It’s almost one month now since I officially hatched the Meet My Friends project. One month, only 3 (of 1,266) interviews published and a couple in draft. But I don’t feel deflated. Yet. And the encouragement I’ve been getting from many friends is certainly keeping me motivated. My kids have offered their ever present encouragement: […]
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I don’t know about you but I’ve had a tough time witnessing the media this week. I’m writing to try and gain some perspective on the stories that have really got under my skin and I’m wondering if maybe it’s time for a self-imposed digital detox. Or Is it time to get Really REALLY Angry?
Angry? Get off the fence. Read More
Late in September 2018 Facebook released information that around 50 Million accounts had been hacked in a major security breach. According to Facebook it was a no big deal, nothing to see here kind of event. Around 90 Million users were logged out of their accounts and had to log back in. Did any major
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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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