Daphne’s blog

Fact is, as women, we don’t value ourselves. We just don’t take care of ourself! We’re great at looking after everyone else. But not ourselves. Our self-care sucks. Majorly sucks. We’re constantly running round caring for and looking after everyone else. But never us....

Here’s what the dictionary tells us. Passion is a powerful or compelling emotion or feeling. Growth is all about increase. Passion for growth has been on my list of values for as long as I can remember. To me it epitomises an important aspect of my personality and my...

The clock keeps ticking. The days speed by. Weeks pass. It’s a new month before you know it. What’s different? Sometime ago you planned to make changes. Improvement. To do stuff differently. Yet the clock keeps ticking The days speed by. Weeks pass. Another month...

I’d never fully understood it. Nor had I translated it. Never even thought about … No woman is an island! That thought didn’t even enter my head. For most of my life I behaved as though I was an island. I believed I could be. I believed I was. Rocky cliffs. Rough...

I’d be using that experience to change women’s lives all these years later. There I was at seventeen sitting in the interview not at all aware that my answer to his question would change my life and empower me to learn invaluable life lessons. “This has always been a...

When I first went into business, I was smart. I wasn’t afraid of hard work, in fact I’d always worked really hard. PLUS I was incredibly self-reliant. I was a strong and independent woman. Despite all of that, I learned the hard way that there is only so much you can...

You don’t have to do it all alone. Unless you choose to. I remember thinking I had to. Do it all alone. I’d learned the skills. I’d gotten my certification. I’d set up my business using the information provided as part of learning my skills. I’d been told that was all...

As a new business owner, I never knew how much I didn’t know. I didn’t know what I needed to know. I didn’t know where to find out. I didn’t know who to ask. I only knew that something deep within me was urging me to serve the women I felt called to help. And the only...

During all my years of being in business. Through all my learning and studying. While working with numerous business coaches. I’d only ever been shown one way. I’d only ever been taught one way. I’d always been told to do it that way. And I’d wrongly assumed they were...

What if you could go back to the drawing board and create your life in a way that is totally unique to you? That totally pleases you? A life that fits you like a glove? Like the tailor has perfected it personally for you? Like it matches you precisely? What if … That...

When you’re trying to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to no one. Yeah right. You have to serve everyone who arrives in your door, right? You have no choice. You can’t send them away thirsty and hungry. After all, that’s why they’ve arrived at my...

The beginning of the end was nigh. Life as I knew it was about to cease! My home was about to recommence its empty nesting cycle. As I helped my daughter prepare and pack for her move to another town, little did I realise that two more of my children would also move...