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I am 26 years old and I live with my beautiful partner in the Sydney suburb, Miranda (yes, very close to the Westfield’s hehe). I work in the wondrous field of Early Childhood Education in which anything and everything is possible on any given day. I absolutely adore my job and I’m always learning amazing things about the world from the perspectives of the children. I am constantly blown away by how perceptive and philosophical the kids can be,

but along with this comes a real vulnerability to the influences of society and media. I am a fierce advocate for protecting the rights and emotional well being of children all over the world, which is a big influence on my work everyday.

In my spare time, as I alluded to earlier, I LOVE shopping and can often be found trawling the shopping malls and markets across Sydney. I adore fashion and over the past couple of years have begun to dabble in the art of Jewellery design. I find inspiration for this from a variety of sources, mostly my natural environment, and I love to use a lot of raw materials in my pieces. Most of it is just for me at this stage, with some of it going to friends and family as gifts (who all have their surprised faces down to a fine art), however I would love to gradually fine tune my skills in this area and perhaps sell some stuff in the not so distant future.

Above all, the most important thing about me is the amazing people who I surround myself with everyday. My loving partner of six years, my amazing mum, step dad, dad and step mum (that’s right, I get four awesome parents) my step sister, best friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews that have all shaped me into the person I am today. I love them all dearly and I know they all love me, which is something pretty special about me!

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The Wife and I thought we would have ourselves a nice little Saturday this weekend, so we got up, made a delicious breakfast, and took the dog for a stroll.  Everything was going swimmingly as we decided to then dip our toe in the baby shopping waters and see what that world had in store for us.  We parked in the spots reserved for expectant mothers (a nice perk), stepped across the threshold, and our lives will never be the same.

I once attended a sales training course where the instructor taught us that all buyers can be broken down into four categories: Power, Fame, Safety, or Relationship.  Without infringing on copyright laws of the course it can be broken down as follows:

• Power buyers make purchases to strengthen their position in business or in the world at large.
• Fame buyers buy to make a splash and for ego driven purposes.
• Safety buyers will spend today to prevent a future wrong tomorrow.
• Relationship buyers purchase things because they trust the seller or to help the seller out.

Sure there are times where someone can be a combination of Power & Fame, or Safety & Relationship but the concept is that if you can figure out what box the buyer fits in, then you can target your presentation and sales pitch accordingly.  This is a little lesson that I come back to in a variety of ways in both business and life since.  The guy that taught the class also did not wash his hands after using the bathroom so take it for what it’s worth

This lesson smacked me in the face as the electric doors slid open to the baby warehouse dew jour Saturday morning.  The baby industry takes the idea that their market new and expecting parents are all Safety buyers to the Nth degree.

One way to argue this approach is that they are right in that a parent’s priority is first and foremost the protection of their offspring, and thus that is their purchasing focus as they consume goods.  The opposite argument would be that their approach is the equivalent to profiteering on the naiveté of the clientele.  As with most things I would think that the answer lies somewhere in the middle, but