Culture Curator

25/05/2023

Imagine working in your dream job... 💫

Where you are welcomed in the door daily to a beaming smile from the receptionist 🌈

You are asked about your weekend 🤔

With actual eye contact 😲

Where you make yourself an espresso coffee from a ‘real’ automated coffee machine... 🥺

And an endless bowl of those chocolate covered coffee bean thingys that make you feel alive...😳

In a groovy lunch room with a ping pong table and relaxation pods and comfy lounges surrounded by walls of bright inspirational, colorful artwork and a fruit bowl ...🤩

And a bathroom with super soft loo paper and those smelly things that remind you that you might just be in a day spa...

Imagine being encouraged to break regularly, because “Your creative juices flow more with a rested mind”...🤪

Your ideas are welcomed, encouraged, implemented and acknowledged with reward...🤗

Your hours are flexible around your family, and work-from-home options are abundant and encouraged ...🥰

Because. Kids. ❤️

Your energy is matched by your peers...🤣

You are offered training and professional development and mindset coaching...🤓

Because they also want the BEST version of YOU! 💪

And just because you are a part of the workplace ‘family’...👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻

A Culture.

Imagine feeling a part of something bigger than yourself...🦖

Your skills and experience are recognized and you are promoted based on your merit🥇

Not on your sex🙅‍♀️
Your age 🙅‍♀️
Your race 🙅‍♀️
Or s**t... your starsign 🤦‍♀️

Imagine working in an organization where work is no longer a means for a weekly paycheque ... 💸

But a place you get your cup filled... ☕️

Every. Single. Day.

Imagine if the above was a possibility in your workplace?

These Culture Curated organisations DO exist.

And my personal mission is to curate and saturate many more.

Imagine...
Their productivity levels? ⚙️
Their staff retention? ✋
Their profitability? 💰
This is what I do. ☝️
This is where you will find me. 👇




📸 ME... Strawberry Fields Central Park NYC Circa 2015

14/03/2023

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART ❤️

I get those tingly lips and tongue feelings when my body tells me what I just ate, does not agree. 👄

I love how I’ve learnt over the years to listen to my body. 🤗

What came next was listening to my heart. 🙉

This, I admit, took a little bit more work to master. 🤔

Heads and Hearts aren’t always agreeable friends. 🙅‍♀️

Our generations’ upbringing were always taught to follow what the head says...🥸

But I’m sure that was just a pass down from the baby boomers...
(I mean no disrespect).👨‍🦳👵

BB’s had no room for heart felt decision making during the depression, large families, and the added anxiety of loved ones at war.🦸‍♂️

Our generation does ☺️
Thanks to our forefathers 🙏

They fought the battles that enslaved leaders of men to rule with their head, when all along they should have lead with their heart. ❤️

Imagine the peace if we always lead with our heart? 🧡

My heart tells me...❤️

We are enough 🧡
We are the change we need 🧡
We are in control of own future🧡
We are all divinely connected 🧡
We are all here for purpose 🧡

Today I choose to lead with my heart, and give thanks to our forefathers who had no choice but to lead with their head...🥰

Thank you for gifting us the freedom to be able to make these choices. 🙏

15/02/2023

BIGGER BETTER FASTER HARDER....

I was always that kid up the back row that would cop a piece of chalk in the side of my head coz I wasn't listening to my teacher 🙄

👉I would get half way through an assignment, choose to ignore the instructions and take it on a whole new path.

👉I wrote more than required, I sourced more information, and completed within record time.

👉In my mind, my assignments were awesome.

👉They were colourful, and punchy and so full of life.

👉Besides, the topic given was always boring.

🔥I just wanted to make it fun.🔥

But I usually didn't get the A’s I strived for. Coz I didn't follow the instructions.

Bright shinny lights 🌟

My Easter hat was always the biggest, brightest and most dynamic out of all my friends.

I wondered why nobody else got into making larger than life top hats, colouring outside of the lines, and taking the project to next level.

Maths was boring, and could be so better explained, if it was just drawn in pictures.

Or colour.
Or both.

So when I shared this idea with my conforming maths teacher, he laughed in my face and told me I would never amount to anything if I didn’t follow the rules 🤷‍♀️

Still to this day, I day dream out the window…

My projects are always full of colour, energy and love.

And my maths calculations are always explained in pictures.
My spreadsheets in colour and full of hi-lights.

My ‘rule breaking’ attitude shaped my life.

It actually helped me become a contingency planner, a multi-tasker and question asker.

✅ It also helped me become an award winning Business Trainer.

