Vanessa Bamford Strategic Mentor

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Vanessa Bamford Strategic Mentor

Helping entrepreneurs build legacy, wealth & freedom — without burnout, guilt or losing themselves. My approach is direct, strategic, and human-first.

Watch my FREE masterclass Properly Paid Woman by clicking the link in my bio 💜 I help ambitious business owners simplify financial strategy, make confident decisions, and scale sustainably — without burning out or losing control. After growing up in a family business and building a career in financial strategy and advisory, I saw firsthand how overwhelming leadership can feel when you don't have t

he right support or clarity around your numbers. Today, through mentorship, education, and speaking, I work with business owners who are ready to move beyond the hustle and into real leadership. I’m not here to overwhelm you with jargon or cookie-cutter advice. I’m here to give you real-world strategies, clear action steps, and the confidence to take control of your business and financial future. Whether you're ready to finally understand your numbers, scale with clarity, or build a business that gives you back your time and freedom, I’m here to guide you.

🔹 Strategic Mentor for Business Owners
🔹 Speaker on Financial Confidence & Leadership
🔹 Founder of Vision Beyond Advisory
🔹 Co-Founder of Business Like A Girl

Ready to lead powerfully and grow sustainably? Let’s connect.

15/07/2026

Those stories didn't come from nowhere.

They were handed down through generations of women who were never given a seat at the financial table, never taught to see money as theirs to understand, earn, and lead with.

I believe we are in a new era of women who are ready to change that. The only place it can start is with the awareness that the stories are not your story.

If you’re ready to do that work, the Properly Paid Woman free masterclass is a good place to begin. You can find the details linked in bio.

What is the money story you have been carrying that you know is not actually yours?

Vanessa x

14/07/2026

I very rarely tell anyone what to do. That’s not who I am and it’s not my style of mentoring.

What I like to do is give you the information, share what I’ve experienced, what I’ve seen, here’s the data, here’s the calculations, and then you make the decision. Because it’s your business, not mine.

That’s how The Girl Method™ works too — a framework, the information, the support, and then you lead.

If that sounds like the kind of support you’ve been looking for, comment GIRL METHOD below and I’ll send you the details 💜

13/07/2026

Being an entrepreneur is messy and a social media scroll hole will have most people questioning everything about themselves and how they are doing because most of the time all we see is how ‘amazing’ people are doing.

My office right now is a s**t show, and a complete metaphor for what goes on behind the scenes for every business owner.

Don’t trust what you see and how you ‘think’ someone is doing, when what you see is only 1% of real life.

Please share with me your messy right now so I don’t feel like a complete idiot sharing my messy 🙏🙏

12/07/2026

The foundations are the very same thing I educate and mentor women on, and right now they matter more than ever.

When times are tough we need to go back to the foundations of our finances and our businesses and make sure we are strong in the areas that matter most.

Not only across our numbers, but our spending, the impacts we can see on our future sales, and how to stay on top of the changes as they happen.

It's about making decisions that will have the biggest impact, decisions you can ride through any storm with.

If you’d like to know more about what those foundations look like you can click the below link for something I’ve been working on to help.

https://www.businesslikeagirl.com.au/thegirlmethod

Vanessa x

17/06/2026

A few years ago I was asked to speak on a panel for a Xero road show in front of a room full of accountants and bookkeepers.

The whole time I was sitting up there I had one belief running through my mind.

That I don't fit in. This industry had shown me that. I was so very different from them all, and because of my previous experiences working in other accounting practices, I had a real belief that no one liked me.

Sitting in front of my peers, where I didn't feel respected, I didn't feel liked, and I didn't feel like I fit in, was really, really hard.

What got me through that moment was this. If I felt like that in that room, there had to be some other people who felt the same. In a majority of people who might not have liked me or resonated with me, there had to be a minority who did, and I wanted to find those people.

Straight afterwards a young girl came up to me and told me how much she felt so similar to how I had felt. That was the memory I held onto; it only takes one person to hear what you have to say for it to matter.

