Deals Colony

19/06/2026

People who know me know that every bit of life chaos I’ve experienced has forced me to innovate rather than stop or blame others.

Don’t get me wrong—I tried. It didn’t work. I felt worse, stuck, and convinced there was no way out of certain situations. Then I realised something important: it’s just a phase, and it will pass. It might take days, months, or even years… but it will pass.

People often say you need to learn how to channel your frustrations and roadblocks. I found my way by building in phases, as life allowed.

This is how Happy Hobby Hour Junior grew before it was even officially launched.

Week by week, we connected skills, interests, goals, and passions in a zero-waste way—creating opportunities instead of letting talent go to waste.

There were plenty of challenges behind the scenes: family commitments, life chaos, limited resources, a fractured leg, and many moments when it would have been easier to stop. But every volunteer, parent, educator, sponsor, business partner, and community supporter helped move the vision forward.

Today, seeing my son Ruhaan recognised as a Top 5 Finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards QLD feels incredibly special. 🏆

Tonight, we’re attending the Gala Dinner where the winner will be announced. Whatever happens, I’m proud of how far this youth-led initiative has come and the impact it has created for young people—built alongside school, family, work, and life’s many other commitments.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone and everything that has helped shape this journey. To those who supported us, challenged us, opened doors, shared opportunities, volunteered their time, believed in the vision, or simply showed up when we needed it most—thank you. So much of what we’ve built came from learning how to turn life’s chaos into innovation, purpose, and action.

Sometimes the goal isn’t to move fast.
It’s simply to keep moving.

Fingers crossed 🤞💙

17/06/2026

Dreaming of making a real impact but life’s chaos gets in the way? ✨ We get it. At Deals Colony, we believe in building a legacy that fits your life, not the other way around.

Watch how we transform a simple idea into a thriving youth social enterprise – from trial project to portfolio, all the way to a venture that works around your schedule, with just 2 hours a week.

Imagine building something meaningful alongside your little ones, contributing to a where no story, skill, or resource ever goes to waste. It’s not just a dream; it’s a blueprint for innovation.

Ready to build your legacy? Message us “BLUEPRINT” and we’ll share a quick quiz. You’ll receive a personalized Deal-Ready Project Match Blueprint to kickstart your journey!

That’s exactly why we are looking for founding corporate partners to be able to scale such workshops to bring local talent out and build innovative ideas in our communities, concreted by parents with their kids not with competition, but with collaboration. Partner with us so we can offer this opportunity widely.

With school holidays approaching and EOFY, we are looking forward to working with a corporate partner to offer these programs to our community.

Let’s innovate together and make a difference, even in the busiest of lives.

16/06/2026

Are your CSR and ESG initiatives ready to move beyond traditional reporting to create real, measurable impact? Many organizations struggle to transform their sustainability vision into tangible, scalable projects that truly drive change.

At Deals Colony, we believe the path to groundbreaking impact isn’t about more complexity, but about smarter collaboration. We’re an Australian multicultural Social Enterprise leveraging AI + tech + circular-economy innovation to ensure no skill, story, or resource goes to waste. We empower individuals and organisations to turn existing skills, passions, and AI into flexible careers, side hustles, social-impact projects, and community ventures that fit around real life.

For CSR and ESG teams, partnering with Deals Colony means:

✨ Turning Funds into Impact Data: See your investments translate into verifiable, circular zero-waste projects that generate meaningful ESG data.
✨ Accelerated Innovation: Utilize AI-driven frameworks for responsible business transformation and circular design, leading to tangible outcomes.
✨ Enhanced Brand & Employee Engagement: Showcase genuine commitment to global sustainable development goals and provide unique opportunities for your team to contribute to impactful initiatives.
✨ Achieving ESG Goals: Directly support the Zero-Waste Movement and circular economy principles through scalable, co-created ventures.

We’re opening 2 exclusive spots for founding corporate partners to pilot our 2-Hour-Per-Week Zero-Waste-Model. This is your chance to co-create and scale truly impactful projects with a proven social enterprise.

Ready to see how your organisation can make a real difference?

