Tips and strategies for time management to reduce stress and to work and live more efficiently and effectively.

Finding althernative ways of managing everyday stress is no easy task. Let me share with you the restorative ritual of colouring in mandalas as a fun and easy way of relaxing.

It’s Summertime and despite what Ella might tell us ‘the livin isn’t always easy ‘especially if you are business owner trying to juggle other commitments as well as still trying to make a ‘livin’! Read my blog to find out how you can maximise the hours you work and your productivity no matter what your circumstances this Summer!

Social Media Savvy; a one-day conference now in its fourth year is back; this year it is about building confidence around flexibility, recovery and resilience

There are many members of the Women’s Inspire Network making conscious decisions within their businesses to impact the environment positively. We caught up with three WIN members to see what impact they are creating.

With all of life’s stresses, obligations and commitments, our own wellbeing tends to fall down the list of priorities. The Harvest is your first step toward putting yourself first. The first Harvest self-care event is being held in the idyllic surroundings of The Connemara Coast Hotel from March 25th to 27th 2022. From the moment you arrive you’ll find yourself immersed in an atmosphere of self-care, rest and repair, with a full programme of activities.

Five years ago I was a different person to the one I am today. It was a rollercoaster ride of panic attacks, depression and anxiety, but there's always hope.

Samantha and her network of ladies helped me realise it was possible to be authentically myself and do something I’m passionate about.

Cork city businesswoman Orla Kelly admits that she stumbled into book publishing, but that stumble has served her well. She is now the successful owner of her very own book publishing business. She is also due to launch a course for those who want to learn the ropes of publishing their own book in the new year.

Mel Murphy is a divorce coach which is exactly as it sounds, someone who will coach you forward through your divorce. 

Helen Birch is a UK based businesswoman from Yorkshire, she owns Helen Birch Hypnotherapy.She is one of the newer members of the Women’s Inspire Network and was introduced to the global women's business network when a friend recommended that she follow Samantha Kelly, founder of WIN, on the social media platform Twitter.For many years she worked as a primary school teacher so you could say her career move was quite an unusual one. But burnout from her teaching position sent her on a different path.

This is Nicola's story of her businesses and why she joined the WIN Network.

Keri moved to a new country and was looking for a new community which would help and support her with her wellness business. Women's Inspire Network was the perfect network for Keri.

It's a pleasure to be part of a wonderfully supportive network that covers the globe, and can give so much help and feedback on a variety of different topics.

The pandemic has caused a massive shift in working life. The general chit chat of the office has gone, popping into town to meet a friend for coffee has gone, so what did I do about this? I joined the Women's Inspire Network and I'm delighted I did. Read my blog post to find out more.

The power of a supportive network when a member really needed help.

Jane Byrne owns Studio Dancewear in Carlow town, Ireland, where she sells an array of dance wear and training aids as well as the ballet shoes you see the professional dancers tiptoe around in, pointe shoes. She’s busy at the moment, very busy, thanks to Brexit - something she wasn’t quite expecting. Brexit has given her new notoriety in her sector because she’s had the patience to deal with all the supply issues and increased charges it’s brought to businesses receiving stock from across the Irish sea.

From Zimbabwe to Ireland Melody Chadamoyo brings her own experience and education to the table when she helps women to find what they need and want in their relationships. Chadamoyo is a relationship expert - not entirely the career she planned on when she first moved to Ireland from Zimbabwe with her husband in 1999.

This article is about uncomfortable feelings and how using self-compassion and being kind to ourselves is much more helpful than fighting or suppressing normal human uncomfortable emotions.

Finding your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got, and that sure is the case for one brave woman in the Women’s Inspire Network, she has fought her way through an abusive relationship, come out the other side, found her worth and is now intent on helping other women finding theirs.

With social media it is so important to get some good quality photos of your products. In this blog I am sharing a few tips about the different aspects of food photography. First of all, the lighting.

It’s been a rough eighteen months as our worlds have turned upside down. Work life has invaded our home life, routines and rituals have been thrown out the window and thoughts we never had time for have started to creep into our minds forcing us to face some pretty big questions.‍ The good news is all these thoughts, fears and unsustainable routines can be ironed out with a new programme this Autumn aptly named Revive, Renew and Restart 2.

A best-selling, Irish crime writer is throwing caution to the wind and is writing steamy, historical romance!

