Straight from winning the third series of Dancing With The Stars with dance partner Stefano, Suzanne Paul has become one of New Zealand’s favourite household names. Raising funds for her chosen charity, Starship Foundation, Suzanne danced her way in to the hearts of New Zealanders with her inspiration and determination.

British born, Suzanne immigrated to New Zealand in 1991 where she began work as a Sales Demonstrator selling massage pillows in Henderson Square Shopping Mall. This was when she met her business partner Paul Meier where together they created a company that became a marketing phenomenon of the 1990’s, Prestige Marketing Ltd.

Suzanne travelled all over New Zealand using her expertise to sell merchandise and demonstrate products to the masses such as the ‘Massage Pillow’, ‘Suzanne Clip’ and ‘Natural Glow’.

Five years later, she sold the company for $39 million dollars and became one of the country’s most popular television personalities, starring in shows such as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Garage Sale and How’s Life. Suzanne then invested in a ‘cabaret meets kapa haka’ tourism venture which did not go to plan and lost it all. She was declared bankrupt in March 2005.

Just over a year after the bankruptcy, Suzanne had managed to pick herself up and return to selling cosmetics, discharging herself from bankruptcy. Not only has Suzanne managed this through keeping a positive attitude, but by making endless plans to make it again in this competitive business world. Suzanne is in the planning stages on some exciting new business ventures which will no doubt be high profile and very successful.

Recently Suzanne left behind ordinary life and took on the wilds of rural Asia in TV New Zealand’s award winning series Intrepid Journeys. She tackled Hanoi, caught some down time in sleepy Halong Bay, shopped up a storm in local villages, went trekking in the world famous Longji rice terraces, and celebrated her 50th birthday in Yangshuo!!

Suzanne tells her story which is motivating and encouraging in a very entertaining way, drawing on her many hilarious life experiences.