Complete our short quiz and receive a FREE Deal-Ready Project Match Blueprint to showcase at our next AI Summit + The Deal Table. You’ll discover:

• Opportunities matched to your organisation’s strengths and ESG objectives
• Practical next steps for impactful collaboration
• AI tools that accelerate progress in sustainable development
• Venture, career, side-hustle, and social-impact pathways for your stakeholders

Comment “BLUEPRINT” below and we’ll send you the quiz link directly!

15/06/2026

Most people see a messy floor.

I see innovation everywhere. 😄

While my husband and I were testing an AI tool…

our little one was busy building his own projects.

Puzzles.
Dominoes.
Letters.
Games.
Ideas.

No instructions.
No business plan.
No perfection.

Just curiosity.

And honestly, that’s how most innovation starts.

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One thing I’ve learned from building Deals Colony is this:

Waste isn’t always what ends up in landfill.

Sometimes it’s:

❌ An unfinished idea

❌ A skill nobody knows you have

❌ A half-built app

❌ A dream you put on hold

❌ A project you never shared

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A few months ago, my husband started teaching himself AI.

As a personal challenge, he built a tool that can identify animals from images and generate descriptions with an accuracy score.

Most people would call that a cool experiment.

I immediately saw potential. 😂

Because my brain is always asking:

👉 Can this solve a problem?

👉 Can someone learn from it?

👉 Can it become a portfolio project?

👉 Can it save time?

👉 Can it create an opportunity?

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At the same time, I’ve been building my own AI experiments.

Using AI, GitHub, and my website, I created a project-matching tool designed to connect people with opportunities based on:

✔ Skills

✔ Passions

✔ Goals

✔ Experience

✔ Project interests

Across more than 1,000 project ideas I’ve collected over the years.

After a few hours of brainstorming, testing, and aligning ideas together, we connected some of the functionality from my husband’s AI work into the concept.

And it worked.

Not perfectly.

But it worked.

And that’s enough to keep moving.

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The best part?

This tool could save me 4+ hours of manual work every week.

That’s time I can reinvest into:

💡 Helping founders

💡 Supporting students

💡 Creating new opportunities

💡 Building circular economy projects

💡 Spending more time with family

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And that’s the philosophy behind our Zero-Waste Movement.

Not just reducing material waste.

But reducing wasted:

♻ Skills

♻ Stories

♻ Ideas

♻ Experience

♻ Human potential

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That’s also why we’re building our community inside the AI Summit + The Deal Table Facebook group.

A space where founders, professionals, students, creators, retirees, business owners, and curious minds can:

✅ Explore AI tools

✅ Test ideas

✅ Build offers

✅ Find collaborators

✅ Create portfolio projects

✅ Connect with customers, partners, and investors

✅ Turn “What if?” into “What’s next?”

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Because building the tool is only half the journey.

The bigger question is:

What happens next?

Who uses it?

Who needs it?

Who buys it?

Who helps scale it?

Who benefits from it?

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No hype.

No overnight success stories.

Just real people building real solutions around real life.

Because sometimes innovation looks less like a Silicon Valley office…

and more like two parents experimenting with AI while a child builds a world from dominoes on the floor 😂😂🤣🤣

I’m curious:

What’s the most useful, weird, or unexpected thing you’ve built with AI so far?

Share it below 👇

You never know who might spot an opportunity in it.

14/06/2026

🚨 Last Chance! 🚨

Today is the final day to cast your vote for Ruhaan – Happy Happy Hobby Hour Juniory vote helps us bring fresh ideas to life and create more opportunities for young people to learn, grow, and turn their screen time and social media addiction into skill time.

