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Tyler Mahoney is a gold digger, but not the “fun kind”. Instead her life is filled with outrageous TV shoots in brutal conditions, creepy crawlies and more sexism than she’d like.
Gold digger Tyler Mahoney with a TV crewman while filming. (Instagram)
Tyler Mahoney calls herself a “professional gold digger” — but that doesn’t mean what you may think it means. The 29-year-old is a fourth-generation gold prospector, and also runs a gold dealership in the Western Australian outback city of Kalgoorlie. Her current start-up isn’t her first foray into bootstrapping; she started her first business when she was 19 and has learned plenty of lessons along the way.
For Tyler Mahoney finding gold is how she makes a living, and it takes her all across Australia and New Zealand at times. Most people would marvel at the prospect of finding more than $6,000 worth of gold, but for Mahoney this is her livelihood, regularly referring to herself as a “professional gold digger.”
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