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Debbie Sutton - Winefriend

Debbie Sutton talks about how her entrepreneurial background and her passion for people helped her create Winefriend. She shares about the importance of balancing her fastidious nature with the demanding world of entrepreneurship.

Camp is coming - join us

Our Growth Camp is the second of our 3 annual Camps and will focus on scaling a business. Camp brings members together across the spectrum to share a conversation about success as a contribution to each other. More info here

Jenene Crossan - Suckcess Podcast

Flossie.com founder, Jenene Crossan, featured in co. issue 8 and shared her entrepreneurial journey. Since then, much has happened and she courageously opens up again with a deeply personal story.

How We Stay Inspired - I Love Food Co.

Our fab members Maree Glading and Jesse Stanley are the founders of I Love Food Co. They share with us how they keep inspired, motivated and nourished while growing their super-successful business

LegUP - Sales 101

LegUP is the series that delivers practical tools to champion the best me. In this video we're focusing on building our ease, skill and confidence with the business essential skill of Sales. Sales 101 promises you'll get rid of the yuck factor and love this process.

Leading the Charge - Naomi Ballantyne

Naomi Ballantyne (ONZM), founder of Partners Life, talks about crashing through the glass ceiling of the insurance industry with a healthy dose of intellect and humour.

Co.W TV

The 'What Drives Me' Series - Vol. 1

This is the first installment of the 'What Drives Me' series. We had our fab member Megan May, founder of Little Bird Organics and The Unbakery, share what drives her on her success journey.

LegUP - Sales 101

LegUP LITE - Sales 101

LegUP is the series that delivers practical tools to champion the best me. In this video we'll intro the tool that focuses on building our ease, skill and confidence with the business essential skill of Sales. (upgrade to prime for the full tool!)

Debbie Sutton - Winefriend

Dame Julie Christie shares on aging

We continue with our series 'the advantages of aging for women' with one of our most experienced members and proven entrepreneur Dame Julie Christie. She shares her take in her hallmark honest & humorous fashion.

Members share on aging - Nazla Carmine

Let's turn our attention to the advantages of aging for women. We're starting this new series with our fab member, founder of Cocktail Collective shareing her take on what shes found to be the positives of aging.

Camp is coming - join us

The Female Factor - Georgia Meek & Kiri Nathan

This installment of the Female Factor series features Kiri Nathan, founder of high fashion label Kiri Nathan and Georgia Meek, founder of The Babysitters Club. They share their take on what being female means for them in business.

The Female Factor - Monica Chen & Theresa Gattung

The second in the Female Factor series features Uno Property Management founder, Monica Chen and Co.OfWomen chair Theresa Gattung. They give us their take on what the Female Factor in in business.

Audette Exel - The Female Factor

This first of The Female Factor Series features Audette Exel AO. She is the founder & chair of the Adara Group, a NZ Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs inductee and is a front runner in the social enterprise movement.

Sandra Mu shares her Top tips

Sandra Mu, founder of Jump, New Zealand's first indoor trampoline park, shares what she loves about being a part of our Co.OfWomen community as well as a some of her top tips that you can add to your thinking.

Diane Hurford shares her top tips

Founder of Brolly Sheets, Diane Hurford, talks about Co.Coaching and shares few gems that she's picked up along her success journey. Add these to your toolkit and champion your success.

Hady Wenham Shares her Top Tips

Hady Wenham has garnered a range of experiences in her journey to making Forme Spa & Wellbeing into the largest of its kind in NZ. She shares her top tips so we can fuel our own success journey.

LegUP - The Female Factor

LegUP delivers practical tools to champion success. This installment is all about The Female Factor. It focuses on 5 key areas that will help harness our innate drivers to propel our success

Hady Wenham - Forme Spa & Wellbeing

Having built the largest national spa & wellbeing business Hady Wenham has a vast array of experience to share. We sat down with her to draw from that so we could add that wisdom to our own.

Julia Matthews shares her top tips

Our fab member Julia Matthews founded the start-up company Two Islands with her sister Libby. She shares the tips and tricks she's learnt from and picked up along her awesome journey.

Sarah Paykel shares her top tips

Our board member and the founder of Lush Australasia Sarah Paykel is dynamic and resourceful. She shares her proven top tips as a contribution to your journey.

Brianne West shares her Top Tips

Our fab member Brianne West, the brains behind Ethique shares her top tips. With a following of hundreds (including a few big names), she shares what she's learnt on her fast-moving journey so far.

Debbie Sutton & Nazla Carmine share top tips

Our fab members Debbie Sutton, founder of WineFriend and Nazla Carmine from The Cocktail Collective share the top tips that have helped them grow their business so you can add a few more to yours.

LegUP - the 3Rights tool

The series that's made to give you a leg up by delivering even more practical tools to champion the best me. This episode talks about the 3Rights tool, to help you build mastery, faster.

Jenene Crossan - Suckcess Podcast

Flossie.com founder, Jenene Crossan, featured in co. issue 8 and shared her entrepreneurial journey. Since then, much has happened and she courageously opens up again with a deeply personal story.

