Get Real: 30 Stories of Female Founders and Other Lessons in Business
By (Author) Lisa Teh
Hardie Grant Books
Hardie Grant Books
2nd September 2025
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Advice on careers and achieving success
Paperback
272
Width 164mm, Height 229mm
Get Realis a business book for women filled with inspirational and honest stories of starting, scaling and failing in business. Entrepreneur Lisa Teh was inspired to write the book after realising her summer reading list had plenty of business books written for, and by, men, but very few by women. This fuelled her desire to inspire women to follow their start-up dreams, but to also give them practical advice via her own learnings from running and scaling successful businesses.
If you've ever wanted to start your own business, are currently doing a side hustle or are looking to take your business to the next level, this is the book for you. Get Real is full of valuable lessons from Lisa and 30 other amazing women in fields ranging from fashion to tech and healthcare on topics from how find your business idea, raising money, scaling, marketing your brand, backing yourself, how to build resilience (especially when the odds are stacked against you) and much more.
Women face unique challenges in business and as Lisa proudly declares: 'You can't be what you can't see.'
Lisa Teh is a passionate storyteller and digital entrepreneur. After starting her career as a tax lawyer, Lisa noticed a new online trend blogging and by night started her first business, Couturing, which was the go-to place to find out about fashion, beauty and lifestyle news. This allowed her to transition to working in fashion, landing a job in marketing at Australian retailer Witchery. She left there in 2015 to start her first digital marketing agency.
Since then, she has founded another digital agency, written two books on fashion and beauty, hosted three podcasts, created a toothpaste brand and launched a tech platform. Lisa is a Melbourne 3000 Board Member, LinkedIn Top Voice and recognised as one of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians by Forbes Magazine.She is passionate about supporting women in business and shining a spotlight on ones that have achieved incredible things.