Being a Mumpreneur

What defines you?

how to raise kids without losing it

by Helen on December 14, 2011

Today’s post is by Pamela Evbota, and it’s part of her virtual book tour for her new book ‘How To Raise Kids Without Losing It’.  Good luck with your book launch, Pamela! (You can find out about virtual book tours in Kindle Marketing, by the way). Until you find meaning concerning your life, no one [...]

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5 must-have time management tips for mompreneurs

by Helen on December 13, 2011

Today I’ve got a guest post for you from Meagan Visser, business coach for creative people. Over to you, Meagan! Hello. My name is Meagan. I’m a wahm & a recovering multi-tasker. Okay, too AA meetingish, I know. My point is that most of us out there who have creative businesses, whether we’re a WAHM, [...]

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Question: I’m at the research stage of setting up a small business while I look after my two toddlers. I  work most evenings once they have gone to bed but I’m also trying to fit bits in in the day. I feel I’m not giving my children the time I should as I’m distracted by [...]

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Mumpreneur: Exploding the myth

by Helen on October 20, 2011

Last week I found myself in a twitter debate about the word ‘mumpreneur’. Personally, I’m not too keen on that word because I’m not sure it gives a good impression of mums in business. (I thought long and hard about using the ‘m’ word in my e-course Earn What You Deserve as a Mumpreneur, but [...]

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Are you wondering if you could start a business?

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by Helen on September 16, 2011

Are you wondering… I could offer a better service than that / I wonder why there isn’t there a service for that? Why doesn’t anyone sell them, I wonder if could source and sell them. I love making them, I wonder if people would buy them? Do these sound familiar to you? Do you find [...]

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Are you approaching burnout? (I was!)

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by Helen on September 1, 2011

Is the first thought you have when you wake up in the morning “oh no, here we go again”? You rapidly brush that from your mind as all the stuff you have to do takes over. There are kids to feed and dress, clients to keep happy, events to organise, a car to get serviced, [...]

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Women can never have it all

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by Helen on August 1, 2011

That’s according to Hilary Devey, the new recruit to Dragon’s Den in this interview in the Telegraph. Helen Dewdney (@HelenDewdney) tweeted me yesterday to ask what I thought, and my reply is “It depends what you mean by ‘it all’.” Which is a bit of a cop out, but let me explain…

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