Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
We are delighted to welcome Leigh Frost as the new group leader for MTB Bedfordshire. For the past 8 years Leigh has been helping businesses across the UK grow at Truesilver, using practical business strategies to help business owners get more sales, more profit and more freedom. And from September Leigh will be taking over the reigns at Bedford, injecting some [...]
Carol Atkinson is a mum of 2 young boys who set up her own bookkeeping business so she could combine being a mum with working. Carol was Mum’s The Boss’s very first member and has been coming to meetings regularly since 2008. What inspired you to start your own business ? I knew that I didn’t want to commute to London daily [...]
Pippa Moss is a mum of 2 boys and an Active Birth teacher who offers prenatal and postnatal services in Bedfordshire. This includes: Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga, Active Birth Workshops, Developmental Baby Massage and Movement. Pippa also supplies Kari-Me baby slings direct to customers and is an advocate in natural parenting. What inspired you to [...]
On 16th September 2008 we held out very first Mum’s The Boss meeting in a small community centre in Bedford. Our speaker had cancelled on us that very morning and we had no idea if anyone would turn up or how we would fill the 2 hours. Thankfully people did start to arrive and among them was Helen Lindop. [...]
Today is our 2nd Birthday meeting. This time last year we wrote a blog about how far we had come in our first year which ended by saying how excited we were about the coming year. Well let’s just say, it didn’t disappoint! Twelve months on we have a new logo, a new website and a new [...]
Until a year ago Sarah was a childminder and now she runs her own plumbing business. Sarah had already run her own business in her thirties, and always loved the flexibility and the immense sense of achievement being self-employed gave her. Plumbing did not originally press her buttons, but her husband’s passion for the trade started Sarah thinking why couldn’t she combine his skill as a plumber and heating engineer [...]
Lesley Singleton has been working in consumer PR and the media for more than a decade. In that time, she’s worked for big London PR agencies (including PR Week’s Agency of the Year) as well as in-house for a major airline and a high street bank. She managed press office functions whilst also devising and [...]
At Amy Taylor Accountancy, you will find a friendly, personal service where children are welcome. Having been a chartered accountant and analyst for over 10 years, Amy Taylor recognised there was a need for local business people who are juggling a business and childcare to have somewhere they can meet their accountant and bring the [...]
Today was Mum’s The Boss 1st Birthday group meeting…and what a year it has been. From humble beginnings of just 6 mums having a coffee in a cafe, to a 2 hour event, with a crèche, a brilliant talk from Efficiency Coach Heather Townsend, 19 visitors and of course birthday cake - we have come a [...]
As the summer holidays are a busy time for all us mums we decided not schedule a Mum’s The Boss meeting for August. Instead we arranged an evening social event at a local pottery painting studio. We had wine, soft drinks and nibbles and spent an incredibly relaxing evening painting and chatting about our families, our [...]
I am so excited about the photo shoot we are arranging for Mum’s The Boss members, to have professional portraits done for their websites and promotional material. Taking full advantage of our group status, we are booking a photographer for a 2 hour shoot and splitting the cost between us. By clubbing together we have created a fantastic [...]
