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Better Together: how the festival is amplifying what already exists
February 15, 2026International Women’s Day Sunrise Gathering & Gratitude Circle
March 8, 2025Better Together: how the festival is amplifying what already exists
February 15, 2026Not every business begins with a shopfront, a loan or a five-year plan.
Sometimes it begins at a kitchen table, between school pick-ups, late at night after work, or in the quiet hope that something small might grow.
That reality is at the heart of the Women Who Hustle events within this year’s Orana Every Woman Festival, where the focus shifts away from traditional business conferences and to the women building micro-businesses, creative side hustles and emerging enterprises across the region.
Women Who Hustle events are intentionally free and affordable, informal and community-centred, ensuring women can attend without financial pressure and participate at whatever stage they are in their journey — starting, restarting, growing or simply exploring possibility.
Women Who Hustle events are part of the week-long Orana Every Woman Festival from 2–8 March.
They include a Business Breakfast Panel and the vibrant Women Who Hustle Markets, both designed to celebrate the earliest stages of women’s enterprise and make business support accessible to everyone.
Women Who Hustle Markets aims to be a lively, family-friendly celebration of local talent and determination. Visitors can expect a showcase handmade goods, creative products, demonstrations and women-led ventures from across the Orana.
Leading the markets initiative, and joining the breakfast panel is Sarah Hamilton from Three Moody Heifers
Sarah will also on the Women Who Hustle breakfast panel bringing practical insight from the front line of regional micro-enterprise — where flexibility, creativity and resilience matter just as much as profit.
Thanks to the support of Every Woman by Commonwealth Bank, this business panel is free and brings together regional women to share real, grounded conversations about running a business in the Orana — the wins, the challenges, and the practical lessons learned along the way.
I'm so grateful for this support by our local team at Commonwealth Bank. The small beginnings deserve visibility, encouragement and community backing, because the broader truth is when regional women are supported to earn, create and lead in ways that fit their lives, the benefits ripple through families, communities and the local economy.
Thank you, with the utmost gratitude for supporting the Orana Every Woman Festival.
The 7 days of free festival events and the Free Orana Digital Pass is thanks to you. Be proud of your commitment to not only lift the wellbeing every women who attends but communities across our region.
