Noelle Barclay talks business
NOELLE Barclay is a big risk-taker who defines success in one word — “happiness”. The 32-year-old businesswoman and certified holistic therapist/advisor says getting her products in pharmacies across Jamaica has been her biggest win, as she sells the idea that it’s possible to correct women’s health issues without pharmaceutical drugs, by using herbs.
The owner of the holistic brand VagiSolution, Barclay, who has nursing training, said she realised that the herbal way works better than the traditional, and gives more permanent results.
VagiSolution provides herbal and natural products for womb care and more, and Barclay said the products and ingredients used and sold are 100 per cent natural and safe. The store (@vagisolution) is online-based.
“I offer free consultations both for [women in] business and [my] products — I target mainly women,” she said.
Barclay also helps young women “to boss up and rise above the odds” — to become bosses and accomplish their goals.
“I have helped more than 1,000 women accomplish what seemed impossible,” she said. “For example, a customer from May Pen purchased her first car by selling holistic products, and another helped her dad pay his mortgage just by going wholesale selling holistic products. There are so many I can’t even count — major and minor goals are being achieved under my brand.”
The Donald Quarrie High School alumna attended WCO Nursing Institute and The University of the West Indies, and has done several online courses in holistic and herbal training.
She said her resilience lies in reminding herself when things get hard that “this too shall pass and nothing last forever”, and remembering that all she is doing is for her son.
“My son is my biggest motivator. All that I have accomplished thus far — the drive, the push — is all because of him,” she said.
She said her greatest joy comes when customers report on how great the products are and the results they got — “not to mention the countless babies our products have been producing”.
For the long term, she sees success in physical stores.
“I am hoping that within the next five to 10 years I will have at least five to 10 physical stores selling strictly holistic products on a wholesale level,” she said.
And for young women who want to push ahead into the world of entrepreneurship, “Do as much research as possible, put God first and don’t ever compete.”
