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Andrea Egan is director of Melbourne-based online baby wear and gift retailer Button Baby. For further information visit www.buttonbaby.com.au
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Georgie Cornish is the mother of a seven month-old girl and the owner of www.activegifts.com.au - delivering quality and thoughtful sports gift baskets to active people around the Australia.
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Jen Dobbie is a freelance copywriter. Contact her at jendobbiecopy@gmail.com
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Danielle Di-Masi is a keynote speaker and business trainer. She specialises in business etiquette and all things around behaviours and human interaction; especially in building effective business relationships through connection and rapport. Danielle has worked and presented for some of the biggest companies and events in Australia and the US. For further information on Danielle visit: www.nextbusinessleaders.com
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Kathryn Hocking is mum and a Director of Reverie Coaching, a Career and Life Coaching Business located in Adelaide, SA Specialising in working mums and mumpreneurs. For further information visit: www.reveriecoaching.com
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Janet Powell, The Parenting Coach of Mentor Maestro helps parents create wonderful family relationships and overcome the challenges of parenting today. With Janet’s help, parents gain skills, strategies, self-insights and the confidence to be the best parents they can be.
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Laura Bishop is the Director of Little Bird Nanny Share. She spent 15 years in corporate life, and returned to work when her daughter was six months old. She has worked both full and part-time since then. The significant challenges for women returning to work after having children prompted Laura to set up Little Bird Nanny Share to reduce stress for working parents. Little Bird provides handpicked nannies and personally matches like-minded families to share their cost.
Follow Laura’s blog at www.little-bird.com.au/blog
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Pinky McKay, International Board certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), runs a private practice in Melbourne. She’s a best-selling author with four titles published by Penguin; Sleeping Like a baby, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Toddler Tactics and Parenting By Heart, endorsed by The Australian Breastfeeding Association, La Leche League International and The Australian Association of Infant Mental Health. Pinky’s gentle parenting techniques offer effective, proven alternatives to “baby training approaches” which may have long term negative effects on infants’ emotional and mental health and undermine parents’ confidence and connection with their little ones. Her real-world experience stems from being the mother of five and grandmother of three.
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Jackie Hall is a not only a life coach, course facilitator and life coach trainer for the Anti-Depression Association of Australia (ADAA) but is also the mother of two boys aged four and five. She has worked with many clients who have had stress, depression and anxiety and has also trained counsellors and psychologists in the ADAA method. Having suffered from bouts of depression and anxiety during her own experience of motherhood, she began searching for effective answers. Unable to find any, she created ways to change her own m indset towards motherhood and then combined them with recent training from the ADAA. The result is The Happy Mum Handbook.
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Anna Grigg is a mother and qualified fitness professional from Sydney’s Northern Beaches with experience in personal/group training and social running squads. Anna is also a competitive long distance runner who regular competes in events up to half marathon distance.
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Jayneen Sanders is the author of the children’s picture book ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’; see: www.somesecrets.info
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An HR and marketing professional turned new mother, Mei found her life upturned by the arrival of a bouncing baby boy. Life certainly took a different tack with date-night and the luxury of time disappearing swiftly! Finding the right babysitter for her precious little man was often a focus but harder than she thought. It was the same with all her friends.The objective became trying to solve the babysitter problem and help other busy parents like her find a more effective way to find babysitters.
Why not take just an hour or so out of their day to meet a group of pre-interviewed babysitters in one go? What an idea! And so, Meet A Sitter was born! To find out more about Mei's service please visit www.meetasitter.com.au.
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Dr Heyworth has provided professional medical advice to thousands of families, foster carers, teachers, guidance officers and general practitioners over her 15 years of practicing psychiatry. Specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry for 11 years, Dr Heyworth has developed the „Jungle‟ analogy for children‟s emotions and behaviour that has implications for understanding the behaviour of us all. Dr Heyworth is a frequent speaker at local and state government child behaviour workshops and regularly holds her own seminars discussing strategies to manage and understand child and adolescent behavioural issues.