✅ And an award winning Business owner.

Because I understood my students first hand, who had learning barriers.

And because I understood my clients who wanted MORE.

I always knew there was another way.

After years of my poor young busy mind being suppressed into beliefs that served me no real purpose, I can say, as an evolving adult, and mum of three + three, equally creative boys, I now acknowledge and encourage, the life they bring to their learnings.

💚💚💚

22/09/2022

Hola Rockhampton 👋

Festival Trail Next Stop:

𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 ＆𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 🦐🍹⛱
𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑦 23𝑟𝑑 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡 ＆
𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦 24𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡

The Diablo Events Festival Road Crew, are looking for some extra hands to join us under ’The Diablo Red Tent’, for the Capricorn Food & Wine Festival this weekend!

If think you’ve got what it takes to deliver our unique range of punchy Cocktails and lip smacking Devilish Diablo Ginger Beer, then we want to hear from you!

Join ’𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑜 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒’🍹

👉 [email protected]
👉0437 766 922
👉OR DM your details


🌴🍸🍇🍹🍍🧉🥤🍓🌴

07/09/2022

The Diablo Co. Events Promo Crew, have taken the local events scene by storm and currently experiencing all the exciting expansion feels as we continue to fulfill the 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑜 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 at each and every event.

We are on the look out to expand our team of 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠，𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠 ＆ 𝐶𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠, ready to diversify and amplify the Diablo Experience!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to deliver our unique range of punchy cocktail blends, and lip smacking Diablo Ginger Beer, then slide into my DMs ➡️


🌴🍸🍇🍹🍍🧉🥤🍓🌴

15/07/2022

“Stay hungry”. “Stay foolish”. 😵🤦‍♀️

That’s a wrap.

In need of a little…. 🤔

"I would live laugh love my way out of their application."

12/07/2022

Talent vs Attitude

At 14, my part time school job was working for a major fast food chain.

I was terrified to use a till and count back change after each sale.

At the end of my first shift, I was thrown into dishwater with peas and gravy, for ‘initiation’.

Followed up with being locked in the cold room with no shoes and a wet uniform for a few scary teeth chattering minutes.

I guess because I didn’t cry, I got offered the part time gig and upgraded to trainee status.

✅ An example of Attitude before Talent.

At 17, my mum employed me twice (and sacked me twice) as an apprentice hairdresser.

I didn’t pass 2nd year, because I threw a comb at a client, telling her to “do it herself”.

She gave me another chance because I was good with hair - a talent I learnt from being brought up in a family of hairdressers.

The second opportunity ended after I waxed a ladies eyebrow off. Entirely.

❌ An example of Talent before Attitude.

At 18, my first real full time job with a well known International College, had me thrown in the deep end again making plunger coffee for a boardroom of VIP’s and our very own Celebrity boss.

I was too scared to ask, so I heaped 4 table spoons of International Roast into the pot with boiling water, plunged it down and hoped for the best.

The look on my bosses face as she gulped her tary black instant coffee had me wanting to run for the hills.

She gave me a waiver for showing initiative, gave me quick lesson and apologized for assuming I should know.

✅ An example of Attitude before Talent.

At 19, I landed a great role as a PA to an award winning architect not having a clue how to do the job.

He was a messy creative, chaotic introverted mastermind, drowning in drawings and ideas and no idea how to even invoice for his work.

Neither did I.

But my pretty colorful resume resonated with him enough to give me a go.

I learnt to dot his i’s and cross his t’s, and threw myself into an after hours Business course, to learn what I had to do, in order to manage his business.

I helped him get organised so he could expand on his projects and become one of the most sort after professionals in his field.

✅ An example of Attitude before Talent.

At 21, I applied for a sales position with the biggest beverage company in the world.

I had no experience.
I didn’t fit the profile.
I was the youngest candidate.
…But I showed initiative in my interview.

I went on to achieve bonuses larger than I ever imagined possible and later became pretty good at selling ice to eskimos.

✅ An example of Attitude before Talent.

At 30 I started my own Wedding and Events company.

I knew nothing about the industry.

I didn’t even know how to put a chair cover on a chair, what an oriental Lilly was or the difference between a run sheet or an order of service.

I just loved weddings, and pretty things, and making people happy.

✅ An example of Attitude before Talent.

I carried this philosophy through my business growth stage, to hiring over 200 staff in 11 years, over various positions.

I had professional Merchandisers, Degree qualified Event Managers, and years of experienced Function coordinators apply for positions within my company.

Our hugely successful staff retention rates, came down to recruiting Attitude before Talent.

