Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch Starting a business after you've had a long career brings some exciting and interesting challenges... One of them is the fact that you need to do a lot more marketing than you think you do! Part of your marketing includes what you'll say when people ask [...]

Career Change - from Accountant to Personal Stylist... How do you go from a career as an Accountant to being a Personal Stylist and creating a fun, successful, thriving business? That’s what we explore in this Career Change Conversation with Fiona Keary from Style Liberation. Fiona was a fashion loving [...]

4 Mid Year Gifts for Side gigs and Solo business women...Why is Shandra wearing crazy glasses?This week - in recognition of Christmas in July - Shandra shares 4 Gifts you can give yourself and your solo business as a way to create leverage and business growth...Which one will be your favourite???You [...]

How to find time to work on your business - even if you still have a job... In this quick video Shandra shares 4 tips on how you can create time to get your business started and growing with the limited time you have. She also shares what to [...]

A game changing ritual to Up-level your business results As we hit the middle of the year this is the perfect time for you to do a Mid Year Reset... This session will give you 4 tips on exactly how you can do this quickly and easily - as well [...]

5 Books every Woman in Business should read... This is the last Video from of a series of Facebook lives that shared tips and tools for women in solo business done every day in May. These five books cover topics like Marketing, Money and human behaviour - all of which [...]

When is the 'Right' time to take your Side Gig Full time? After one of her clients made the decision to resign from her successful corporate job Shandra wanted to share some tips on how you will know the right time for you to take your side gig full time... [...]

3 Things Lisa Wilkinson taught me - for Women growing a solo business later in life... Recently I went to a Networking Breakfast and saw Lisa Wilkinson speak about her experience writing her book, 'It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This'. Listening to her speak, there were a few [...]

When you’re starting a business it’s exciting to brainstorm ideas for your business name and to think about a great logo BUT before you get caught up thinking about logos there’s some groundwork to do first. A great logo: creates a strong first impression and attracts your ideal prospects. If [...]

If you’ve had a great career and want to start your own business the comfort zone of your salary can be a trap. It can keep you in a job far longer than is good for you, or can hold you back from getting started on your business as quickly [...]