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Excessive Consumption archive

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Documented observations from a completely cooked year online AND offline.

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CHEERS TO…NSW GOVERNMENT

Apparently there are about 17 million Opal cards with positive cash balances that have not been touched for five years.

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ALL FINGERS DOWN

Sometimes the best next step isn’t to hustle harder or figure it all out alone - it’s to sit in a circle, share honestly, and realise we’re all in the same messy, brilliant, impossible boat.

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CHEERS TO…THE Orange Business Awards!

Celebrating our local business community, with a room packed full of all of Orange's craziest, bravest and hardest working people. To be listed as a finalist amongst them is a huge honour 🙌🏻

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THE (SOCIAL MEDIA) DEATH OF CHARLIE KIRK

I’ll be honest: I never thought I’d be writing about Charlie Kirk in this newsletter. He’s not my guy, he’s not my politics, and until last week his was a name I’d scroll past at best, roll my eyes over at worst.

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CHEERS TO…Finals footy.

The Broncos vs Raiders match on Sunday gave us 94 minutes of utter madness, golden-point agony, and left scriptwriters everywhere wondering why they even bother.

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7 LESSONS WRITTEN IN LATE NIGHTS

Ahead of hosting next week’s RDA Central West Solopreneur’s Roundtable, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons I have learned am still learning about running a business.

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CHEERS TO…MCDONALD’S

McDonald’s have gone all in on digital-first with this year’s Monopoly promotion - it’s now exclusively app-based, and on paper (pun intended), it’s a really clever play (also pun intended).

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SO HIGH SCHOOL

The news that broke the internet. Seventeen text messages pinging my phone before sunrise, everyone asking the same question: Did you see. And yes, I saw.

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THE LIFE OF A SWIFTIE

Every girl is actually autistic, they just don’t know it until they discover their special interest is Taylor Swift.

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