If you’re pregnant – or a new mum – and feeling panicked about returning to work after maternity leave, this advice from Ruth Roan, detailing the various options, should ease your anxiety…
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Work Life
Anna Ives was made redundant during pregnancy, leaving her panicked and in shock. She managed to work up until her baby was born but then found there were too few part time HR roles to return to employment, so she set up her own consultancy. Here’s her inspiring story…
Mornings
“We met working in New York and had been inspired by designs and interiors from our various stints abroad, but found it hard to recreate them back home when we were decorating our own houses or kids’ bedrooms.” Design-led textiles company Avery Row was soon born…
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“Most people, myself included, talk about this kind of stuff longingly, but never actually have the guts to take the plunge. Fergus on the other hand is a doer.” Emma Macdonald on leaving London for Edinburgh, setting up Eagle and Fox with her husband and throwing a baby into the mix…
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“The business was inspired by my three-month-old daughter, who always had her bottom on show. I was constantly pulling down her dresses and that’s when I decided to design a fun range of leggings around this concept.” Meet the founder of kids’ clothing label Blade and Rose…
Family
“I have a very complicated birth story. I had a brain haemorrhage at 30 weeks so I had to have an elective caesarean at 35 weeks. I feel no shame in having had a caesarean… I don’t feel any less like a women.” Kelly Ekardt, founder of girlstalktoboys, shares her motherhood truths…
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Meet Annie Morris, co-founder of artisan granola brand Spoon Cereals. Here she talks about what it’s like to start your own company (including a trip to Dragon’s Den), the importance of breakfast and not necessarily being a morning person…
Mornings
Financial analyst by day, entrepreneur by night – Princess Onitilo is the founder of Tress Free: the UK’s first ethnic hair and beauty booking platform. We catch up with the 23-year-old to talk mornings, living with her parents and running a business while working full time…
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The author of How Rich People Think, Steve Siebold spent three decades interviewing super rich people to work out what separates them from everyone else. We ask him what he learned, and how it feels to be rich himself…