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FEATURE Simply Grace

“Simply Grace” are a mother daughter duo working together to create the perfect soy candle. Grace is 16,
and lives her life with Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy, but that hasn’t slowed her whatsoever.
She’s always been a people person and a little entrepreneur.

When she turned 16 we started thinking about
what her life was going to look like as an adult. One
Grace” received over 2000 new customer orders!
day, out of nowhere, she walked from her room Within the first 3 months of business, “Simply
This completely blew our minds.
and announced “I want a business, I want to make
candles!” What was even more exciting was that we had so
many people returning to purchase more, as they
Initially myself and my husband were a bit hesitant, couldn’t believe the high quality of our candles.
but she is very strong willed and she knew what
she wanted to do! So we decided we would support Creating “Simply Grace” was so much more than
her and see where it took her. We had never made just a new candle business, it was something
candles before and wanted her to perfect them Grace could work on, be proud of, and gain
before we started selling them! To say it took a lot of confidence and independence through.
practice and failures would be an understatement.
She loves going to new places and people
We wanted a long lasting, good quality, strong recognizing her from her candles, she get such a
scented candle that people would want to return to kick out of it!
purchase time and time again.
“ Even when she has hospital We cannot thank the people of Australia enough
for embracing “Simply Grace” and we look forward
admissions, she loves telling to many years sharing our beautiful candles “with

everyone about her business, a difference”.
and always has a business card Kelly & Grace Murphy
Simply Grace
or 10 stashed in her bag. “ Socials - @simplygrace_kelly
Photo Credit - Areli Bosson Photography

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