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We all want to be successful. As I look back, with all my corporate roles and personal business, I wish I had a guide to help me through some challenges and ways to deal with certain situations. Someone who knows the situations and can provide some guidance.

Leadership starts with leading ourselves. If we don’t have our own heads in order, what right do we have to attempt to manage others? When we start with ourselves, we can achieve a specific ‘leadership mindset’ that allows us to lead with clarity, focus and the determination to achieve our goals, as Jodi Cottle explains here

Book Review: The Pocket MBA is all about empowering and helping women become leaders, and create high-performing and sustainable workplaces, and Cottle achieves that in a really nice way. PQ Rating 5/5 We are giving this one our top rating. We really liked it and Cottle achieves so much in just 200 pages. *Page 39 in link*

Women face unique challenges in the world of business, especially when it comes to running their own organisations. For those looking to take their businesses to the next level, look no further than The Pocket MBA: A Woman's Playbook for Succeeding in Business by entrepreneur Jodi Cottle. Divided into four parts, the book provides business women with practical tools to lead their teams, clients themselves.


Jodi Cottle is an entrepreneur and small-business owner, currently operating a high-performing business within the world’s largest aesthetics franchise network, Laser Clinics Australia. Packed with research, stories, and practical tools you can apply immediately, The Pocket MBA is an essential handbook for taking your business and your leadership to the next level. From mansplaining to motherhood, women face unique challenges when it comes to running a successful business. But whatever challenges you personally face, The Pocket MBA shares insightful tips and strategies that will give you a head-start as a leader, manager, and owner

Early on my career, I had a boss who was a real ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. One moment he’d be towering over me at my desk, screaming instructions in my face. But once we’d all clocked off, he’d be buying rounds, telling jokes and being the life of the party. Naturally, I never knew where I stood with him. One time he stormed into my office yelling, demanding answers. I froze. The threat of this intimidating, tall man brought my brain to a standstill. I couldn’t think.

Award-winning Laser Clinics Australia franchisee and author Jodi Cottle is sharing her tips for business-building in new book designed to help women achieve their potential.

Becoming a mother is one of life's most magical moments. It's a transformative experience that shakes your foundation and renews your view on life altogether. Sometimes this is for the better, and sometimes it's for the worse.

Five years ago mum Jodi Cottle quit her well-paying corporate job to regain control of her life - now she works when she wants and earns a six-figure salary. The 40-year-old former sales manager and mortgage adviser struggled maintaining a work-life balance shortly after becoming a mum and knew something needed to change.

From a senior manager in the corporate property world to a Laser Clinics franchisee, author and owner of the Tweed Heads clinic, Jodi Cottle tells us why she made the switch to our industry and why she wouldn’t want to change it for the world.

After realising it was finally time to leave her demanding corporate job, mum-of-one Jodi knew she wanted to start her own business. She now describes her role as "the perfect balance." Let me paint a picture for you. The alarm goes off, it's 5am. You get up, check your emails, schedule some meetings before the rest of the house is awake. Suddenly, the morning routine is in full swing.

Gold Coast boss mum-turned-author on a mission to empower women to find their voice. Gold Coast author and entrepreneur Jodi Cottle has released a new book, The Pocket MBA: A Woman’s Playbook for Succeeding in Business, helping the growing number of female business owners unlock their own potential and achieve the ultimate work-life balance.

A country girl at heart, but over the years her career has taken her to Wellington, Auckland, London and Sydney, growing her skills and business savvy. She initially built a career in sales, then in leadership roles and now owns a franchise in the beauty industry. She is about to publish her second book: The Pocket MBA: A woman’s playbook for succeeding in business.

Thinking of buying a franchise? Or perhaps, you’re already knee-deep in research and need a little push? Well, we thought we’d catch up with one woman who is kicking some serious butt in the franchise game. Jodi Cottle and her team at Laser Clinics Australia’s Tweed Heads clinic are great at what they do and have struck the perfect balance of operating within an established brand and making their mark.

Jodi Cottle and her team at Laser Clinics Australia’s Tweed Heads clinic really know their stuff when it comes to shining as a franchisee. But don’t just take our word for it, Jodi was named Laser Clinics Australia’s Franchisee of the Year in 2021, and her faithful colleague Allira Miller won the Clinic Manager of the Year title in 2022.