Founder and owner of the five star atFrits Dog Hotel and Daycare Centre in Cape Town, Yanic Klue joins Liezl this week on the podcast. Hear Yanic’s inspiring story of turning her passion for dogs into a business and the challenges she faced starting something from nothing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Yanic worked in corporate and marketing in the UK and when she returned to South Africa she decided to get her MBA which gave her the opportunity to get into the more strategic side of things which she really enjoyed. 
• It took five years of saving and sourcing funding but eventually Yanic’s dream of starting a dog hotel came true. To achieve this she started her own dog clothing line and managed to get some funding, even if the loan was more expensive than she’d have liked. 
• It’s difficult to get funding for your business in South Africa, they want to see a lot of proof that you can do what you say you want to, and if you don’t have the money to get going, then you can’t show the banks that you can do it. 
• The industry is really growing, atFrits was the first dog hotel in Cape Town, now there are 17 in just a 6km area. 
• Yanic also works to vaccinate the dogs of people who are at risk, so for example if someone on the street is arrested or in hospital, they know that they can then bring the dog to atFrits to stay until it can go back to its owner. 

BEST MOMENTS
‘I’m a very strategic person even though I’m crazy’
‘I knew I could do more than just be a bird in a cage’ 
‘If it was one more month of lockdown then I’d have lost the business’ 
VALUABLE RESOURCES 
Yanic Klue on LinkedIn
https://atfrits.com/
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In the Spotlight was born as a platform to share, broadcast and promote the interesting, wonderful and inspiring things that some of the people who crossed Liezl’s path have done. She would love to shine the spotlight on them and share their journeys with you to hopefully inspire you to be the best you, not to give up and to follow your passion or dream.  And in that way, help to make a little difference and share some of the beauty of this world. 

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Liezl Colditz van Rooyen
Born and raised in South Africa, Liezl followed her dream to see the world at age 23 and twenty years on has now travelled to 50 countries and worked and lived in the UK, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. She is a mum of two boys, a chartered management accountant working in large energy projects, a musician, runner, a world citizen but proudly South African and now a podcaster.The incredible people she has met, the amazing places she has seen and the magic of life she has experienced, inspired her to start this podcast.

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