#12: Tamara Newing, Boat Shed Cheese (Mornington Peninsula, Vic)

The inspiration to start a business, especially that of cheese, more often than not stems from a passion or a wonderful and memorable experience. But for Tamara Newing, from Boat Shed cheese in the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, it was born as result of a horrible tragedy. I’m telling you this now as a heads up and ask you to hold on here as its this is story you really should hear. It’s a story of how cheese making created a process of purpose and inevitably, a legacy. The line ‘it’s just business, not personal’, is one I’ve always taken issue with and even more so now after speaking with so many amazing people on this podcast. It’s particularly true in todays episode. Small business, no matter what it is, comes from a personal investment of emotional energy that goes beyond dollars and cents. It’s the thing that drives people to do what they do and face any challenge that comes their way. I’d like to thank Tamara for being so open and willing to share her deeply personal story here and especially on the tenth anniversary, literally to the day, of when her cheese story begins.