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Unlock Your Business Potential: The Benefits of Working with a Small Business Mentor in Melbourne

As a small business owner, you have a lot on your plate. From managing your finances to attracting new clients, it can be overwhelming to juggle all the responsibilities that come with running a business. That's where a small business mentor can help.

At Coach Nick, we offer Small Business Coach Melbourne that is tailored to your unique needs. Our goal is to help you hone in on what you do best for your target market and narrow in on that focus. Here are some of the benefits of working with a small business mentor:

1. Gain Clarity: By working with a mentor, you can gain clarity on your business goals, mission, and values. This helps you stay focused on what's important and make decisions that align with your vision.

2. Develop a Plan: A mentor can help you develop a strategic plan that outlines your business goals and the steps you need to take to achieve them. This can help you stay on track and make progress towards your goals.

3. Accountability: A mentor can hold you accountable for your actions and help you stay motivated to achieve

4. Expert Guidance: A small business mentor brings years of experience and expertise to the table. They have been through the challenges you are facing and can offer guidance and support to help you overcome them.

5. Networking Opportunities: As a small business owner, networking is crucial for building relationships and growing your business. A mentor can introduce you to their network of contacts, which can lead to new opportunities for growth and development.

6. Increased Confidence: Working with a Business Consultant in Melbourne can boost your confidence in your abilities as a business owner. They can help you recognize your strengths and weaknesses, and provide support and encouragement as you work towards your goals.

7. Personalized Support: A small business mentorship program is tailored to your unique needs and goals. Your mentor will work with you one-on-one to develop a plan that works for your specific situation, whether you are just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level.

At Coach Nick, we are passionate about helping small business owners succeed.

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Senior family violence case worker

TaylorCare has an exciting new position to work with a reputable NGO in the Mornington Peninsula. As the specialist Family Violence Practitioner you will ensure services are well coordinated and caseworkers have the skills needed for high quality support to families who experience, or have experienced family violence. You will also provide support and coaching to current staff and assist with identifying training and practice development needs. To be successful in these roles, you’ll have: – Bachelor degree in Psychology or social work or equivalent social science qualification – Relevant experience in the family violence sector and experience working with families presenting with complex needs and behaviours – Experience working under the Best Interest framework in VIC – Experience working with CALD or indigenous backgrounds is highly desirable – Current driver’s license

If this job sounds like it’s for you then don’t delay press APPLY NOW, email your CV to office@taylorcare.com.au or call Kate on 02 9810 4498 for a confidential discussion. We are passionate about giving back and support three charities through our business RUOK, A21 Campaign & Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. So as we place you into a job in turn we can donate more to the charities we support.

Did you know we offer a refer a friend bonus – If you refer someone to us who we place into a role you can receive up to $350 flight centre vouchers T&C’s Apply.

Kate Taylor 02 9810 4498

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Stripping-Down The Family-Business Juggle With Pop + Scott

Stripping-Down The Family-Business Juggle With Pop + Scott

Family

Emma Eldridge

Poppy Lane and Scott Gibson’s son Lou (2). Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Daughter Frida (4). Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

‘We both can’t believe how much we’ve achieved in seven years with a few kids thrown into the mix,’ reflects Poppy. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

The family in their bell tent. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Poppy Lane trained as a florist before launching Pop&Scott. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

The family pictured with the newest addition, Veda (4 months). Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

The eldest pair at the Family’s home in Dromana on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Poppy grew up in Western Australia. She and Scott don’t have family in Victoria to help them with the kids. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

The family moved down The Peninsula after a fruitless search for a home in Melbourne. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

They rented their home in Dromana for six months before purchasing it from the owners. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Beach fun! Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Though it was at first hard to build community in the new locale, more recently, they’ve started to connect with like-minded people. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

A roadtrip around Australia is on the cards when Veda is a little older. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

You probably wouldn’t guess it but in Oz 70% of businesses are family-owned.

Most of us find it incredibly challenging to achieve any kind of balance between work and family (or even draw the line when it comes to our time). But this conundrum is only amplified when your life partner also happens to be your business partner!

One couple that appears to have mastered those temperamental scales to find an elusive equilibrium, is Poppy Lane and Scott Gibson.

So, how exactly do the duo behind much-loved lifestyle brand Pop & Scott do it? Today, Poppy Lane lets us in on her approach to mindful mothering, while simultaneously nurturing an evolving business.

