SHINE'ing the Spotlight... Unleashed: Recent Episodes
SHINE Business Women - Founder: Zoe Sparks
Welcome to SHINE'ing the Spotlight... UNLEASHED, our brand new podcast! The SHINE Business Women philosophy is to Support, Help, Inspire, Nurture and Empower business women of all experience, level, age and role through professional and personal development. Each week we shall load a Weekly Podcast to educate, motivate and inspire you, featuring AMAZING business women from throughout Australia and around the globe. We are so excited about this podcast and we hope you LOVE it as much as we do!
Today is a 'special event' episode... Simon Nedelko interviews Zoe Sparks, Director & Owner of Spectacular Events, and Founder of SHINE Business Women & SunSHINE Boxes, as Spectacular Events is celebrating it's 25th Birthday.
This celebratory episode is SHINE'ing the Spotlight on Spectacular Events, and Zoe talks about her 25 years in business and shares the tips, tricks and insights into what makes this business not only tick but constantly thrive, expand and adapt, especially over the past few years where things in travel and events have been particularly tough as they have been for many others.
This is an episode not to miss as we celebrate 25 Years of Spectacular!
About Spectacular Events: Spectacular Events Pty Ltd focuses on the professional planning, management and delivery of group movements from 20 to 2000 delegates/attendees.
Creations includes conferences, expos/exhibitions, specialised group tours and team building experiences, golf days, launches, business meetings, workshops and cocktail functions/Gala dinners.
Their dedicated fully accredited travel division creates tailored travel packages for major events, held throughout Australia and around the world, and also puts together the travel logistics and partner program elements around all types of events.
ADAPTING TO CHANGE & EMBRACING OPPORTUNITIES
Check out Natalie Tink’s bio below and you will instantly know that she is a hard-working, forward-thinking entrepreneur who has certainly made her mark in a number of businesses on the Sunshine Coast. She has a talent for bringing people together, supporting local and doing all she can to promote our community, whilst also being a powerhouse of a business woman who thrives on a challenge, a new venture and making a difference.
Natalie has changed and adapted to the landscape around her, not only during COVID 19 but over a number of years, and without a doubt, Natalie mastered the ‘pivot’ long before it became a buzz word!
We talk to Natalie about how she has adapted to change, pursued her passions and followed her dreams to become the popular, award-winning business woman that she is renowned for. Natalie is always candid, honest and authentic so she will share her trials and tribulations as well as her successes.
About Natalie Tink
Meet Natalie Tink founder of Miss Monogram, Member Manager of the Sunshine Coast Business Women’s Network and driven Real Estate Agent at Ray White Maroochydore.
Having spent 20 years in real estate marketing and publishing, Natalie has refocused her passion for property into her role as Sales & Marketing Consultant at Ray White Maroochydore. Natalie’s extensive background in real estate ensures she has a thorough understanding of the Sunshine Coast property market.
Natalie is also the Founder and Managing Director of the fashion retail business, Miss Monogram which opened it’s online store in November 2016 & Sunshine Plaza retail store in November 2018. Miss Monogram gives women an opportunity to express their individuality and femininity with bespoke fashion accessories, including personalised leather bags, wallets, wedding gifts, travel and office accessories.
Passionately motivated and a high-achiever, Natalie has been praised for her accomplishments as 2012 Sunshine Coast Young Business Woman of The Year, and more recently 2019 Sunshine Coast Small Business Woman of the Year.
Natalie is a trailblazer, arranging paid marketing campaign partnerships with major retailers including Lendlease, Westfield, Mirvac and Vicinity. Natalie previously ran a successful national magazine for 20 years, giving her invaluable marketing insight and Natalie has established a loyal customer base all over the world and leverages every touchpoint to nurture customer connections and build brand affinity.
In her spare time, Natalie enjoys exploring her beautiful home that is the Sunshine Coast with her family (Kooper 11, London 6 and wife of 18 years to Brad) as well as training at boot camp.
HOW TO BUILD AN AWARD WINNING BUSINESS
After only three years in business, Lisa Versaci and her business, Cheeky Little Monkeys, are smashing goals and winning awards! Recently, Lisa took out three QLD AusMumpreneur awards – Making a Difference Award Community (Winner), Service Business (Silver), and Customer Service (Bronze).
An incredible powerhouse of a lady, Lisa is making her mark in the business world and providing a service which is a life-saver for parents.
Cheeky Little Monkeys hosts 340 little ones each week and that’s not taking into account the six parties they usually host each weekend.
Join us as we chat to Lisa about the secrets to her success, how to build an award winning business and what's next for this powerhouse of a lady!
PRACTISING THE ART OF SELF LOVE
Entrepreneur, Speaker and Mum, Kim Morrison, has drawn from her personal experiences, trauma and research to develop a six step process that supports us to stay in the presence of love. We all have bad days, horrible moments and experiences, as well as feelings of guilt, shame, lack of worth and other self-sabotaging thoughts that pull us away from self-love… a place fear. We simply fall out of the circle of love and Kim will bring you back into the circle of self-love with clarity and ease.
