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Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this SPECIAL episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson interview accountant and tax expert Thomas O’Brien about the rules and regulations of hobbies.  This is a must-hear episode for anyone reviewing their current situation or thinking about making the big step into the exciting world of small business ownership! It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 024 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: Special Edition Part 2 – Interview with accountant and tax expert Thomas O’Brien appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this SPECIAL episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson interview accountant and tax expert Thomas O’Brien about the rules and regulations of hobbies.  This is a must-hear episode for anyone reviewing their current situation or thinking about making the big step into the exciting world of small business ownership! It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 023 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: Special Edition Part 1 – Interview with accountant and tax expert Thomas O’Brien appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson share their thoughts on having hobbies (hint: Steph is a lacking somewhat in this area) and transitioning from hobby to small business. It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 022 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: HELP! Hobby or Small Business? appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson talk about how they stay on top of industry trends and new innovations. In a world where things are ever-changing, this is a must-hear episode! It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 021 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: Staying on Top of Trends and Industry Innovation appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson discuss the progress the ins and outs of confronting difficult issues. It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 020 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: Dealing with Confronting Issues appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson discuss the progress of New Year’s resolutions. It’s not too late to get them back on track if you’ve wandered away and the girls will talk about their top tips for ensuring you finish the year with a few boxes ticked!! It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 019 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: New Year’s Resolutions – How are you tracking? appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson discuss the nitty-gritty of handling rejection in business and life. It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 018 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: How to Handle Rejection appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 2 of Her Amazing Life. In this restart, first episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson discuss the nitty-gritty of how successful people tackle their mornings, what they achieve, why and the results. It’s easy listening and geared to help you take your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 017 Her Amazing Life: Series 2: What Successful People do in the AM appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

THIS EPISODE IS A MUST HEAR FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN MINDFULNESS. IT’S ONE OF OUR BEST EPISODES EVER!! Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Dr Tiffiny Olsson talk with the inspiring Dr Naomi Biddle about how mindfulness will change your life forever. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 016 Her Amazing Life: Mindfulness with Dr Naomi Biddle appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke talks to successful professional photographer, Holly Bradford, about making the massive leap from home-based business to professional studio space. A must-hear episode for any woman who knows she has outgrown the spare room at home! It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 015 Her Amazing Life: Outgrowing Your Home-Based Business (Interview with Holly Bradford appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson talk about their feelings on discipline and regret. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 014 Her Amazing Life: Discipline Versus Regret appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In episode thirteen, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson discuss their views on the importance of retaining clients and top tips for achieving great results by keeping clients. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email  The post 013 Her Amazing Life: Client Retention for Great Results appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson talk about their their goal-setting secrets. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 012 Her Amazing Life: Goal Setting to Greatness appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

  Busyness is a choice Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this 11th episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson talk about busyness as a choice rather than a necessity. If you have ever felt you are under pressure to stay constantly connected or wondered if being busy 24/7 was the new norm, this episode is for you. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 011 Her Amazing Life: Busyness is a choice appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Women Should Dream Big, Chase it and Support Each Other Along the Way Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this tenth episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson are presenting their Podcast live, in front of a group of women leaders located in rural and regional NSW. It starts with a “re-do” of the (now infamous) Episode ONE… And much easier listening! They then talk about their key reasons as to Why Women Should Dream Big, Chase it and Support Each Other Along the Way… It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 010 Her Amazing Life (LIVE): Why Women Should Dream Big, Chase it and Support Each Other Along the Way appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

The key benefits of keeping a journal are many Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this ninth episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson talk about their 8 Key Benefits of Keeping a Journal. Whether you already keep a journal, or are wondering where to start, we promise that you will be inspired by the benefits of jotting down your thoughts, hopes, goals and dreams on a regular basis. It’s all about taking your business, career and life to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here The post 009 Her Amazing Life: 8 Key Benefits of Keeping a Journal appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this eighth episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson will inspire you to make the most of the Spring Season as they reveal their Top  Tips, Tactics and To-Dos to spring clean your business. We all know how quickly the last few months of the year race away and it’s super important to make sure you are well and truly ready for the busy period ahead. Whether you are new to business or are a seasoned professional, this list is really useful to help get your business – work-space, office and front-of-house in order. It’s all about taking your business and career to the next level and ensuring we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here Don’t procrastinate! Spring clean your business and be ready for the silly season!   The post 008 Her Amazing Life: Top Tips, Tactics and To-Dos to Spring Clean Your Business appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

Welcome to Series 1 of Her Amazing Life. In this seventh episode, Stephanie Cooke and Tiffiny Olsson talk about our Top 7 Sales Tips to Reignite Your Sales Skills – really important for selling during the tough times we have experienced since the global financial crisis. Whether you are new to sales or have been selling as a career; whether you are an entrepreneur or a professional, it’s useful to brush up on our sales skills regularly to ensure we stay on top of our game. Subscribe in iTunes Click here for the full content of this episode. Or to receive the full content via email, please subscribe via email here Brush up on your sales skills and your business will benefit The post 007 Her Amazing Life: Top 7 Sales Tips to Reignite Your Sales Skills appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

