Start-ups and insurers: a match made in time-poor heaven

By Carole-Anne Priest

When you’re just starting out in a garage or a kitchen or a single laptop on your couch, you might think you’re too small to bother with something like insurance. Maybe you’ll get it when you need it, right?

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Topics: How insurance works, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, Financial Independence, insurance risks, myths, business, entrepreneur, management, family day care


Tips for young people looking for financial independence

By Carole-Anne Priest

Young people today lived through the 2008 recession and its aftershocks. I can tell you now, the words ‘global financial crisis’ do not tend to build financial confidence. The numerous disparaging avocado toast editorials in the national press also tend to make young people collectively want to switch off.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Credit Rating, Saving, Gender Gap, business, tips, superannuation, habits


How positive reinforcement helps teams thrive

By Carole-Anne Priest

When you do something right, you want it to happen again.

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Topics: business, tips, management, leadership, culture, wellness


Why inertia is dangerous for start-ups

By Carole-Anne Priest

“This is the way it’s always been.”

“That’s not how we do that.”

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

These are the core tenets of corporate inertia.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Home Business, Small Business, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, business


5 questions to answer before you start your business

By Carole-Anne Priest

It’s exciting and scary to say goodbye to being an employee and strike out on your own. When you finally commit your ideas to paper – and these days, to the digital space – and announce to the world that you are starting your own business, you know you will now be your own boss. You will make the rules, and you will reap the rewards of your own hard work and creativity.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Home Business, Small Business, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, business


The importance of knowing your own value

By Carole-Anne Priest

Performance reviews are a source of nerves for even the most confident employee.

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Topics: Women in the C-Suite, tips, career, careers, culture, wellness


5 trends that are disrupting the insurance industry

By Carole-Anne Priest

Disruption is the name of the game for every industry in the twenty-first century. From telephones to books, taxis, and entertainment, there isn’t a single industry that can say it hasn’t undergone a significant evolution and revolution with the advance of technology and research.

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Topics: Insurance, How insurance works, Why insurance matters


How we all benefit by being more financially literate

By Carole-Anne Priest

Australia’s financial markets, and the range of financial products, services and options available, continue to evolve.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Financial Independence, tips


What women want: a better way to provide Family Day Care insurance

By Carole-Anne Priest

For almost fifteen years, I’ve been involved in the family day care sector. I have done many insurance presentations to family day care schemes and educators all around the country.

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Topics: Insurance, tips, family day care


4 steps to financial wellness

By Kate Stalter

The World Health Organisation defines wellness as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

Our finances are also integral to wellness. Money is a representation of life energy, whether derived from your own efforts or those of a deceased relative who was fortunate enough to pass along a legacy. When you are worried about money, it affects your overall well-being.

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Topics: Finance, Financial Literacy, Financial Independence, tips, wellness



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