Erin's Blog

If you were a fly on the wall in my mentoring sessions, chances are you’d over hear many conversations like this: [student] So…I want to develop a course that helps couples prepare for birth. To teach people all the things they REALLY need to know about birth and postpartum. [me] Amazing. But what’s the ‘grab’? […]

Four years ago I never could have dreamed that I knew enough to teach other people how to make and sell online courses. Four years ago, today I was just an exhausted mum with a good idea that I simply couldn’t wait to create. I sat down in a cleared corner of my office, drank half a […]

I’m starting with the whimsy this week:The other day my daughter’s kindergarten teacher said to me “we all loved your banana”“err…excuse me…?”I totally forgot I drew a silly face on her banana. A gesture that took me 20 seconds apparently caused great delight in the kinder class and everyone got excited about eating their fruit.“It’s […]

  I come to you this week freshly raw from the experience that is taking two young children to the supermarket. I know that plenty of other people partake in this activity every single day. For me, I avoid it like the plague and get my groceries delivered because it’s just not my zone of […]

  I’ve spent the past week trying to get a new veggie garden in. I’d love to show you a finished product, but it’s one of those projects that has its own time frame. When we moved into our house six years ago, I noticed the existing veggie patch was positioned in possibly the worst […]

It’s that time of year again. A month until ‘Bowe week’ – the crazy week in my family where we ended up with our wedding anniversary, plus the two kids’ birthdays all falling within the same 7 days. No, I didn’t plan it that way! My oldest daughter’s birthday is a month before Christmas, and […]

You know how sometimes you will have a moment of doubt and then a message appears at the perfect time? Confirmation that you ARE in fact on the right path? I had a moment of real doubt this week. Doubt about whether I’m doing the ‘right thing’ by sending out a weekly email that is […]

I get a LOT of emails from people asking for career advice about how to get into perinatal and/or birth trauma work. The short answer is that there’s no direct pathway and it really depends what you want to. This is a LONG response, which, hopefully explains why I can’t answer this in an email! […]

For all of you who have done business coaching with me before and heard me stay “don’t waste time agonizing over your website”….here, you can hold my drink while I eat this hat.I don’t usually work in the school holidays, but I’m itching to do some much needed catch up so decided to work FOR my business […]