This Working Life – ‘I don’t want to sound egotistical, but I feel like a rock star at the end of the day after I teach a class’

Sarah Naylor McNamee – teacher, mentor and CEO of the Sarah Naylor Academy – chats to Mary McCarthy about how she finds fulfilment in helping women take the plunge to succeed in business

Sarah Naylor McNamee

Mary McCarthy

I work with marginalised women and girls to get them started with their beauty businesses, so they can earn what they need. It could be an extra €200 a week, it could be €800.

One girl I trained recently had a baby and was pregnant and living in homeless accommodation. I was teaching her to do lashes and she said an extra €50 would mean she could buy clothes for her child and eat dinner.