You are never actually alone, it’s just that you might be a minority, and if your voice is big enough and loud enough for them to hear, there will always be someone somewhere who is going to benefit from the one thing you have to say.

Now I want to ask you, what is the room you have been afraid to speak up in?

10/06/2026

I used to have every Friday off with my kids, but in reality I didn't always do it very well, until the guilt set in.

The moments of "hey mum watch this" while I was smiling and nodding at my kids, on the phone to a client trying to sort out an issue. Every ding of my email pulling me back in. Always on, always reacting. The business got me every time, but I thought I was succeeding because I was there with the kids in body but not in mind.

I even remember when my son was in year two and he filled in a Mother's Day card for me. He wrote "my mum is good at working." It broke my heart.

It was through the pain of the guilt and shame I felt, and the constant state of anxiety from never truly switching off, that I eventually made the changes. I learned to listen to my body. I took the time to truly learn what calm felt like, instead of the constant state of chaos and anxiety my body had learned to live in my whole life.

I came back to my reason why, which was my kids and the impact I wanted to make. I set strong boundaries around my days. I communicated to everyone that I no longer worked Fridays or Mondays. I found solutions and never settled with "it just is what it is." I have a choice.

Everything is a choice.

I want to leave this with you to sit with, what is the one thing you keep telling yourself you will change, but haven't yet?

05/06/2026

I used to think I had to resolve the fear before I could keep going.

Sixteen years in business has taught me that's not how it works, but it took watching my son race motocross to really understand why.

About four years ago we bought him a peewee 50 for Christmas to ride on our farm. I thought joining a club would be the safer option; that is not how that went.

He fell in love with riding almost immediately, and then with racing. I remember standing on a hill at his first race watching the older boys on the 85cc bikes, when one of them came over a jump, landed crossed over, and flipped into the air onto his head. He got up and fell back down and my body turned to jelly.

I have asked my son to consider butterfly catching ever since, because that is genuinely what my nervous system would prefer. He just loves it and he's really good at it, so I watch.

Every race I have equal parts pride because I know how hard he's worked, and equal parts fear because anything can happen. I've learned that both can exist at the same time, and that trying to resolve those feelings is the wrong goal.

What this sport has taught me is that I never had control to begin with. When fear sets in, the only honest move is to accept that, and trust that you will work it out.

That is what I bring to every hard decision I make in business, and it is what I try to give the women I work with when the next level feels like too much to trust.

I’m curious, is there a fear in your business right now that you are trying to control instead of move through?

Vanessa

27/05/2026

A few months ago a message came in from a past client that brought me to tears.

She told me she was now pursuing the career of her dreams and all I'd done was remind her of her worth.

That message took me straight back to the hardest moment of my own career, when I decided the way I was doing life was not good enough. I wanted purpose, I wanted to make a difference, and I didn't want the next sixteen years to look like the last sixteen had.

Choosing that path wasn't comfortable; it came with loss and uncertainty and a lot of letting go, but it is the most important and best decision I've made.

Most women I work with already know what they are capable of, they just keep building from a place that doesn't reflect it yet.

My belief is that everyone deserves to have the life they could only have imagined. The only thing stopping you is you.

I would love to know, what's the next version of your career you're building toward?

20/05/2026

I was exhausted, overcommitted, and still saying yes to everything. The sparring match just happened to be the place where it all caught up with me.

I've seen the same thing in so many women I work with. Not in boxing gyms, but in their businesses and their schedules and the way they keep adding more when everything is already full.

The excuses start to build up and underneath them is something worth paying attention to.

If you're constantly coming up with excuses for not achieving the thing you want, it's worth stopping and getting really honest about what's really going on.

Which part of your life are you still showing up to that you know you should have let go of by now?

Vanessa x

13/05/2026

I see this same pattern now in the women I work with.

The one-thousand-miles-an-hour version of building a business, where you tell yourself if you just get through this season, the reward is waiting on the other side.

It's not, and I learned that the hard way.

The difference is, I now get to help women change things sooner, before they end up where I did.

I’m curious, what's the pace you've been running your business at?

Vanessa x

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