Is Lisa Lewis the NZ businesswoman of the year?
Lewis, who last week also appeared online for Australian Penthouse, has been nominated for a prestigious national women’s business award, the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award – a title held previously by fashion designer Annah Stretton and reality TV queen Julie Christie.
Lewis has been nominated by Hong Kong lawyer Cathy Odgers, the author of a blog written under the pseudonym Cactus Kate.
Odgers said her nomination was the result of having a “hunt around for something to do where I could contribute in a life-changing way to another woman deserving of assistance in fighting discrimination in her chosen profession”.
The nomination procedure requires an extensive submission. Examples must be given of corporate social responsibility by the nominee, entrepreneurial drive, leadership skills and financial success.
Odgers described Lewis as an online pioneer in New Zealand for the provision of sexual entertainment services to a registered pay-per-view clientele. Of Lewis’s corporate social responsibility she writes: “Hamilton is a small town and in purveying her personal services she respects client confidentiality in a manner that would leave many lawyers and accountants hanging their heads in shame.”
Odgers said examples of Lewis’s entrepreneurial drive were her dedication and training “to ensure she can deliver the quality of service and required aesthetics her profession demands”.
“Lisa has kept her body in incredible shape using a complex cardio and weight-training regime combined with a stringent diet that many women would run away from in horror.”
Her leadership style was direct and she epitomised a Kiwi “can-do” attitude, said Odgers. “She fits into any social circumstance, whether surrounded by the grace and charm required of high society sipping Veuve Clicquot or with sweaty rugby players at a local pub over a beer.”
Kiwiblog wishes Lisa all the best in winning the title.
November 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I seem to be offside with yourself, Whale and Cactus on this one.
Why on earth should a prostitue win Business Woman of the year??
Because she finds men stupid enough to pay her $1200 for what they can get for free??
I could think of many woman more deserving, just maybe they don’t have a hot body and nice tits like Lisa does.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Lisa Lewis is a brand, and she markets it brilliantly. I don’t share her values, but do think that she is an entrepreneur.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
She has much in common with a lot of prominent business people in NZ – one way or the other they’re guaranteed to screw you.
November 29th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I think there is much to commend this nominee. If she wins it should be good for tourism, indeed she could do a goodwill tour of our Tourist institutions, perhaps even a campaign tour to support her nomination. The meat board and Fonterra could well promote her assets as a marketing ploy in a way that say the Wool Board may be less able to exploit. The Rugby World Cup promoters on the other hand would be foolish not to replicate her previous feats on the Rugby field before each test ,to inspire our team and leave the opposition gasping, instead of the tired old time worn haka. Yeah Go Girl, you can do anything! (and probably will)
November 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hey noskire you forgot the other lots of screw bags in town. What about the politicians especially all the socialists that masquerade as here to help in the round House
November 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Does the title of the award have anything to do with those who win, and how they won it?
I mean, the “Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award”.
I’m with Michaels’ on this: “Why on earth should a prostitue win Business Woman of the year?”
Next they’ll be giving terrorists the Nobel Peace Prize – oh yeah …
November 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Why on earth shouldn’t a prostitute win Business Woman of the Year?
Next they’ll be telling us Catholic Priest molest children – oh yeah …
November 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
kkk..
is there a biblical verse that predicts ‘the rise of lisa lewis’..?
(‘and her name shall be l & l..
and this is how you will know her..!’..how you will see her..!)
..mmm..???
is it a portend..?
(we are all on the edge of our seats here..!..)
(you aren’t in danger of getting yr eyes ‘driven out’..by looking at her..are ya..?..)
whoar..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
November 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
“Next they’ll be giving terrorists the Nobel Peace Prize – oh yeah ”
Next time they’ll be telling us John Key is a strong and decisive leader, yeah right.
November 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Smells like a staged publicity stunt. Publicity for Lewis and a couple of bloggers.
No way she will win – VC have spent a lot of money on their upmarket branding. Recall the furore and threats of legal action from Louis Vuitton when Britney Spears featured one of their bags in a music video.
