Do you wish you had ongoing mentorship and support from a trusted crew? A crew that can help you and your business grow and keep you on track?
Are you craving connection? Not surface level stuff, but deep and meaningful connections with ladies who get what it takes to run your own show?
Do you need a safe space to just say it like it is? A space to open up about the struggles, the challenges and all the lessons you’ve learned along the way?
Yep? You’re in the right place 💫
INTRODUCING
THE BRAINS TRUST
The Brains Trust is a group mentor program for founders who, just like you, are looking to speed up their business success and forge new friendships, partnerships, and connections.
It allows you to learn from other members in a supportive environment, to help you decode problems and design solutions, and to encourage you to think outside the box.
Designed to run over 10-weeks, we’ve taken all the best bits from business and positive psychology to create a custom framework to encourage you to get real about your struggles, workshop and design solutions, become a better listener, lean into your strengths, as well as support and inspire others.
As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we’re reserving one free spot in the Brains Trust for a woman of colour, or for a woman from an underserved or underinvested community. If you’d like to apply or nominate someone for this free position, please join the waitlist below.
Applications for the Brains Trust are currently closed. You can join the waitlist to be the first to know when they open back up.
THIS IS MY STRAWBERRY JAM.
Psst. More info on what’s included, and the structure below 👇🏼
JUST IMAGINE FOR A SECOND…
Having access to a group of women who are invested in your business and want to see you succeed by offering ideas, advice, and introductions to the right people
Workshopping and designing solutions to a burning question or problem you’ve been facing in your business but can’t seem to overcome
Finally making progress on an idea you’ve been kicking around for a while but haven’t had the energy or motivation to start
Making visible progress both personally and professionally thanks to the group of talented ladies keeping you accountable and on track
Accessing custom tools and play sheets you can use anytime such as our goal-setting map and lean business canvas template
A fresh perspective from women in different industries to stimulate innovation
MEET YOUR
Hosts
Hey! We’re Caitlin and Anna - co-founders of lady-brains and co-hosts of Australia’s top-rated business podcast.
We’re extremely passionate about sharing what we’ve learned throughout our business careers, as well as bringing women together in the start-up space.
We hope the Brains Trust will serve as a platform for everyone to find their team of cheerleaders.
Caitlin
Caitlin is a business and brand coach and consultant who helps business owners thrive. She has a healthy coaching client list and facilitates group coaching programs on all things business, branding and marketing. Caitlin has helped her clients build six-figure online businesses with a global presence and thriving virtual teams, has grown email lists to 100K+ subscribers, and loves seeing her clients set and achieve their business goals with her support. She has a keen interest in purpose-led brands and individuals in the wellbeing space, infusing her marketing and communications background with the practical application of positive psychology to explore and tap into her clients’ values and strengths.
Anna
Anna has spent her career working in strategy and innovation for some of the largest fashion and beauty retailers globally. She was part of the founding Australian team to bring Japanese retailer UNIQLO to Australia, and this role saw her working extensively across Japan, Singapore and Melbourne. Until recently, she headed up the Concept Development at Australian beauty giant MECCA where she scouted the globe for the best, most exciting innovations in retail and led the reimagining of MECCA’s ‘store of the future’. She has extensive experience in ideation and idea validation, strategic planning, and leading big teams to deliver highly complex projects.
THE
LADY-BRAINS
STORY
What do you do when you want to hang out with entrepreneurially minded women, but you don’t know where to look?
You build the network and invite them in. That’s precisely how we started.
LADY-BRAINS began in 2017 as a dinner series, with a small, curated group of ladies running their own biz (or with ambitions to) – and provided them with an IRL space to come together and talk about ideas, big ideas.
These dinners were magical – and it was incredible to see the connections, friendships and opportunities that formed not only at our supper-clubs, but beyond the dinner tables as well.
While our supper-club series are an ongoing staple on the lady-brains event calendar, we received consistent feedback from our members that they were looking for deeper and longer-term opportunities to connect and support one another.
That’s why we’ve built the Brains Trust. To continue to help women in business by offering support, connection and education within our community. We truly believe that when women create businesses, everybody wins.
