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How to minimise your risk in business: part one
There’s one big thing that far too many business owners do that’s hugely risky – and one tweak in your approach that not only cuts your business risk substantially but also has the serious potential to significantly multiple the dollar amounts you are aiming to earn....
Case study: Helen Wilkes
This case study looks at Helen Wilkes, who enrolled in our first ever round of Hustle & Heart back in July last year. Helen was a new yoga teacher with a fledgling business. Here's her story: I was on a working visa from the UK, taking full-time contracts in...
Brave new year: 13 steps to double your earnings in 2016
Isn’t there something giddy about the new year period? Something heady and liberating? An explosion of possibilities, each more exciting than the last, combined with a cathartic clean slate? Of course, it’s just a date on a man-made calendar says cynical you, but...
Identity in work
Over the last eight years, I’ve worked almost exclusively with people who love what they do and identify strongly with their work. People who become self-employed not because they want to earn a million dollars annually and enjoy homes on every continent, but because...
Business planning for creative people
If there’s ever something that kills the creative buzz, it’s got to be planning. While we may intellectually appreciate the benefits of planning and the folly of not, it’s up there on our list of favourite things, in between “do taxes” and “reorganise archives”. As a...
Thriving in chaos
We are renovating at the moment. Renovating involves taking our roof off. And so we are living with my parents. For three months (at least). With our two young children. My parents have a tenant as well. And I have three younger sisters, two of whom have young babies....
The cookbook effect
In my local neighbourhood, there’s a café that’s never quiet. No matter what time of the day or what day of the week you get there, it’s overflowing with people. The café looks like it belongs in a laneway of Melbourne, not a daggy Sydney suburb. They serve on-trend...
The insider’s scope on my recent rebrand
“To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time to every purpose under heaven” (The Byrds) In July this year, after more than seven years of trading under the name Yoga Reach, I decided it was time for rebranding. It was a decision...
Brook McCarthy is a writer, speaker, trainer and business coach with 18+ years’ experience in communications. Brook enables leaders and organisations to magnify their impact. When you build your brand, grow your reputation and enhance your credibility, you can do your best work. Brook is located in Sydney, Australia when she’s not off galavanting around somewhere.
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