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Changing Your Career After Maternity Leave
I was an unhappy and unmotivated compliance & risk professional. After the birth of my beautiful baby boy, I had 12 months off work on maternity leave, it was during this time I realised how much I truly disliked not only my job but the career I had ended up in....
Property Investing: Houses vs Units
Hey mum CFOs! Today I wanted to talk about a question that gets debated a lot so I could share my own research and hopefully save you the bother! “Property Investing: Should I invest in a house or a unit in Australia?” First of all… a bit about me. I am not yet a...
5 Privacy Settings to Protect Your Family on Facebook
Confession time: I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. On the one hand, it’s great to be able to connect with so many people at once, stay updated on their lives, and contact them when I need to. On the other hand, I often hesitate to *do* much on my personal...
How to Consolidate Credit Cards
Credit card debt can be one of those things that sneaks up on you suddenly. You may be doing a great job staying on top of those repayments and only using your credit cards when you absolutely have to, but often it can become all too easy to start charging more and...
Ways to Save Money Around the House
Without even realising it, many of us are throwing money down the drain with some of our daily habits at home. It happens through our energy usage, our food waste and as a result of the service providers we choose to utilise. More often than not, we do not even...
Opening Up the Renovation Conversation
I was asked to start a blog about building and renovation as I run my own business within the construction industry together with my husband. My background is not in Construction originally. I came into the business five years ago from a change, communication and...
The Biggest Surprises as a Working-from-Home-Mum
I’d always dreamed of being my own boss, naively thinking that working from home meant getting lots of work done while the baby slept, and having a spotless house with all that “extra time” I’d have. It wasn’t long after my first baby was born that reality hit me –...
Tips to Save Energy
It’s a little odd to say, but electricity is a big part of family life. When you think about it, how often do your family use electricity during the day? There’s lighting, electric showers, cookers, computers, televisions and air conditioning units to name but a few....
The Financial Literacy Test You Need to Pass
Literacy in at least one language, both spoken and written, is useful to anyone. However, this is not the only type of literacy you must be an expert on. You must also be very clever and crafty when it comes to managing and growing your finances in order to get ahead....
8 Ways Your Social Media Addiction is Good for Your Bottom Line
There’s a lot written about how social media can wreak havoc on your budget. There’s the argument that the time we spend has a financial cost in lost productivity elsewhere. Perhaps the most obvious example is the accessibility of shopping online and the constant...
