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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 - 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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

Co.W TV

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 LITE - The Female Factor

LegUP delivers practical tools to champion success. This one is all about The Female Factor and it touches on 5 key areas that help harness our innate drivers to fuel success. To get the whole tool, upgrade your membership!

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.

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.

the 3Rights tool - LegUP

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.

Introducing our new partner

Today we are so stoked to announce that Partners Life, the business founded by our amazing member Naomi Ballantyne, Serial Entrepreneur, is joining our family of champions. Hell Yes.

Top Tips Series - Georgia Meek & Ellie Porteous

See what start-up entrepreneur Georgia Meek has learnt from her time building The Babysitters Club and Ellie Porteous from G.J. Gardner homes what she's picked up along her successful journey.

Anna Kydd & Naomi Ballantyne share Top Tips

Anna Kydd, founder of start-up The Tea Curator and proven entrepreneur Naomi Ballantyne of Partner's Life. They share their knowledge and tools so you can add these gems to your own toolkit.

Working with Partners Series - Volume 1

This first installment features Sandra Mu (co-founder of Jump Trampoline Parks) and Ranjna Patel (co-founder of Nirvana Health Group), they give their insight into what it's like working with their partners.

The Strengths Series - Vol. 3

Volume 3 of The Strengths Series features two fab members - Sophie Gilmour, founder of Bird On A Wire, and our board member Sarah Paykel. They share how they've developed their strengths.

The Strengths Series - Vol. 2

Megan May of Little Bird Organics and our founding chair, Lee Mathias are at different stages in business but both dedicate themselves to the wellness of others. Hear what they've learnt about their strengths.

Introducing the Strengths Series

This series is all about using our strengths. Sometimes, as women we question our ability so it's awesome that Jenny Joblin of Federation and our Chair, Theresa Gattung can share their experiences.

Karen Walker Shares Top Tips

We had an awesome time with Karen Walker as she shared her journey with us - check out these great tips she shares so generously and find some gold to add to your tool-kit.

Meet Hall of Fame inductee Naomi Ballantyne

We love the authentic, down to earth manner of this woman. This serial entrepreneur has so much gold to share and you can choose between the highlights & full interview versions.

The Family Series - Volume 3

The third in our Family Series presents the views of two women from different stages of life, Dame Julie Christie and founder of the awesome Jump Trampoline Parks, Sandra Mu who share about balancing family and business life.

Mimi Gilmour talks confidence

We talked with the stonkingly successful restaurant entrepreneur, Mimi Gilmour about how her confidence has been impact on her journey.

Jenny Joblin - Federation

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

Get Flossied - Jenene Crossan

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 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

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.