How has your new year started? Are we all kicking goals? Or, did you decide that goals wouldn’t serve you well this year (they’re often abandoned right about now). I’ll...
What’s in a name?
Do you remember the old Sydney Morning Herald ads that showed people at a dinner party desperately trying to avoid sitting next to the person who only knew how to talk...
Not coping: Keeping depression real.
I've done a couple of business interviews this past week concerning entrepreneurialism. Both times I've taken a deep breath, and kept my story as real and honest as...
Give me a serve of ying without the yang…
When I felt I was struggling to run Billie Goat Soap it felt like I couldn't relate to other business people around me. I had always been an avid reader of business...
Gunna have to face it…I’m connected to you.
When Billie Goat Soap was featured on A Current Affair, people asked me how much we paid Channel 9 to do the story. I was shocked by the question because we never paid...
A rose by any other name?
I understand that to truly embrace life, I have to first embrace myself. I have to love myself. But how do you love yourself if you don't fully understand who you are?...
Quitting is fine, but what if you don’t want to?
We often joked that the first word our boys learnt in life was the word 'no'. As toddlers, they were in to everything! This simple little word morphs into so much more...
Will the real entrepreneur please stand up?
I've read more media call-outs this week for entrepreneurs to share their secrets of success. I realise now how dangerous these stories can be if they don't present a...
The value of honesty.
A very dear friend of mine came for lunch this week, and we spent considerable time talking about the challenge of being totally honest when it comes to work. To be...