Women's Nexus has already received media attention, including in an article published on 16 June 2010 by Mamamia. Click here to read the full article. 

 

In the article Co-founder Zoe Durand says of Women's Nexus spoke about the reason she and co-founder Rosemaree Lechner started the group what the groups goals are.  She also spoke of the lessons learned from meetings:

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"Having realised so many of my contemporaries had struggled to work out this whole career thing, I started a women’s business and professional network group called “Women’s Nexus” with a former colleague.

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Currently women’s networking groups seem to be a dime a dozen out there. So why start yet another one? My hope for the group was that it would not just be about cross referrals but rather it would be “career therapy” and inspirational. My co-founder and I committed to sourcing inspirational speakers who would be willing to talk about the real stuff of how they built their career.

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We wanted to create an informal, supportive and authentic space where women can come together and vent, talk, laugh and network over some wine and cheese.  Somehow thanks to the wonderful women that came, this is the exact environment that was created.

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Only one meeting in and I am already certain I have found that sense of community, where we can each be the cheer leader for each other’s career.

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Some of the gems of career (and life) wisdom that I have taken away from the first meeting are:

1. Take risks – “Just do it”.

2. Trust your gut. (In your career and in choosing a partner).

3. As much as you can follow your passions, but also make sure you put food on the table.

4. Relax. It will all work out – you won’t actually implode when you have children (Well maybe you will, but that’s ok too because then you will rebuild again.)

5. It is all there waiting there for you. Be patient.

6. You don’t have to be a girl forever. It’s ok to be a woman, to be older, to have lived, to have some wrinkles.

 

The most resounding message from our meeting was to trust your gut. This is particularly interesting when the career is often regarded as the domain of rationality and logic. And trusting one’s intuition in career could be regarded as a flippant way to make career decisions."