As entrepreneurs we spend a lot of time trying to maximise our productivity in our business, but we often forget to apply those same productivity / delegation / negotiation skills at home! So let’s talk about that….  The light bulb moment in that regard for me came after reading Eve Rodsky’s book Fair Play. Essentially […]

I wanted to spend some time this week talking about what to do when things feel hard. I know—not the most joyful of topics. But several conversations with my coaching clients in the past couple weeks has shown me that lots of small business owners are having a tough time at the moment. Our conversations […]

This week I celebrated 1 year of episodes for my podcast, How To Run A Successful Business (and still have a life!), and I recently had the opportunity to celebrate 10 years of my dance school, Port Macquarie Performing Arts. (It was actually the 12th anniversary by the time we had our party, thanks to […]

How do you feel about the financial side of your business? Are you the kind of person who gets excited about your accounting software and Excel documents? Or are you more like I was where you’d rather skip in the opposite direction? 😂 I completely admit that for the first few years of my business […]

If you’re anything like me, you probably ended up in the position of running a business as a result of pursuing a passion. You had an expertise you wanted to share and saw an opportunity… so you went for it! 👊👏 At first you were driven by excitement; eagerness and motivation came pouring out of […]

Let’s just start this email by declaring my love for all things Brené Brown! I just can’t get enough of everything she does.  Her most recent offering, Atlas of the Heart, is no different, and I wanted to share with you some of my biggest learnings from having binged everything related to this book! If […]

You probably know by now that I outsource a lot of things in my business. But the biggest game changer I’ve experienced in my life has been starting to outsource things from within my HOME.  That’s what I wanted to talk about with you today.  Here’s a list of 5 aspects of our homelife that […]

When I started my first business, Port Macquarie Performing Arts, it was just a little idea I had. I put an ad in the newspaper to let people know I was opening a dance school and thought a few people might turn up.  I had said to Heath “It’ll just be two afternoons a week […]

I’m going to be vulnerable for a minute and admit something to you…. When I first started working with my business mentor, Glenda, I didn’t show her my financial forecasts—because they didn’t exist! 🙈 I was trying to present myself as a business woman so admitting I didn’t know how to create a financial forecast […]

I started my first dance school with a tiny little square ad in the newspaper which cost me $400, which felt like a significant investment at the time! There was no Facebook. There was no Instagram. There was definitely no TikTok. So if I wanted people to know I existed, the newspaper was where I […]