I grew up watching my mom build this business. And she never once gave anything up for it.
No missed dinners. No stressed Sunday evenings. No "sorry I can't, I have to work." She just did it, around her life, around us, around everything that already mattered to her. She's been doing it for 27 years. And she's still going, because she wants to. Not because she has to.
That image of her is honestly one of the reasons I do what I do today.
We grew up with a very specific idea of what success looks like
You work hard, you sacrifice, you push through. And somewhere along the way you stop asking yourself whether any of it actually fits your life. Whether it makes you happy. Whether there's another way.
A lot of us never really question it. We just follow the script. Study, work, prove yourself, sacrifice more, hope it adds up to something eventually. And it can. But the cost is something nobody really talks about until you're already paying it.
The numbers we don't talk about enough
In Austria, women earn 17.6% less per hour than men — the third-highest gender pay gap in the EU (Eurostat 2024). When part-time work is factored in, the annual earnings gap grows to around 36%, because women in Austria take on almost three quarters of all unpaid care work and are far more likely to work part-time as a result.
And the gap doesn't close in retirement — it gets worse. Austrian women receive on average 39.7% less pension than men (2024): €1,527 vs €2,535 a month. Österreich has the fourth-largest pension gap of all 38 OECD countries. The result: one in five Austrian women over 65 is at risk of poverty. Not because they contributed less to society. Because the system was never built around their lives.
We carry more and somehow end up with less at the end. That's not a personal failure. That's a structural one.
And it's exactly why a business that fits around your life instead of demanding you rearrange it is not just a nice idea. It's actually important.
What I watched my whole life and didn't fully understand until I got older
RINGANA gave my family that. Not overnight, not without effort. But without sacrifice. Without choosing between who you are and what you want to build.
My mom built a real income, a real team, a real community. And she did it while being fully present for everything else that mattered to her. The school runs, the dinners, the weekends. All of it. I watched that my whole life and I didn't even realise how rare it was.
Because from the outside it just looked normal. It looked like life. What I didn't see was that she had deliberately built something that worked around her life instead of against it. That took 27 years of consistency. And it gave her something most people spend decades chasing.
Time. Financial security. And the freedom to still be choosing it.
Now I do the same
And what I can tell you is that nothing about this feels like giving something up. It feels like something was finally added. Income, purpose, a sense of direction — on top of a life I already love.
I'm not here to tell you it's passive or effortless. It isn't. But I am here to tell you it's real. And that you can build it in the hours that already exist between everything else. During school hours. In the evening. On your lunch break. Without a boss, without a fixed schedule, without inventory.
You recommend products you actually use and believe in. You build a team of people who do the same. And the income you build keeps growing, even when life asks you to slow down for a while.
That's the part nobody tells you. That it can actually work like that.
Why I think this is the business of our generation
Not because it's easy. Not because it's for everyone. But because for the women I know who are juggling everything and still asking themselves whether there's more — this is the answer that doesn't require you to blow up your life to find out.
You try it. You grow it slowly. You build something that's yours. And at some point you look back and realise you didn't have to sacrifice a single thing that actually mattered to you.
That's rare. And I don't think we talk about it enough.
Want to know what this actually looks like day to day?
DM me. I'll tell you honestly what it involves, what it doesn't, and whether it could fit your life right now.
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