Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
After 10 years as a PA and office admin in the creative sector and education, Rebekah Harriman established RRVA after the birth of her second child with the growing realisation that combining employment, young children and a fulfilling career were just not working out. Offering Social Media and Business Support to companies across the UK [...]
Mum of 1 Kerry Goding decided after 14 years in the corporate telecoms industry decided she needed a change! She was sick of relying on her husband, and immediate family for childcare and thought she was missing out on her son growing up. So she bought into the well-known Raring2go! franchise and became a local [...]
babyballet’s Managing Director Claire O’Connor spotted a gap in the market within the dance industry and has created an award-winning concept and franchise business whilst being a dedicated mum to her 4 children, Harry(14), Charlie (6), Claudia (4) and Kitty (2). All Claire started with was an idea and a whole lot of determination so it’s [...]
Anna Louise Simpson, the founder of Mama Tea, was the well-deserved winner of the Best Start Up Award at the Mumpreneur Conference & Awards last year. Mama Tea is a range of naturally caffeine-free herbal teas that are aimed at pregnant and nursing women. Launched in April 2009, the business saved Anna Louise from severe post-natal depression [...]
Suzie Fry had been a television producer for fifteen years, but, like so many of us, was looking for a better work/life balance once she had her children. In 2008, Suzie was chatting to her younger sister (who already had her own successful business www.mydeo.com and three children) who was annoyed that she kept forgetting when her period was due, and [...]
Emma Redding is a Personal Trainer, mum of 2, member of the guild of postnatal exercise teachers and founder and director of Buggyfit, a fun, sociable way to get back in shape after your new arrival. Buggyfit classes are an hour long, and usually involve a 3 – 5 mile route in total. Classes start with [...]
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. [...]
Karen Dell’ Armi is a designer, mum of two, welsh women walking member and founder of Karen Dell’ Armi Contemporary Jewellery. Here she talks about what inspired her to start up in business and decide to take part in a charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Breast Cancer Care. What inspired you to start your [...]
Sarah Owen is a mum of three children (aged 10,8, and 5) and founder of Pyjama Drama, which offers drama and creative play classes to 2-7 year olds. She originally came up with the concept 5 years ago because, as an ex drama teacher, she recognised the benefits that drama offers to children. After huge success [...]
Mum of two, Vanessa Blake, created the award winning dreamgenii pregnancy pillow when she was pregnant with her first child in 2005. “I was six months pregnant with my son and after weeks of tossing and turning I’d had enough. I tried every pregnancy pillow on the market and none of them actually worked – [...]
Eighteen months ago, mum of 2 Amanda Armstrong baked lots of cakes and took them out on the road to see if she could drum up business for herself. She managed to get customers from this madcap marketing idea and has been baking beautiful, tasty cakes for clients in and around Bristol ever since. At the beginning [...]
Alli Price is a woman who wear many hats, describing herself as a mumpreneur, life coach, event organiser, networker, time manager, cleaner, raiser of children and cook – pretty much your average mum! Her business, Motivating Mum, offers business mentoring or coaching, networking lunches and brainstorm sessions, features and articles, questions answered by my very own legal, accounting [...]
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 [...]
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne became an entrepreneur almost by accident when she discovered her children had food allergies. Her company Genius makes award winning gluten-free fresh bread. Launched less than a year ago, it has been stocked across the UK in various supermarkets and has recently hit the landmark of producing one million loaves. What inspired you to [...]
