Dixie Davey

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Business acumen and transcultural exchange have long been important parts of Dixie Davey’s life. The child of Dutch parents, Dixie Davey grew up in Australia. By 1978, Davey received her first experience in business ownership when she founded the business Australian Bride with her gown-designing mother.

After taking a short break in the late 1980s and early 1990s to tend to her growing family, Dixie Davey moved back into the world of business. She was initially employed with the Bank of Western Australia (Bankwest) as a business development officer. For eight years, Davey helped businesses find the resources they needed from Bankwest’s selection of banking products.

Dixie Davey’s experience in helping grow businesses led her to a new position in 2002 with At Source Organics. At that time, At Source Organics was the producer of two kinds of compost machines, and Davey was vital in coordinating meetings with potential clients and marketing the new products. She arranged for John Walker, inventor and owner of the new compost machines, to appear on Season 1, episode 8 of the TV show The New Inventors.

After At Source Organics, Dixie Davey followed John Walker into a new venture called Becoming Younger. Davey set up the web domains, produced articles, and sold products. The products, promoted through the writings at BecomingYoungerInternational.com, centered on natural health products, such as zeolite powder.

It was a love of travel that led Dixie Davey and her now-husband John Walker to found Andes Artisans in 2008. Early that year, Davey and Walker journeyed to Ecuador and found that many businesses in Australia were excited to sell artisanal goods normally found only in Ecuador’s markets. Dixie Davey moved to Ecuador to live a dream life in South America and coordinate the export of these goods back to Australian markets.

The decision to travel to Ecuador also spawned a new website, Retire-in-Ecuador.com, which Dixie Davey uses as an outlet for expat help and opportunities in Ecuador. Davey’s newsletter from the site has grown to a subscriber list of more than 2,000 people. Today, she continues to develop her business, dividing her time between Becoming Younger International and Retire in Ecuador.