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How to distinguish your idea, business or brand

Many years ago when I first entered the world of recording artists, I was faced with a creative challenge: how to be seen and heard in a marketplace swamped with artistic talent.

Level-up My Leadership | Optimising My Time

In this Level-up session, Tara covers the fundamentals of harnessing our time.  In a time when we've all bought into the myth that there isn't enough time, the truth is that we do.  So it's possible to learn how to do this! Importantly, doing this promises a huge increase in our sense of calm, confidence and clarity, which as it turns out is the brains optimal performance mode, so means we'll be highly productive!

How to Keep a Full Tank of Energy During Busy Seasons

As we gear up for the busy season, maintaining a full tank of energy is not just about achieving year-end goals; it's also about finishing the year strong and enjoying a well-deserved break during the holiday season. 

The 4 Well-BEings of Teams

When I get a call from a new client, usually along the lines of ‘My Teams a little broken’ or ‘We just don’t seem to be getting the results we are looking for’ (or something along the lines of ‘HELP!’), I’m all in. What I typically find, ninety-five per cent of the time, the problem is because one or some of the fundamentals are either missing or a little bit wobbly. 

Level-up My Leadership | Being Optimal For High-Performance

In this Level-up session, Co.OfWomen founder Tara talks about the responsibility of leadership for being optimal, what being optimal consists of and how to build our own optimal practices for maintaining our buoyancy that will be guarantee we never burn-out!

Setting Personal Goals in 2024 – have you set your goals yet?

As women continue to ascend into an ever-increasing number of senior roles across various industries, the significance of setting personal goals becomes a cornerstone for success and shouldn’t be overlooked.  Now is a pivotal time for introspection, confirming aspirations and mapping out a strategy for what you want to achieve, as we approach April, the start of the new financial year for many of us.    

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Level-up My Leadership | Optimising My Time

In this Level-up session, Tara covers the fundamentals of harnessing our time.  In a time when we've all bought into the myth that there isn't enough time, the truth is that we do.  So it's possible to learn how to do this! Importantly, doing this promises a huge increase in our sense of calm, confidence and clarity, which as it turns out is the brains optimal performance mode, so means we'll be highly productive!

Level-up My Leadership | Being Optimal For High-Performance

In this Level-up session, Co.OfWomen founder Tara talks about the responsibility of leadership for being optimal, what being optimal consists of and how to build our own optimal practices for maintaining our buoyancy that will be guarantee we never burn-out!

Level-up My Leadership | The Neuroscience of Performance

In this session Co.OfWomen founder Tara covers off some important brain fundamentals. These create an easily digestible understanding of how we can interact with our brain to create new ways of thinking, being and doing. This is one of our Community’s fave sessions!

Level-up My Leadership |

In Session One of the programme we consider the context for our default behaviours as woman - why we go small, struggle to prioritise what we need and what needs focus to shift the beyond that to a powerful state that works in synergy with what we most want.

Conversations With Entrepreneurs - Meet the billion dollar founder

Naomi Ballantyne is arguably one of the most successful people in Insurance in Aotearoa. Founder of three insurance businesses, Naomi is most recently founder of Partners Life - a business she sold for just over 1-billion dollars in 2022). She shares her journey with some epic gems to encourage and invigorate yours.

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Female Leadership Conference (Podcast Ver)

Get ready and rejuvenated as our founder, Tara Lorigan, provides practical tools to unlock your epic female power to turbocharge your leadership.

IGNITE LEADER SERIES FT. DR LEE MATHIAS ONZM

In this IGNITE Leader Series former Chair of Co.OWomen, Theresa Gattung CNZM chats with Co.OfWomen founding Chair Dr Lee Mathias ONZM about her journey to becoming and serial entrepreneur, health care innovator, and experienced director and investor.

Intelligence of Success Ft. Emily Miller-Sharma

Prepare to be stimulated as our founder, Tara Lorigan, chats with member Emily Miller-Sharma about her life, her leadership, and her growth.

Co.W Talks ft. Christina Wood

Christina Wood, Co-founder of Liberty Brewing, shares her story of taking her brand from the garage to the world one beer at a time.

Co.W Talks - Dame Pieter Stewart

New Zealand Fashion industry legend, Dame Pieter Stewart earnestly weighs in on what made her success possible, her inspirations, and her challenges (and her love of them).

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Intelligence of Success ft. Kaz Staples

Inducted into the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the food industry in 2019, the passionate, driven, resilient and utterly charismatic Kaz Staples has had an incredible success journey. In this Webinar, Kaz talks us through how Pure Delish turned from a home-based hobby brand to a household brand name, with twists and turns that seem more dramatic than most.

