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Women Rock The Room – Taking your speaking skills to the next level
The first time I presented a seminar to a lecture theatre full of people pretty much everything that could go wrong did. I went home fed up and decided never to put myself through that again . But...
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When asked who inspires me I always say Maya Angelou. She is one of the amazing humans that I just assumed would live forever. So I was very sad when I heard of her death yesterday. I was lucky...
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Why I set up The Wobble Club for business owners.
Do you wobble now and then? Do you lose confidence in yourself as a business owner and wonder if stacking shelves in the supermarket would be a great relief? Four months ago I wrote a guest blog...
View ArticleCan’t Sell? Won’t Sell? Seeing a connection between cooking and selling.
As I was coming towards the end of writing my book The Heart of Sales, I got a connection for myself between cooking and sales! I don’t much like cooking, but not cooking is not sustainable for a...
View ArticleAre business growth schemes being dominated by the male agenda?
A little while ago I saw this quote “Some women in business behave like a man and some behave like a nice man.” Then last week I saw a tweet; “could you be a female entrepreneur?” These suggest to...
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Why we launched Women on the Web
This year’s International Women’s Day slogan was #MakeItHappen, so we did! Web developer Sharon Jackson and I launched We are Wow. A new venture; ”Simplifying the Digital World with fun and...
View ArticleLancashire is Listening Out Loud to Women Business Owners
Back in February I wrote Are business growth schemes being dominated by the male agenda? because it was my experience, as a business owner, that they were. That was part of ongoing research and debate...
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What do you love about running a small business?
Yesterday afternoon Theo Paphitis posted this on twitter asking small business owners what is the best bit about running a business. I liked the responses so much I thought I’d share them and see...
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Today I claim the title Mumpreneur
Today is the last day at secondary school for my daughter. She sat her last GCSE yesterday and got up at 6.45am one final time for their leavers assembly. We added last day of school to the collection...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Business Habits & Enabling Innovation
This week I kicked a habit, my coffee habit. To be honest it wasn’t a really bad one, I was already a real coffee only person, but I had come to believe that it was a fact that I couldn’t start my day...
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The Growing Club – A peer coaching club for women in business.
Nearly a year ago I wrote Are business growth schemes being dominated by the male agenda? At the time here in Lancashire we were organising Listening Out Loud, a County wide women and business growth...
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What can I do? How to make a difference – one pledge at a time
I’ve been taking stock recently and not blogged for a while. There’s so much madness around that I feared my blogs might just be rants about people building walls to keep out the poor and...
View ArticleWhy customers don’t need to know your hourly rate – a confession
From the first day I went self employed it was drummed into me to not give quotes based on an hourly rate. This week I finally really understood why, and here is my confession! Do you still quote by...
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Can women have it all? – Dealing with overwhelm
As a student in the 80’s Can women have it all? was the big question around feminism. I was then sad, but not surprised, to hear the exact same question recently after delivering a session at the...
View ArticleThe political is personal – sustaining ourselves when our passion is our work.
This week I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the #SheisSustainable conference at Lancaster University, spend a whole day with my business coach and end the week with a gong bath! So I feel well and...
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13 top business tips I learnt from my dog
I got our beautiful dog Miffy from our local rescue centre Wolfwood about a year after I went self employed, and I tell anyone who will listen that she’s the best business decision I’ve made. She...
View ArticleOn blogging and guest blogging – marketing for the small business
In the July Growing Club session we ran a class on marketing, which is still an area that many small business owners feel icky about. This is often because they feel it requires a huge budget, or...
View ArticleHere’s 2017 – looking quite a lot like 2016!
This post is for each and every one of us who still falls into the trap of looking at others and feeling intimidated by their success. That's just the bit we see, just the bit they show to the world....
View ArticleBeing your own fairy godmother
I had been waiting for things to happen so that I can have the things I want. When my daughter is rich, when I marry a millionaire... Seriously! I laugh now but some how I had learnt that to have...
View ArticleVulnerability versus TMI – Running a business in an era of blurred boundaries
I was brought up with a very clear mantra that you never wash your dirty linen in public, then in March I wrote a very personal article for Guardian Small Business about caring for my mum whilst...
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