List/Grid Tag Archives: Becoming A Mompreneur
Mompreneur Insights – Interview With Sarah Dale
For this weeks Mompreneur interview I’m very pleased to welcome back Sarah Dale! Sarah is a chartered occupational psychologist, coach, and newly published author of Keeping Your Spirits Up, a book aimed at busy professionals who sometimes struggle to balance work, home and well-being. Click here to read Sarah’s guest post ‘How To Balance Work, Home And Wellbeing For Multi-Tasking Professional Moms’ As a working mother herself, she is very familiar with the challenges of keeping…
Expert Parenting Advice On How To Balance A Family And A Business
Following on from our fantastic interview last week (click here if you missed it) I asked Dr. G for some specific advice on how to successfully balance running a business with being a present and engaged Mom. Dr. G is not only a Board Certified family physician and a professional parenting writer and speaker, she is also a mother of four, so she is more than qualified to answer a question like this! Here is her expert…
Mompreneur Insights – Interview with Lorraine Allman
Today I’m very privileged to be able to share with you some ‘Mompreneur Insights’ from Lorraine Allman. Lorraine is an entrepreneur and researcher with over 14 years experience of starting and running businesses, from establishing one of the first online business information portals in the UK to running a highly successful business and educational research company. She is currently MD of Speed Mentor Central® an online centre of business expertise supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses….
Starting My Own Business – Or Should I Just Read A Good Book Instead?
So guys – I need your opinions and advice on this. I’ve just come back from a fantastic family vacation to Hawaii and since we got back I’ve been having a bit of a crisis of confidence about what I’m spending my ‘free’ time on. As you may already know, once my little girl goes to nursery this time next year I plan to launch an online coaching business aimed at supporting professional Moms who…
Start A Highly Lucrative Business And Still Spend Time With Your Kids!
Why would you want to start your own business? How about because if you design it right then you can be generating income while you pick your kids up from school, while you play with them at the park, or even while you lie in a hammock on the beach or take a city break! One of the biggest challenges that professional mothers have in leaving behind the 9 to 5 to start their own…
Top 5 Reasons Why Mompreneurs Fail And How To Avoid Them
Let’s not kid ourselves. Starting a business is REALLY HARD! According to the SBA, 51% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Why? What goes wrong? Is there any way to avoid this happening to your business? Well it seems that entrepreneurial success is a combination of hard work, savvy business sense, and a sizable portion of good luck! However here are some classic traps that new Mompreneurs often fall in to, and…
How To Start A Business When You’re A Super Busy Mom
“How Can I Possibly Start My Own Business When I Don’t Even Have Time To Shower??” I have definitely felt like this. Once you’re out of the initial Mommy phase of exhaustion and overwhelm you start to settle into the baby routine of playgroups, nap times, feedings, and lots and lots and LOTS of laundry. So many Mom’s I’ve talked to have shared their ‘guilty secret’ that, although they love their little ones, sooner or…
Do You Agree That Successful Entrepreneurs Are Born Not Made?
I’ve just had a really interesting discussion on one of my LinkedIn groups about something I said in a previous post (How To Come Back Strong When Your Confidence Is Shot To Hell) In the post I said “… I’m an entrepreneur. I’m born to do this, it’s in my nature, and although sometimes I hate it I’ll never be completely fulfilled if I’m not doing this.” Another member of the group wrote back and…
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