Mums get down to business at home
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- Mums get down to business at home
- n guard – Planning – Money – Business – Home – smh.com.au
- Bre-X#2 — Gold rush [Feb. 24/96]
- Home from home: I left China to marry an Ulster pig farmer
Mums get down to business at home
NEWS.com.au – May 23, 2007
story-share –> MEET the amazing mumpreneurs. They’re successfully mixing bubs and business and they’re the driving force behind thousands of new companies created each year. Victorian mums are turning their backs on the 9-to-5 grind in favour of doing business in their bathrobes and many are turning hobbies or interests into cash. More than one million Australians work from home and half of them are mothers according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Women run 126000 small businesses – a third in Victoria. Many are online and popular areas include baby and maternity clothes jewellery making children’s parties and children’s gifts… They’re successfully mixing bubs and business and they’re the driving force behind thousands of new companies created each year. Victorian mums are turning their backs on the 9-to-5 grind in favour of doing business in their bathrobes and many are turning hobbies or interests into cash. More than one million Australians work from home and half of them are mothers according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Women run 126000 small businesses – a third in Victoria. Many are online and popular areas include baby and maternity clothes jewellery making children’s parties and children’s gifts. Many are going solo after successful careers in public relations financial planning and accounting. Two mums who set up small businesses are now helping other mums get started through website mumsinbusiness.
n guard – Planning – Money – Business – Home – smh.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald – May 23, 2007
Anderson says through tears that the shock of her diagnosis inDecember and the invasive treatment which included a mastectomyand breast reconstruction shook her family to its core. “When you are a mother you are the centre of the universe foryour young children” Anderson says. “I was working full-time in afamily business. It all happened in a flash. What made it easier for her was being able to concentrate ongetting better. Smith had sought the advice of an insurance broker when hebought income protection and business expenses insurance. Smith ran a small but profitable business until he was diagnosedwith bowel cancer in 2004… Conversely Smith ran into trouble with his income protectionpayments when he first tried to return to work part-time. “I loved what I did” he says. “I didn’t want to lie around athome. He was not well enough to sustain even part-time work but hisattempt to go back to work part-time and his surgeon’s note to theinsurance company that he was getting ready to go back to workprompted the insurance company to cut off his payments withoutwarning. Smith now knows his insurance company put him under surveillancewithout his knowledge during his discussions with them over hisclaim. Livid at his treatment at the hands of the company Smiththreatened legal action and spoke with Money before his insurancecompany offered a settlement. The payout represents approximately what Smith says he isentitled to but includes a confidentiality clause prohibiting himfrom speaking about his case.
Bre-X#2 — Gold rush [Feb. 24/96]
Canada.com – May 23, 2007
inc–>Bre-X#2 — Gold rush [Feb. Walsh is the little-known founder of fabulous Bre-X Minerals Ltd. the Calgary company that’s created scores of overnight millionaires. Bre-X shares have climbed from $1. 90 a year ago to hit a high of $170 this week… Not Walsh a soft-spoken father of two grown sons who no longer has time for the tennis skiing and horseback riding he once enjoyed. Walsh is an easy-going guy a guy who hasn’t spent a nickel on the trappings of wealth or taken a holiday for ages. He continues to toil away at what is clearly the world’s largest home business. Bre-X will be moving into a Hillhurst office building the company just bought for about $1 million March 1. But right now Walsh and a staff of five including his wife Jeannette run the company from a basement office in their modest Varsity Village home. The pace is swift as calls pour in from brokers bankers prospective shareholders and mining companies around the world. Work has spilled upstairs where stacks of Bre-X documents occupy the kitchen living room and dining room.
Home from home: I left China to marry an Ulster pig farmer
Belfast Telegraph – May 23, 2007
But although Sunday is always Chinese noodles Saturday mornings are always for Ulster fries. I was excited when I found out BBC NI wanted to do a programme about my family and me. As well as my travel business I work as a translator for minority groups in Ballymena and that’s how the BBC got in touch with me. It was fun doing the programme and my family enjoyed the experience too. I think they are used to visitors now with all my tour groups. LoveI travel to China with all my groups and if we are travelling to the region where my parents live then I take them to visit my family. My parents love it because they want to see what the people are like in the place that I’m living.
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