Sound Advice

Karen Corban

As someone keenly interested in marketing and communication, I was fascinated by the recent interview Dan Storey, our head of Business Development, recorded with sound expert, Julian Treasure, and I wanted to share some of this incredible information with you. Read the rest of this entry »

Your New Entrepreneurial Mind

Karen Corban

My good friend, Chris Howard, in his new best-selling book, Instant Wealth Wake Up Rich, speaks a lot about the secret of what he calls, the New Entrepreneurial Mind. Read the rest of this entry »

Paying it Forward

Karen Corban

Just recently I was on a film shoot with Chris Howard.  We were filming a series of short educational videos for the Thinkbig Education community.  I always love being able to share great information with you and I am really excited to be sharing these videos over the coming weeks…. watch this space. Read the rest of this entry »

Finding the Value

Karen Corban

Forbes recently announced their 2010 list of the World’s Billionaires and there was quite a lot of interest in the fact that Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu had beaten out Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth.

Whilst Carlos Slim Helu’s story is incredible, my interest was peaked by a billionaire who placed 616th on the list. Read the rest of this entry »

Finding the Value

Karen Corban

Forbes recently announced their 2010 list of the World’s Billionaires and there was quite a lot of interest in the fact that Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu had beaten out Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth.

Whilst Carlos Slim Helu’s story is incredible, my interest was peaked by a billionaire who placed 616th on the list. Read the rest of this entry »

Thank You to all the wonderful women!

Karen Corban

It is International Women’s Day today.

And I have been thinking of all the wonderful women in my life I am grateful for.

I am also grateful for the many opportunities available to women in business today and I would like to congratulate the women included on the Smartcompany list of female entrepreneurs, published last week to commemorate International Women’s Day.  I am honoured to have been included on that list in the company of such inspiring women

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Teaching the Elephant not to Dance

Karen Corban

One of our speakers and trainers, Andrew Barnett, author of the best-seller “The 7 Minute Workday Escape 9-5 Forever”, tells a powerful story about Elephants.

No one will argue that an Elephant is the most powerful land animal we have on earth and is capable of huge physical force and feats of strength.

Observe an Elephant in the wild and you will see it has the ability to push down massive trees, just to get the berries from a branch out of its reach.

Yet anyone who has been to a circus or a zoo will notice that Adult Elephants are tied down with a simple rope from their leg to a stake in the ground.

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5 Illusions That Keep Us From Living the Life we Really Want

Karen Corban

I’m loving Chris Howard’s new book Instant Wealth: Wake Up Rich.

In it he talks about 5 different types of dichotomies that we have all been caught in from time to time, which keep us from having what we really want in life.

Chris explains a dichotomy as that “either-or” kind of thinking… when we start to believe if we have or do one thing, we can’t have or do something else.

Here’s the 5 major dichotomous ways of thinking that Chris outlines in his book as the major contributors towards the “social hypnosis” that keeps many people from living their ideal life. Read the rest of this entry »

Your Own Personal Wealth Propulsion System

Karen Corban

I have just spent the weekend with my good friend, Chris Howard, at the first-ever Wealth Propulsion event in Sydney.

It was an inspiring two and a half days and it has really got me thinking about this idea Chris put forward of each of us having our own personal Wealth Propulsion System. Read the rest of this entry »