Welcome to the pathway back to yourself!
About Kim Morrison
There is so much more to Kim Morrison than meets the eye.
Tenacity is probably the first word that comes to mind. Her journey and all she has accomplished to date has all stemmed from her unwavering self-belief and her deep understanding that you must also take care of yourself first and foremost.
Kim set a world record as the youngest female to run 100 miles in less than 24 hours in 1983. Cliff Young was her mentor throughout and still to this day lives by his ethos that success is 90% mental and 10% physical. She has used her running story as a direct metaphor for life – riding the highs, hitting the walls, pushing through the pain barriers, crossing the line and never, ever giving up!
At 17, Rachel Pope lost her Dad (age 47) to cancer, and eight years later, her eldest brother in a tragic car accident. Little did she know that her grief journey would come full circle with the death of her husband, at the same age and from the same cancer as her Dad. Their children were six and four years old.
Rachel Pope is the founder of the online community 'Gifts from Grief', and is highly admired for her positive attitude and work as a Grief Specialist. She is a writer, inspirational speaker, former trained-pilot and early learning educator, with a personal mission to lift the lid on grief and loss, one conversation at a time. Rachel has lived it, survived, and resurfaced with a passion to help people grow through grief and recognise the gifts within their story.
Kym Phillips (a.k.a The Moving Angel) from Moving Made Easy shares with us her secrets to success and how to build a business with a limited marketing budget!
Kym grew up in the removals industry with her parents running a successful business for 30 years. To spend time with her parents, Kym would go with her Dad in the truck or be the errand girl for her Mum in the office. These times underpinned Kym’s values towards business & people, including treating everyone with respect, not judging a book by its cover, always be reliable and exceed people’s expectations. Kym is the type of person who finds a solution to any problem.
From humble beginnings, leaving school at 15 and with minimal education, Kym cut her way through a hairdressing apprenticeship, where she really learnt to talk, before returning to the industry she loves and is passionate about. Learning the ropes within Government Departments, organising Defence force moves for employees & families, Kym climbed the corporate ladder, cutting her teeth on every aspect, from customer service to corporate management, understanding firsthand the problems faced by women when moving house.
This ultimately inspired Kym to create a business model that was different, that identified individual client needs, by actively listening to clients, holding removalists accountable and providing a service that was always reliable, not just matching client expectations, but exceeding them.
THE SIMPLE FIRST STEPS TO BECOMING AN AUTHOR
Roxanne is a well known journalist, ghostwriter and writing mentor and we are thrilled that she is going to talk to us about the key elements to get into the right mindset to write a compelling and engaging book that will sell.
Clarity, Connection, Commitment
If you've always dreamed of writing a book, and don't really know where to start or what to do... THIS is the Business Sesh'ion for you. Roxanne is going to share trade secrets and give you the knowledge on how to make it happen!
The Simple First Steps to Becoming an Author: About Roxanne
Roxanne McCarty-O’Kane is a ghostwriter of non-fiction books who has helped people from around Australia and New Zealand to realise their dream of becoming published authors. Roxanne is a qualified journalist who has written for a number of newspapers, magazines and e-zines and has covered everything general news through to hard-hitting features on topics that can impact the wider community. One of the perks of her job is being able to connect with and interview a number of high profile Australian and international celebrities. No focused solely on non-fiction books and seeing her clients go on to celebrate being published and using their book to boost their business and their personal profile, Roxanne can teach us how to take those first steps to becoming an author.
3 ESSENTIAL MINDSET SKILLS FOR CHALLENGING TIMES
You Have One Shot At Life!
The one question left to ask is what do you want to do with the rest of yours?
‘There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.’
– Nelson Mandela
Mindset coach, Mandy Napier, knows that Mindset Coaching is the key to your breakthrough to success and she’s going to share her 3 essential mindset skills to help keep you focused and on track during challenging times.
3 Essential Mindset Skills for Challenging Times – About Mandy:
Mandy Napier BSc, dubbed the Mindset Alchemist, is a Global High-Performance Mindset Coach, Professional Speaker, Educator and Author. She is passionate about helping professionals get ‘unstuck’ and step up to the next level in their professional and personal life. Working at the deepest part of the mind, shifting unwanted behaviours and creating new habits is the keys to achieving extraordinary results. When you change your inner game you change your outer game. Transformations are her guarantee.
HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE & RESILIENT LEADER IN TIMES OF CHANGE
Jeanette is considered an expert in transformational change having established and chaired the community of change professional for the public sector and often speaks on the subject at specialist conferences. Jeanette is a strength and value-based leader and is known for being a brave leader with heart who builds trust, is committed, accountable and delivers measurable results. Recently heralded as the 2020 Telstra Queensland Business Women’s Awards Public Sector and Academia Award, Jeanette is an incredible leader who is making a tremendous impact on our community at large.
