Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
Christmas is coming, The goose is getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, A ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny, Then God bless you. Yes the nights are drawing in, the icicles are hanging from your little one’s noses and a wave [...]
In this guest post our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev suggests taking time out to celebrate the fruits of your labour. Meaning: Make the most of opportunities while you have the chance. Origin: This Tudor proverb was first recorded by John Heywood in 1546: Whan the sunne shinth make hay. Whiche is to say. Take time [...]
Across the land one can hears the faint sobs of proud but nervous mothers waving their little ones off to school for the first time but these are in danger of being drowned out by mums of older children cheering and clapping their hands in glee that the summer holidays are over! Once you are [...]
Today’s post is a welcome return from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev, where she talks about letting go and bouncing back after a difficult time. Boy how I have missed my monthly articles for Mums the Boss! I was so honoured and pumped to sit down once a month and craft a few hundred words [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Guest blog post from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev - writer, trainer, performer & co-author of Mum Ultrapreneur. Last month I was inspired to write by a song by Tina Charles. This month I turn to one of the most famous working mums on the planet – Madonna. And no I’m not about to launch into a [...]
There are points of everybody’s life which seem to be more significant or marked than others. There are also times of extremes – whether that is absolute quiet and calm or frantic activity and chaos. A business is no different. There are times when everything is going well and according to plan, quieter times and busier times……but [...]
Todays post comes from our Inspiration Guru Susan Odev. Susan is a writer, trainer, performer & co-author of Mum Ultrapreneur, and she’s on a mission is to inspire all Mums (& Dads)to be the very best they can in business. In this post Susan talks about tapping into your inner ‘muse’ for creative inspiration. Sitting down to write [...]
As it’s a Monday morning we thought it would be nice to start the week by spreading a little happiness. Enjoy! Tweet This Post
As we creep ever closer to the end of 2009, I thought it would be nice to note down for posterity some of my highpoints of the year. And to make it more fun, I thought I’d turn it into a game and get some of my blogging friends to share their best bits from the [...]
When I was young, as soon as the Christmas festivities were over, I was made to write thank you letters. Whilst still around, thank you letters are becoming less common and are more likely to be replaced with an email, text or phone call. But despite the change in appearance the sentiment is still there [...]
