COOL TO BE KIND

AN ACT OF GIVING OPENED UNEXPECTED DOORS FOR LEPA FLAIBAN'S BUSINESS

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Lepa's business is also keeping her cultural heritage alive. At her job in fraud at Centrelink, Lepa Flaiban used to get death threats. Sitting at a desk all day and worrying someone would be waiting for her outside did not make for a comfortable career. And after 10 years at this job, her heart was not in it.

"I trained as a chef and I always had this idea that I'd open something that would cater for events. But with life, stress and small kids, I never had time," Lepa, 42, from Sydney, tells WHO.

Then in 2019, Lepa’s father, Koyo, who she describes as her “best friend”, died. He passed away just six weeks after a diagnosis of lung cancer and it hit Lepa very hard.

“I’d never lost someone so close and it made me reevaluate life and what I was doing with mine,” she says. “It meant the day I decided to buy a food truck was actually the day I bought one!”