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Monthly Review and Planning for Side Business growth Grow your Side Business - a simple Monthly Review and Planning process In this video you'll get some simple tips that will help you reclaim your time and reset your focus. When you have a side business you already have multiple important [...]

The North Star Every Side Business Needs Having a Vision for your Side Business - or future business - is like having a North Star you can use to safely navigate the many paths that you could go down. Without one you'll likely get caught up and distracted by shiny [...]

How to Harness Activation Energy in your Side Business This is a fantastic and simple technique you can use to get some momentum in your side business – especially if you’ve been procrastinating! Activation Energy is a concept developed by author of 'The Happiness Advantage', Shawn Anchor. The idea behind [...]

A 3 Part Process to create great momentum for 2023. If you're like most people right now, you're probably ready to say good bye to 2022 - and ready for a relaxing break to recharge. To help you with that, there's a simple and quick 3 part process you can [...]

Side Gig Stories with Natalie Yan Chatonsky Hosted by Shandra Moran, the Side Gig Stories interview series will share interviews with real life career women who are at different stages of starting and growing a side gig. This series is designed to provide insights and inspiration to encourage all career [...]

Facing your Fear in Business No matter what you've done, or how confident you felt in your previous career, feeling some sort of fear around starting and having your own business is extremely common. In this video Shandra shares some examples of the sorts of things career women can have [...]

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 [...]