As a UK mum, life can be a balancing act between work and family. You want to do your best for your kids and also make sure you’re taking care of yourself, but it can be hard to find the…
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Fancy starting your on business but don’t know where to start? Find out how working mums are having the best of both worlds – a successful career and happy family life.
Do you feel like you have to constantly prove yourself in the workplace because you’re a working mum? With most of us having a few days off because of the Christmas and bank holidays, this is your chance to go…
Divorce can be tough no matter how grown up you and your other half choose to be about it. But when it’s acrimonious and you don’t have a penny to your name, and you need to stay afloat so you…
Yee Kwan launched her ice cream and sorbet business after being made redundant as a surveyor in 2009. Today, Yee’s business produces 18,000 litres of ice cream and sorbet a year, and is stocked in Harvey Nichols and Wholefoods Market, as well as in a growing number of restaurants and independent retailers across the country.
Hands up anyone who can’t by now, after several series of The Apprentice, recite exactly, Karen Brady’s business career almost as well as Alan Sugar’s? Who doesn’t know about the nerve and willpower of Margaret Thatcher as she took on…
Young dad Rhys Davies, 21, left school at 14 and jumped straight into his first six-figure business venture. Today, he’s dad to Ruby, four, and Dylan, two, juggling parenthood with a successful online store (www.yourjigsawpuzzles.co.uk) that he set up with…
When most people think about the best time to start a business, during a pregnancy isn’t one that often comes up – but then business mums don’t always do things in the traditional way, do they? Married mum of two…
We love a good success story here at Mothers Who Work towers – and we’ve seen a few over the years, too! But, Julie Deane’s story is even more inspiring because it was done under pressure. Like many mums who…
Married mum of two Rosemarie Mansfield, 32, runs Tilly & Tabitha – a personalised online jewellery store using genuine Swarovski elements with her sister Heather Brice. She tells Motherswhowork.co.uk about the highs and lows and whether she has any regrets…
Sarah Buchanan, 31, is mum to Hermione, four, and Eleanor, two in May. She runs Baby-Birth (www.baby-birth.com) and started the business after her own positive experience of giving birth. With her husband also running his own successful website, just how…
Jo Shaw, 38, a mum of two girls, and a wife works part-time in marketing while running her online bakery supply store. Find out how she juggles her family and work commitments while having fun making her business grow.
They say that friends and family and business don’t mix. But if you can get the basics right, it can be very successful…even with young children. Isobel Thompson, 48, shares how she’s managed to get everyone from her husband to…
?Running a hobby/craft-based business sounds like fun, the cost of supplies or ingredients leaves you laughing all the way to the bank…right? But is it really that easy – married mum Anna Wreford, 33, talks about running Big Bird Boutique…
Married new mum Yuliana Topazly, 31, is passionate about entrepreneurship and is the director of Phase 1 Enterprise Training and juggles this with managing enterprise activities for London-based universities. She tells Motherswhowork.co.uk how she has managed to juggle a new…
So how do celebrity mums keep the house ticking while juggling their work and family commitments? We spoke with British actress Hermione Norris about how she does all this and more. Listen to her tips for making that juggling act work while maintaining a successful acting career.
We love a good inspirational story of a career mum who is making waves in business…in walks Lindsey Benson, mumpreneur of The Birthing Company (www.TheBirthingShirtCompany.com).
Lindsey Benson, The Birthing Shirt CompanyLindsey is a great example of how career mums can successfully use transferable skills from their career experience and turn into a business.
Listen to the podcast to find out how she has changed the way she works so she could spend more time with her young sons, and has managed to get the NCT to back product.
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Work from Home, Full time, part time, work around your current job, this is youropportunity to start… many hours you do have work. Or you can become a… View Job Information
Work from Home, Full time, part time, work around your current job, this is youropportunity to start… many hours you do have work. Or you can become a… View Job Information
Work from Home, Full time, part time, work around your current job, this is youropportunity to start… many hours you do have work. Or you can become a… View Job Information