Category: Being a Mumpreneur

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Working from home with toddlers around: how on earth do you do it?

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 work and I’m not giving work sufficient attention as I’m paying attention to my children – what can I do?

I really feel for you as I’ve been there and to some extent I still am! It’s hard, no doubt about it. Here are some tips to help: Continue reading “Working from home with toddlers around: how on earth do you do it?”

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Mumpreneur: Exploding the myth

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 we live in a keyword-driven world so I decided to just go for it).

Whatever people think of the word ‘mumpreneur’, there are loads of hard-working, creative mums out there doing amazing things with their businesses.

So today, I decided to stick up for ‘mumpreneur’. It’s only short but they say that YouTube is one of the best places to be found on the internet, so that’s where I did it!

What do you think?

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Are you wondering if you could start a business?

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 yourself wondering if you could turn an idea you have into a business? Continue reading “Are you wondering if you could start a business?”

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Are you approaching burnout? (I was!)

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, groceries to buy, a never ending to-do list. And it’ll be the same story tomorrow. And the day after that too…

Are you tired, irritable, snappy? Does it all seem too much? Can you even remember the last time you really had fun? I mean proper, full-on fun – when you laughed so much you couldn’t stop?

Shattered, even if you have had a good night’s sleep?

That’s where I was a few weeks ago. Continue reading “Are you approaching burnout? (I was!)”

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