie: The Princess Bride
Favourite Hundres & Thousands: Definitely long and squishy over spherical and hard

"Be a fountain, not a drain." Rex Hudler

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." Japanese Proverb

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time." Thomas J. Watson

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." Abraham Lincoln

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