The power of social media can have a pretty strong pull for business as one women’s network has proved. Stuck with an extraordinarily large order, speciality chocolate supplier Pascale Van Riet reached out to the owner of her women’s business network to try to find a solution. The solution was a tweet, just a maximum of 280 characters to help solve a problem of too much chocolate.

'How to keep yourself so busy that there is no time left to face your problems' - ​I saw this recently on a Facebook post. It was a picture from a selection of mock-up book covers created by a psychiatrist, but I can’t remember for the life of me who to credit for it. If you're familiar with it, do let me know! The idea is that basically, we use busy-ness as a reason to avoid ourselves. I know, right? Hurts. It’s all done on a subconscious level; we don’t realise we are doing it and we don’t know what we might be trying to avoid. There were multiple comments under the picture from people saying things like ‘ouch!’, ‘oh dear’ and ‘wow…’, all realising that for them, it was spot-on.

Nicola Wolfe is the founder of the Menopause Maze programme and advocate to get Ireland talking about the issues women face as their hormones change and they enter the three stages of menopause. Wolfe’s background is nursing in health and social care and for the past 20 years has run a business called Wolfe Improve Limited with her husband Joe.

As vaccines roll out and case figures drop, we are all wondering if we dare to dream of foreign travel yet? And no one more so than Suzanne O’Leary, director of O’Leary Travel in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

Samantha Kelly hasn’t always been the Tweeting Goddess, she had a whole other life before she came into ours and created the Women’s Inspire Network.

They say when life gives you lemons make lemonade, but what do you do when life gives you a rare brain condition? Why, rebuild your life, start your own business and explore your creative side of course. Here is the inspiring story of a Dublin mum whose health diagnosis led to an uphill battle and a new start when she got there.

LinkedIn is a wonderful tool for business if you use it correctly. If not, then it’s simply a place you accept hundreds of connections from people you’ve never met before and it’s likely you never will.

Dainty Bear turns three this May. Owner Áine McGurk takes us through the inception of her baby shoe and accessories brand - from corporate IT to designing beautiful baby items.

Laura Grant is launching her family business on 18th of March. Lovelythings.ie sells pre-loved children’s clothing and we caught up with Grant to get her insights on starting her new business.

The diversity of human beings and the importance of self-knowing

This blog is an introduction to perimenopause and menopause and why self-care and education are crucial during this stage of our lives. This is the first blog of a number that will look at specific issues in menopause including sleep, exercise, mental health, HRT, heart health, bone health, brain health etc. The focus is to help empower women through information and support so that they can be proactive in optimising their health and wellbeing both for their personal life and their work life.

Sunday Morning Cure 'No More Hangxiety" is the latest book from reporter Angela Doyle Stuart and Therapist Karen Whelan and is in collaboration with Social Anxiety Ireland.

Discover six points to consider when creating your next PowerPoint to enhance your online presence.

Like it or loathe it cybersecurity is something you need to be on top of if you are running a small business. One wrong click and you can open yourself up to a whole ball of hassle at best anda financial loss at worst. But then I shouldn’t be ‘scaremongering’ you into reading further, as today’s cybersecurity expert explains, it’s nothing to fear, it’s something to become passionate about.

How many times this week have you opened the fridge or the cupboard just willing a meal to jump out at you? Even without all the challenges we are currently facing in our busy home lives if you are a busy entrepreneur one area we rarely put our energy into is a balanced diet. Nutritionist Laurann O’Reilly owns Nutrition By Laurann, a nutrition consultancy business and gives us her top tips when it comes to food prep.

Sonya Murphy-Lyons is the owner of the award-winning Mezzo Music Academy which she founded in 2011 after a career in marketing and sales. This experience certainly stood to her when last year’s initial lockdown forced her to close the ‘physical’ doors of her music school and move the entire operation online. It took resilience and persistence to make such dramatic changes, skills Sonya could call on from her lengthy career and life experiences prior to entrepreneurship.

Do these five things to maximize your panel presentation and keep your audience engaged.

How the forgotten hit of 90’s inspired headpieces is getting popular in wedding fashion? Time for us to tell you about a brand-new wedding designs, modern 90’s and vintage inspired wedding headpieces that we think you will want to know about, especially if you are looking for a bridal inspirations and original hair accessories you want to wear on your Big Day. So how do you decorate natural waves, loose hairstyles and loose braids this season to stand out from the crowd? Here they are - a bit forgotten, unjustly associated with the times of elementary school - headbands.

Serving customers is an easy task some may think. Serving a customer well is a challenging one. This document is written for pharmacies but could be used by anyone who serves the public in any role.

