‘I feel like I’m everyone’s mum’: Sally Brownbill reflects on being an industry confidante

A commercial photographer, working for a television and theatre producer, a club’s door girl, a pearl polisher – Sally Brownbill has really done it all. After various odd jobs over the years, and upon returning to Melbourne, she thought: “Shit, what am I going to do?”

“Then, I realised all these funny jobs taught me that I’m really good with people – I’m even better at making shit happen,” she says. 

“I had a really creative slant on how I did things but I was also practical, so it was time to act on that.”

So in 2002, she began The Brownbill Effect – an online creative resource featuring a creative directory, assistants register, recruitment and consultancy.