She Means Business !

Inspiring morning at #shemeansbusiness event in London at the Corinthia Hotel hosted by Facebook, FSB and Enterprise Nation.  Over 200 women attended to hear from Facebook’s VP EMEA Nicola Mendelssohn, FSB’s National Policy Chair for Health & Diversity Helen Walbey and Enterprise Nation Founder Emma Jones.   The message was clear – When women succeed, we…

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Blog Interview, YOU the Brand – Anwen Cooper

How would describe your personal brand? Well in the past two years my clients have said that I am pragmatic, strategic, logical, intelligent, considered, knowledgeable, supportive, intuitive, creative, enthusiastic and warm – and I’m happy with all that! These words are all quoted from my LinkedIn recommendations, so I’m not just making it up! I…

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Blog Interview, YOU the Brand – Lisa Settle

How would you describe your personal brand? I hope the World about me sees me as an authentic and loyal supporter. What values are important to you? Trust, honesty, loyalty and high standards How do you reflect these in your Personal Image? I am naturally supportive and annoyingly organised Describe your company brand image. Telcare’s…

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Celebrating Women Achieving in the Workplace

The ‘workplace’ takes so many different forms now and we were extremely lucky to have three very talented women share their stories of achievement in three very different areas of work. The event at Eastwell Manor Hotel was organised by Breakthrough Women, a collaboration between Deborah Turner of You Image and Sue Nelson at Breakthrough…

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Women in Business – A Celebration

Amazing day of networking, celebration and inspiration today hosted by Kent County Council’s Women’s Enterprise programme at Maidstone. It was the final event of the Kent County Council’s women’s enterprise programme which the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have been supporting. Today was a celebration of the achievements of the women on the programme and…

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Don't forget to add play to your day!

I have been listening to the inspirational Brene Brown, both on audio book, her TED talk and her podcast interviews. One of her key learning points when she was analysing her research was the importance of adding ‘play’ to your life. As business owners we are so passionate about what we do and feel privileged…

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The rise of the female entrepreneur

I was asked to be on the Kent Business Radio Show this week to talk about the rise of the female entrepreneur both as a business woman and as FSB Kent & Medway Champion for women in business. You may think that being on the radio is an easy task and that since no one is…

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Confidence is the key to success

Testimonial from Ali Hollands Inspired To Change Maidstone “As an entrepreneur, woman or not, we know we need to look the part because first impressions count, but dressing for business when you’re a woman is very rarely about donning a power suit; in business, as in life, women wear many ‘hats’ and need to be…

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