Sharesies Co-Founder (AND My Cousin!) - Sonya Williams DEBUNKS Stereotypes About Kiwis & Money

Sonya Williams is an absolute powerhouse businesswoman who has played a big part in how Kiwis invest- her and a group of friends started a company called Sharesies in 2016. Fast forward 7 years and…

700,000 Kiwis and Aussies now call themselves customers, including 40,000 children.

Sharesies employs 230 people

The company is valued at 500 million

And Sonya and the Sharesies team are just getting started!

This is a small part of the Sonya Williams story.

We talk in depth about Sharesies: the past, present and future. As well as lots of other stuff:

The impact of her dad’s brain injury when she was 16.

Why she wore her mum’s clothes to her first job interview

Why she is fiercely defensive of her hometown, Levin.

Why the first year of being a mum was so much more challenging than the first year of starting up a business.

And so much more from a woman who has helped turn a simple idea into a groundbreaking business venture.

This conversation was both easy and challenging- easy because we are family. But challenging because Sonya is so humble and unassuming- she has achieved so much, but definitely isn’t one to sing her own praises…or take compliments from podcasting cousins!