Sally Curtis challenges Adelaide's reputation as a difficult place to do business by highlighting FTC Flames, a local company that makes Olympic torches and cauldrons. She's launching a community effort to collect and share Adelaide success stories that could inspire new entrepreneurs and reshape how people see the city.
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Hi, Sally Curtis here today wanting to talk to you about Adelaide success stories. Many of you know me and I've been lucky enough to live in Adelaide for most of my life and I've really come to understand its ticks and quirks. However, Adelaide does have a bit of a common story that it tells itself and that is on occasion that sort of woe is me, sad sort of story. I'm sure you've heard it. I've And I'm on a bit of a quest with some other great Adelaidians to change that story. The one you've probably heard is, it's hard to do business in Adelaide, it's so slow, we're known as the handbrake state. Well, let me change that for you very, very quickly, just with one story that I've been spreading and sprouting for about 10 years, and that's of a little Adelaide company that was the people that were behind the Olympic torches and cauldrons. Now that's FTC Flames that have gone on to do some fantastic things globally. A little unknown company that's gone on to do massive things for itself. So there's one very quick example without all the details of an Adelaide success story. The problem I find out in the marketplace is that there's many people don't know these little success stories, these inspirational stories of people going out there and seeing a little opportunity and creating it into something big in their business and for themselves. So I'm on a quest, as I mentioned, to bring these stories to the Adelaide community. And so we have evidence and stories that we can share and evidence that we can stack of the successful things that do occur in our marketplace, in our backyard. Because the more stories we have to draw on as evidence, the more ripple effects these opportunities and inspiration these opportunities create for others. So I hope you can help me out with providing perhaps me with stories that need to be told, and obviously when the stories launch, you can look at sharing them as well. So I look forward to sharing more of Adelaide's success stories with you. Thank you, Sally.