Thank you so much for your support ❤️

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14/06/2026

A powerful reminder from the ecoBiz Business Chamber Queensland Masterclass: the biggest opportunities aren’t in buying more or designing solutions that create avoidable waste, they’re in material‑flow and process‑flow analysis, and using what already exists 🙌🙌
When organisations rethink materials, repurpose existing skills, collaborate instead of just buy, and activate underused assets, they reduce cost and carbon while unlocking new value.
This is exactly why we built Deals Colony’s Circular Innovation Network and why we’re growing with our founding‑member businesses and charities.
We co‑create solutions with high‑skilled professionals, organisations, and young people to turn unused skills, surplus resources, lived experience, and dormant capacity into new revenue, workforce pathways, circular‑economy ventures, and measurable ESG + community impact.
If your organisation wants to reduce waste, cut costs, or activate untapped capability, our Zero‑Waste Movement is built for you — whether through a 6‑week project or a 12‑month pathway. We’re building shared infrastructure and trusted offers that make circular innovation practical, affordable, and scalable.
To help spread knowledge, we’ll also begin sharing upcoming events from other organisations contributing to this movement.

What a great morning bringing local businesses together for ecoBiz’s Cost Reduction and Innovation event in Brisbane.

Attendees heard new ways to improve efficiency and innovate from Petroh Daczynski (Westside HQ), who shared insights from a local business perspective, and Sarah Woolmington, who provided examples from her work as an ecoBiz coach.

The hands-on workshop sparked some great conversations, with participants sharing ideas, challenging thinking and uncovering new opportunities. One standout takeaway? Shifting the mindset from seeing waste as a problem to seeing it as a future resource.

It is clear Queensland businesses are looking for simple, achievable ways to build resilience and long-term value, and this is exactly what ecoBiz is here to support.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to such a valuable discussion.

13/06/2026

With Facebook – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

12/06/2026

As EOFY approaches and every line item is under review, one challenge keeps coming up in corporate conversations...

How do you strengthen workforce capability and wellbeing without adding new budget pressure or funding another unproven initiative? 🤔

That’s the exact question driving my latest collaboration with the Mindful Health and our growing Circular Innovation Founding Member Network.

We’re evolving this work in real-time. Not as a fixed program, but as a living ecosystem designed to reduce waste at scale.

And I don't just mean material waste. I mean wasted skills, untapped ideas, and unused human potential.

Because at the core of our zero‑waste movement is a simple belief:
No story. No skill. No resource should ever go to waste. ♻️

Instead, we design regenerative pathways where people can contribute, learn, and build in ways that fit around real life, not replace it.

Here is what we are seeing on the ground:

💡 Insight #1: The Flexibility Mandate
Traditional employment pathways are no longer aligned with modern life. People need flexibility, not rigid systems that lead to burnout or disengagement.

💡 Insight #2: Action Over Theory
Project‑based learning accelerates capability growth. It builds an entrepreneurial mindset that improves initiative, ownership, and innovation at work while also supporting those who may one day explore self‑employment or entrepreneurship.

💡 Insight #3: Beyond "Funding"
Cross‑sector partnerships can do more than just “fund programs.” When structured correctly, they generate measurable workforce development, ESG outcomes, and community impact data.

Right now, I’m building this as part of a 6‑week live pilot cycle, working across founder‑led businesses, social enterprises, and community organisations.

I’ll be sharing our progress openly as we test, refine, and evolve the model including how this connects into my wider zero‑waste circular innovation network and flexible career pathways.

Because the future of work shouldn’t cost wellbeing. It should support it. 🌱

If you’re a corporate, charity, or impact‑led organisation interested in exploring this model, I’m open to conversations as we continue building.

👇 Drop a "YES" in the comments if you believe the future of work needs to change, or tag an organisation that needs to see this!

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11/06/2026

🎉 I earned the emerging talent badge this week from Facebook, recognising me for creating engaging content that sparks an interest among my fans!

10/06/2026

From a Year 5 junior‑school kid with random ideas to a Year 10 student shaping his Senior Education and Training Pathway Plan and now exploring law. Ruhaan keeps evolving, but one thing never changes: turning screen‑time into skill‑time. Vote for Ruhaan and help fuel his excitement for his next school‑holiday project after a busy two weeks of school 😊🙏

The People’s Choice Award has launched! The People's Choice Award aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the Finalists’ achievements.The Finalist who receives the most votes will be announced as the People's Choice Award winner and will receive a special prize!The People's Choice Award winner ...