All wrapped up with our Top 10 Best Moments in 2020! Take a look!

Todays Blog is to share just three of the many tips, that can help you on your self love journey. Whitney Houston even sang about the greatest love of all a song written way back in 1977 !

My historical crime novels, The Abandoned (2018) and The Healer (2019) were kindle best-sellers and The Quiet Truth is launching now December 2020 and The Murdering Wives Club is set to be released in January 2021. Find The Quiet Truth my latest novel here – http://geni.us/TheQuietTruth

The pandemic has shown us how important online is for businesses. Online sales have increased as have users of social media. So what works? What is it that people want right now? Here are some tips to help you

The almost lost art of good listening is one of the cornerstones of good personal and business relationships. Maybe you 'll use it as a refresher. With so much going on all around we can loose sight of the wood with all those. Here's 5 straightforward tips on how to improve your communication.

Here's a little intro to what Shopify is, I hope you find it useful.

Expert travel planner, who helps tailor and book your perfect holiday ensuring that you have a stress free holiday and lasting holiday memories.

Now is a time for Deep Listening. If there was ever a time to STOP, a time to take notice of what is really going on for ourselves and in the world at large, it is NOW!. A time to reflect and take the opportunity to go inward and tune into ourselves to see how best we can move forward. Ironically, to retreat is often the best way to move forward in this life full of paradoxes!. I have a gift of a beautiful healing relaxation to help you with this, from my heart to yours.

As a parent and a business owner who is passionate about children's clothing, I want to share why I love handknits and handmade items. I feel privileged whenever a handmade item comes into stock and pass it on with joy and love to become a treasured possession for its new owner.

What it means to be a member, what I've learned, how this uniquely supportive community has helped me in business, and make friends with like-minded women.

The latest news from the network, our members and more.

A time of transition is never easy, and it can cause us to lose our focus. When life is challenging we need a symbol that signposts our way, to help us successfully navigate a major change. Author and Transformational Coach Val Mullally shares about her beloved ‘travel companion’ who powerfully reminds her of who she is called to be.

One of the perks of working from home is having no commute. But commuting has its benefits. It helps make the separation between work and home. Read on to learn about the benefit of creating a "Commute" while Working from Home.

Mentoring plays a vital role in so many journeys, but whilst 75% of professionals want a mentor, just over half that have one. Mantra Strategy explores the importance of mentoring from a personal perspective.

Helpful list of ways of coping, when everything seems to be getting too much.

Quick read - Motivation is one of the keys to success. Here's a handy list.

Here are a few suggestions to add into your daily meal planning to power up your energy and feeling fabulous so you can go out and conquer the world like you know you can!

4 Tips to help you improve your mobile phone photos.

As we adapt to the new normal of being further away from our customers, social media offers us a powerful solution to bring us closer and to keeping our channels of communication open - here are six tips on how you can can use social media to help your business during the Covid-19 pandemic.

It's an unprecedented time for leaders and employees. No one has really encountered the current crisis before in their careers and we are all feeling our way through. It's important that leaders know how to support their teams right now.

Here is how I filter out noise and operate more effectively as a business owner.

Do you know what your core values are? Could you list your top 5 if you were asked? Or has the epidemic of Covid19 made you reflect on who you really are and what makes you tick?

Do you have a book in you that you would love to publish but have no clue how to make this happen? Are stumbling blocks and information overload slowing you down? I am an author now turned publisher, and I can help you plan, proof, edit and perfect your book in a stress-free way. Here is my workaround!

An overview of the job interview process and common mistakes interviewers make with it. Did you know that asking "Are you married?" or "Do you have children?" in an interview could land you in trouble in Ireland? Have you ever offered someone a job during an interview or compared candidates to each other? If yes then this post is for you my friend. Read on....

Whether you are only starting out or have started writing and are in need of a creative nudge to Motivation Station, Tamara's 6 steps to blogging success will help you as you carve out your content development journey.

What do you do when someone breaks your heart? Do you cry and spend time obsessing over him? How about dusting yourself off and taking responsibility for your actions? How about reclaiming your power? If you don't want to spend time crying over someone who doesn't deserve your tears then this is the article for you.

In the current modern world of work, the requirement for managers of teams to increase their coaching skills and adapt their leadership styles have never been more important. Especially where we have multiple generations working together and teams being more often remote, being able to build and sustain high trust environments is a top skill. Having a growth mindset will support managers and leadership to adapt to the continuously changing circumstance they are functioning within.

