Our Magazine Contributors

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Aussie Painting Contractor

Helen Kay is an experienced business lawyer and is passionate about helping business owners avoid unnecessary risks by providing them with tailored commercial legal advice. She explains that there is No ‘One Size that Fits All’ and that a template contract or a lawyer who does not take the time to get to know your business will not help solve your problem.

Helen is “The Tradie Lawyer “and helps trade business owners from start up to sale to get where they need to go by completing their commercial contracts so they get on and run their business. She is also a really nice person and great to have on your Team!

Vanessa Petch is a Human Resources consultant with 18 years experience and is passionate about working with small and medium businesses to manage their teams, improve productivity and build engaged, high performing teams. Her background in human resource management is complemented by senior positions in finance, administration and operational management in small and medium businesses. This allows her to understand the challenges of running a business. She’s worked in and across a variety of industries including trade services, manufacturing, agribusiness, IT and financial services. Her end goal is to work alongside businesses to ensure they grow strong, sustainable and profitable.

Monroe Porter is an experienced consultant for painting contractors having taught seminars throughout Australia, the US and Canada. He also is founder of PROSULT™ Networking Groups, a best practices painting network of non-competing contractors with participants from the US, Canada and Australia.

Jim Baker have a painting career spans 50 years in which 38 years have been self employed. His time now is spent by helping others in their painting businesses through mentoring.

Jim have also developed numerous business products, written two books and currently a trainer for an online training organization.

Through his dedicated mercantile agency ‘Contractors Debt Recovery’, Anthony Igra has recovered over $60 million dollars for contractors using the Security of Payment Act across Australia.

He has conducted seminars for many construction industry associations around Australia, and provides their memberships with an invaluable service in relation to payment problems and debt recovery.

Anthony is a regular contributor in the construction press both in Australia and the US, and his views on payment issues have been sought by both government, and industry bodies.

Sandra Price founded Tradie Bookkeeping Solutions for tradies. Looking deeper than just the books to uncover the reasons for one of the major issues that tradie businesses big and small often face… not having enough cash flow.

Sandra is a certified consultant for Profit FirstTM and XERO True Blue Partner, Tradie Bookkeeping Solutions offer simple, stressfree bookkeeping solutions for Tradies while building profitability.

Leo Babauta is a regular guy, a father of six kids, a husband, a writer from Guam (moved to San Francisco in 2010, now living in Davis, California). But he have accomplished a lot over the last couple of years (and failed a lot) and along the way, he have learned a lot.

Zen Habits is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. It has over a million readers.

Robert Bauman has been a Financial Planner for 17 years and an Accountant and Business Advisor for over 25 years. Robert’s passion is to educate and empower people to take their financial future into their own hands. That’s why he wrote two books to spread the message he has distilled over the years of his accounting and financial planning practice.