Hello Venusians, Welcome to my June newsletter.   Wow, we’re midway through June - doesn’t the year just zoom by when you’re having fun, I’d almost swear someone somewhere has shortened the weeks! So who has been getting up at 5am to watch the America’s Cup sailing?  I’ve had some early starts watching Emirates Team New Zealand race in the Louis Vuitton series and latterly in the America’s Cup, 5am starts wear you down! I have been known some days to pick up the phone at 10am and say good afternoon!  I have loved every minute of it though, my heart rate has been higher than normal with some close finishes but at least we’re racing in the America’s Cup against Oracle – fingers, toes and everything else crossed for that! Venus still has me in my happy place, isn’t it great when you love what you do? It’s keeping [...]

Hello Venusians, Welcome to my May newsletter, wow we’re already half way through the fifth month of the year. Time really does fly when you’re having fun! I’m happy to report that although I am busy I’m still very definitely in my happy place – it’s right you know, it doesn’t seem like work when you love what you’re doing. It’s just fun all the way! With the rebranding, I’ve had to rewrite a lot of our brochures so my writing skills have been stretched, as well as that I’ve been learning a whole lot about the website side of things and I’ve even been started using Hootsuite for Facebook! Jeanette Miller has been keeping a very close eye on the financial side of things and keeping us on track. The delegation of tasks to those much better at them than yourself is so important – everything seems to run sooooooooo [...]

Hello Venusians, welcome to my second newsletter, boy time really does fly when you’re having fun! Hasn’t the weather been atrocious recently – I’m so happy to be living on the boat, at least if it floods I know my home will float! My work life balance battle continues although I do think I’m getting on top of it. Sometimes though even lying on the couch on a Sunday afternoon I can’t stop thinking about Venus – I seem to have great ideas either then or dog walking! So what have I been up to? The last month saw me down in Christchurch catching up with the Regional Management Team and setting a plan in place for the next twelve months. As well as that I’ve been working with the Academy Managers and Facilitators and working through an Academy programme for each region. If you’re not sure what is going [...]