Creating a job rather than taking a job

Yesterday I had the opportunity to be one of the coaches for Global Sisters Glo Youth Ideas Challenge in collaboration with Woodville Alliance. We learned about the myths around business, the different types of businesses, starting off with an idea and developing it into a business, pitching it, funding it and more. The young women seemed to have a great time!

I first came across Global Sisters whilst I was working in a Community Hub (in a primary school) and developed an arts group for women, in collaboration with Information & Cultural Exchange. I was thrilled to be aligned with an organisation that I share the same philosophy and values with. About six years ago I started my own small creative business Mosca Media Australia. What started as a hobby/ interest and passion grew into a demand for service. We offer photography, videography and graphic design (including logo & branding). For enquiries feel free to email [email protected] or message us via www.facebook.com/MoscaMediaAustralia (until we get our website up again).

For now here is a blurb on Glo/ Global Sister’s:

"As youth unemployment continues to rise GLO has been created to expose young women 16-24 years to self employment as a potential career path, changing the mindset where employed vs unemployed are the only options. GLO creates an entrepreneurial experience to empower young women to make a job rather than take one. GLO has been successfully piloted in Brisbane and Sydney with Melbourne next." - Global Sisters

Check out the video below.

GLO Ideas Challenge from Heather Thomson on Vimeo.