Hi there! 👋🏻
My name is Emily Wade, and I’m the blogger behind Brave Little Pig!
My passion is helping individuals and organisations, especially in the arts, sustainability and health sectors, drive impact through sharing their work with audiences.
Skilled in professional writing, including short-form and long-form pieces, features, and copy for SEO, I have a keen eye for detail. My skills extend to multimedia forms too, including visual design, and video and audio content production.
My past experiences in nursing, pharmaceutical sales and small business inform my current work in both important and surprising ways, and I continuously look for new challenges and learning opportunities.
On a more personal note, I love nature and photography, and need to immerse myself in these two things regularly to maintain a sense of wellbeing.
I feel frustrated that efforts to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions are completely inadequate and lack urgency, and campaign for climate action whenever I can! I financially support the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Greenpeace, Australia for UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency), and Surf Life Saving (SLS) Victoria, while seeking out ethical and sustainable consumer choices, and generally buying less ‘stuff’!
Do you need help with a project?
I would love to help you drive impact in your business or non-profit. I offer digital strategy consulting, training, and freelance writing services in the arts, sustainability and health sectors – send me a message on LinkedIn to get the conversation started.
I also write a fortnightly newsletter called Conscious Humanity for those yearning to slow down and unearth a more creative, nature-connected life. If this sounds like you, subscribe here!
Where did the name, ‘Brave Little Pig’ come from?
Formulating a business name can become a drawn-out, emotional process for such a (seemingly) small detail. Inspiration for this one came from several places. It ended up sticking because feedback from friends and family was so positive – informal market research like this can be the first indication that you’re onto a good thing. Brave Little Pig is memorable; it has personal significance and appeals to a broader audience at the same time.
‘Brave’ is a reference to how tough and determined you need to be in order to succeed as a small business owner, creative freelancer or new graduate – only the brave ones make it! The ‘pig’ part was inspired by Chinese astrology; I was born in the year of the pig. ‘Little’ is a reference to my physical size, but it also adds a ‘cute’ element to the brand.
Brave Little Pig 