Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
At MTB we are big fans of Psychologies magazine, and so we were very interested to hear that they have teamed up with Dr Todd Kashdan to reveal that living a curious life could be the secret to life fulfilment and success. Psychologies has also revealed that curiosity is a trait that as adults we often [...]
This will surely be just one of many blog posts this week about the Mumpreneur Conference & Awards – and that in itself speaks volumes about the power of an event like this. The logistics of putting an event like this together are enormous – so massive congratulations to Laura and Amanda for doing such a great job. However what [...]
Today we wanted to share an email that popped into our inbox, entirely out of the blue, yesterday. It is humbling and moving when someone takes the time to write and thank you for something you have done – and in many ways this was the perfect present for us to receive on our 2nd birthday. Sam [...]
Today there is silence for the first time in weeks, the children (and hubby) are back to work and I have the house to myself – bliss!! However – I also have a massive ‘to do’ list – both for work and for home – so where do I start? Following on from the ’3-6pm [...]
When life hands you lemons you have a choice. You can, as they say, make lemonade, or, you can cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice in life’s eyes! We all react differently. Personally I have a problem with any revenge based action. I usually freefall into despair for a while and then [...]
Your children may be off to school for the first time this autumn, or perhaps they’re already well into their school years: either way you might be one of the mums currently thinking about what to do now the dependents are becoming less dependent. More and more mothers are thinking of starting their own business, [...]
For this weeks Freebie Friday we have teamed up with Nelsons, the UK’s leading manufacturer of natural healthcare products, to give away 10 of their NEW Bach Emotional Eating Kits. The Bach Emotional Eating Kit is a set of three 10ml flower essences to give a helping hand with diet and healthy living regimes. It is the first [...]
Recently in The Times the weekend section was titled “Who needs Nintendo? How to have an Enid Blyton summer” and was full of some great articles by people like Dr. Tanya Byron and Chris Packham about putting the fun and freedom back into children’s outdoors experience and the value of unsupervised and unstructured play where imaginations [...]
The summer holidays are finally here which is great for the kids… but what about the parents? Mums and dads all over the country will be trying to concoct a host of ideas of how to keep the kids entertained for six weeks. Many will also be trying to come up with ideas of how [...]
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 [...]
When you become a parent your relationship with sleep changes for ever. Add to the mix the added stress of running a business around a family, and it can be all too easy to end up burning the candle at both ends, and sacrificing sleep in favour of ticking off a neverending To Do list. [...]
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There are more pregnancy and motherhood advice books on the market than you can shake a Clearblue stick at! Most of them are earnest, some of them are finger-wagging, and others seem designed to make you feel guilty every second of the day. This is not one of those books. Written by Zoe Williams, the Guardian journalist [...]
Are you looking forward to the summer holidays or dreading them? However you feel you can’t escape that they are now upon us. As we embark on the holidays I’m actually really looking forward to a break from the school run routine – but I know that a week or so in I may be [...]
Guest blog post from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev - writer, trainer, performer & co-author of Mum Ultrapreneur On June 8th 2010 I was the guest speaker at the Bedford Mum’s the Boss meeting. It was an early start. I was up at 5.00am to catch the high speed link from the next main town in to [...]
Confused by the question? Think about it – are you ready to realise your true potential? Before you can do this perhaps you need to think about what is stopping you right now? Do you consider yourself to be a successful business person? Someone who runs a small business well? Is your business success a [...]
No, this is not, as you might think, a post moaning about the World Cup and all the football on TV at the moment. It’s about all the metaphorical ‘balls’ we try and keep in the air at any one time – kids, home, business, family, friends and ourselves. Nor is this a post that [...]
