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'Women can have it all': Motherswork founder who built retail empire while raising 3 kids

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Motherhood should not hold a woman back, says Sharon Wong. The entrepreneur built her retail empire Motherswork while she was raising three children.
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Sharon Wong believes that choices and actions can often set off a chain of events which will significantly shape our futures and affect lives besides our own.

One of her biggest life-changing moments took place four decades ago when she was 16. Then a schoolgirl in Malaysia, she was standing outside the gates of Ipoh's Main Convent one day when she realised that she had enjoyed her secondary school life so much she hadn't planned for the future.

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