Samantha Leith is an expert with a focus on charisma, confidence and leveraging the power of ‘you’ for your success. But she doesn’t just talk the talk – she shows with action. And she is absolutely committed.

When I first started my business, I really struggled to get the support that I needed. When I would speak with other people, they would often say, ‘Just get a VA’, or ‘Just go to the Philippines’, or ‘Just get an ex-EA’. Unfortunately, it’s ‘just’ not that easy.

COVID-19 has been a time of massive disruption for teams and leaders. But as we’re coming out the other side, rather than finding a return to business as usual, leaders are finding that their teams are going through a second wave of disruption.

I recently worked with a mindset expert, Katherine, who was struggling to convert leads into clients. She shared that she was spending hours completing proposals for programs for her potential clients.

When I was 16, I went overseas and lived with a family in Toulouse, France. It was a beautiful country with an incredibly rich culture and the family I lived with was absolutely lovely. But they spoke almost no English.

Millions of people across the globe are now working virtually. This makes for an interesting and sometimes challenging situation for leaders who are trying to understand how leading a remote team can work well from behind a computer screen.

As many of you know, my partner Mark and I will be married next year. In preparation for the wedding, we met with the wedding planner at our venue a few months ago. She was new to the role, having come from another venue, but had helped plan hundreds of weddings in the past.

With millions of people now working from home it’s a massive adjustment for the bulk of the Australian, and even global, workforce. Entire multinational companies have closed their doors, but continue to run their businesses remotely.

Many years ago, in the 90s, I had a music teacher and his first name was Tom. He was a beautiful pianist and was often asked to play at important events and in amazing venues. In fact, around that time a mutual friend asked him to come and play at her wedding which was to be held at the Stamford Plaza (the most elite and luxurious hotel in Brisbane at the time).

My grandfather was a pastry chef. He passed away when I was 16, but one of my most abiding and treasured childhood memories is going with him to the bakehouse in the very early morning. Lamingtons were one of his specialties – in fact, his lamingtons were out of this world.