At our July Bedford meeting we were delighted to have as our guest speaker award-winning mumpreneur Wendy Shand, founder of Tots To Travel. As a mum of three Wendy is passionate about encouraging women in business – and particularly mums – as she believes they make excellent business leaders and perhaps more importantly, fabulous role models for the next generation.
Wendy’s talk was on how important it is to have an overall vision, not only for your business but also for your personal life, and how having a big vision accompanied by big juicy goals focuses the mind.
At the start of Tots to Travel, Wendy recalled receiving some business advice that encouraged her to think small, so she did. She went about creating a business with a limiting brand and, perhaps more worryingly, a limiting mindset.
However, now all that’s changed! Her baby friendly holiday business has a 5 year vision, big, juicy goals and a planned exit strategy. She explained that with a 3 or 5 year vision in place you can then work backwards and figure out exactly what it is you need to do today to make your vision a reality. And if you think REALLY big at the outset, then even if you only get halfway there, you’ll still have done amazingly well!
Following the meeting we heard of several mums who were spurred into immediate action with real fire in their bellies – so Wendy well and truly got her message across to her audience!
After the meeting I grabbed Wendy for a quick interview where she gave a summary of her presentation.
