Elizabeth Obanda, the Team Leader for Women’s Economic Empowerment at UN Women, has shared her journey from running a tea-packaging business that struggled to survive, to now leading one of the most influential portfolios in the UN system. S peaking on this week’s episode of She Means Business, Obanda revealed that her early venture into entrepreneurship came with tough lessons. Among them, she noted, was the challenge of hiring relatives. “It can be tricky because professionalism may not always come first,” she said, adding that it takes courage to accept when a business is not working and to let it go.