Business Ready 101
Business Ready 101Is business right for you?
A free hands-on workshop for anyone carrying a business idea around. Map your idea, check your readiness honestly, and leave knowing your next step — whichever direction it takes.
First sessions August 2026 · Sunshine Coast · daytime, evening & weekend options · places limited — register now and we’ll hold you a seat as dates land. Not sure yet? Take the 2-minute health check.
Before you quit your job, buy the van or build the website…
…spend one honest session with us. Most business programs assume you’ve already decided. Business Ready 101 is the session before that decision: a practical, no-hype look at what running a business really takes, and a structured way to test whether your idea — and your life right now — are ready for it. Whatever you discover is a win.
What you’ll walk out with.
Hands-on from the first ten minutes — this is a working session, not a seminar.
Your Business Heartbeat
Map what you love and are good at, what your world needs, and what you can be rewarded for — on one powerful canvas you keep.
The Honest Reality Check
What running a business in Australia actually takes — money, time, rules and resilience — without the hype.
Your Readiness Score
The Business Readiness Health Check shows exactly where you’re strong and what to build next.
The Start-Up Checklist
Our free Australian business start-up checklist — the practical path from idea to open, in the right order.
A Room of People Like You
Side-hustlers, first-timers, tradies, creatives, newcomers — you won’t be figuring this out alone.
Your Next Step
Skills Circle, full Business Ready program, or explore further — every result has a clear pathway forward.
The 2-minute Business Readiness Health Check.
Twenty honest statements. Score yourself as you are today — honestly, not hopefully. There’s no pass or fail: readiness is buildable, and every result has a next step. (The full guided version happens in the workshop.)
Free. Local. Scheduled around you.
Register your interest and tell us whether daytime, evenings or weekends suit — we schedule sessions around demand and send you dates first.
When
First sessions August 2026 — dates announced to registered folks first
Where
Sunshine Coast — first session Maroochydore (venue confirmed by email)
Duration
2.5 hours, hands-on — includes all materials and take-home resources
Cost
Free — places limited to keep it personal
Can’t make a session? Register anyway — we’ll keep you posted on new dates, times and circles so you never miss one.
Where it can lead.
Business Ready 101 is the front door to the Business Ready family — every stream shares the same core program, weekly Business Skills Circle and nationally recognised qualification (BSB30220 Certificate III in Entrepreneurship and New Business).
Youth
For young founders 15–24 turning ideas into real ventures.
HERpreneurs
For women building purpose-led businesses.
Tradies
From tools to takings — build the business behind the trade.
Newcomers
For new Australians building a business in a new home.
For Good
For community-minded and social-impact ventures.
Creatives
Turn creative practice into sustainable income.
One free session could save you a year of guessing.
Bring your idea — or just your curiosity. We’ll bring the tools, the honesty and the coffee.