It’s all about overcoming overload in this episode of the Her Amazing Life podcast. Following on from Episode 2: http://heramazinglife.com/002-her-amazing-life-how-to-plan-an-amazingly-purposeful-day/ we talk specifically about overload and some solutions to the problems that lead to feeling overwhelmed. It’s important to recognise where you are at and ensure that your feelings of overwhelm are not racing towards BURNOUT. Some of the tips we reveal this week are: Things will always take longer than you think The Planning Fallacy Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky released a paper in 1979 in which they termed the phenomenon “The Planning Falacy”. The principle states that people and organisations have a tendency to underestimate how long they will need to complete a task, even when they have experience of similar tasks over-running. Solution 1: Double the amount of time you estimate a task will take without enacting Parkinson’s Law Solution 2: Comb through your To-Do list and work out which tasks you can (and should) delegate to people around you. Chances are these people will be for efficient and able to get the work done than you anyway! A huge To-Do list which seems overwhelming Solution:  Just do something: little, small, anything – just tick something off your burgeoning list as early in the day as possible. It’s all about momentum and will get the ball rolling for an amazingly purposeful day ahead. So many distractions that it is impossible to stay focused long enough to get anything meaningful done In short, everyone struggle with distractions. There are a number of common distractions that we all face, regardless of the type of work you do. These include phone calls and emails, text messages and social media. They also include unplanned client requests and unscheduled meetings. So whilst it is impossible for anyone to remain distraction-free 100% of the time, there are things we can do to minimise the impact distractions have on our lives and on our productivity. Solution 1: Block out time to get your most important work done When you have quiet time, take on your most challenging tasks and use your concentration to push them through to completion. We call it Hours of Power. Solution 2: Understand what your biggest distractions are and make a plan to minimise Steph has created this simple template for capturing and managing her biggest distraction – mobile phone calls. Overcoming Overload – Steph’s Daily Phone Call List to understand, capture and manage her No. 1 distraction Solution 3: Make sure your work area is neat, tidy and distraction free. This will free up your mind to focus solely on the task at hand. So much to do for so many people Whilst we always want to help other people, sometimes the only way to overcome overload is to say no to particular requests. This will allow you to be the best you can be for the projects you have decided is the best fit for you personally and professionally. If you feel as though you are being pulled in many different directions and it’s making you feel overloaded and overwhelmed, saying “no” now can actually be the best solution to enable you to say “yes” to many great opportunities in the future. Solution: Learn to politely say “No” Always offer the person an alternative and explain briefly the reasons why you are not able to assist them on this particular occasion. Feeling alone It’s easy to think that you are the only one feeling overwhelmed. One of the quickest ways to get back on track is to talk with trusted people around you. Solution: “A problem shared is a problem halved”. If you take the time to explain to someone you trust how you are feeling, and enlist their support, you are well on your way to overcoming overload. The right person will bring a fresh set of eyes to the situation, help you re-prioritise and refocus. You are likely to feel greater confidence that you can achieve the most important tasks. Last Tip for overcoming overload: Regularly engage in activities that take you away from your work for a short time. You’ll return refreshed and re-energised to get things done :) The post 006 Her Amazing Life: Overcoming Overload appeared first on Her Amazing Life.

How to build a great team at work The second and final part of this 2-Part episode on how to build a great team at work. If you want to skip over the intro when Steph and Tiff talk about the great new things that are happening in their lives and businesses, go to the 6.35 minute mark and you’ll be taken straight to this juicy content of this episode Some of the things we discuss in this episode include having a great support network around you, particularly outside your organisation. When considering how to build a great team at work, there is a bit of planning involved. An organisational chart is one tool (when used with vision) that can help power you towards creating an A-Team and business. Taking the time to understand your business needs, plan the type of team and carefully select team members to take your business to the next level is worth the effort in the short and long term. We discuss the concept of “Hire Slowly, Fire Quickly”, employment and induction packs for new employees. We also cover the hard reality of terminating team members. There will come a time when, as an entrepreneur, small business owner, or manager of a team, you will be faced with terminating the employment of a team member. We take the time to explain why it’s in your best interests (and for the safety of your business) to be prepared and have a great employment law team for support and advice. Steph uses: Duc Legal: www.duclegal.com.au McCabe Partners: www.mccabepartners.com.au Some templates will be posted by Steph & Tiff in due course on the www.heramazinglife.com  A HUGE, HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED OUR LITTLE MOVEMENT – you inspire us to keep sharing. We hope you find this inspiring and educational. If you have any suggestions or comments, we would love to hear from you! Have an amazing few days until we meet again… The post 005 Her Amazing Life: How to Create and Build an A-Team (Part B) appeared first on Her Amazing Life.