Charly Leetham

Anyone who has been following our story will know that in August 2007, Stuart and I walked away from our franchise businesses in a considerable amount of debt. For four years, Stuart and I worked hard to make our franchise stores a success story. At one point we ran 4 stores concurrently – one at [...]

I’d like to share with my readers, an answer I provided to a Linked In contact some weeks ago. The question posed was: How do you find the time to do an MBA when you’re juggling an already very busy workload and home life?

A slightly different topic for me to blog on today.  Is it appropriate to use a Z or S in the spelling of certain words? Being an Australian we typically use the letter S when spelling particular words like:

Over the past couple of days I have been asked by many people why I ‘allowed’ my child to pursue her own entrepreneurial endeavour, particularly in a field like Psychic Development. It really is quite simple.  I don’t want either of my children to be a position of having to trade Time For Dollars in [...]

I am very big on encouraging my children to have online businesses.  Today, I received the best news ever! My 12 year old Daughter, Rhiannon has been selected as one of two Under 16 year old entrepreneurs to be featured in a book written by Business Writer Peter Economy. Rhiannon receives this honour through a [...]

Some will ask why I have decided to post this article on this blog, and not my business blogs.  Simply, although I firmly believe that the proposed Internet Filter for Australia will impact my business, my views are deeply personal – it goes to my rights as an Australian Citizen and, as such, I feel [...]

There are days that I am ashamed to be a parent.  Reading News.com.au this morning – not something I would normally do except someone sent me an interesting link – and I came across the article: Mem Fox says daycare ‘damages’ babies As a mother who did have her children in Daycare from a VERY [...]

My son turns 14 today.  When I reflect on this, I am amazed at just how quickly the time has passed.  Something many mothers do, I’m sure. I look at the handsome young man who stands before me today and I remember the cute baby I held in my arms, what seems to me, only [...]

Image by Kodamakitty via Flickr When is enough, enough?  Personally, I hate the emails I receive that promise bad luck or prosperity if you forward them on to friends and colleagues.  To me, it’s just another form of spam and honestly, my inbox is full enough without dealing with the rubbish in those emails.  However, [...]

Just over 13 months ago, Stuart and I literally walked away from our EzyDVD Franchise stores.  We were terribly in debt and decided it was time to cut our losses. We sold our two stores back to head office and walked out in a world of debt.  I mean serious debt with no way of [...]