Inner West Women's Hub

13/12/2024

This woman, is a master connector ...we could all learn a thing or two from ♥️

⌛ She takes the time to get to know you, & learn about what you do.

💝 She genuinely cares.

👏 She will introduce you to others, with the 'why' you both should connect.

This was last night's event at in .

So, if you're free Tuesday night 17 Dec, give yourself a treat & get along to the She's The Boss EOY event in -

06/12/2024

Friday Festive under $50 guide!

🛍BUY LOCAL🛍

In the inner west women's hub you'll find gifts for family, kids educators or your staff ALL from women run small businesses in the inner west!

Here's just a few awesome buys we've seen:

* has super cute visors for $45 with local pickup from Williamstown north

* in Footscray has $5 fidgets, Posable Figure 13, basing bits, hobby accessories, and whatever you want off Thingiverse!

* Newport have Salt Lab magnesium sprays for adults & kids for $35 + discounted Archies slides for $45

* Try .co clean & refillable toothpowders, better for your health & the planet! Their organic toothpowders start from $24, hydroxyapatite (for sensitivities) start from $26 or get an oral detox kits from $31 🦷🪥 

*  The 2025 Westie Wall Calendar by is out for the 3rd year 🥳 Pick up from Far Fetched designs, Village Idiom, Book and Paper or Wildberry Flowers & Gifts. Or order straight from her website

* Nature based scavenger hunt game cards for kids $25.95 a pack  - great for camping, bushwalks, beach days & urban adventures.

* .com.au $20 gift cards to attend a 30 min fuss-free stretching class in North Williamstown. A gift to help move better & feel great

What you seen locally?

 

02/06/2023

Only a couple of weeks to go to apply for Show your WEST-SIDE

There are only two art galleries left in Footscray.

There are currently no local civic centres to help support our professional and emerging artists, offering affordable exhibition spaces.

With this in mind, to help our local visual artists, we have created the Show Your WEST-SIDE' Art prize and Exhibition for young and old(er).

There will be:
🌟 No application fees
✨ No commissions on art sales
🎉 Not and acquisitive prize
🙏 Applications are open to those living, working or studying in the City of Maribyrnong.
💥 Over $4,500 worth of prizes generously donated by local businesses
💫 Youth and adult prizes (7 in total!)
😘Theme is 'living in Footscray and the inner west'

Help us celebrate Footscray and the inner west!

🎨 Applications close on 16 June. Follow the below link to apply, or find it in the link in my bio

🎉 Opening night 14th July, 530pm to 830pm

Brought to you by Footscray Traders Association and with the support of the City of Maribyrnong Love Your West Grants.

https://form.jotform.com/230788639860875

Design by






mohawk

25/05/2023

The Big Design Market is on this weekend & we spy quite a few of our HUBBAs 💙💜

🛍️ Stop & say hello to hubbas;
Jess High Tees Australia
Vicki Hoopla Bags
Faye Mama Movement
Parul Pink Wattle
Alicia The Little Potion Co

🗓️ When: 26 -28 May
Fri 11am–8pm
Sat 10am–7pm
Sun 10am–5pm

📍Royal Exhibition Building
https://melbourne.thebigdesignmarket.com/see-and-do/exhibitors/

Christmas shopping sorted! Discover over 270 independent Australian design brands at The Big Design Market.

20/02/2023

HELP SAVE Australia - The National Library of Australia only has funding to run Trove until July 2023 and with ONLY 3 days left to sign the e-petition to Parliament to keep funding it.

is Australia’s national FREE portal for public access to Australia’s history & culture - where you can search more than 6 billion digital objects – newspapers, magazines, books, maps, images. The service connects people with collections across the country.

The petition is quick & easy, BUT be sure to make your signature count - complete the verification & check your email: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN4747

So we can keep on finding awesome parts of our history, just like this one on local WeFo.

📷 1965 Miss Helen Dryburgh, is welding bent nails into a social commentary sculpture. Miss Dryburgh, of West Footscray, a western suburb of Melbourne is the only woman welder in a factory which produces electric stoves.

With the factory manager's permission she collects unwanted packing-case nails and at the home of an art teacher welds them into sculpted pieces which have earned the praise of art critics throughout Australia. Credit: National Archives of Australia

THE HISTORY OF THE OLD LOST WESTERN SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE

31/08/2022

We’ve had an ad-vantageous month with Green founder of Social - our special resident expert on Facebook and Instagram ads. During August she has taught how to really hone in and get the best out of a budget for adverts on facebook and instagram. You can find her posts in the guide tab of our group, here’s the summary of what she covered;

1 - Facebook/Instagram ads - why use them?
2 - Setting yourself up for success for facebook ads
3 - Facebook ads - Getting the right combination - Audience, Copy, Creative, Budget
4 - What is a sales funnel and how does it work to make me sales with facebook ads??

