Networking Review: The Power of Copywriting, 25th June 2020
The expat copywriter, Elena de Francisco, gave us a presentation about the Power of Copywriting. After 8 years working in the corporate arena, Elena discovered copywriting and soon realized that this was a perfect job for her, as it combines her two loves: writing and...
Networking Review: The Customer Journey, 28th May 2020
The Customer Journey - May 2020 WBII Networking Review I attended an inspirational WBII event. Why was it inspirational for me? 1) The energy of having twenty-five diverse, internationally minded women entrepreneurs on an online event was palpable. I loved listening...
Networking Review: Why Self-Esteem is NOT the Key to Confidence, 23rd April 2020
Why Self Esteem is NOT the Key to Confidence On the third Thursday of April 2020, twenty-one of us pulled ourselves back indoors from the beach, the woods, the dikes and dunes and our backyard BBQs (or stayed right there) to join the second ever WBII online monthly...
The first WBII online networking event, March 26th 2020
Why didn’t we do it sooner? 36 people joined our initiatives’s first online event. Yes, that’s right – 36! Even Colleen Reichrath-Smith was able to join a meeting despite her move to Limburg. These tricky times are teaching us all a new way of living, of working, of...
How not to be vanilla
Or how to be Pistachio with Pepper The evening started with the amazing Dymphna giving a welcome speech and setting everyone with good energy to kick off the event. The first speaker of the night was Kalpee Howard, who gave her 10 min speech “Living Well Unlocked”....
Make it Happen in 2020
Networking review by Johanne Bade Not only this topic, but also this evening’s presenter was for me a personal treat. Taking the time to reflect on this amazing year, and set myself up for success by planning ahead for an equally fantastic 2020 is something that’s...
Something out of nothing
Young, poised, driven, grateful and making waves Networking review by Deborah Valentine What a pleasure, and honour it was for the WBII to have had Sara Kemppainen share with us her story “Something out of nothing: The story of building a Flourishing Network” –...
How to Grow and Engage Your Business Audience
We kicked off the evening with one of the hottest topics these days (yes, pun intended): climate change. Dymphna, our organiser, mentioned the young environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, whose name was on everybody’s lips this week and urged us to support her (and...
Networking Review: Head or Heart?
Susan de Vriend, originally a Life Coach for expats, has recently become a certified self-love life coach. With the help of Susan’s knowledge, we reflected on ‘How to be clear in our decision-making, taking into consideration both the Head and the Heart’. We are all...