Suzanne Gaye Smoothy Sue Smoothy is kindness personified. Also known as Suzie / Sunshine Suzie we first met in 2005 when I was running a TAFE class to assist artists learn skills in business. Despite my best attempts in the land before Etsy, Ebay, Facebook and inexpensive web development it was a tough then for […]
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God I love these people. And it’s not every day you get a two for the price of one Facebook / and real-life friend. Jason is the son of my mum’s best friend – my brother from my other mother. We’ve known each other forever – well, my forever, Jason is close to two years
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Paul Sekfy “Every story has a tail” says Paul half way through our conversation over lunch at the new Elk on 38 in Macksville. It’s true, every story does have a tail (and many rabbit holes) when I catch up with Paul. We catch up for a festival of conversation over lunch a couple of
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Mackenzie Boorer Mackenzie and I met before Facebook was invented. As the big brother of one of my son’s early childhood friends we agreed he must have been around ten when we first met. Over the years there have been many interactions with the Boorer family. It’s a small community. Mackenzie was my daughter’s buddy
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Like many other busy mums in business my life generally consists of really busy days connecting with dozens of people and evenings speaking as little as possible except for that treasured time with tween and teens who may, or may not feel like engaging. Oh who the hell am I kidding, by the time the
Today has been a rather challenging event. A frustrating early meeting followed by a little too much comfort swearing, rude waitstaff, gridlocked traffic and wind. The wind surely didn’t help. I’m in Sydney, I’m craving my country paradise. Is it a sign of getting older? Is it how life is at the moment? Or has
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We live in a world where the ‘opinion’ has more weight than ever before. It’s not only online trolling (although that’s quite possibly the most heinous example of opinions gone wild), it’s in our day to day language “in my opinion…” “I think that…” “why don’t you just…” As ‘they’ say, there’s no point in feeding
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(sarcasm warning) I have a few moments available as I await a plane to take me to another city. Life is busy. I’m smack bang in the middle of what is called the ‘sandwich generation’ – with caring responsibilities at the younger and older ends. I want you to imagine, just for a minute what
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If your agenda looks anything like mine chances are some days you will feel like you’re the little ball bearing in a pinball machine, getting flung from one side to the other. My days usually start with the getting ready for school routine “where’s my note/sock/shoe/bag” “there’s nothing to eat in this place” “why can’t you
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Is travel a requirement of your work? Living in regional Australia it has always been a component of mine. This was OK (within reason) as a twenty something, however when kids came along it was a whole different ball game. Disclaimer: I can only speak of the role of mum as interpreted by mwah here,
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