Thanks for these excellent insights Lucy! 😍

𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐘
Lucy from Berry Social creates, runs and manages Facebook/Instagram ads for small business owners. She helps to get businesses seen online.

Many people don’t have the time (or desire!) to do it themselves but understand the importance of running paid ads as part of their marketing strategy and that’s where Lucy can help.

She’ll guide you away from hitting that ‘boost’ button and instead help set up a strategy and ensure you’re targeting all areas of the sales funnel when running paid ads.

If you do want to learn how to run paid ads yourself, she offers a 1:1 service where she’ll teach you how to run them. Otherwise, you can step away and leave it all up to her to do! Lucy offers a FREE discovery call so you can discuss how paid ads would work for you.

She also has a beautiful community of small business owners in a private FB group where she shares many actionable tips and tricks for running your small business. Everything from Instagram & Facebook, to email marketing, time management, how to sell in general and everything in between!

Website: https://www.berrysocial.com.au/
Private FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/berrysocial
Instagram:
Facebook: .com.au

28/07/2022

During July, our resident expert on Award and Fair Work issues for SMEs and Retail was Nandi Segbedzi, founder of Emplex Lawyers & Consultants covered resources on EMPLOYMENT with topics such as;

Topic 1 – Wage rises
Topic 2 – Changes to Superannuation
Topic 3 – Casual Conversion – A Reminder
Topic 4 - Psychosocial Hazards – Mental Health at Work

You’ll find the posts in the guides tab no 5 *Business Resources* in the group.

A big thank-you to Nandi, for sharing your time and smarts.

ᴬᴮᴼᵁᵀ ᴺᴬᴺᴰᴵ
Nandi Segbedzi grew up in the shadow of the Newport Power Station, watching the sulphur flares at the Mobil Refinery and looking out for the Dockyard Mob leaving the Williamstown shipyards when the whistle blew in the afternoon. Though the Inner West is less industrial now, it’s not hard to see where she gained her fascination for how things – and people – work.

With 20 years of experience in the workplace relations legal space, Nandi stepped out of the City law firm rat-race in 2018 and established her own employment law firm - Emplex Lawyers & Consultants. She advises employers and organisations, providing top-tier lawfirm advice without the overheads, using a values-based, collaborative approach. Her clients, who include NFPs and SMEs in the manufacturing, transport, construction, hospitality and retail, have good businesses and want to be good employers. Practical and compassionate, Nandi will help you keep focussed on your strategic business priorities but also identify opportunities to increase flexibility, inclusion and meaningful work and enhance employee satisfaction.

Nandi is also Chair of a NFP social housing provider, Abbeyfield Australia, which operates 23 houses for older people and young people with intellectual disabilities, including North Melbourne, Richmond, Frankston and Croydon.

Find out more online here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/emplex-lawyers-consultants
https://www.emplex.com.au/

29/06/2022

We’ve had a fabulous month with Suzanne Alexander founder of Mindful Finances, she is a financial coach and mentor. Suzanne was our local guest Resident Expert during June - helping us on PRICING for our *Business Resources*. She posed excellent questions, to really help tease out answers to better help you understand your value.

You can find them in our group’s guide - tab 5 'Business Resources', key topics she uncovered;
*Understanding your money beliefs
*Money blocks
*Common pricing strategies
*Psychology of pricing

𝓐𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓢𝓾𝔃𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓮
With over 15 years experience in finance, Suzanne Alexander is the Founder and Certified Financial Coach at Mindful Finances. Suzanne is passionate about helping women take control of their finances and build strong financial foundations. Something that’s always surprised her is how much pressure we put on ourselves around what we SHOULD know about money. When we think about it, it’s not something we really learn about in school. Everything we know about money we’ve learned from our own experiences and the experiences of the family we grew up in. These inturn shape our beliefs, thoughts and feelings to create a mindset around money that doesn’t always serve us. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Suzanne absolutely loves seeing women transform their relationship with money, especially as this flows into so many areas of their life including increasing their worth which reflects in their pricing. Suzanne herself has undergone her own money mindset transformation from one of scarcity and lacking to that of an abundance mindset.

A former financial adviser of 8 years, Suzanne has worked with hundreds of clients. During this time she was able to identify that clients beliefs were having a big impact on their wealth strategy outcomes. Our beliefs and mindset play a significant role into why some people who come into windfalls of money can be broke within a couple of years whilst others can easily come back from bankruptcy.

www.mindfulfinances.com.au

25/05/2022

Sales & Community Building was May’s *Business Resources* focus. We were so very much appreciative that Peta-Gai McLaughlin joined us as our Resident Expert. 💖

Peta-Gai is Founder & CEO of Iridis Cosmetics - 'Makeup Made Simple', she’s known affectionately as PG, as parental guidance is recommended!

