As business owners and corporate women, getting back to learning is a luxury we rarely have.

I’ve spent the last few days on Hamilton Island for Business Chicks annual conference Movers and Breakers and have loved the time to be back in the classroom.

There were so many lessons and nuggets of gold and some common themes emerged like trust and how we build trustworthy business and brands, but also the power in trusting and backing yourself and getting comfortable with the unknown.

There’s something Dr Jason Fox said during his presentation that’s really stayed with me. He said there were two versions of every person in that room – the version that said yes and came to the conference and the version who stayed at home.

To all of you who came along, well done girls. You know who you are and I hope that the lessons you’ve learned will help you stay curious, get out of your comfort zone and to keep being the version of yourself who says yes to everything.

And to all of you who couldn’t make it this time – see you next year in Fiji?