My business was never going to be successful without my teams right Attitude.

❌ Attitude is a skill that CAN NOT be taught.

✅ Talent is a skill that CAN be taught.

This is a common conversation I have with my clients around staff retention and onboard training.

☝️To acquire and retain Talented staff, always starts with Attitude first.

✌️The skills analysis and the right training follows second.

Making the adjustment to recruiting ‘Attitude first’, can take a perspective shift, and a mindset change, often requiring the guidance of a professional Business Consultant specialising in Employment Culture.

This is who I am.
Reach out to ask me how.

09/07/2022

10/05/2022

EMPOWERMENT

👗 If I think my girlfriend would look better in a short skirt, rather than long, I’m gunna tell her what looks best on her...

👩‍💻If I think my colleague should tell her boss she deserves a promotion, I’m gunna give her the best advice I can, to help her get what she deserves...

🌎 If my son wants to travel overseas, I’m going to encourage him, guide him and collect all the travel mags I can to inspire him...

👩🏻‍🎓 If my student tells me they are struggling, and ask for help, I’m gunna find out ‘why’, and then show them how I can help them...

There be no;
🙅‍♀️ Shutting down
🙅‍♀️ Raining on parades
🙅‍♀️ Dampening spirits
🙅‍♀️ Dissing on dreams

My purpose as a mum, friend, business mentor, is to;
🦋 encourage and to inspire
🦋 lead and develop
🦋 reach deep and empower
...and show what living a life to its full potential is all about...

You see it’s not about me. It’s never been about me. It’s about what I can do for ‘you’ 🤔

Imagine if we could all do a little bit for ‘you’?

Enough to fill a cup, to inspire, encourage, lead and empower one another, just a little bit, each and every day...

Living a life in service, gratitude and complete abundance is everything I had dreamed of, and more 🙏

THAT is where it’s AT🔥🔥

06/05/2022

You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in.

You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner.

You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single day.

So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let the colours fill your mind...

05/05/2022

While all social networks are rambling with hate and negativity, I want to dilute it with some good news and facts. The world is not so bad, look around:

The Norwegians decided not to drill oil wells in the Lofoten Islands (with oil reserves of $53,000,000,000) to preserve the islands ecosystem.

For the first time in the history of Malawi, a woman has been elected the Speaker of the country's Parliament. Esther Challenge has cancelled 1,500 marriages to underage girls and sent them back to school.

Swedish donors receive a text of gratitude every time their blood saves people.

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, the nearly-endangered sea turtle population has increased by 980%.

Thai supermarkets have abandoned plastic bags and started wrapping their purchases in banana leaves.

Holland became the first country without stray dogs.

South Korea organizes dance parties for people over 65. To fight dementia and loneliness;

In Rome, you can pay for a subway ticket with plastic bottles. This way 350,000 bottles have already been collected.

California restricts the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in stores to allow people to adopt pets from shelters;

Rice farmers around the world are starting to use duck fields instead of pesticides. Ducks eat insects and pinch weeds without touching rice;

Canada has passed a law banning the use of orcas and dolphins in the entertainment industry;

Holland plants the roofs of hundreds of bus stops with flowers and plants - especially for bees;

Iceland became the first country in the world to legalize the same wage for men and women;

German circuses use holograms instead of animals to stop animal exploitation in circuses;

Underwater robot LarvalBot is seeding the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef with microscopic corals grown specifically for ecosystem restoration

To reduce the number of suicides, Sweden organized the world's first psychiatric ambulance

4,855 people stood in line in the rain for hours to get a stem cell test to save the life of a five-year-old boy;

Indian Village Celebrates Birth Of Every Girl By Planting 111 Trees. Thus, 350,000 trees have already been planted.

Thanks to the ban on humpback whales, their populations have increased from several hundred to 25,000.

The Netherlands built five artificial islands specifically to preserve birds and plants. Two years later, there are already 30,000 birds and 127 species of plants growing there.

NASA satellites have recorded that the world has become greener than 20 years ago.
Since 1994, suicides have decreased by 38%. It saved about four million lives

04/05/2022

“If you have trouble structuring your business, if you go through rounds of hiring and firing, read this:

If you have trouble finding the “right” team members…the problem may be you. This may be tough to accept but I know good leaders can handle the truth.

I’m not trying to be impractical, but as I said before, good leaders don’t cast judgment on their employees.

Good leaders don’t yell and scream or try to watch their employees’ every move. Good leaders are supportive and ask how they can help.

Instead of being upset that their employees are drowning, they teach them how to swim” ~ Gary Vee