Pause Fest 2020 Day One Lessons

Pause Fest is in its 10th year providing attendees in Melbourne with inspiration for their curious minds. With three main stages, workshop areas, and an expo area featuring a startup pitch competition, the three-day festival draws a big crowd of innovation, creative and startup lovers. Here are our top lessons from several of the 40+ sessions that happened on day one!

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Events, Learning, MelbourneLana Weal
How can we be “Above All, Human”?

On the 29th of August, a few thousand humans gathered in Melbourne at the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building for #aah18. Above All Human is a biennial conference created by the legends at Startup Victoria. To share all the great knowledge we absorbed, I summarised the many lessons.

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EventsLana Weal
The Importance of Taking Time to Reflect

Noticing the huge growth required by founders within the SheStarts and BlueChilli programs, here are some prompts and suggestions you can use which will help to reflect on a journey. At SheStarts, we used the ideas to help assimilate the many lessons and experiences within the accelerator program.

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LearningLana Weal
5 Lessons from the USA

Travelling to New York and San Francisco alongside the SheStarts 2 founders in 2018, we met with trailblazing women, investors and startups who are changing the way we live and work. Here I summarised the 5 top lessons we learned from women in tech and venture capital in the USA.

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Events, LearningLana Weal
5 Lessons on Going Global

As the SheStarts 2 cohort prepared for their flights to the USA, the Going Global Immersion theme gave the founders the chance to broaden their global vision and get in zone for their big trip – ready to meet some of the world’s most influential tech, startup, and investment leaders. Here are the top five lessons from those two days.

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LearningLana Weal
Girls in Tech – Catalyst 2018

The first Catalyst conference by the global movement for empowerment of girls and women in Tech “Girls in Tech” kicked off in Australia in 2018 with 300 founders, entrepreneurs, designers, coders and women in tech. Here are the top takeaways from the event.

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Events, LearningLana Weal
5 surprising lessons we learned at PauseFest 2018

Over three action packed days based at popular meeting place, Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD, speakers converged from all over the world. Presenting panels, workshops and networking opportunities all about Creative, Tech & Business topics. Here’s a round up of surprising lessons.

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EventsLana Weal
Easy, mostly free, wholesome gift ideas

Sharing gifts is a representation of our love for one another. It’s very common to give gifts at Christmas to our immediately family, our extended family, our friends, our partner and their family, and sometimes our work colleagues. We can end up giving many gifts and spending a considerable amount of money.

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Gifts, Giving, ChristmasLana Weal
The Minimalists event in Melbourne 2014

Creators of The Minimalists, Josh and Ryan are two Americans dedicated to living purposeful lives. They share insights about how they've improved their lives by learning to live with less stuff and less attachments to material possessions. In 2014, they toured the US, UK and Australia hosting over 100 free events where they spoke about their experience of shifting to a more minimalist lifestyle.

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Lana Weal