{"id":6048,"date":"2021-11-20T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/meet-the-16-year-old-managing-director"},"modified":"2021-11-20T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T12:47:49","slug":"meet-the-16-year-old-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/meet-the-16-year-old-managing-director","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 16 year old Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Relebohile Tapole is a 16 year old Managing Director (MD) of Epiphany Nail bar and Cosmetics from Maseru district and will be completing her Form E this year at<\/p>\n

New Millennium High School. Epiphany Nail Bar and Cosmetics was launched in October 2020 and it produces Epiphany hand creams and lip balms products. Tapole says having a mother who is involved in<\/p>\n

beauty industry and owns a beauty spa business which deals with treating people\u2019s skin problems that require products for treatment, she saw a business<\/p>\n

opportunity out of her mother\u2019s spa and that was when she thought of inventing Epiphany products. Tapole said during the Covid-19 induced hard lockdown last year, she conducted researches on what she will need to come up<\/p>\n

with for her products and looked at different formulas for everything needed and how it is done. \u201cI remember one day mixing different ingredients and testing them on my mother who also had an input on how to improve my products,\u201d<\/p>\n

she said. Thrilled by her success, she said she is very excited with the exposure that her products now have because for her in the first place, it was<\/p>\n

not really a business but it was just an experiment that she generated, testing if it will work or not \u201cand it sure did\u201d. She further said she drew passion<\/p>\n

from this business because she learnt when she had already ventured into it that it is a long term investment. She positively said as time goes on, the business is going to generate more income for her.<\/p>\n

At the age of 16, Tapole had an opportunity to have a very business oriented mother as she saw her sets standards very high for her spa and she always told<\/p>\n

her that she needs to become better than she is now. \u201cTruth is throughout my childhood, I always knew that I was destined to do big things though I did not<\/p>\n

expect to venture into business at the age of 16. But it happened and I really appreciate it regardless of how difficult it has been,\u201d she said. Tapole said<\/p>\n

having to balance her school work with business has been really hard because both business and school need hard work but with God by her side, everything<\/p>\n

seemed easier. She said she has always tried to separate her school work from her business and has been able to do that through the support from her family,<\/p>\n

especially her mother. She said what separates her products from other existing products is that, \u201cEpiphany hand creams are enthused with essential oils, they<\/p>\n

give extra moisture, affordable, portable and are rooted on the word of God\u201d. She said the challenges she encountered during the process are of finances as she had to<\/p>\n

finance them from the money she makes from her side hustles. She said finding investors for her products has been really challenging and she does not have<\/p>\n

much social media publicity which is something that hinders her business to really grow to the potential it has. \u201cIntroducing my business in the midst of<\/p>\n

Covid-19 has also been a great challenge, however, it is the advent of the pandemic that made it possible,\u201d she countered. She said Covid-19 has taught<\/p>\n

her that in business, one does not have to sell or do seasonal products and has to learn ways that will sustain the business all year around. She said for<\/p>\n

her, as much as it was like the worst time to generally be alive in her teenage years, the pandemic also gave her a chance to work on her first book which she<\/p>\n

just published. Not only is she a business woman but also an author. Towards the end of March this year, she launched a book called Pride Before a Fall.<\/p>\n

The book is a combination of poems that are based on the experiences that she had from the start of her teenage years. She said it is basically a motivation to<\/p>\n

other teenagers, for them to know that as much as some of the teenage experiences may seem unbearable and nobody seems to understand, they should never feel alone.<\/p>\n

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