This is the answer when you want to eat well and are too busy to cook. Committed to using fresh local produce and making all the meals from scratch this is going to be the most healthiest nourishing take out you could buy.

Alana is a great friend who has always been passionate about food. After a couple of years of thinking and dreaming about how she could have a successful, sustainable business that would feed, nurture and support her customer  the brand “meat and three veg” was created.

So if yo want delicious, fresh, real, yummy and affordable food it is easy MEAT AND THREE VEGE

Mum’s the word in this office

4th April 2011  Ellen Irvine

Flirted with getting a job

Business consultant Angela Beatson meets plenty of women just like her. She believes Tauranga women are creating their own incomes because of a lack of jobs and creative industry in the city.
There’s not enough businesses helping these women. I think there’s probably a lot of women like myself, who are mums with a couple of kids. They probably had very successful jobs before they moved here, so they have gone ‘let’s try it’.
“People think, what have I got to lose? I can’t get a job, I don’t want to work in retail or at the bank or at the port or council, so what do I really want to do?”
Angela had always been an entrepreneur, and owned a recruitment agency in Auckland.
After moving to Tauranga and selling up, she briefly flirted with getting a job, but lasted just four weeks before deciding she was better off on her own.
As mum to Taylor, 7, and Kaia, 5, there are huge advantages to being her own boss.
“If they have something on and I want to be there, I can.
“If they are sick, I can just stop and look after my babies. I don’t leave my clients in the lurch, but I work out what is there that needs to be done today.”
Sick leave is a big issue for working mums in conventional jobs, says Angela. “I watch the stress that comes on my friends who are employed, and get five sick days a year and four weeks’ annual leave.”
Angela is also a director of RPMs, a business she runs with husband Nelson. The couple juggle childcare between them, with Angela packing as much as she can into the time the girls are at school. She also works weekends and nights.
There are other challenges: money can be an issue, and the couple recently sold their house to get rid of the high overhead of a mortgage.
“There’s a huge amount of freedom, but there’s no security and consistency with your finances. You never know what you are going to bring in and how or when. That can be really hard.”
Working from home also means it’s difficult to escape your work. But all things considered, being a mumpreneur is the best thing for this businesswoman.
“Owning your own business feels like you are living, you are making your own choices.”

We are both entrepreneurs and are constantly evolving, growing and assessing each and every step of owning and managing a new concept business.

If you are a car enthusiast or you know one - this is the perfect gift for any guy or girl.

Visit the website www.rpmsnz.co.nz for more information.

The Cardiac Clinic provides specialist exercise prescription and supervised exercise sessions for people at risk of heart disease or those who have suffered a cardiac event and need to improve the efficiency of their heart.

The business is new to the Bay of Plenty and because of that branding and marketing are so important. I am focused on the people of Tauranga knowing and understanding what The Cardiac Clinic does but essentially in my opinion it has been set up to save the lives of the Tauranga Community who are affected by heart disease or a related disorder.

For more information visit the website www.thecardiacclinic.co.nz or contact anna@thecardiacclinic.co.nz

Desiree contacted me to help her with the “re-brand” of her business. She wanted her new brand to look professional to her clients, the medical industry and to the students from all around the world.

Ian Green from 13 Elements designed the logo and Quinn O’Connell did the photo shoot so that Desiree had her own library of stock images. The branded print material is hot of the press and the website is having some final tweaks from Sheryl Huiadesign before it goes live.

This is an amazing project for me. I have loved seeing the development of the brand take place and it feels so beautiful and calm which is exactly what the client wanted for her clients.

www.aetiology.co.nz

Working with Michelle at Printstop and the design team we created all of the print material and then Sheryl Huiadesign developed and designed a very simple one page website to give Be Great Coaching web presence.

We are now working together developing the marketing and communication of the brand and new training programmes for Real Estate businesses to invest in.

For more information visit the website www.begreatcoaching.co.nz

Bernadette wanted to create a business that would use her passion, having the joyful life. Together we worked on the brand story, the brand look and feel and watched it come to life by Sheryl Huiadesign through print and web.

Bernadette is available for Coaching, Training and Speaking so if you or your business needs some JOY then contact bernadette@thejoyfullife.co.nz

For any further information visit the website www.thejoyfullife.com

Thank you so very much for thinking about me and inviting me to your gorgeous get together. Regrettably I won’t be able to make it, but I’d at least like to take this opportunity to say thank you  for your contribution towards making Pet Partners so unique; and to congratulate you on the wonderful development of One Good Idea.

One of the most powerful things you told me, that I carry with me always, was…

“Whatever you do, make sure it looks and feels beautiful, that way you’ll always be remembered”

I hope I’m staying true to that sentiment and thank you for sharing it…
Wishing you all a truly happy and dazzling evening!

Love Debs x

DEBORAH BODGER
PET PARTNERS LIMITED
P: 07 544 8279 M: 021 119 8554
E:  deb@petpartners.co.nz
W: www.petpartners.co.nz

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