November 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Ruth, while you have a point, times are depressed and its questionable whether Veuve Clicquot could take the cashflow hit that would result from annoying Cactus Kate. What if she switched to Moet? Doesn’t bear thinking about.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
For Lisa that is totally believable (and why not), but Cactus Kate? Not sure about that. She recently joined and then promptly left the visibly horrible Gotcha. Gotcha does appear to be an attempt by Whale Oil to make money from blogging (good luck with that). But CK has no ads on her blog and she’s said a number of times that she has no interest in trying to make money from blogging.
I think it’s just a case of Cactus Kate doing a bit of conscience raising and having some fun.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
billyborker 1:57 pm,
Yeah, and we all want our daughters to model themselves on Lewis, eh Porker (?)
Lucky for me I’m not a Roman Catholic; the Pope can look after his boys.
Phool 2:45 pm,
Don’t know if the Bible predicts Lewis in particular, but certainly her kind.
And personally I use a little thing called ’self control’ regarding my eyes, Phool.
She’s probably a ‘plastic fantastic’ anyway – I prefer real women; and some with good morals too.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
“..I think it’s just a case of Cactus Kate doing a bit of conscience raising..”
heh..!
(for so many reasons..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
November 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
“Why on earth shouldn’t a prostitute win Business Woman of the Year?”
But Billy, I thought you were a lefty.
So you’re saying it’s OK for entrepreneurs from tobacco, gambling, alcohol, fast food, genetic engineering, pesticides, armaments manufacture and sales, nuclear energy, etc etc; to win Business Woman of the Year? That is the logical import of your position, isn’t it? They’re all legal.
Have you told Red Alert and The Stranded?
November 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
reid, whatever makes you think I have to ask the standard before i express an opinion?
Guess i’m not as easy to put in a box as you’d like.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Blogging is nothing if not narcissistic Malcolm. I have no doubt Kate has no wish or need to make money out of blogging.
Publicity for its own sake is another matter. You know – trying to rock the boat and be a “look at me” radical non-conformist. But whatever – who really cares.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Kris K:
Well it would appear she already has God’s vote:
Not often we see CK on the side of the angels
November 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Publicity for it’s own sake? Yeah maybe, but I wouldn’t describe blogging as narcissistic. That is debasing the word rather a lot.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
“reid, whatever makes you think I have to ask the standard before i express an opinion?”
Gee I dunno, Billy. I thought all you lefties got your talking-point-shit-together through a daily conference call before sallying forth to spread your poison to the masses whom your great saviour and secretly-worshipped master once cynically referred to as “useful idiots.”
You mean to say I was mistaken?
November 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
“Blogging is nothing if not narcissistic Malcolm”
Ruth, we have six human needs: one of them is a need for significance. We get that in various ways: through our family most of all especially through being parents, also through our work, by being professionally competent. The way I see it, blogging is merely another way for people to seek to fulfill that need. BTW, it’s a need, not an optional thing. We must have it.
I wouldn’t therefore call it narcissistic, since that is a condition that infers an ego imbalance. Rather, I’d call it simply, being human.
Which is why blogging, Facebook, Twitter and the like have come from zero to hero in such a short time and their replacements will go even further.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Nice tits, gets my vote.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Ruth and Vibenna wrong – LVMH are the owners of both brands as they are of Ruinart, Dom Perignon two brands I now prefer. Moving from one to the other makes no difference to their bottom line.
Moet and Veuve I consider both to be gateway champagnes to the better stuff. I don’t consider Veuve to be a luxury brand at all.
Malcolm is correct. I do things for money or for fun. Like all blogging this was completely for fun and guess what – if it helps raise awareness and validity of a profession that society is still uneasy about then hallelujah. Remember prohibition? No one does because alcohol has gained social acceptance. Prostitution has not.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Ooh !!! Touche CK … Touche.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Understanding the frivolous and contrived nature of this award, let me pose the following questions:
If the measure of a country is taken by the honours it bestows on its citizens, what does this front-running nomination say about contemporary NZ?