Jenny Joblin - Federation

Founder of iconic streetwear fashion brand Federation, Jenny Joblin shares about the evolution of her fab brand with it's cult following and finding the resilience to bring it back from the brink, even stronger.

the social restauranteur

We chatted with Bird on a Wire co-founder Sophie Gilmour about all sorts of facets to her journey in building this great biz. A fab podast to inspire your thinking. Tune in to hear Sophie share in her hallmark generous, laid back way.

the Healthcare Champion

Together with her husband Ranjna Patel is the founder of Nirvana Healthcare group, the largest primary healthcare provider in the country. We talk about her compelling, impressive journey with this truly humble woman.

it's all about the bounce

Sandra Mu is the founder of Jump, NZ’s Premier Indoor Trampoline Park. Jump was the first of its kind in NZ when introduced it in 2013 and has taken the backyard trampoline fun to the extreme, not only for kids as most expect but also for adults.

she's the hospo queen

Mimi Gilmour has hospitality in her blood. Just 25 when she opened her first restaurant, she how has 5 under her belt, including one national brand, the fab Mexico restaurants. We found out what drives this inspiring woman.

lady lush was her game

Sarah Paykel was the founder of Lush Australasia and a board member of Co.OfWomen. We chat with her about entrepreneurship, resilience, managing stress, the job of motherhood and asked her for some great advice for business women.

CO.W Tales

Leading the Charge - Naomi Ballantyne

Naomi Ballantyne (ONZM), founder of Partners Life, talks about crashing through the glass ceiling of the insurance industry with a healthy dose of intellect and humour.

Get Flossied - Jenene Crossan

The founder of flossie.com, Jenene Crossan, talks all about flossie,finance and the female factor. Twenty years of spearheading first-to-market digital innovations have seen her grow into a highly seasoned capital raiser.

Smart Thinking

Fashion designer Karen Walker needs no introduction to most of us. She’s a household name - no mean feat when it comes to the fickle world of fashion - and a 2017 inductee to The NZ Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs.

Unstoppable Mimi

Restaurateur and serial entrepreneur Mimi Gilmour has been on a fast-paced roller coaster ride for the last decade, scaling the heights of success and swooping to the lows of decline.

the ultimate juggler

Founder of Lush Australasia, investor, advisor, philanthropist and mum extraordinaire, Sarah Paykel shares about juggling the balls of life and business, empowerment, and creating A-Teams.

leaving brinkville

Jenny Joblin is the founder of the iconic Kiwi streetwear label, Federation. She’s shares openly about surviving a perfect storm in her business and coming back from the brink.

to be the best

Ranjna Patel and her husband Dr Kantilal Patel have changed the face of Auckland’s healthcare, transcending barriers and using a simple philosophy: Here to serve.

it's a bravolution

She’s a ball of energy but make no mistake, Rose & Thorne’s founder Sue Dunmore is a business dynamo. The secret of her success? Well, you'd better read on to find out!

CO.W Thinking

How We Stay Inspired - I Love Food Co.

Our fab members Maree Glading and Jesse Stanley are the founders of I Love Food Co. They share with us how they keep inspired, motivated and nourished while growing their super-successful business

How I Funded My Business - Brianne West

Brianne West of Ethique, which counts Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher among its fans, took a very different route to securing the capital to expand her business.

What Can I Learn from the Trailblazers

Meet Co.OfWomen’s founding chair, serial entrepreneur Dr Lee Mathias. A significant leader in the healthcare sector, she is the Birthcare and Labtests and director & shareholder of Pictor, to name a few.

Beyond Juggling

Being a woman in business is different to being a man in business – and that’s something to celebrate. As a broad generalisation, women and men have different innate skill sets, which have different advantages in business...

what to do when you stuff up

We check in with emerging entrepreneurial superstar Sophie Gilmour of Bird On A Wire and internationally successful Dame Julie Christie about setbacks, near-fails and working through hurdles.

from burnout to bliss

If you feel the juggle of life and business weighing you down, take heart. You’re most definitely not alone and maybe you can take a leaf from these members stories

on being fearless

As business owners we face myriad challenges and difficult decisions. It’s how they deal with those challenges that makes all the difference.

understanding the female way

Nurturers, supporters, multitaskers – do these intrinsic behaviours help or hinder our success in business? Actually, they do both.

CO.W Tools

Who's Feeding the Leader?

Co.OfWomen founder, Tara Lorigan, delves deep into the question: who’s feeding the leader?

Preparing to Sell

After doing the hard yards of capital raising to build and grow your company you may reach a point where selling your business is your aim

End the Juggle Struggle

Life coach, author, wellness warrior and entrepreneur Louise Thompson dishes out her advice on doing it all and remaining sane.

Is an advisory board for you?

Jo Doolan shares some wisdom on the role an advisory board can play in supporting the success of a growing business so you can consider whether this could be useful for you.

reduce your risk and succeed

It’s official, NZ is the No. 1 place for ease of doing business according to the World Bank but the flip is half of our businesses fail in their first 5 years. Here are some clues to ensure we keep ours on track.