Tiffany Murray

Biography

Tiffany Murray is the founder, owner and Managing Director of Dressed for Sale, Australia’s largest home styling business. At the heart of Tiffany’s story is how Dressed for Sale was born from opportunity delivered by adversity, after she and her husband made the heartbreaking decision to leave the family farm where six generations had lived and worked.  Now one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs and business women, Tiffany has transitioned from running a sheep station with her husband to building and scaling a highly successful, customer centric company. As if that wasn’t enough, she’s a hands-on mum to four young children as well. 

Tiffany launched Dressed for Sale following a stressful ordeal she encountered when selling a property in the city. Taking a massive leap of faith, her family hired a new real estate agent and restyled their home. Within a month, their home sold for $250,000 above asking price. This opened Tiffany's eyes to the opportunities that existed in the industry and the couple turned Dressed for Sale into the biggest player in the field.

Recognition of Tiffany's business prowess saw her win Richard Branson’s Uber PITCH from 100 start ups and 10,000 applicants in 2015. She was also a state finalist in the Telstra Female Entrepreneur of the Year and Dressed for Sale was a finalist  for Telstra Small Business of the Year in 2016. In 2018, Tiffany was regional finalist for EY Entrepeneur of the year. 

Tiffany is an accomplished speaker with a warm and engaging style. She speaks from the heart about the wild ride of starting Dressed for Sale, the importance of being true to yourself, taking risks, and trusting your vision. She draws on her experiences in a way that is engaging and totally transfixing. Hers is a story that is truly unique in every sense of the word.

Topics

• Master of Ceremonies
• The Power of One - Building a Brand
  All winners were beginners once!….Janine Allis, Naomi Robson ,Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, all of them were excellent Hustlers! My story shows that any one person can build a brand and invent a category, or disrupt another…it really is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration!
• Hyde of a Rhino – My Story
  The road to glory is littered with the corpses of start up’s! Only 3% of start-ups succeed 3 years and .04% still exist after 10! Hear my story of how I survived “The Critical Valley of Death” and how much rejection you face on your journey! The higher the stakes the higher the risk!! Resilience is a well exercised muscle in me!
• Post Cards from the Edge – How Fear of Poverty is a Great Motivator!
  If you want to succeed in anything you must apply yourself 120%!! You don’t become a successful Olympian by dabbling in 5 sports!! You have to commit to one and own it. Business is just the same. The world is full of “Gunna’s” I am “gunna do this and “Gunna do that….they usually end up doing nothing! To be an Entrepreneur is to work harder, push more and risk it all….Fear of Poverty gets me out of bed everyday…..failure is NOT an option!
• I Do What He Does But Backwards in High Heels!!! (Ginger rogers at a press conference!)
  How to Survive as a Mother in Business
  Four kids under 12, 50 staff in two states I get asked “I don’t know how you do it!!” Well neither did I until I had a close call with a nervous breakdown and decided to hire a wife! I would delegate sleeping if I could. I looked around at all the male CEO’s I knew who all look so relaxed, I thought who does their dry cleaning? The school run, life administration? Their wives!! I thought if you can't beat ‘em join ‘em.

Testimonials

Tiff was a fabulous speaker for our group. She was engaging, honest and pitched her presentation perfectly the group. The feedback from the members has been excellent and we all thoroughly enjoyed her honesty and humour.
Perks and Associates Pty. Ltd.

Tiffany is an absolute pleasure to work with and is very passionate and committed to helping make our endeavours a success. Her professional and personable manner is highly engaging and inspires guests to support the cause.
CEO
TeamKids
Women's & Children's Hospital Foundation

Excellent, we had fantastic feedback on Tiffany.  She was so accommodating to work with.  She even met us on site in the lead up to the event to record a social media video to promote the event.
Australian Institute of Conveyancers SA Division

Tiffany has presented a number of events for the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation. She has a natural warmth, manner and charm that we believe has reflected terrifically with our TeamKids brand, and she has engaged our audiences at each event with both the cause and the fun of attending our shows. I would have no problem recommending Tiff to host events and launches for any client.
Mark Colley
General Manager, Marketing & Commercial
Women's and Children's Hospital Inc

I have had the privilege on seeing Tiffany present on two occasions and her poise, style and confidence is totally engaging. Her knowledge is extensive and she has absolute clarity and vision on where she wants to be and when! Not only does Tiffany have 'the knowledge', but her presentation and communication skills clearly sets her apart from her competitors in her area of expertise. She delivers the benefit of her product with high energy, adding multiple point of difference along the way. I have rarely sat through presentations where I am taken on a 'journey' wanting to hear more!
Rod Adcock
Regional Manager
LJ Hooker South Australia/Alice Springs/Broken Hill

Tiffany spoke at a fundraising event I held for 100 women from the property industry.  Six months afterwards I still had attendees comment to me on what an engaging speaker she was.  Tiffany has a raw honesty about her approach and appealed because of her ability to tell her story in a fast paced manner while we learnt about her resilience, determination, ability to overcome challenges and the story of building a successful business from scratch.  This was all interwoven with a good dose of humour which made us all want more!  I couldn’t recommend Tiffany highly enough as a speaker, her energy levels and positivity alone are enough to make an audience sit up and take notice.
Jane Carey
Director
Edge Recruitment

I had seen Tiffany speaking publicly a number of times, and was always impressed by her ability to engage. Recently at a Team Kids fundraiser Tiffany was both MC of a complicated evenings agenda and conducted a heart-warming interview with a person who had no stage experience. Tiffany mastered the job enduring an engaging Saturday Black Tie evening and an uncompromised subject.
Jakki Temple Govan
Marketing Manager
Star Casino Sydney

Tiffany is an absolute pleasure to work with and is very passionate and committed to helping make our endeavours a success. Her professional and personable manner is highly engaging and inspires guests to support the cause.
Sam Tolley
CEO
TeamKids - Women's & Children's Hospital Foundation