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Work Life

How to find more time to work, when you’re looking after kids

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It can feel, when you’re freelancing around family life, as if there is never enough time. Your day might be crammed with childcare, chores, cooking. But there are always small windows for work. Here are some ideas…

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Annie Ridout 16th January 2019
Work Life

Working through my maternity leave improved my confidence

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Some new mothers find that maternity leave is best spent focusing on their baby – and not on work. While for others – like Kim Palmer, founder of Clementine App – it presents an opportunity to try something new…

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Contributing Writer 5th January 2019
Work Life

How will Brexit impact freelance mothers in the UK?

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The UK has a thriving freelance workforce that contributed £217 billion to the economy in 2017 – and mothers working for themselves now account for one in seven of all self-employed people in the UK. So, what will Brexit mean for these freelance mothers?

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Annie Ridout 20th December 2018
Work Life

Stylist’s editor-at-large, Alix Walker, on working from home with three kids

Alix Walker and family
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After giving birth to her third child, Alix Walker – Stylist’s editor-at-large – decided she needed to reevaluate how she structured her working week. She put in a request to work from home and it was accepted. Here’s how she makes it work…

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Annie Ridout 24th September 2018
Work Life

Why we started Cuckooz Nest: a co-working space with créche

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“Everything is moving towards flexibility – it is estimated that by 2022, 5.1 million people will be working from co-working offices,” says Charlie Rosier, co-founder of Cuckooz Nest – a co-working space with in-built créche in London’s Farringdon…

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Contributing Writer 18th September 2018
Work Life

The Early Hour turns three. Here’s what I’ve learned

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Three years into running a digital parenting platform, Annie Ridout reflects on what it has taught her about families, feminism, diversity and the online world. Mostly, that it is all a constant work-in-progress…

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Annie Ridout 17th September 2018
Work Life

Children’s books with girls as the heroes, different skin tones, wheelchair users

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“All children should get to see themselves as the hero,” says Katharine Harbord, founder of Oh Zoe books. That’s why she came up with the brilliant idea of diverse and inclusive personalised picture books…

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Contributing Writer 15th September 2018
Work Life

5 tips for balancing motherhood and a freelance career

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Stephanie Reed knew she’d like a baby at some stage so decided to go freelance, to make her working day more compatible with family life. Two years later, business in full swing, she gave birth. Here’s what Stephanie has learned about balancing motherhood with a freelance career…

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Contributing Writer 5th September 2018
Work Life

The Freelance Mum: Phoebe Attfield, founder of Motherhen Agency

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Phoebe Attfield planned to take her baby daughter along with her when working as a nanny for another family, but they made it clear this wouldn’t work. So she quit, and set up her own childcare recruitment agency, Motherhen…

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Annie Ridout 20th August 2018
Work Life

The Freelance Mum: Rosie Adediran, Mama Sings

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“I felt frustrated as I was working part-time in employed roles to fund the rest of my week, where I was pursuing music,” says Rosie Adediran, aka Mama Sings. So she bravely quit the office job and went full-time as a singer and musical workshop leader…

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Annie Ridout 24th July 2018

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