Do you want to make your mark on the world? To create a better place for future generations? Since founding Engaging Women I’ve fielded many questions on how you can find your own platform. This got me thinking. What if we gave you a … Continue reading
A social media post just stopped my scrolling thumb in its tracks.. $4000 grant? For girls and women who dare to dream? Could she be describing our girl gang any better? The amazing Layne Benchley AO – seven times … Continue reading
“It was only when I started saying ‘yes’ that things started happening. It was the wrong way around from what I’d imagined.” Cyan Ta’eed Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year. Cyan Ta’eed co-founded super-successful digital goods company Envato from her … Continue reading
“Growing up in the Deaf community with so many role models and so many people who inspire, I really always felt the answers were there.” Drisana Levitzke-Gray, Young Australian of the Year. There’s a term you may or may not be … Continue reading
Welcome to the home of someone who turned her dreams into reality. Carla Murley Mebourne milliner. (I know, I know, Engaging Women is a magnet for these types) Carla Murley of Murley & Co is a talented milliner who also happens to be at the … Continue reading
How many of us have heard of poet and suffragist Louisa Lawson? I’m guessing not nearly as many as the number of Australians who know a great deal about her famous author/poet son Henry Lawson. Truth is, many great Australian women like Louisa have gone … Continue reading
Australian artist Letitia Green knows too well the power of surrounding ourselves in nature. Her connection to the earth’s beauty was cultivated when she lived in South Africa in her late teens to early twenties. Nature and colour energise the Beaumaris ‘treehouse’ she … Continue reading
Hagar’s fourth annual ‘Lunch to Liberate’ was billed as a fun, empowering, inspiring afternoon where women come together to raise awareness and funds for survivors of slavery. As you can see, it didn’t disappoint. Four hundred women turned out, raising an incredible … Continue reading
“Be open to some criticism… Sometimes it’s just because someone sees a great skill that you probably don’t see at the time. Just try to be open to that.” Laura Geitz Australian Diamonds. To say our community was thrilled when the … Continue reading
Given this blog has just been added to the National Library of Australia’s digital archives (not so subtle brag) it seems fitting to share amazing Australian author Beci Orpin with you. Beci Orpin has meshed her secrets into five clever books, she’s an internationally … Continue reading