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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 Dr Deborah Gilboa
Todays interview comes from Dr Deborah Gilboa – better known as Dr. G! Dr. G is a Board Certified family physician, mother of four, and a professional parenting writer and speaker (for parents, community & business). Her signature individualized workshop,”How to Get the Behavior You Want, Without Being the Parent You Hate” captivates parents through her humorous straight talk, which lifts the guilt out of parenting. Her mission is to help parents raise children they…
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 Your Business Plan Process With “I Want, I Want, I Want!!”
Did your Mom and Dad ever tell you that “I want doesn’t get”? Well here’s the exception! Last week I shared my experience of ‘overwhelm’ while trying to write a business plan (click here to read this blog post) Since then I’ve read a load of stuff and I’ve decided how I’m going to go about it. Wikipedia’s definition of a ‘business plan’ is: “a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons…
Writing A Business Plan And The Overwhelm That Comes With It!
There’s a point when every wannabe entrepreneur moves from musing about the possibility of starting their own business to taking decisive action to really make it happen. This process has been somewhat protracted for me as I’m not going to be ‘officially’ launching my business until 2013 when my youngest starts at nursery. But I do think it’s high time that I constructed a ‘proper’ business plan (rather than a somewhat random collection of ideas…
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…
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