In 1999, my family and I spent the summer in Europe. We did the Griswold’s European Vacation where my Dad was the driver, and I was the navigator. My job was to read the map and to ensure we didn’t take a wrong turn.

In 2014, there was an important change of legislation in Australia regarding superannuation arrangements and self-managed super funds. At the time, I had written several LinkedIn profiles for a superannuation company and noticed a real lack of information about this change.

Over the weekend there was no better example of this than when Jonathan Thurston (or affectionately known as JT), the captain of the North Queensland Cowboys played his final game of professional rugby league football.

Newsletters are like the Jason Bourne of marketing. They just don’t die! You may think driving your social media campaigns, Google AdWords and search engine optimisation will remove the need for newsletters.

There are typically four levels of opportunity within an organisation that could be used to humanise a brand and access new markets. Each has a different purpose and value proposition to be effectively leveraged. Read on to find out more.

In 2015 something seismic happened in the world of Instagram. At the time, Taylor Swift overtook Kim Kardashian in terms of followers, surpassing her at the 45 million-follower mark. At the time Kim had released a coffee table book called “Selfish” and to date has published 4396 posts.

On the 19th of May 1536, King Henry VIII beheaded his wife and Queen of England, Anne Boleyn. Anne had been crowned Queen of England on the 1st of June 1533, and on the 7th of September, she gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Would you believe that as of September 2017, Instagram had reached 800 million monthly active users? This staggering figure was up from 600 million in December 2016.

Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon and the richest man on the planet (surpassing Bill Gates in July 2017) is known to still do the dishes at home. Until recently, his wife still drove their kids to school in their Honda Accord.

Last Friday afternoon, after a beautiful lunch and annual new year catch up with a friend, I was rushing down Elizabeth St towards the Myer Centre car park in Brisbane City.

If you haven’t had the chance to see The Greatest Showman movie over this Christmas break, I reckon it’s worth seeing.

Did you know that the average person spends an extra 10 hours per week at work? That’s 50 hours per week. Meanwhile, the average entrepreneur works about 80 hours per week!

Do you feel like you’re working hard and spinning the wheels but not gaining any traction? Most female entrepreneurs I work with have felt this stagnation at some point. I understand it only too well, as I was in the same boat.

In 2006, one of the fastest-growing businesses in the weight-loss industry began. It was the Tony Ferguson Weight Loss Program, started by Tony Ferguson himself in his Parramatta store.

In August 2011 I received a call from a new client who asked me if I could meet with them to discuss a program they were looking at running. I hadn’t met them before so I was well organised and prepared for the meeting.

When I was the head of training for a large organisation 10 years ago, I was sitting at my desk in my office on a Saturday. I was designing and finishing the time management program I was going to deliver the following week as I knew I wasn’t going to have enough time to finish it during the coming week.

My good friend and expert Tracey Hughes was born in the UK and backpacked around Australia in her teens. At 18 years she took up an apprenticeship, and after proving to be a pretty good stylist she was asked if she would attend an event to show people how she cut.

Being in business for yourself can be isolating. Lonely. Anthropologist and expert on tribes, Robin Dunbar identified that successful tribes and groups operate in groups of 5, 15, 150 and with a greater village going to 1500.