I ask because NZ is the country known for its early enfranchisement of women, and its leadership in breaking the “glass ceiling” on women’s advancement in business and government.
Given that history, is this nomination an example of success or failure? Said differently: is this a sign of the deepening of gender emancipation or a sign that socio-cultural degradation has now truly taken root?
November 30th, 2009 at 6:49 am
“taken root” – a slip of the tongue, or a clever pun gnadsmasher?
November 30th, 2009 at 6:58 am
If this big twitted silly bimbo is to be business witch of the year then Steve Crowe must be the pimple of the year. What role models for our children and we all wonder why society is so depraved. How long before kids study porno at school? They could have a boobs in prams parade!!!!!
November 30th, 2009 at 9:01 am
…front-running nomination…
It’s the what now?!
November 30th, 2009 at 11:31 am
How do you know she’s silly?
November 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
My daughter (age 9) is already being bombarded with messages that her value to society (and herself) can only be measured by her sexual attractiveness. The world doesn’t need another female role model that pushes the same message.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I have no particular problem with Lisa Lewis making a living out of whoring. If whoring works for her then who am I to judge? Just as long as she’s filling out her tax return the same as me.
Furthermore if her success as a self-made woman does anything to diminish the pre-eminence of sordid, greasy little pimps exploiting weak little girls in that industry then IMHO she will have even done a bit of good in the world…
November 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Martin
A child’s parents are their greatest rolemodels. Therefore if your 9 yo is turning elsewhere for rolemodels I am afraid you are the one with the problem, not the rest of the world.
Dad4Justice
Prostitution has been legalised. There is no reason for example why polytechs could not run sex industry courses. If you see some of the other courses they offer presently, I would imagine the sex industry course would be far more valuable.
November 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Cactus – yes run whore courses, so they can end up dead in the River Avon like the other red light girls!
There is a killing to be made on Manchester Street Cactus.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
D4J I would hazard a guess there are more deaths in the construction industry every year than prostitution. And courses are run for that. Not to mention sending your kids off to the military, another dangerous profession. Likewise being a member of the Police.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Oh come mate, please don’t make out the whore trade to be a safe one. A whore is a disgrace to any sane father that has daughters.
Fuck off billy borker before the vile one starts.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
D4J – fathers all around the country are having sex with these women. The trade is a male driven one.
If demand dried up so too would supply and resources would be re-allocated.
If you want to make a difference D4J you would campaign to men not to visit prostitutes, not call prostitutes nasty names and bully them. It is attitudes like yours that egg on men to treat these women with disdain which leads to violence against them. I don’t see you harbouring the same discrimination to the men who use prostitutes as to the prostitutes themselves.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
A whore is a whore Cactus, and please can you tell me how many women have been killed on front line duty in the keystone police force and band aid army?
Supply and demand has prisons overflowing and Rudith Crusher Big Blouse blaming a full moon. No wonder we fire sky rockets.
I have a healthy “attitude” = I detest liberal wankers, but I like raw eggs gal.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Judith Collins doesn’t blame the full moon, that was Annette King. As for the rest of your comments, they are just strange and not worth debating with you until you come back to the grown-ups sandpit.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
“A Whore is a whore”
And a misogynist thug with violent tendencies is still a D4J
November 30th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Oh right, I must be a liberal grown up so I can throw sand at all the pc liberal smile alot wimps who sit on the fence. Well Cactus and co, New Zealand has more social problems that one can mention and you think pushing prestige on hookers is a good thing, well I have some bad news for you. You can argue the sex industry is productive work, money for free, do a spread, but you cannot argue that it is a job (not a profession) that any sane parent (including twisted liberals) would approve their children to undertake. Mind you only a parent could answer the scenario, as it’s far too horrible to contemplate.
Fuck off big blouse you cowardly eununch.You are one bitter queer blouse. Who pulled your chain shithead!!
