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Verity Hare, who supports women running trade businesses, said improving financial literacy would also help alleviate stress in other areas for business owners.
“That cash flow stress or that lack of financial knowledge when things go kind of south with finances puts a lot of strain on relationships and mental health kind of gets affected, and it’s a huge flow-on effect,” she said.
TradieWives joins forces with Xero to bring free financial literacy support to the women behind Australia’s trade industry
Xero For Good: Financial fitness is a free program to boost small business financial literacy
Sydney — 17 August 2026 — TradieWives, Australia’s largest community for women in the trades, has joined forces with Xero, the global small business platform, to bring the free Xero For Good: Financial fitness program to its 50,000+ members.
Sydney, 23 July 2026 — TradieWives, Australia’s largest online community for women connected to the trades industry, has
today announced the official registration of National TradieWives Day, a new annual day of recognition to be held on July 23rd each year.
Women own or manage nearly 1 in 3 small businesses in Australia, yet so many are still dismissed as “just helping out.” This feature takes a deep dive into cashflow, late payments and the invisible workload — featuring Verity and community member Olivia from Tier One Scaffold.
Mia sits down with Verity Hare, founder of TradieWives — a 30,000-strong community for wives and partners in the trades — to talk about what it actually takes to build a safe, high-trust community in a noisy, performative internet. From bringing a relationship counsellor into the group (yes, really) to unapologetically strict moderation, Verity shares the systems, boundaries and heart that make Tradie Wives a rare gem: supportive, useful, and sustainable.
Meet Verity Hare, the powerhouse behind Trady Wives – a thriving community of nearly 30,000 members supporting partners in the trades industry. From starting a Facebook group to help with her husband’s landscaping business to building a comprehensive business academy and directory, Verity shares her journey of creating Australia’s largest trade support network. Learn how she transformed a personal need into an empire while maintaining authenticity and fostering genuine connections.
TradieWives founder Verity Hare gets real about one of the biggest challenges in the trades — work-life balance. Because knowing you need boundaries and actually setting them are two very different things. A must-read for anyone who’s ever said, “I’ll switch off after this one last job.”
The new financial year is the perfect reset. Verity walks through reviewing finances, updating your business plan, tightening cashflow, investing in technology and focusing on customer relationships — the practical guide every trade business owner needs.
Often within the joinery industry as well as other industries like it, there’s commonly the story of the husband starting his business, the wife watching him get burnt out and deciding to step in to help in some way. In this podcast episode Verity shares what led her to starting TradieWives, as well as her thoughts and feelings surrounding the trades industries, and why it’s important for women to feel supported whether they’re part of their husbands business or not.
