TIME TO THRIVE
When Rachel Adams dropped out of high school in 2004 at the tender age of 14, the ‘café culture’ had yet to fully emerge in the cities, let alone reach smaller rural communities such as her home town of Waipawa in central Hawke’s Bay. So Rachel and older sister Rebekah were essentially pioneers – borrowing $75,000 from the bank and using a large chunk of those funds to buy and renovate a main street heritage building and open a café.
The business venture, complete with art gallery and drop-in community centre sparked Rachel’s deep interest in the mechanics of business – a passion that would
