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Vanessa Norman

Care Sector Business Coach
Supporting NDIS, aged care, DVA & allied health businesses. Welcome! Let’s build something that lasts 💼❤️

I’m Vanessa Norman 👋

Mum of 4, straight talking business mentor, and former NDIS provider who built a multimillion-dollar care business from the ground up. Now, I help small to medium NDIS business owners grow with confidence, through values led strategy, strong systems, and real world support. If you’re ready to scale your impact without losing your soul, you’re in the right place.

01/11/2026

Most referral partners only hear from you when you need something. That’s an easy email to ignore.

A value based email works the other way around. It gives them something useful first, so your name means something when it lands in their inbox.

The Value Based Email Campaign Guide helps you write emails to your referral partners and your list that are useful, not sales.

You don’t need a big list or a marketing team. You need a plan for what you’ll send and why it helps the person reading it.

Comment EMAILS and I’ll send it to you.

01/11/2026

What you see: a provider with a great team. What you don’t see: the owner who’s still the only one who knows how anything works.

I know how that happens, because I built it that way at first too.

In the early days the rates lived in my Notes app. Service agreements went out from my personal Gmail. Calls from coordinators came in while I sat in the school pickup line, and I said yes to almost everything.

It worked, because there was only me.

Then the business grew. More participants, more staff, more responsibility. Everyone still came to me, because I was the only place the answers lived.

I had a business growing faster than the structure under it.

That’s the problem I solve with owners now. I help you get what’s in your head written down, build the roles and processes that hold it, and your team starts finding answers without you.

That work happens inside Bestie in Business. It starts with a call about where your business is today and where you want it to go, to see if I can help you get there.

Comment BESTIE and I’ll message you the link to book a call.

31/10/2026

What you see: a provider with great service. What you don't see: a referral partner who can't describe them in 1 sentence.

Good service is the baseline. Every coordinator and discharge planner already expects it.

What they remember under pressure is clarity. Who you work with, what you do well and how fast you respond.

When a family is waiting and the situation is complex, they reach for the name they can say without thinking.

So write your 1 sentence. Who you help, with what, and what happens next. Put it in your email signature and on your profile this week.

What's the 1 sentence a referral partner would use to describe you today?

31/10/2026

Weeks that end without a look back start the next one on the same mistakes.

It’s Friday at 3pm. The phone is still going, next week’s roster is half done and the only plan is to get through it. Then Monday arrives and it’s the same week again.

Take 10 minutes before you finish. Ask 3 questions. What went well this week and why. What took more time than it should have. What’s the one thing I’ll do differently on Monday.

Write each answer in one line and put the page where Monday’s version of you will see it first.

That small page is how the weeks start improving.

What took more time than it should have this week?

31/10/2026

A phone that keeps lighting up takes your focus in pieces too small to notice.

You’re halfway through the numbers and a message arrives. It takes 1 minute to answer. Then you look for where you were.

The cost is the return trip. Every interruption makes you rebuild your thinking, and you do that many times a day.

Reclaim Your Focus and Momentum is a guide to taking your hours and focus back each week.

Focus is something you can protect once you can see where it goes.

Comment MOMENTUM and I’ll send it to you.

30/10/2026

A year in care ends the way it ran, with another list and no one asking how you are.

In 6 days, Friday night has nothing on the list. Level Up After Dark is on 6 November from 5pm on the Gold Coast.

No session to stay awake for. Drinks and canapes in a room full of people who've had the same kind of year as you.

Dress up, show up and let the year be counted.

Comment CELEBRATE and I'll message you the link to get your ticket.

30/10/2026

In 5 days you can start deciding how this year ends.

Think about the decisions you want behind you by the end of the year. A hire, a team structure, a plan for referrals, a look at the numbers you’ve been meaning to open.

Bestie Retreat starts on Wednesday 4 November and runs through Thursday 5 November. On the Gold Coast or online, midweek on purpose, with 2 days to work on exactly those things.

Most owners haven’t had 2 uninterrupted days to think in years. This is yours.

Comment GROW and I’ll message you the link to get your ticket.

30/10/2026

Three priorities for the last quarter leave room for everything else to wait.

Within 18 months my business was a multi million organisation and I had no plan behind any of it. A plan is what tells you which request deserves a yes.

Write down everything on your list. Then circle 3, the ones that would make the biggest difference by 31 December. Try for one on money, one on your team and one on referrals.

Put each on a page with its first step and a date. Everything else goes on a list titled January.

Letting it wait is a decision.

Which 3 things on your list would you circle first?

29/10/2026

A written plan turns a slow week into a piece of information.

You check the referral numbers on a Thursday and they're lower than you hoped. Without a plan that's a worry that follows you home.

With one, you can see where referrals are meant to come from, what the team costs and what you decided to do about it.

The NDIS Business Planning Workbook is a planning workbook for your business. Fill it in and the months ahead stop being a mood.

A slow week then becomes one line on a page you can act on.

Comment PLAN and I'll send it to you.

29/10/2026

A policy folder nobody opens is compliance that only exists on paper.

It sits on the shared drive, finished and tidy. When a worker has a question, they ring you instead.

That’s the gap between documents and operations. The paperwork exists and the habit doesn’t, so the business runs on your phone being on.

The NDIS Business Growth Blueprint is a guide, step by step, for simplifying compliance, streamlining operations and growing with confidence.

Simpler compliance is the kind a team actually uses.

Comment BLUEPRINT and I’ll send it to you.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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