The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Dara Shashoua from Byzantine Designs and A Chronic Entrepreneur.

Aug 30

Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show. Each week, I get to interview amazing people, who will share their inspiring stories of resilience. I dive deep into 40-minute DNM’s with my guests, exploring their stories of how they have overcome adversity in their lives professionally and personally.

We will get inspired by daily rituals, golden nuggets, and tools that can help us all to elevate our mindset, to be bigger than our setbacks. My intention for these sessions is to remind us that no matter what we are going through, we can overcome it, and discover what we are made of.

It is important to feel motivated and hopeful about the future. When we are positive we can be more creative, and innovative. Seeing our obstacles as opportunities, rising above the turbulence we can feel more ready to rebuild our mind, body, and lives after what has been a massive 2020.

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A Chronic Entrepreneur

Introducing Dara Shashoua, founder of A Chronic Entrepreneur, a blog that shares the stories of entrepreneurs, living with chronic Illness. Inspired by her own journey of personal transformation, Dara is an entrepreneur at heart that has a drive that is inspiring. Having faced a challenge of a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis that led to her on a journey to learn how walk again, in our interview Dara opens up and shares how she navigated her way through that enormous challenge, discovering what she was made of. Dara achieved this at the same time while she was opening the business of her dreams makes, never giving up. Enjoy x

As a young girl, Dara wanted to be an archaeologist – fascinated by the history and stories that surrounded her. While working in the tile industry, and inspired by that early curiosity, her passion was set when she fell in love with stone. She recognised that every piece of stone held a different story, combining the beauty and mystery of archaeology with a physical product she could hold in the palm of her hand. She knew then that stone had an energy to it that manmade products didn’t possess and that love of stone became an integral part of Byzantine Design.

While working for others, Dara set up Byzantine Design as a bathroom design business that also supplied beautiful tiles. From here she honoured her passion and shifted the business to focus purely on tiling.

What started out as a side hustle is now a purpose-led business that calls Melbourne home, alongside a beautiful retail store in Prahran, supplying and servicing clients Australia-wide. Although that’s not quite the full story.

About six weeks after opening the store in Melbourne, Dara flew to Sydney and fell over while walking through a shopping mall. That fall was the catalyst for Dara’s diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. While many encouraged her to close up shop, she refused, determined to keep her dream alive. Instead, she hired a team to manage the store while she went to rehab to learn to walk again.

This is the story of Byzantine Design and this one of the reasons that makes it so special.

You can also listen to the interview on The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience podcast

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Byzantine Design

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The Most Beautiful Tile Store in Melbourne

Byzantine Design is about so much more than a simple tile. The materials we fill our spaces with have the ability to affect our every day and evoke a sense of inspiration, modernity or nostalgia.

Choosing a tile is not simply about how it looks, but how it feels – the texture of the surface against your skin, its power to transform a room and its ability to incite an emotional response. Our business is in curating beautiful materials to create spaces that make you feel alive. It’s built on passion, dedication and a genuine and lasting love for design.

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