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Emma Grey is the author of Wits’ End Before Breakfast! Confessions of a Working Mum (Lothian, 2005). Her training consultancy, www.worklifebliss.com.au, throws a lifeline to women who are struggling to ‘have it all’ and she offers a free eBook on the site, called ‘The 7 Types of Busy: how to untangle yourself from having too much’. Emma has three children and two step-children – two young adults, a teen, a tween and a toddler. She’s two books in, writing a teen-fiction trilogy (no vampires) and loves travel, social networking and ABBA tribute nights and she blogs every so often at www.emmacatherinegrey.blogspot.com.
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Michelle worked as a teacher before establishing Youth Excel in 2000, a charity
devoted to working with teenagers from all walks of life to ensure they reach their
full potential. Youth Excel delivers small group programs and mentoring to
hundreds of teenage girls in Brisbane each year, ensuring Michelle remains at the
cutting edge of teenage culture. Her core philosophy is that families and
communities hold the key to the issues facing Australia’s youth.
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Jenny Chapman is a Newcastle based psychologist who works predominantly with children. Jenny has extensive experience working with children and their families on modifying childhood behaviour.
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Jai Waugh is a Melbourne hypnotherapist, counsellor, wife and mother of two.
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Dr Julia Driscoll is a married mother of three children and has been a practicing GP in the Northern Beaches area of Cairns for a number of years. Julia has a passion for both writing and children. She has a special interest in childhood health and development. She is the author of My Story that prevents sibling rivalry by smoothing the intro of a new baby. Visit www.juliaschildrensbooks.com for more information.
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Linda Enever has a distinctive history in the staffing and recruiting arena; a decade with various companies where she became skilled & respected recruiter and manager valued by her clients, candidates staff and colleagues alike. With her journey to motherhood through Linda planned and created Family Capers a resource for all things family and most recently has founded Media Connections to connect Media and Business.
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Janine Fitzpatrick, a wannabe blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.
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Kate Heylen is a mum and founder of Little Black Table
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Kim is a professional astrologer who has a passion for helping mums understand their kids through astrology. She also has a special interest in helping new mums maintain their own identity and uniqueness through exploring their birth chart. Kim has a website with an online store where she has sourced many beautiful spiritual products for children – www.krysalisastrology.com.au. She also writes a children’s astrology blog – www.krysaliskids.com
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Cassie Hamer is a freelance writer with a background in TV journalism and
PR. She is currently studying a masters degree in creative writing. Her two children and husband would prefer she get a bachelor's in play-doh. Instead, for family fun they all sit around the computer and watch Cassie blog. You can follow it at www.mumplusmore.blogspot.com
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Jody Allen is the founder of Stay at Home Mum - The Secret to Living on One Wage: www.stayathomemum.net.au. Her blog is all about money saving ideas for mums. I feature a lot of frugal recipes, how to make your own cleaning products, organisation tips, cleaning hints and some realistic work at home opportunities for mums.
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Sally-Anne Blanshard is an energetic and focussed Coach who is skilled in the helping you navigate your thinking to create positive changes in life. Coaching programs are available in areas of Career, Job Search, Small Business and Motherhood.
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Rhian Allen, from Sydney, is a mum of one who launched her own weight loss for women company, www.losebabyweight.com.au, on October 1 2010. After studying a part time nutrition course, Rhian left a 12 year media career to pursue her dreams of running her own business in the health and weight loss industry and in August 2011 Lose Baby Weight won Best Customer Service Award and the Emerging Mumpreneur of the Year Award at the annual AusMumpreneur Awards. Since launching the Company, Lose Baby Weight has helped mums across Australia and New Zealand lose over 75,000kg and regain their energy and health post pregnancy.
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Mish is the founder and CEO of mishfit. mishfit mothers is a specialised personal training program designed for pregnant and post-natal women, educating women on how to exercise safely and where their babies and children are welcome. mishfit is truly a family friendly small business and is now available as a franchise. To find out more, please visit www.mishfit.com.au
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Janell is a mum and owner of BabyButton. Janell is a work at home mum and combines caring for her 2 year old daughter Addison with making and selling Breastfeeding Covers and other Baby Products.
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Beverley is the owner of LifelineDesign - a professional organising company specialising in creating customised solutions based on people's unique needs and personality. From preparing for baby’s arrival, to managing a busy family and household, LifelineDesign helps people navigate through the chaos and get organised.