She crafted detailed insights using great examples from her business, find them in our group guides - tab 5 'Business Resources', they cover;

❓ SALES – ask allllll the questions
🤩 SALES – Build your Profile!
👭 Building your Community
🛍 Successful Sales Begin In Your Head – Managing Your Mindset

Be sure to read to very end of today's post for a delightful surprise (Thanks PG you're awesome! 💋 💋)

𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙋𝙀𝙏𝘼-𝙂𝘼𝙄 𝙈𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙐𝙂𝙃𝙇𝙄𝙉
With 28 years experience in makeup, Peta-Gai McLaughlin is the Founder, CEO and Principal Hair & Makeup Artist of Iridis Cosmetics. PG is impassioned by magic that happens with a great makeover - when women and teens see their external beauty reflected internally. She loves seeing how makeup can highlight a person’s worth, their unique talents and increase their self-esteem and confidence. Highlighting this sense of self worth, Peta-Gai designed Iridis to use the power of makeup to teach her clients how to identify their characteristics that make them feel most beautiful, and how to enhance those features with makeup.

A former financial services lawyer of 17 years, PG envisioned the idea & ethos of her makeup brand in 2008, just as the Global Financial Crisis was in full swing. Whilst working as a lawyer, running a $90 Million super fund, she set about creating her business. Four years in, she built her business after hours, and finally quit law to run Iridis in 2015. At that point, her team grew from 3 Makeup Artists to 15!

She has sold $3M + of her products, built a loyal and committed community in the inner west and nationally, thanks to her team of Makeup Artists teaching the Iridis way. PG didn’t let covid stop her, and made the strategic move of introducing beauty services and a skincare affiliation with the brand, as well as further expansion with The Iridis Academy and eCourses.

For more info head to:
www.iridis.com.au
On insta:

27/04/2022

We’ve been getting social with our ʙᴜꜱɪɴᴇꜱꜱ ʀᴇꜱᴏᴜʀᴄᴇꜱ for all of April - as we’ve been lucky to have 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓔𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓽, Chief Algorithm Whisper Kryshla Salaris , from Shall We Social - she covered the topic ɪɴꜱᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ:

You can find these amazing resources in our group guides - tab 5 'Business Resources':
🧾 Optimise your Instagram account for success - audit checklist part 1
🧾 Optimise your Instagram account for success - audit checklist part 2
📹 4 Easy Instagram Videos to Create in Canva
🖼 Canva new feature 8x content formats at once

Thanks Kryshla for all your wonderful help!! 💖 Show her some love by following her on insta

𝓐𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓚𝓻𝔂𝓼𝓱𝓵𝓪
Kryshla is a social media coach that specialises in Instagram. She helps savvy service-based business owners master their Instagram marketing through coaching + online training. Founder of Shall We Social and veteran of the social media industry, she is well known as the 'algorithm whisper'. In addition, with her prior experience in events and learning & development, it's a given that she will give you an awesome and engaging training experience.

Or you can book into her online training here: https://www.shallwesocial.com.au/

29/03/2022

For all of March our Business Resource TOPIC was People and Culture - Please join me in thanking RESIDENT EXPERT **Jessy Warn** HR Practitioner Managing Partner at HR Gurus for sharing her fabulous brain 🧠 💪 with us!

Over this last 4 weeks Jessy covered;
* HR compliance and contract checklist
* Having difficult conversations with employees
* Having difficult conversations and managing performance
* What to do - independent contractor vs employee?

If you want to play catch up - join the group and look up OR head to the guide tab 5 - Business Resources

ABOUT JESSY
Jessy is known as the HR Guru and calmer of storms. As she has a knack for calmly managing difficult situations and guiding managers through the more challenging issues. Jessy has gained this skill with over 15 years experience and is a qualified HR practitioner with a Masters of Commerce (HRM). Jessy believes in using effective and creative HR strategies to help businesses transform their bottom line performance.

Jessy started her career within the Retail sector and has experience across multiple challenging sales environments. She has managed large teams across multiple sites so she is able to quickly assess problems and tailor the right solutions to achieve results. She is a true generalist with a strong operational slant, and loves working across many aspects of HR particularly industrial relations and conciliations at the Fair Work Commission.

Jessy’s passion for HR comes from many years in leadership positions and a first hand understanding of what it takes to inspire and motivate teams. Her passion is driving cultural change through implementing values based initiatives and transformational leadership programs.
A local to the inner west, and a mum to 3 beautiful children.

CONTACT DETS:
Website: https://www.hrgurus.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hrgurus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hr_gurus/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-warn/