Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
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 [...]
Mum’s The Boss Hertfordshire launched in June and is run and hosted by mum of 2 Louisa Baker who also runs online giftstore Dyna-Girl. Louisa is helped and supported at MTB meetings by Emma, owner of BagsToDie4. What inspired you to start your own business I gave up my office job after having my first daughter. Once you have had [...]
Karen Woods is a busy mum of three. Having two children with severe nut allergies has inspired Karen and her husband Mike to establish Just Love Food Company, a company specialising in the production of delicious nut safe food. The company is launching this month with two children’s birthday cakes which are available in 200 [...]
Sally Hunter, author and illustrator of the popular Humphrey’s Corner books shares some insights into how the books started and her inspiration. What was the biggest challenge in the beginning? The early days were very difficult, I was a single parent, with two children and a new baby and struggling with a mountain of debt [...]
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 [...]
If you are looking for inspiration, and an example of how a business idea can just appear out of thin air, then look no further than Chrissi Sharkey, a 29 year old working textiles teacher & mum to 2 small children, from Oxford. Her business – aMillionJobsToDo… is a unique, national concept where you can suggest literally any task [...]
Victoria Dixon is a mum of 2 and set up her business of Enhance Me when looking for something to do that allowed her to be at home with her 2 young children. She uses digital imaging software to alter pictures of your children to create a unique and individual portrait, something special to treasure forever. What [...]
Hillary Graves is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Little Dish, the first and only brand to launch a range fresh, natural food for toddlers and young children made with 100% natural ingredients and no added salt or sugar. Replicating what parents make at home in their own kitchen, Little Dish recipes are created with a [...]
In August this year Mum’s The Boss member Helen Lindop, owner of Business Plus Baby, gave birth to her second baby. Helen was at our very first networking meeting in September 2008 and we lived her second pregnancy with her, watching her bump grow monthly at each meeting! To celebrate the birth of our first “Mum’s the Boss [...]
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 [...]
