smh.com.au:
When Milly Parker discusses her Happy Yappers biscuit company it appears to be the familiar success story of a small home-based business growing to the next stage.
Like any good entrepreneur she cheerfully lists the challenges she faces due to the constraints of working from her kitchen - from having to knock back orders because she can’t physically meet the demand, to breaking into the export market. ‘And I’ve got so many ideas I just can’t keep up,’ says Parker.
But while her business issues might be typical, this 35-year-old is quite extraordinary. It’s not that the customers for her gourmet biscuits are dogs that sets her apart from the pack. Nor the fact that after a couple of phone calls she managed to get her products in to the exclusive Harrods store in London. Perhaps a clue is the title of the speech she often gives to inspire others - ‘How my brain injury has helped my business’.
In 1992, when she was a 21-year-old accountancy student in Bendigo, the car she was travelling in ran into a tree on a country road, fracturing her skull and causing massive brain injuries…
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