Can you tell us a bit about your path to founding Pop & Scott in 2012, after previously training and practicing as a florist? What would you say is your professional vision?

My whole work history prior to starting our business was floristry. I miss it. This year, I plan to do a floral installation for one of our shoots; I need to reconnect to my core.

I’ve always had a love for great spaces, textiles, furniture, and design – crafting environments that feel considered, loved and warm, has been a lifelong passion. Scott and I started designing and making furniture for ourselves. It was not something we took seriously at the time, yet we’ve now evolved into having a furniture, homewares and lighting brand!

We both can’t believe how much we’ve achieved in seven years with a few kids thrown into the mix. Our vision is to keep our business small and smart. We want our roles to continue in furniture design and to keep working towards a more sustainable and ethical business model.

You and Scott are partners in life and business, and collaboration has been integral to your success. How has your professional relationship evolved alongside the personal? Do you have any advice for other creative couples looking to launch – for working together, but also balancing work with life?

Parenthood has changed the way we work enormously. We don’t have any help from our families, so it’s been a mad juggle for nearly six years. We’ve learned the lesson of letting go, and have hired people for roles we’re no longer able to manage ourselves.

Scott and I work better when we can both be hands-on; we are not afraid of taking risks and like to just get in there and try things out. Unfortunately, this way of working is not quite possible with kids. We have to rely heavily on our team to keep our vision alive. Things tend to move a lot slower, but we get there in the end.

My advice is to get a life coach, be honest with each other, community, ask for help and take risks. You have to have the guts for small business! It’s scary and hard work, but also exciting and very fulfilling.

Besotted with the Australian bush, you and Scott live with your children Frida, Lou and Veda an hour or so outside of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. Was raising a family away from the city a deliberate decision, and how have you found culture and community down the beach?

Ending up down here was not the plan at all! We’d been renting and could not get a place anywhere in the city or outer suburbs; real estate agents view business owners as a risk. It took us six months of hunting and applying – we looked everywhere from Eltham and Warrandyte, Woodend, the Dandenong Ranges, and Mornington Peninsula, plus the suburbs around our workshop.

We came to look at this house on a winter’s day, the beach was wild with fires burning and kangaroos in the backyard. It was love at first sight! After six months of renting, we bought the house from its owners.

It was a big change for me, it took a while to get into the area. I grew up on the coast of Western Australia, so I felt homesick living here – near the ocean, but not my ocean. There’s an interesting vibe on the Peninsula too, not a strong feeling of culture or community. It also lacks good, honest venues with great food and atmosphere. We’d previously lived in Eltham, where you could feel the creative history in the homes and gardens – I loved that.

Now we’ve been here for a year, we’re starting to find more likeminded people, and a few really close friends have moved down, which makes it heaps of fun. We have lots of dinner parties, and the house has plenty of room for people to stay. So we create great food and atmosphere with our mates. There are so many beautiful bushwalks, beaches, rock pools, and drives; we meet for mini-adventures every week.

Can you give us a glimpse into how your days start and end at home with Frida, Lou, and Veda? How do you and Scott work to share the load at home?

Our days start with wrangling the kids through showers and getting dressed. Scott makes the breakfast, coffee, and lunches, while I feed Veda, brush Frida’s hair and make the beds. We drive Frida to school, then drive into our workshop in Northcote – juggling work with Veda and Lou until about 2pm, then leave to collect Frida. On the way home, I do all my emails, social media, and planning.

When we get home, Scott does homework with Frida and I put Veda down for a nap then cook dinner. We all eat at the table together, which usually ends with Lou leaving the table to play the drums, while the rest of us try to continue through his current mealtime madness!

The kids and I pile into the bath and Scott cleans up. It’s the best time of day – having a soak while looking out to the bush. I get the kids ready for bed, then Scott reads a story to Frida and Lou and I’m with Veda.

Scott and I share the load of parenting, chores, and work. We love doing this together and feel so lucky to have a business that allows us to live like this.

Moving across time, how might you like the girls to remember you to their own families – what do you think your parental legacy will be?

I’d love for them to remember us as a team! That their Mama and Papa were equals, and that their roles in caring for them and the family home were shared.

‘We love doing this together and feel so lucky to have a business that allows us to live like this,’ tells Poppy. Photo – Sarah Collins of Work + Co.

Family Favourites

 Activity or outing:

Beach or bushwalking.

