February 2017 - Eaglemont Village

Faces of Eaglemont Village – Ian BBQ man

By Maryanne

February 26, 2017

Faces of Eaglemont Village – Ian BBQ flipper
Saturday’s in the village wouldn’t be the same without Eaglemont Meats charity BBQ.
Let me share a testimonial from expert sausage flipper Ian also a local resident:

‘Recently I was looking at a photograph of the first Eaglemont Traders Fair , the photo depicted my wife, mother, and my nephew then aged 3 he is now 41. Eaglemont village is a step back in time a place that conjures visions of a bygone era. The locals are protective of it and visitors are enthralled by the buildings and customer service.

I have been connected to the village when I bought my house at 17, my age is slightly more these days. We as a family have attended every Traders festival. I have been associated with the Saturday sausage sizzle outside the butchers shop for ever.

The sausage sizzle performs a great community bonding as well as raising money for our selected charity. It brings people to the village enables conversations as well as introductions , a Saturday
ritual over generations. This humble happening typifies the village, we gather we talk we decide we support both each other and the village. ‘

Thank you Ian. See you at the BBQ !

Banyule Business | Women in Business Lunch featuring Mia Freedman

By Maryanne

February 5, 2017

Events,News

Book now Mar 9 Thu 2017

The Centre Ivanhoe

11:45 AM – 2:00 PMMia Freedman is the Co-founder and creative director of the Mamamia Women’s Network (MWN), Australia’s largest digital women’s media company. MWN began as a personal blog in Mia’s lounge room in 2007 and now reaches 4 million women per month with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New York.

In addition to websites Mamamia and Spring.St, MWN also has the world’s largest women’s podcast network, with eight shows reaching millions of women. Mia is also the author of three books, The New Black, Mama Mia and Mia Culpa and is formerly a magazine editor and newspaper columnist.

Mia was named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Financial Review and is a former chair of the federal government’s Body Image Advisory Board. She remains a passionate campaigner for more diversity in the way the media portrays women.

She has three children, two dogs and runs MWN with her husband who is the CEO.

Mia looks forward to sharing with you the story of her media career, how she balances work and family and what it takes to build a successful business.

‘Mamamia is ‘what women are talking about’