Turning an athlete's focus onto business
Retired Olympic triathlete Mari Rabie now works at an investment holding company and is the co-founder of clothing brand Movepretty
What does your role as co-founder of Movepretty involve? I am a non-executive boss-lady and Annelize Kotze, my co-founder, is the executive boss-lady. She had to run the ship alone last year, as I was training 30 to 35 hours a week and mostly abroad. Now that I'm more settled after the Olympics, I work on Movepretty early in the morning, late at night and at the weekend. I need to stay busy and I am task driven; idle happiness eludes me and I would rather work towards building something at the weekend than sip cocktails at the pool (although there is a time and place for that too). Annelize is very good with the details and I help with the general direction and, of course, sample checking every garment. We are committed to the idea that every Movepretty garment must be functional, not just look good. How has retiring from sport changed your daily routine? Where my life was dominated by training, recovering, massage, physiotherapy, seeing the chiropractor, etcetera, and working a lit...
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