Family meal at home

We’ve so many, but our special one is homemade gnocchi; it’s the meal we have after each baby is born and on their birthdays. Scott makes the gnocchi and I do the sauce and extra tasty bits to put on top.

Breakfast, lunch or dinner destination

We love pizza and wine at Montalto for lunch.

Book, film or show

We most recently watched Aquaman with the kids and loved every minute of it! The perfect amount of adventure, cheese, and fantasy.

Place to travel

Anywhere in our van – we love a road trip. We’re planning to take a year to drive around Australia but will wait until Veda is a little older and the business is in a better position.

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Obituary: Lou Richards, media larrikin and Collingwood football legend

Lou Richards 1923-2017

“THEY don’t talk much about people when they’re dead, do they?” said the George Burns look-alike with dismay as he reflected on the fate of his favourite author, John Steinbeck, almost 40 years ago.

Lou Richards. Photo:

But Lou Richards, a born extrovert who loved the limelight – which masked the fact that he was an eternal hypochondriac mortified by death – didn’t need to fret about his own legacy. At least not with the Australian football world, and even beyond.

The former champion Collingwood rover and captain, who cashed in a 250-game career to become a newspaper columnist and radio and television personality like no other, has died aged 94.

Richards, who was renowned for his witty observations and quick retorts, in turn had to cop plenty of good-natured ribbing from his media colleagues, who were aware that his confident, even brash “on air” persona belied a vulnerable streak of self-doubt.

Richards was born in tough surrounds and circumstances in Collingwood.

It shaped his “alley cat upbringing”. He and his brother Ron learnt some basic lessons early: to stick up for themselves; thriftiness; and to exploit the moment.

Years later, Richards’ long-time sparring partner and another football legend, the late “Captain Blood” Jack Dyer, said of him: “He’s been like a rat in a famine, and he still has those characteristics of native cunning. He’d survive where a lot of people would turn it up. He’s resourceful. If he went to the moon, he’d find five cents there for sure.”

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Vale Collingwood legend Lou Richards

Richards’ father, Bill, an electrician, went broke in the Depression and the family relied on the “two quid a week” earned by his mother, Irene, a boot machinist at a shoe factory. Bill drowned in Gippsland on his son’s 21st birthday.

Richards played for Collingwood for 15 years, was captain between 1952 and 1955, and led the Magpies to the 1953 premiership.

He lit up his 250-game club career with 423 goals and was its leading goal scorer in 1944, 1948 and 1950. He also wore the Big V in 1947 and 1948.

He always wanted to be a performer and had the gift of the gab from an early age, which often got him the strap in school.

As a boy he had Broadway on his mind, as a tap dancer or comic, but he was destined to chase pig leather.

Richards was part of a footballing dynasty: his maternal grandfather, Charlie Pannam – of Greek heritage and originally named Pannamopoulos – played for Collingwood for 14 years before switching to Richmond. Pannam’s two sons (Richards’ uncles), Charlie jnr and Alby, also played for the Magpies; Charlie later coached South Melbourne and Alby coached Richmond. And Richards’ brother, Ron, also was a Magpie and starred in the 1953 premiership side.

After truncated schooling, Richards worked first as a fitter and turner before joining the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, where he went around tapping pipes to find faults. The MMBW gave him time off to study for his intermediate certificate and he became a technical drawer designing public toilets.

Unsurprisingly, he called it his “shithouse” job, but his friend and Brownlow medallist Neil Roberts, took another tack: “It was at the Board of Works that he learned to mix the Yan Yean shandies he served in his pub.”

And speaking of Richards’ publican persona, his long-time sparring partner Jack Dyer, would say: “The scotch in the Phoenix doesn’t even stain the ice.”

Richards, in fact, operated two pubs after hanging up his boots. The first was in Erroll Street, North Melbourne, and later, the Phoenix, in Flinders Street.

Immediately after he retired from football, he broke into the media in 1955 with a job as an expert comments scribe with the now defunct Argus newspaper, and radio commentator with radio 3XY.

Later, he moved to the Sun and radio 3DB, and much later to the Sunday Age; he was part of the Channel Seven team that launched World of Sport in 1958, and League Teams, which became Melbourne sporting institutions for more than two decades.

Richards then moved to Channel Nine and Wide World of Sports and Sports Sunday. His last regular television spot was handling the somewhat chaotic handball segment on the Sunday Footy Show, from which he retired at the end of 2008.

