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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
“But everything looks like it’s going so well on Instagram!” “Oh, I’ve seen your workshops advertised, you’re such a success, are you better?” And my personal favourite; “But you don’t look sick!” usually accompanied with, “You should try coconut oil/oh I think I have...
SOMEWHAT IN ORDER (most recent first)
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”...
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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...
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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...
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Fully Sick Business Chick
“But everything looks like it’s going so well on Instagram!” “Oh, I’ve seen your workshops advertised, you’re such a success, are you better?” And my personal favourite; “But you don’t look sick!” usually accompanied with, “You should try coconut oil/oh I think I have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Resourcing and Outsourcing
Last month I was invited to be a featured speaker at an upcoming Perth event. With 15 highly successful, professional women in business as my co-speakers, the event aims to encourage and empower women to re-enter the workforce. My topic is the only one geared towards...
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Disconnect to Reconnect
It’s 47 degrees in the shade and I’ve been awake since 5am fishing with my unexpectedly angling obsessed daughter. I’ve also taken my three-year-old swimming twice, all the while allaying his fears that Santa won’t find us in the ‘holiday caravan’, and had an in-depth...
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How Not To Use Your Facebook Friends for Networking
I was surprised when I started my business how many people just LOVED me at networking events. I mean, I’d go to these things, meet someone for less than ten minutes, swap cards and voila! They wanted to be my friend on Facebook. I must be likeable, right? It took me...
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Why Get Social In Business?
I often indulge in a little internal chuckle when I get a message or phone call that begins with “I stumbled across your business page in my Facebook feed…” Nope, you didn’t stumble. This was no accident. I put myself there. Right in your path. I often hear business...
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Business Networking for Introverts
There’s a couple of women doing business in Perth. And man, are they doing business. I follow them on social media and I’ve met them a couple of times at various events. They’re super smart, funny, exciting women with great business concepts and just being near them...
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Who Did You Plan On Being?
I am a content writer, editor, social media savvy communicator, super mother and Hills enthusiast, but, when I was small, I wanted to be a lawyer, a musical theatre star and an internationally based roller skating waitress. Preferably all at once. As young people, we...
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