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Heart to heart

Not my finest parenting moment,” is how Haylee Wrenn describes the day she collapsed in front of her daughter.

A straight-talking, sharp-shooting, no BS accountant, Haylee, 44, serves businesses up and down the country – ones that are often drowning in debt, overcommitted, underresourced, or worse, at risk of being liquidated by IRD. She knows only too well the sometimes devastating health impacts of small business ownership, particularly on women. She came oh-so-close to being a statistic herself.

Haylee – who is mum to George, 25, Olivia, 15, and Alex, 15 – says she had a to-do list as long as her arm the day of her cardiac arrest. “I was rushing to an early morning meeting. My chocolate Labrador Coco would not leave me alone and ran onto the road chasing the car.

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