On each show, his mischievous humour was pivotal to the informed coverage/hilarity/nonsense that perennially rated highly.

On the newspaper side, Richards and his cohorts dreamt up all manner of publicity stunts to keep “Loui the Lip” in the news. Frequently he became the news.

Not for nothing did he agree to be dubbed Kiss of Death for his match-day tips.

In 1978, one ill-fated prognostication ended up with him, all 170 centimetres centimetres and 73 kilograms, carrying North Melbourne ruckman Mick “Galloping Gasometer” Nolan, about 113 kilograms, piggy back along Erroll Street.

Earlier self-inflicted (publicity attracting) penalties included sweeping Collins Street with a feather duster, cutting the lawn of “Mr Football” Ted Whitten with a pair of scissors, and rowing then Geelong coach Billy Goggin across the Barwon river in a bathtub in 1980.

Yet another stunt saw him jump off St Kilda Pier into freezing water on a frosty winter morning. The latter experience, he quipped, put him in hot water with his wife Edna for three weeks because he forgot to zip up the fly on his wetsuit.

In 1973, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks moved across the Yarra into a smart apartment in Toorak, marking yet another indicator of his upwards trajectory. Friends ribbed him about being a class-turncoat.

As ever, it was like water off a duck’s back. He also had 22 hectares on the Mornington Peninsula, where a manager maintained a heard of Black Angus, and part-owned the country radio station 3CV.

Richards had entered the business world early in his media career when he bought the Town Hall pub in North Melbourne; later he took the lease on another watering hole, the Phoenix, which he ran with his wife, Edna, who called the shots with a mixture of charm and gentle but firm persuasion.

He never won Collingwood’s best and fairest (Copeland Trophy) award, but several community awards awaited him.

In 1975 he was named Football Personality of the Year; in 1981 he was  crowned King of Moomba; and in 1982 the National Trust classified him a living treasure to be protected against demolition. With typical humour, Richards said that when he received the call, he feared he was going to be “certified”.

He was awarded life membership of the VFL but at the end, elevation to a legend of football’s Hall of Fame eluded him, causing controversy. Perhaps now that honour will be posthumous.

Edna, Richards’ beloved, devoted and understanding wife of 60 years, who was happy to be the butt of some of his jokes, died in March 2008. He is survived by his daughters Nicole and Kim, and five grandchildren.

Collingwood Technical School

Abbotsford

Collingwood reserves premiership 1940

Collingwood seniors 1941-55

Club captain 1952-55

Premiership captain 1953

Runner-up in Copeland trophy in 1947 and 1950

Club’s leading goal kicker  1944 (28 goals); 1948 (44); and 1950 (35)

Total goals for Collingwood 423

Represented Victoria three times

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Small Business Mentoring - A Helping Hand Which Can Change Lives

Are you looking for a coaching service that will help your business grow? CoachNick is ready to assist you in increasing your business and brand. Our small business mentoring programs are tailored for various business needs so that you can focus on daily operations and expand services. Our purpose is to support your business to grow and thrive. We will provide you with a customized plan that will guide you through the process of increasing revenue and brand recognition. Contact us now for more information about our business mentoring services.

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Senior family violence case worker

TaylorCare has an exciting new position to work with a reputable NGO in the Mornington Peninsula. As the specialist Family Violence Practitioner you will ensure services are well coordinated and caseworkers have the skills needed for high quality support to families who experience, or have experienced family violence. You will also provide support and coaching to current staff and assist with identifying training and practice development needs. To be successful in these roles, you’ll have: – Bachelor degree in Psychology or social work or equivalent social science qualification – Relevant experience in the family violence sector and experience working with families presenting with complex needs and behaviours – Experience working under the Best Interest framework in VIC – Experience working with CALD or indigenous backgrounds is highly desirable – Current driver’s license

If this job sounds like it’s for you then don’t delay press APPLY NOW, email your CV to office@taylorcare.com.au or call Kate on 02 9810 4498 for a confidential discussion. We are passionate about giving back and support three charities through our business RUOK, A21 Campaign & Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. So as we place you into a job in turn we can donate more to the charities we support.

Did you know we offer a refer a friend bonus – If you refer someone to us who we place into a role you can receive up to $350 flight centre vouchers T&C’s Apply.

Kate Taylor 02 9810 4498