Happy 2009
Created with Animoto As we edge closer to the end of 2008, I want to take this opportunity to wish my readers, friends and family a very Happy New Year.
EzyDVD Goes Into Receivership… Gift Vouchers Are Not Honored…
On December 17th, we found out that EzyDVD went into receivership. Stuart has already written about EzyDVD Pty Ltd being placed in receivership, so I won’t rehash the discussion here… what I will share however, is the email I received this afternoon about the fallout that is just starting to occur. It appears that EzyDVD [...]
Merry Christmas from The Leethams
With the festive season upon us, I had some fun the other day ‘Elfing’ myself, Rhiannon and Morgan. The result is the video below, I truly hope you enjoy it (Morgan wasn’t real happy about being made an elf!) Send your own ElfYourself eCards I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the past [...]
What Do You Do When Business Goes Wrong?
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 [...]
Studying A MBA With Children Underfoot….
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?
Zee or Ess (Z or S)
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:
Why Encourage Your Child To Be Entrepreneurial?
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 [...]
Rhiannon To Be Featured As A Young Entrepreneur
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 [...]
Can Australia Really Censor The Internet
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 [...]
Does DayCare Cause Brain Damage?
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 [...]
