WOMAN AT THE TOP – PIPPA NICHOLAS
RIGHT: KIM AND PHIL ON THEIR WEDDING DAY BELOW: PHIL’S FAVOURITE YACHT, MY SENSES
the money came from and in essence once I had gone to the States all of the things I had done throughout my past life with other businesses, all the things that had kept me going in life, I didn’t have the opportunity to do there. Then I met Kim, the most amazing woman in the world, who I am now with. My partner from Shiralee at that point in time had decided that what we had wasn’t for her, and we had decided to go our separate ways. We are however very firm friends to this day and she is one of the people in my past I value most of all. Kim has been with you through a strange period in your life. Yes, the nice thing about Kim is that she has met everybody from my past, my life sounds almost unbelievable but she has met nearly everybody from it, from all over the world. I met Kim in a sleazy nightclub in Fort Lauderdale on a ‘boys night out’. A captain I was working with had split up with his girlfriend and I offered to take him out to help him forget her. We went to this bar and there were four girls standing there, one was an Indian lady, two were quite cute and then there was this short dumpy sister with dark hair, flare cut pants, flat shoes, a horrible baggy shirt and not me at all, it was unbelievable. We ended up talking to them and I ended up asking the dumpy one
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to have a dance with me and she turned into the Kim we all know
But she is far from short and dumpy!
and love so much today. I guess we all go through parts of our
Not anymore, she lost a huge amount of weight, 60 lbs (she will
lives that are a bit dark and they affect us all in different ways. I’m
argue that amount for sure but!) and changed her life completely.
so happy that she thought enough of me to stay through some
We bought the Carole Manto Crew Agency. Carole was one of
of my dark moments.
the people that helped me through the Shiralee saga by finding
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