HOW THE BRAINS TRUST CAN HELP
Let’s be real, it takes a village. Building and maintaining a healthy business isn’t easy, and it’s safe to say we can’t do it alone. Leveraging the power of many brains is key.
The more extensive and deeper our networks are, the higher the chance of discovering the right opportunities, feeling understood and supported by our peers, and finding others who really want to see us succeed.
In fact, we’ve designed this as a 10-week program so real connections (not just one-night-stand kind of connections) can be made. And so you can make visible progress, no matter what you choose to focus on.
So, whether you’ve just started out or you’re further along on your biz journey, we’ve created a mentor support circle just for you. We’ll help you keep it real, and we’ll have fun while we do it.
SAY NO MORE.
WHAT’S INCLUDED 🤷♀️
Pre-work playbook to deepen your thinking
This pre-work will allow you, the Brains Trust, and us to understand your strengths, hopes, challenges, and how we can best support you. You’ll also get the opportunity to share one burning question you need help with.
A 30 minute one-to-one catch up with lady-brains team to clarify your area of focus and set a clear goal for the program.
You’ll catch up with Anna & Caitlin from lady-brains to review your pre-work playbook and finalise your goal for the program.
A kick-off mentor support circle to get to know one another
You’ll meet and get to know all the ladies in your circle. We’ve designed this call to break the ice quickly, and so you can share your goals, challenges and the support you’re hoping to get from everyone in the group.
Fortnightly mentoring support circles where all the magic happens
Over 10-weeks, you’ll have fortnightly 90-minute mentor circles facilitated by us. We’ve designed each call to encourage open and honest chats, and to help you stay focused on your guiding question and real-time challenges. In some weeks, we’ll do a deep dive on a topic that’s based on the collective needs of the group.
A 2-hour wrap up mentor circle to celebrate all your achievements
It’s important to recognise progress and celebrate the wins. We’ll host a longer call with a few extra surprises thrown in. Bring the tissues.
A final 30 minute one-to-one call with the lady-brains team to wrap up the program and make sure you're clear on your plan moving forward.
We want you to be set up for success once the program wraps. You’ll leave the 10 weeks feeling crystal clear about where you and your business are heading.
An assigned support friend you can rely on
You’ll be assigned a buddy from the group because we want you two to be able to lean on each other and check-in regularly to provide extra support and accountability. And share a virtual vino 🍷
Goal setting and planning guides to help set you up for success
We’ve hacked the best tools (thanks Canva, Trello and Slack) as well as created some pretty easy-to-use goal setting and planning guides to help you succeed.
A private IG thread and Trello board to connect, share and ask questions
If you’ve got a quick question, or something you’d love to share with the group, IG will be our home to keep us connected between chats. We use Trello to house all the important stuff like what who you are, your worksheets and the actions you’re taking.
Shared tools, ideas and best-practice tips you can apply right way
Over the years we’ve collected lots of ideas and best-practice examples to help you with your business (especially branding and marketing) that we’re happy to share.
A profile of your biz across the lady-brains social media channels.
Along with the rest of the ladies in the group, we’ll profile you and your biz across the lady-brains Instagram 👀
Access to our network of members, suppliers, mentors and investors
We pride ourselves on our tight network of members, suppliers and investors and you’ll all get an ‘ask’ - someone special you’d like to be connected to within our network.
THE BRAINS TRUST IS FOR YOU IF...
You’re feeling a little lost in your business
You want to set yourself up well for a successful year ahead but unsure where to start
You want to push yourself a little further but need the accountability and support to get some of your latest ideas and projects off the ground
You have more questions than you have answers and you know that a group of smart people can help you workshop solutions
You love your family and friends, but they don’t fully get what you’re going through and you need support from women who just get it
You like to mix business and pleasure and know how to have fun 😉
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
THE VALUE
Applications now closed. Join the waitlist below for our next Brains Trust.
This is a curated, application only program and we’re committed to making this a great experience for you. We kindly ask that in return, you show up fully for yourself and others to get the most out it.
I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE.
If you’ve got questions, we likely have answers. Email us at hey@ladybrains.com.au ❣️