Until six years ago, I was the quintessential workaholic. In at work by 7:50am, home no earlier than 6:30pm and well on the way to Public Service Branch Head by 35. Then I got pregnant. Which was absolutely fabulous and everything I’d wanted for years. I threw myself into motherhood with...

Brilliant Idea, an exciting and innovative initiative to support business development in the ACT with a focus on new ideas, products and services from local entrepreneurial women, is celebrating its second birthday and you’re invited to celebrate online! Over two years, 20 new...

News that Australia’s largest community for women in business, Business Chicks, is coming to Canberra has local career women excited. With an established presence across metro Australia and a growing ACT member base, Business Chicks is launching into the Canberra market with its first...

I recently spent a couple of days at the 3rd Positive Psychology and Wellbeing Conference hosted by the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong. Positive Psychology is a field of psychology that has gained popularity over the last several...

I have been musing lately on the power of goal-setting.  This has been sparked by my recent addiction to a completely mindless internet game that I play with my kids on my smartphone.  The game requires you to set up a petshop, buy or breed pets and sell them for ‘gold coins’.  You also...

When I was newly pregnant, I remember walking into a huge store full of baby items – cots, prams, baby clothes, toys, slings, nappies, the list goes on…  Now for some women, this is one idea of heaven, but for me shopping does not come naturally, and it was completely overwhelming.  I...