In 2012, when my babies were aged two and three, I started running group courses around Australia, mainly to flee the chaos of working from home with my partner, who is also self-employed. Friends would see our lives and gushingly say, “you’re living the dream!” But I...
Smart business owners are excellent at creating immense stress through thinking. Lots of smart owners come to me skirting the edges of burnout, made worse by the fact that they can’t point to an external event that’s causing them stress. On paper, everything appears...
At the ripe old age of 22, after having a grand misadventure overseas and spending a year sequestered with my parents, licking my wounds, I became a leader. A tour leader, to be clear. It was my job to lead groups of tourists across borders, picking them up in Bangkok...
Louise Nealon is an award-winning Public Relations Director who specialises in supporting purpose-led organisations and campaigns. Louise started her own business, in partnership, in 2007. After 10 years, she relaunched under her own name. When Louise began one-to-one...
{The title of this article came from Carmen Hawker, who floored me when she poetrically expressed something that I’d been using far too many clunky words to describe. Thanks Carmen. It only took 2.5 years to get written.} One of the tragedies of kindness,...
I first met Simon Kelly when he spoke at the Sydney WordCamp conference in 2017. Owner of Renegade Empire, Simon is a highly regarded website designer, funnel specialist and systems expert who’s coached other web designers and digital agencies to optimise and grow...