About Jeanette - Bio.
Jeanette started her career as an ESL teacher in Bangkok and then went onto standing up the Learning and Development function for Optus. She then moved to the UK and spend 10 years with Microsoft concluding as the Head of Customer Service for EMEA. She has extensive experience in the public sector holding senior roles in NSW Treasury working with the Secretary and in NSW Transport accountable to the Ministers office for the Customer experience. She has also been the General Manager of Business and Portfolio Management for nbnco were she was responsible for the office of the Chief operating officer. Jeanette spent two years in consulting with BCG as an advisor on implementation and sustainable change working across multiple federal and state government organisations with senior leadership teams and ministers. She recently held the role of Group Executive for Business Performance for the Sunshine Coast Council responsible for IT, Finance, HR, Procurement, Smart cities, Innovation and Property. She also manages an ePMO delivering SCCH City Hall, Program Activate and Outstanding Organisation projects. She is responsible for over 2000 staff and manages an $848million dollar budget. Jeanette has just accepted a consulting role with Prime Minister and Cabinet focusing on the APS reforms and has also joined the board of no more fake smiles.
HOW TO SPEAK TO YOUR TRIBE
Clearly, Authentically & Consistently
Claire Quarrell a.k.a The Message Maven – Coach, workshop guru, message maven and lover of all things ‘communication’. Claire believes that clear messages, delivered well, make the world go ’round.
How to Speak to Your Tribe – Clearly, Authentically & ConsistentlyClaire Quarrell, The Message Maven, helps people work out how to ‘say all the things’ they want, and need, to say – clearly, authentically and consistently. Whether you’re knee-deep in business, launching a workshop, pitching your cause, announcing your research findings, giving a wedding speech or simply trying to work out how to avoid COMPLETELY. FREAKING. OUT when you’re asked to speak ‘on the spot’, this cracking wordsmith and clarity coach will help you to drill down to the core of your message, craft it to serve your specific audience and empower you to deliver it with confidence and finesse.
Claire has over 15 years’ experience in the ‘comms’ industry, communicating with and for not for profits, all for profits, sole traders, small business and big corporates. She’s crafted messages presenting the good, the bad and the ugly – and has loved every single bit of it. If you’ve got something to say, Claire can help you say it!
PEOPLE LOVE TO BUY, THEY HATE TO BE SOLD!
Heart Based Selling for Reluctant Sellers
Kym Cousins is best known for her passion in enabling success and developing people in the areas of sales, marketing, communication and leadership. She is the Owner and Founder of Sprout Enablement – a national Training and Coaching consultancy, based on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
People Love to Buy, They Hate To Be Sold !
By understanding your authentic and natural communication style to engage with your customers from a foundation of trust, you will effortlessly sell with your heart from a place of giving and service – without feeling pushy, ‘sales-y’ or ‘icky’.
In this session, Kym will teach you how to recognise and understand how your customer likes to buy, how to align your sales communication for maximum connection and ensure that your customer doesn’t feel like they have been ‘sold’! Kym will be sharing some practical advice on how to sell with heart during difficult times, provide practical tips for driving momentum in your business and some tricks for maintaining engagement and connection online.
Kate is the owner and founder of Kate Langford Career Consulting and a leading expert in career based services. After working 15+ years in Recruitment and Human Resources, Kate truly believes that getting clarity, confidence and focus on what you want in your career is a life changing moment.
THE PLANNING IS SIMPLE
Kate will talk about how to implement her 4 Pillars of Success
CREATE YOUR GENIUS IDEA
KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
MARKETING & RESOURCES
KNOW YOUR WHY
The concepts and planning may be the easy part. Brainstorming and next steps are critical to the success of your business, because without these foundations, you will stumble. There will be days you don’t want to keep going but resilience and the ones that want it bad enough and believe in what they are doing, are the successful ones!
THE ACTION IS HARD
Know that only 5% will not even start to take action and that 60% of businesses fail without the right foundations and mindset. Make sure you are in the 5% - Kate will tell you how!
OUT OF THE RUBBLE - A RESET STRATEGY FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES.Erin Barnes (Next Generation Wellness) is a Stress Resilience + Behaviour Change Specialist and shares with us key strategies to not only safely navigate stress and uncertainty, but to generate heightened success both personally and professionally.
During this session, we will share insightful conversation around:
RECALIBRATING INTENTIONS + DIRECTION,
CONTROLLING FOCUS + ATTENTION,
RAISING PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY + PERFORMANCE,
ACTION ORIENTATED BEHAVIOUR FOR SUCCESS,
SUPPORTING THOSE CLOSE TO YOU.These can all blend seamlessly with each other and they can have some really simple ‘next steps’ no matter whether at home/ at workplace, in business/ or treading water.