her inspiration
Emma Heke
Making New Zealand OURS
Emma Heke is a Kiwi mum who called on her life and career experiences and a bit of Kiwi ingenuity to produce the OURS® DVD – an educational resource made about and for New Zealand’s treasures...
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her insight
Paula Bennett
Minister for Social Development and Employment, Minister for Youth Affairs
What was your first significant political venture and what did you learn from it?
I was ten. I’d been told I couldn’t take the dinghy out fishing on my own, and the only reason was because I was a girl. My brothers had been allowed to for years! The lesson was that sometimes life can be purely and simply unfair – for no good reason...
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her inform
Outsource the Paperwork
Tackling the high costs of compliance
Ah, spring. The sap is rising, the days are longer and … those pesky business costs always seem to stay the same. Or do they? That depends on how a businesswoman looks at certain things...
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Increase Your Turnover
There are a million theories out there about how to increase business. Some people gain knowledge through experience. Experience is the result of trial and error. Through experience, I learnt the number one ultimate rule for increasing turnover...
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her wellbeing
Taking the Time for Touch
Remember the early days in your romance when your lover’s caress sent shivers tingling up your spine, your heart felt like it might explode in your chest, and your body seemed like it was on fire, craving more contact? In the early days of romance, touching each other, holding hands, caressing, kissing and hugging, were an important part of being together. But over time, it can wane...
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Keeping NZ Beautiful
Kiwi women have always loved beauty products and making themselves feel beautiful. Since the Victorian period, New Zealand has been stocking beauty cosmetics in department stores and pharmacies. We have always been, and continue to be, hugely influenced by international makeup and skincare brands. However, over the past twenty years, we realised that we could come up with our own beauty ranges...
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Wellbeing Snippets
with Jacquie Dale
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Hot Off the Grill
Get ready for summer BBQ with recipes from the BBQ & Grill Cookbook from the Heart Foundation.
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her time out
Dick Frizzell
The Painter
Dick Frizzell's images populate our world – you find them on t-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and t-towels and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in NZ...
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Getting Clean Moroccan Style
‘OK girls, you have to strip down to your knickers.’
Concealed gasps of horror escape from prudish Anglophones, who are unused to bearing so much skin. Clad only in good, un-holey knickers (the kind your grandmother would allow you to have a car crash in), we proceed shyly into a mysterious hot and steamy, tiled room...
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Creating Puppies with Brakes
Puppy training is simple. Observe a mother training her puppies and watch how she deals with puppy dominance issues. I have trained over 10 dogs per month for 12 years. That is, on average, 120 dogs per year, or over 1000 dogs. Here are some tips...
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