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Picture this – a leading prestige estate agent with a vacant waterfront home to sell, a leading interior stylist and a high-end homewares & lifestyle retailer. Three very different businesses with a similar target audience and a shared passion for innovative...

I still clearly remember the day as a child, at an aunt’s farm, that I saw a chicken being beheaded. I was about 10 and I was so traumatised that I didn’t eat chicken for months. Until then, I’d never really made the connection between cute fluffy baby chickens and...

If you’ve ever seen expectant parents in a baby shop, you’d know that pregnancy is a life stage that usually triggers an avalanche of consumerism.  I (thankfully) never tallied what I spent during my pregnancy, I just know that becoming a mum, while filling my heart,...

One of my favourite things to do is to sit and count my son Ollie’s curls. He has beautiful springy golden curls and depending on the humidity level, he has anywhere between 18 and 32 curls. I’ll sometimes sit with him for an hour or more, twirling and counting his...

Step 1: Reflect on the year I start with three key questions What worked well? What was the game-changer or breakthrough? What didn’t work? I like to do a general brainstorm on everything that I think went well with my business. Anything from speaking engagements that...