Failing her Leaving Cert hasn’t stopped Suzie O’Neill from succeeding in business.<\/p>\n
The founder and CEO of Irish brand Ayu Cosmetics wants the Class of 2026 to know that there are alternative paths if they do not get the results they want.<\/p>\n
“Having failed my Leaving Cert, I’ve still been able to do the courses I wanted to do, start the business I wanted to start, and live the life I wanted to live,” she told RT\u00c9 News.<\/p>\n
“There are ways of getting into your courses later on. When you’ve a passion for something, that is what will get you further.”<\/p>\n
After finishing school, Suzie got a job while she decided what she wanted to do next.<\/p>\n
She went on to do a beauty course, had her own salon for a while, and began working as a teacher with international make-up brands and in colleges.<\/p>\n
Suzie founded her own company in 2014 and said she used her Leaving Cert failure as motivation to achieve her dreams.<\/p>\n
“From the days of the Leaving Cert, there are a lot of people who think you\u2019re a waster or you\u2019re not good enough or you don\u2019t know how to work.<\/p>\n
“But that has also been my driver – I’ll show you what I can do, I’ll show you that I am capable.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s obviously easy for me to say not to worry too much, but just to remember that the Leaving Cert is not the be-all and end-all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Failing her Leaving Cert hasn’t stopped Suzie O’Neill from succeeding in business. The founder and CEO of Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-477487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}