We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Melissa Groom. Melissa is the Founder of Mums in Business online magazine and Empowered Mums Business Network. Empowered Mums runs weekly business networking groups on the Gold Coast, and Launceston. Melissa is the creator of the 30 Day Video Challenge – Shine Like a Diamond and mentors women who want to boost their profile and grow a global community. She is on the Empowered Mums Business Advisory Board. Melissa is currently completing her MBA part-time with the Australian Institute of Business whilst running her business.
 
Transcript of the Interview

Announcement: Welcome to Rising Stars Radio, where we share the stories of ordinary people taking action to create extraordinary changes in their businesses. They are the true rising stars to watch. Get ready to take notes for our no-fluff, cutting-to-the-chase, 20-minute interview.
Janet: Hello and welcome, everybody. It’s Janet Beckers here and welcome to Rising Stars Radio. I’m very excited to just introduce you today to the beautiful Melissa Groom from the Empowered Mums Network. Melissa has been a part of our wonderful web community I reckon nearly from the very beginning that we started working together, so that was quite a few years ago now. It’s just been lovely to watch Melissa’s business change, that change from an initial niche to moving over to a different niche as she started to get confidence in her skills that she had. Then to see the evolution of her brand and see the evolution of her as a businesswoman has just been so wonderful to be watching that and to also be part of it.
Welcome, Melissa, it’s great to have you here.
Melissa: Hi, Janet. Thank you so much for having me. I was just thinking back. I think it’s been nearly 5 years that we’ve been together. Yeah.

Janet: Wow. Yeah, it has been. Right. Oh, and it’s been a special 5 years. Our goal today is to try to give as much value today to people that are listening; so, welcome, beautiful listeners. We’re going to try to be able to give you as much value in about 20 minutes, more or less, so we’re going to cut straight to the chase. Our idea here is to be able to give you some really practical tips and inspiration from Melissa as she shares her journey, the things that have worked, the things that she’s changed, so you can get some ideas of things that you can be implementing in your own business as you’re marketing and building a business online.
To start off with, Melissa, would you mind sharing with everybody who it is that you help and how it is that you do that?
Melissa: Okay. I help women in business who have got a message that they want to share with the world and are willing to step up and play bigger game. I do that through helping them use the power of video and connecting and building a community.
Janet: Great. You primarily work with businesswomen who are also mothers, I’d say, by your name …
Melissa: Yeah.
Janet: … because they’ve got very different challenges that come with balancing those different roles, as I can attest to, being a mother of two. I know that people will be curious to know the way that you deliver your programs, because there are so many different models that you can use to build your business, so many different business models. How is it that you help people? Do you work with them one-on-one? Do you have programs that they buy, then go home and study?