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Perdida is a freelance writer
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Bruce is a freelance writer
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Shannon is a freelance writer
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R Buchwald is a freelance writer
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Charlotte is a freelance writer
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Mary Ann is a freelance writer
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Dr Kristie is a freelance writer
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Renee is a freelance writer
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Zoe is a freelance writer
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Andrea is a freelance writer
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Barbie is a freelance writer
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April is a freelance writer
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Lauren is a freelance writer
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Renee is a freelance writer
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S E Leisure is a freelance writer
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Angie is a freelance writer
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Katie is a freelance writer
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Leigh-Anne is a freelance writer
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Dr Doyle is a freelance writer
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Jennifer is a freelance writer
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Liz is a freelance writer
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DG Conti is a freelance writer
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S Paterson is a freelance writer
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Leonie MacDonald is a mother of two and author of Birth Journeys – positive birth stories to encourage and inspire (www.birthjourneys.com.au).
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Suzanne Murphy is the owner of Baby Butler, the ultimate organiser for busy parents to be. www.babybutler.com.au
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The motherpedia.com.au team is made up of a variety of mums across Australia.
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Kylie is the founder of What Can I Eat? She has more than 15 years experience working with people dealing with food allergies and intolerance.
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Katelyn Vercoe is a freelance writer
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Samantha Leah is a mum and co-owner of Beautiful Fairy Photobooks. Samantha loves being a part of a business that helps people to record their own special stories.
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Jessica is a member of CAPA (the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW) with a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Sydney and near completing her Masters of Applied Psychotherapy and Counselling from the Jansen Newman Institute. Jessica currently works part time for a private psychiatric hospital in Sydney and has extensive experience working with a wide range of presenting problems.
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As Health Strategies Director for Cancer Council NSW, Kathy is responsible for leading cancer prevention work, focusing on encouraging healthy living. She is passionate about making healthy choice the easy choice for Australians, young and old and she is one of the leading Australian researchers on junk food marketing and pester power. As a qualified nutritionist, she is also a foodie who enjoys cooking for family and friends.
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Dr Melanie Strang lives in south east Melbourne with her family & is passionate about issues relating to transition to motherhood. She has an interest in antenatal education and wellbeing during and after pregnancy.
Melanie is a(n):
-Medical practitioner (Bsc MBBS)
-Support worker with PANDA (Post and Antenatal Depression Association)
-Online teacher with Oceania University of Medicine
-Experienced practitioner in mental health and public health
-A mother of two young children
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Mel Haynes is an experienced chef and a qualified nutritionist. Her blog can be viewed at www.melhaynes.com.au
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Janine is the Senior Analyst at Wealth Within, a private investment company specialising in managing direct share portfolios through their Individual Managed Account Service. The company is also a government accredited specialist share market educator, where Janine is one of only two lead trainers educating people how to invest and trade the share market.
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Eleni Mitakos is the Managing Director of Galmatic and mother to Zoe 6 and Ava 3. Galmatic is an all Australian company, with a strong passion for empowering women to take the driver’s seat when it comes to cars, driving and the road safety of their family and friends. For more details on Galmatic visit www.galmatic.com
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Amanda Ferguson is the owner of Blue Sky Health & Fitness in Bayside Melbourne. Check out the website at www.blueskyfitness.com.au
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Laura Trotta (BEng (Enviro), MSc (Enviro Chem) is an eco mum, environmental engineer and founder of www.sustainababy.com.au. She lives in regional South Australia with her husband Paul and son, Matthew.
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Tahlia Mandie is a psychotherapist and family counsellor. She blogs daily at www.theparentingfiles.com.au
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Philip Pryor is a Director of the Great Parents Institute. Philip is a dad of two wonderful girls who, he shamelessly admits, has tested all his theories out on! So far, even with a marriage break-up, one child with a severe chronic disease and one hitting adolescence he is prepared to concede he’s done not too bad a job. His aim to have happy settled kids who enjoy life, is well on track.
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Bonita has been a typical busy working mum. She has worked at senior executive levels within federal government and the not-for-profit sector while also helping to run the local junior football (soccer) club in Canberra and Brisbane where her boys played.
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Kate McQuestin is a mum of two, Oliver and Isabella and founded motherpedia.com.au in December 2011.
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