How to keep going even when you don't feel like it! It's really important to take time out from running your business. But what if you can't? What if there are bills to pay and you need to get business in. Sometimes this is the reality of the small business owner.

Here are a few tips about essential oil usage to take the guess work out of natural solutions.

When considering stepping into the world of self-employment and running your own business, there is so much to consider. From “being scared to get started” to acknowledging that “it’s OK not to be perfect”, here are 5 things I wish I had known before getting started.

Do you ever feel like you're going to be "found out"? That your clients will realise that you're not really any good and won't want to work with you? You could be suffering from imposter syndrome, a psychological concept that affects 70% of people at some stage in their life.

The title of this blog sums up my reason for founding the SMBN - it is with great conviction that I speak to help raise awareness of the issues surrounding us to do my bit to minimise difficulty for others.

After the death of my son, my life changed. My world turned upside down.

Everyone has experienced a time when all you can see is a rough time ahead. Out of these experiences we learn the most valuable lessons. And, out of these lessons ideas.

We all know that SEO can be a bit of a dark art, what with search engine algorithms changing regularly, the millions being spend on paid search results and so on. That said, there are some basic steps that all website owners can take to ensure their site is optimised for search engines, to increase the chances of a visitor landing on their site. The first of these is keywords and this is what I will cover in this blogpost.

Some tips for remaining motivated as an entrepreneur, using the three universal psychological needs.

Bet you’ve never heard of “food jagging” before? Well, if you have a fussy or picky eater, you are more than likely to have experienced it. Food jagging is when a child has a very limited diet.

Tips for how to make the most of your WIN membership

Taking your brand to the next level with professional photographs that tell the story of your brand.

Since joining the Women's Inspire Network it has helped me on my journey through business and here are the top 5 things I have learned along the way!

Signs that you're ready to start delegating work to a Virtual Assistant

Use just 3 healing crystals to open up your heart chakra and invite love in.

A short article with tips to help you make 2019 your most productive year yet!

Get strong! The one question you need to ask yourself....

Coworking has been growing steadily over the last decade because many people now recognise the benefits to working in this type of environment. Demand for shared office space and meeting room space in Newry has risen so much that we’ve opened two more coworking sites here since our original coworking space in St Colmans Park opened its doors back in 2012. We now have shared office spaces in Abbey Yard and Margaret Street in the city as well, and other providers have followed suit as well – outside of Belfast, coworking enthusiasts in the city of Newry are leading the way in coworking!

2018 really was the year of content marketing and video creation. That trend is only set to grow in 2019 but what else is happening in the marketing world that we should be aware of? In no particular order, here are the top 10 marketing trends that I have observed for 2019:

Decluttering is the first of my happy habits, so start 2019 by getting rid of the things that no longer serve you.

Becoming a powerful communicator empowers your marketing.

Looking for gifts of self-care this season? Tune in to the great gift that we already give ourselves about 25,000 times a day. Learn 3 key elements to enhancing this gift and how you can reduce stress, increase productivity and your mood.

My name is Sharon Thompson and my second crime novel ‘The Healer’ is out on January 22nd 2019. My debut crime novel 'The Abandoned' launched as a number 1 Best-seller in January 2018. I've learned a great deal by starting to write and getting published with a leading digital publisher. Listen, learn and let yourself write is important. Build your writing life with these tips and more on my online writing group www.Indulgeinwriting.com

5 Ways that Sole Traders can minimise their Income Tax Liability

Lots of people ask me how to use Twitter lists so here's how I use them and why they are useful

If you're not growing then your dying. As you begin to thrive you ignite an energy right at the centre of your being that expands into the space around you. This is your growing edge. When you expand into this space you begin to experience all of the MAGIC of life.

How to learn to be more self-confident

Do YOU get the fear factor when you hear you’ve been called for a Competency based Interview? It puts the shivers up and down most candidates’ spines. Here is a summary of how I take the fear factor out of the equation resulting in an outstanding interview performance.

When was the last time you disconnected from your business 100%? When was the last time you switched your phone off or left it at home?

We asked our members to tell us honestly the realities behind the scenes of being a Female Entrepreneur - Suggested solutions by Samantha Kelly.

The challenge is to understand what you should be saying, to who you should be talking to, how should you say it and how and where to deliver your message. For that, you first need to start listening to your target audience and communicating in a language and style that they do, saying what they want to hear – not what you want to say! If you don’t do this right, all the content and marketing in the world won’t help you.