Intelligence of Success ft. Brianne West

It's got to be said that Ms Brianne West could be just a little bit unicorn, such has been the epic rise of her awesome solid bar cosmetics business, Ethique. In this live Zoom interview this incredible member shares about that rise and the actual journey!

Confidence Masterclass

In this video we'll get you very well acquainted with the all important success tool CONFIDENCE. Learn how to move through the world with assurance and achieve whatever the heck you want to. Hell yes.

Intelligence of Success ft. Jenene Crossan

Jenene, Jenene, Jenene - our Lady of Resilience. Watch her tell the brilliant story of where she's come from, how she got to where she is and what kept her going through the whole thing. A savvy businesswoman with sass, intellect and a knack for surviving in style.

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Building a Dynasty the Kiwi Way - Cilla Hegarty

Cilla Hegarty made the momentous decision to start not one but several businesses while her firstborn was still a child. Here she shares how and why she made that eyebrow-raising life choice, and the incredible advantages that came from it.

Blazing a trail from the land into the future

Mavis Mullins lets us in on her remarkable backstory, how she ended up where she is, and the unmatched importance of family in her journey.

Growing up blonde and Māori

Sara Orme shares a personal story of life experience based on the distinctive hardships associated with being both white and Māori.

The Business of Fashion - Anna-Lise Sharma

Anna-Lise Sharma (of RUBY) has combined chutzpah and intelligence with a dash of strategy and a healthy dose of confidence to take her down a career path that seamlessly blends her commercial nous with a passion for fashion.

To be the best (Ranjna Patel, Tāmaki Health)

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.

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Setting Personal Goals in 2024 – have you set your goals yet?

As women continue to ascend into an ever-increasing number of senior roles across various industries, the significance of setting personal goals becomes a cornerstone for success and shouldn’t be overlooked.  Now is a pivotal time for introspection, confirming aspirations and mapping out a strategy for what you want to achieve, as we approach April, the start of the new financial year for many of us.    

Navigating a Separation

A new beginning is the leaving behind of something old and is the opportunity to draw a physical and emotional line that mentally separates the past and the future. If your new begging is separating from your partner, you are not alone. 



How to distinguish your idea, business or brand

Many years ago when I first entered the world of recording artists, I was faced with a creative challenge: how to be seen and heard in a marketplace swamped with artistic talent.

How to keep our relationships functioning in the 'Silly Seasons'

While many see Christmas as a time of festive celebration, giving thanks and bringing people together, the season can also impact relationships, place pressure on couples and further strain on fragile relationships to bring things to a head.

How to end your year on a high as a team

Now I don’t want to alarm you and drop the 'C bomb' into your day, but it will soon be Holiday time!  For a lot of us, our businesses will shut down, and our teams will go off for a well-deserved break.

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Level-up My Leadership | Optimising time

Session 5 in this series gets us ready to activate the state of energised tranquillity through learning about how to focus on what's most important and how to harness our time in service of ourselves and our mission.

The 4Qs Review - Strategic Reflection tool


The 4Qs - or four questions - are insight-generating questions designed to enable us to finish the work day on a high. That will be possible because the tool focuses on studying successes and what we brought to them and when we do that the brain produces a specific set of chemicals that make us feel good, often great. It's based on the principle we call 'start and finish the day as a leader'.


The LegUP series - resilience

A masterclass on the scientific and practical theory behind resilience. Get comfy and listen to Tara outline just what resilience is and how our brains can be trained with specific tools to maintain a more consistent level of calm and happiness and ready ourselves for anything.

Case Study: Debbie Sutton (podcast)

Hear Debbie speak about what she’s hoping to achieve with her business, how important her team members are and how she dealt with an almost-disaster with her marketing plan. All this and a raft of fantastic advice too.



LegUP series - leader tips

Hear Tara speak about three things you can do to refocus and replenish your energies, take back control of your time and feel amazing (and amazingly productive).

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Mavis' kupu whakatenatena (words of encouragement & advice)

Mavis Mullins MNZM, shares some words of encouragement and advice to other women pursuing their success journey.

Audette Exel's Top Tips for Success

Audette Exel, the founder of the Adara Group, shares her top tips and tricks to women working on their personal success journey.

Top lessons learned during Cherie's success journey

As a chef by trade, Cherie Metcalfe launched her business Pepper & Me to make people’s lives a little easier, and a lot more delicious with awesome spice rubs, salt blends, sauces, crumbs and cooking pastes. As part of our series interviewing early-stage companies, she revealed the top 5 lessons learned from her journey to date.

Best Advice For Courageous Living

Entrepreneurial epics, Theresa Gattung and Cecilia Robinson give you their tips for living courageously.

Kim's gems for growing your understanding of te reo

Kim Muriwai’s journey with te reo has been long and unexpected. Here, she shares her gems for growing our understanding of te reo.

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