by theEmother | Mar 10, 2014 | events, inspiring women, MEinc
COME ONE, COME ALL…
PartyParents – a night out for parents and their pals.
Why not treat yourself with a night out!
The aim is that we have a fun night out for parents where you will know the music and won’t be hanging out with a bunch of 20 year-olds! Think of it like a 40th birthday party x 10 – with great tunes you know and you won’t be the oldest in the room!
Feel free to spread far and wide!
March 22
8pm
Bobby McGees Melbourne
Bookings Essential www.partyparents.com.au
Full details are as follows:
by theEmother | Mar 4, 2014 | business book club, business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, events, inspiring women, MEinc, so you think you're in business, women in business case studies
Don’t wait to be rescued or discovered by anyone, and for heaven’s sake, don’t wait to be given permission from the principal’s office to take full ownership of your own destiny. You gotta do it yourself.
Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.
Today.
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DO YOUR THING…
3 very powerful words
I had the great fortune of seeing Elizabeth Gilbert last night (in Frankston VIC of all places) and she was fabulous. Thought provoking, genuine, care and sharing, an all-round good human being. Really pleased I made the effort to go (as you know, it’s easier to say No).
Above, for me, was one of her key takeaways and one in which she openly demonstrates by her DO YOUR THING living .
Where are you on the DO YOUR THING scale, between 1 and 10 (10 being so doing it!)?
Anything below 7 needs a rethink, a strategy even…
interested?
by theEmother | Feb 17, 2014 | business book club, business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women, MEinc, single parent l single mother, so you think you're in business, start with the end in mind
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by theEmother | Dec 20, 2013 | build a Mother of a Business, business ideas & thinking, BUY a Business, Buy a Mother of a Business, Buying2give.com, Consultant EXIT Options, entrepreneur trends (past & present!), entrepreneurial mothers, events, EXIT execution, exit strategy, Finish Unfinished Business, growth by acquisition, how to sell a business, inspiring women, MEinc, Online Strategy incl. www, political offerings, Sell Your Business, SELL your Mother of a Business, Sellability Score, single parent l single mother, so you think you're in business, start with the end in mind, TEMplate, TEMpting, the business model, women in business case studies
May your stocking be filled with all your little heart desires.
Ho ho ho!
ps: 2014 is shaping up to be a ripper… look forward to sharing it with you
by theEmother | Dec 9, 2013 | build a Mother of a Business, business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women, single parent l single mother, the business model
The very smart and learned colleague, Samantha Jewel www.samjewel.com and www.sickclimate.com, is looking for a trusted PA to make sense of her ever-expanding world-changing life!
Is this for you?
She is looking for someone to come and work at her house, based in Hawthorn, from February 2014 onwards doing:
- everything Mac
- administrivia
- filing
- Adobe software
- social media,
- blogging,
- article writing,
- internet research
- applications
- speaker profiles
- and other activities as requested
Times flexible, salary negotiable.
Ideally you will find the challenge of working with this random, crazy mind of an artist and climate change activist the best thing you can be doing for yourself and the planet right now…
Interested? contact Sam at sam@sickclimate.com
by theEmother | Jun 25, 2013 | business ideas & thinking, inspiring women, MEinc, single parent l single mother, so you think you're in business, women in business case studies
Not just talk about knowing stuff.
Not just learn about knowing stuff.
Who actually Know stuff and stuff that is of use…
Having been through a meeting last week, where I had posed a question that everyone in the room should have also known to ask but didn’t, made it all too clear the need for tapping into the right skill set, not necessarily the cheapest.
The reason they didn’t have the advice offered? Because they had gone to their favourite garden variety advisors, who clearly knew nothing (in depth) about the topic at hand. In fact, they knew enough to be dangerous!
What it means now though is the direction we thought we were going in has changed course. Just as well I had the learned advisor to go talk to. Otherwise we would have ended up going down a what would have eventually been an expensive and inappropriate path, only to discover it was in fact wrong, if not potentially a little naughty.
Just today, I’m in a meeting with a prospective seller and he told us the price he wants for his business. When asked what it was based on, the (typical) answer given was “because my accountant said so” and “3x multiple is the norm, right?” Wrong! Especially in today’s market, there are no norms, hence why talking to a Broker who knows their stuff is equally as important.
But how to find such people?
There are always recommendations, agreed. More importantly for me though is the track record. Not just around the learning but absolutely around the execution, multiple times. Why offer yourself and your hard earned cash to be someone else’s guinea pig. I don’t get it.
Even though waiting for my learned colleague to return from a long overseas jaunt seemed to delay proceedings, I knew it was worth the wait because the guidance offered is worth it’s weight in gold, if not more, meaning we won’t be paying out a guinea pig premium!
What did make me cross was that each of the people sitting around the table had paid good money to go seek advise, only to have the exercise confirmed as a waste of time and money. It’s just plain wrong. I urge you to talk to those that know, Truly Know…
