5 Tips for SEO Copywriting as a Work From Home Mom/Mum

How to Work From Home as a SEO Copywriter My business is providing SEO copywriting services to fitness, health and wellness brands. I launched it 3 years ago to create a job that fitted around getting kids to school and kinder. I’ve always loved writing and studied it many years ago, so I wanted my […]

5 Tips for WAHM’s from Karin Lee of Florapeutic

How to Manage a Social Enterprise as a Work From Home Mum of a 3-Year- Old Based in North Parramatta, NSW, Florapeutic is a social enterprise on a mission to tackle the flower waste issue and improve the mental wellbeing of our communities in Australia. In the midst of 2020, I started Florapeutic which specialises […]

9 Words That Changed My View on Contentment

If comparison steals our joy, then guess what steals our contentment?

I propped my head up with my hands at our kitchen table as my 3-year-old daughter scribbled in her coloring book. It was just one of those days where our modular home felt too small, our secondhand furniture felt too beat up, and I wasn’t seeing the silver lining in all this “frugal living” stuff. […]

My One Word for 2016

If you could choose one word to launch your year, what would it be?

Up until this weekend, my one word for 2016 was going to be: Quality. I was going to polish up and perfect my message of personal finance and parenting. Then something not-so-shiny, but oh-so-real happened. Something I wrote, something raw and personal and honest, went viral. Somehow, my journey fused with thousands of other people. […]

4 Valuable Lessons I Learned From My Blog Readers in 2015

Readers are the lifeline to successful blogging. Here are four reasons why I'm saying "Thank You" today.

This year has been an INCREDIBLE journey. I’ve been blogging since 2006, but it wasn’t until February of 2015 that I launched my first self-hosted blog in the hopes of going pro. I had no idea how to do that at first, so that’s where your help became invaluable. Photo Credit: John Ottosson (Unsplash)   This […]

How Does Your Spouse Truly Feel About Your Finances?

What are the benefits to putting your worries aside and asking how things are going?

When did you last ask your spouse about the state of your finances?  No one is reading this over your shoulder, so just be honest with yourself.  Wives, when did you last ask what your husband’s goals and aspirations were?  Husbands, when did you last look your wife in the eye and ask if she […]