The easy first step

OPEN COFFEE.

A ticket, a coffee, and two hours in a room full of Adelaide mums who run businesses. This is the front door of Business Mums Hub. Nearly everyone starts here.

SEE THE DATES What comes after coffee

A full room of women at cafe tables during an Open Coffee event in Adelaide

a normal Wednesday, honestly

What it actually is

TWO HOURS THAT DON'T FEEL LIKE NETWORKING.

Every few weeks we take over a café somewhere in Adelaide. South one month, north east the next, then north, then west, so it's not always the same women doing the long drive.

You buy a ticket, you turn up at 10am, you get a coffee, and you spend two hours with women who get it.

Not a program. Not a course. A room. A real one.

Two women hugging at an Open Coffee morning

A mum with her toddler on her lap at an Open Coffee, another woman smiling at the baby

A true story

I NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT NIAMH AND ELBA.

So Elba owns Unity Real Estate and used to be my property manager when I was renting. Niamh, classic ADHD, runs two businesses. Avoca Weddings and Neev Skincare and Laser.

Both of these gorgeous women came to our Hillcrest Open Coffee back in March. They sat nowhere near each other.

At the end I was talking to Elba and she was telling me how she'd gotten her skin looking so incredible. And incredible it bloody was. I genuinely added her skin to my goals for when I'm 54.

Anyway. I knew this was right up Niamh's alley so I introduced them.

Within two seconds they were best friends exchanging details. Voices getting louder. Elba is Lebanese, Niamh is Irish, so you can imagine nothing about that conversation was quiet. They were animated, loud, brilliant.

Turns out they simply couldn't wait four weeks to see each other again and had been catching up on the side.

That is the power of women coming together.

Come and find your Elba. Come and find your Niamh.

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