November 30th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
“New Zealand has more social problems that one can mention”
As evidenced by your constant attacks on females, you see them as the enemy, indeed, you see anybody who does not agree with your fucked up veiw of the world as the enemy.
You are no better than the liberals you pretend to dislike.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Is that a threat D4J?
Edit; I see you removed that comment D4J, might have been a wise move on your part.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
big blouse I am helping 12 mothers in the court system. Look why don’t you leave me alone until we meet face to face you fucked up backstabbing coward!!! No threat blouse, you are gutless scum that needs a lesson in manners you chicken brain coward!
November 30th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Odger clearly enjoys trotting out the leftwing feminist cliched nonsense about “fighting discrimination”. So much so she forgets men are hardly even eligible for the kind of whoreing around Lewis is known for as the demand for naked females is slightly higher than for naked men…
November 30th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
‘big blouse I am helping 12 mothers in the court system’
Then god help those poor mothers.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Moral relativism is necessary for those who like to praise whooers for their work but loathe to place their sister, or their mother, or their daughter, in that situation. Kinda hypocritical, really. But, it makes a certain sense, I suppose, so long as you check your morals in at the door.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
you are one twisted blogger blouse.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
LabourDoesn’t Work – not true. A good proportion of prostitutes in NZ are men, yes gay men but still men. Again I state the purchasers of these services are almost ALL men. Men keep the industry in pay. For people to attack prostitution without attacking (and ignoring completely) the almost exclusively male clientele is just blatant discrimination against all workers in the sex industry.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
D4J
These mothers that you are ‘helping’, can I take it that you are doing this while receiving a benefit?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Id giver her the blue vein flute…no worries..
November 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Cactus, skipping amongst the arrows, it is curious how almost the whole focus of the sex industry is on the female service providers. Could be the result of a long age of anonymous users, I guess they like to keep it that way. I can’t comprehend the attraction.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
d4j, so eloquent. Are you also posting as Kaya? you both have the same turn of phrase.
I agrre, no parent that I know would want their daughter, or son, working as a prostitute, but it isn’t the parents’ role to choose their childrens’ careers, it is the parents’ role to ensure their children grow up in an environment where prostitution never needs to be a choice.
So, what are you doing about that?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
illy borker and big blouse are the same sub species of anonymous cowards that attack troll on blogosphere. Rot in hell you gutless scum. Both born from the same hooker.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Here I am waiting for all the jokes about how she is going to lick the opposition, get votes from around the world, how she is way out in front, etc, and all you can do is moralise. COME ON people, where are the puns?
November 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Both born from the same hooker.
ooohhh thats nasty…
November 30th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
“Both born from the same hooker”
Come on D4J, you can do better than that!
Let’s have one of your infamous angry rants, lets see you really push the boat out, come on D4J, show us what you really got.
P.S. Can you answer my question please, are you receiving a benefit?
November 30th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I will tell you face to face you coward. haha, yeah right pigs do fly, just ask your twin brother borker. You are one real gutless liar blouse. Can you ever tell the truth. Fuck off until you front up wimp.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
big bruv, I doubt he’s on a benefit, probably lives off immoral earnings.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Anyone got a bb gun? What crackpots or the same person?
November 30th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hey, Big Bruv, want to meet up, take a walk down Manchester St, see how many of d4j”s girls we can spot?
I’ll get Alex to drive us around, he should know the best spots.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Borker
NO.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
you’re right, we might end up under a bridge at the rakaia
December 19th, 2009 at 4:44 am
CactusKate, I was defending women and their dignity. An attack on prostitution as an attack on ‘your own’. Maybe you should try a late-term abortion heh…. You’ll never get it….Magaret Sanger loved degenerates like you. Go abort the fuck out of youself Boy are you stupid if you didn’t understand this.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:51 am
CactusKate, I was defending women and their dignity. You’re so truly messed up if you see an attack on prostitution as an attack on ‘your own’. Perhaps you’ve had so many abortions your conscience is seared. Maybe you should join the childless bitches like Helen Clark who rail against the world? Loser