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Shrews Untamed | Episode 3 – Mother’s Day (And Its ‘Firebrand Feminist’ Roots) + The Emotional Load
Episode 3 - Mother's Day (And Its 'Firebrand Feminist' Roots) + The Emotional Load Welcome to the House of Shrew. It is Mother’s Day on May 10 so we thought we’d give Mother’s Day the Shrews Untamed treatment and see how it looks after a bit of pot-stirring. I...
Guest Blog | Shrews Untamed Response to COVID-19 Episode
Response to COVID-19 Podcast Episode - Guest Blog by Lexie Minett When I was looking for voices to help me collate my thoughts for my section on what COVID-19 means for chronically ill and disabled people, I got directly in touch with my friend Lexie. Lexie is in my...
Shrews Untamed | Episode 2 – All Eyes On COVID-19, What Does That Mean For Women?
Episode 2 - All Eyes On COVID-19, What Does This Mean For Women? The House of Shrew collective of two grabs the bull by the horns and serves up a big, hearty conversation on coronavirus. Pubs, clubs, and gyms are closed, basically a lot of us are at home. With...
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Shrews Untamed | Episode 4 – Unspeakable – The C Word And The M Word
Episode 4 - Unspeakable - The C Word And The M Word Disruption is as easy as lock, stock and three smoking syllables. Make sure your earphones are on for this dangerous episode. That’s right, Jay and Jen are unleashing the worst word in the world - and we’ll...
Shrews Untamed | Episode 3 – Mother’s Day (And Its ‘Firebrand Feminist’ Roots) + The Emotional Load
Episode 3 - Mother's Day (And Its 'Firebrand Feminist' Roots) + The Emotional Load Welcome to the House of Shrew. It is Mother’s Day on May 10 so we thought we’d give Mother’s Day the Shrews Untamed treatment and see how it looks after a bit of pot-stirring. I...
Guest Blog | Shrews Untamed Response to COVID-19 Episode
Response to COVID-19 Podcast Episode - Guest Blog by Lexie Minett When I was looking for voices to help me collate my thoughts for my section on what COVID-19 means for chronically ill and disabled people, I got directly in touch with my friend Lexie. Lexie is in my...
Shrews Untamed | Episode 2 – All Eyes On COVID-19, What Does That Mean For Women?
Episode 2 - All Eyes On COVID-19, What Does This Mean For Women? The House of Shrew collective of two grabs the bull by the horns and serves up a big, hearty conversation on coronavirus. Pubs, clubs, and gyms are closed, basically a lot of us are at home. With...
Shrews Untamed Podcast | Episode 1 – Meet The Shrews
Episode 1 - Meet The Shrews “Historically, dissenting women have been labelled unnatural, witch, man-haters, harridans, viragos...fish wives, spinsters, thorn-backs, sluts and whores, hysterical, shrill, and lest we forget – SHREWS…” Women are still living...
A Love Letter. Unposted
A couple of years ago I lost one of my best friends from school. Here's the thing, I knew she was unwell and had hand written her a letter because that was our gig back in high school. You remember the ones: folded up into such a tiny package the paper literally...
But What Can We DO About Christchurch? A Short List Of Ideas To Help
When something happens like the recent massacre in Christchurch, those of us who aren’t directly negatively impacted can be tempted to offload our horror on Facebook. And then promptly move on. Increasingly, many of us are looking to ditch the “thoughts and prayers”...
Changing Your Perceptions? It’s A Bit Magic
I wasn’t sure I was a Mumpreneur. In fact, I wasn’t convinced I am an entrepreneur, even without the gender specific label in front. Not in the pure sense of the term. A business owner; yep. A creative in business; possibly closer. A paid writer; yahoo! Finally. And a...
National WA Business Excellence Award – While Working From The Hallway
Do you know what? I suck at PR. I suck so hard at it I don’t even do it for myself. This press release below? It’s a hurriedly updated version of a great one I got back from a dear friend (and past copy student) Anna, from CreativeIQ, when I became an AusMumpreneur...
Fully Sick Business Chick
Since writing this blog post, I've launched the #fullysickbusinesschick community. If you identify as a woman in business with a chronic illness or disability, you can join here. “But everything looks like it’s going so well on Instagram!” “Oh, I’ve seen your...
The Business Of Mummy Shaming Or – I Forgot The Bloody Library Books
You know how all the marketing people tell you that Facebook lives will change your life? I believed them, but I just never really had anything to ‘live’ about. Until a day, last year, when I forgot my Kindergartener’s library books. And when I got home I was so...
Balance Is Overrated
This blog was inspired by a presentation I was invited to give to the Motivating Mum’s community on International Women’s Day, 2017. I wanted to talk to you about balance…because I think it’s balderdash And while maybe, yes, saying it’s a conspiracy to keep us down...
What If I Could Be Both?
What if Jay forgets her entire story? No, that’s not happening. So, I don’t know if you noticed as I walked up here, and maybe you didn’t. Maybe you thought, “I know that girl from the interwebs,” or “Look, there’s Jay. She washed her hair and she got out of her...
I’m Not Sure I’m A Mumpreneur
Not a mompreneur either. Not a blondepreneur, or femmepreneur, or even a bedpreneur. In fact, I’m not even an entrepreneur, in the pure sense of the term. But I am a business owner. A creative in business. And a mother. (And a wife, a Musical Theatre nut, a Caesar...
Are You A Dodgy Wife? I Thought I Was Too
In my spare time (ha!) I stalk the Duggars and read blogs of polygamist Mormon women. … I know. (If you’ve never binge-watched Big Love while considering which of your girlfriends you could bear to live with, you’re missing out!) OK, it’s partly because they...
Position Yourself As The Main Event, Not One Of The Chorus Line
So, I think at this point of the day we should play a drinking game. Stick with me here. Let’s all go to a random website. Ohhhh now, how about we try our own? And every time we read something like this: Hi, I’m Lucy/Willow/Betsy I’m a passionate yoga teacher/dog...
Don’t Give Up Your Day Job… Yet
Let me say this up front: I’m calling BS on a lot of those “I quit my job and within 6 months I’m making 7 figures a fortnight” stories. Who ARE those women? Some kind of entrepreneurial bandits? And what kind of message are they perpetuating? That if we only TRIED...
The Trials and Tribulations of Business Travel (And How To Tackle Them)
I’m a nervous flyer. Like; 3 Valium, an order of Scotch, and possibly a painkiller to top it off – that’s what I call my Cocktail of Coping. But, that’s not the worst bit about business travel for me. The hardest part is the seemingly endless quagmire of roadblocks...
Why I Can’t Meet You For a Quick Business Coffee
I am roaring through my inbox (still haven’t taken the time to set up the email filters like my business coach has taught me to), trying to maximise my writing time while handling incoming emails, upgrading my proposal document, and carefully scheduling every moment...
5 Tips on Public Speaking for Scaredy Cats
When I originally launched Crisp Copy, I couldn’t imagine public speaking would become part of my business journey. The idea of speaking publicly, either in front of real, live humans or on the air, made my heart palpitate and mind race. And here’s the odd thing: with...
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