What’s in my Bag?

Sarah Hébert, Head of Content and Curation at Shutter

FEW Member Profile

FEW (Female Entrepreneurs of the World) is an international organization that supports gender equality and the advancement of women in entrepreneurship. FEW provides a community for entrepreneurs to share experiences in the hopes that transparency of information will inspire others in their entrepreneurial journey.

This week we are featuring Principal and Member of FEW, Sarah Hébert—and this is what happens when you empty an entrepreneur’s bag and force them to talk about it.

What’s in my Bag: Sarah Hébert

Head of Content and Curation at Shutter + Principal/Member of FEW

Question 1: Where do you live? Originally from Québec city, Canada, but now living in Guatemala.

Question 2: What is your company? Shutter is a photo publishing platform with a focus on quality and meaningful photographs. Discover the world’s most interesting images and publish your very best work without having to compete with ads or snapshots of kittens. Follow us @getshutter or on facebook to learn more and to discover amazing photographers everyday!

Question 3: Which item in your bag best represents your business? The film roll. It represents the passion behind Shutter to take, share and discover amazing photographs! I can’t wait to develop it!

Question 4: If you had to give up everything but one item from your bag, which would you keep and why? My cat purse is the first one of its kind that I made and it’s too cute to abandon it… But that said, my film roll is full of unique moments that I cannot recreate so I will go for the film roll! Sorry kitty!

Question 5: Who would be the guest of honor at your dinner party and why? My future self! I would love to have my future self over for dinner one day to talk about all the stupid mistakes my current self is about to make! And also to discuss how awesome I became! (Hopefully.)

Question 6: If you could fit anything in your bag, what would you take with you? Is this bag also able to teleport people? If so, I would say I would use my bag to take my parents with me. They’re not fans of being alone in airports where nobody speaks their language, so it’s been hard to convince them to come visit me in other countries. I would love to just be able to take them out of my bag and show them the little paradise I live in.

Question 6: What’s your embarrassing secret skill that few people know about? I can do a weird movements with my eyes that make 80% of people under the age of 10 laugh.

Question 7: What is the strangest thing you believed as a child? I believed that bananas were made with milk. I couldn’t understand how milk made its way into a fruit but it didn’t really matter at that point.

Sarah Hébert is a French Canadian who has lived in 6 countries and traveled to more than 30 others. With a love for continuous change and adventure she has taught French at universities in Mexico, freelanced online as a translator while living totally off the grid 50 meters up the side of a volcano in Central America, and managed a hotel and bar in Guatemala. She is currently Head of Content and Curation at Shutter, a photo- publishing platform currently in Startup Chile, and a Principal of FEW.