The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Dara Shashoua from Byzantine Designs and A Chronic Entrepreneur.
Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show
We discover that our greatest challenges often become our greatest strengths.
Each month, I sit down with remarkable leaders who've transformed adversity into triumph, sharing their inspiring journeys of resilience and renewal. Together, we explore the mindset shifts, practical strategies, and breakthrough moments that turned their setbacks into comebacks.
What you'll discover:
Real stories of people who've learned to bend without breaking, actionable tools to transform stress into strength, and evidence that when we change our story, we change what's possible for our health, relationships, and future.
Like bamboo, we're designed to be flexible.
When we embrace this truth, we don't just survive life's storms - we use them to grow stronger, wiser, and more resilient than ever before.
Join me as we explore how flexibility builds unshakeable resilience.
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
Byzantine Design
"Byzantine Design is a collaborative space that is recognised within the design community for their authentic approach to providing creative solutions
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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