“Some months you are rolling like P Diddy and other months you’re waiting for invoices to be paid. So, planning and budgeting is essential.” Kelly Ford, aka Book of Mum, on life as a freelance mum…
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Laura Alvarado launched holistic tutoring company Tomato Tutors while raising her young son as a single mum. She now owns a beautiful premises and runs amazing holiday camps, too. If you’d like Laura as your business mentor, have a read…
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In this new series, we ask a freelance mum when and why she chose the freelance path. First up, Bristol-based graphic designer and mum-of-one Amy Goddall discusses her side-hustle taking over from her office job, and why she loves this way of working…
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Taking maternity leave as a freelance mum is tricky. Government maternity pay is low, and you’ll be stepping away from the freelance career you’ve been building… will it still be there when you return? Here are Annie Ridout’s thoughts on it all…
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As the founder of Doing it for the Kids – a community for freelance parents – as well as a graphic designer and mother, Frankie Tortora knows a thing or two about the freelancing juggle. If you’d like Frankie to mentor you, read on…
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The editor, Annie Ridout, has benefitted from having a business mentor to help her with The Early Hour. Now she’d like to offer a mentorship to another freelance mum, in need of some guidance…
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“Nora Ephron, the famous screenwriter, once said – ‘When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.’” Writer and editor Anniki Sommerville shares five excellent writing tips to help get you started…
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Anniki Sommerville had spent nearly two decades working for a market research company but after maternity leave, found herself questioning whether there might be more to life. She quit, went freelance, continued as editor of Selfish Mother and wrote a book. Here’s her story…
Sleep
Baby naptime is potentially the only break a parent will have throughout the day. A day that may start at 5am and last until 7pm. It is precious ‘free time’ to catch up on housework, paid work or sleep. So it must be protected… but how? Annie Ridout offers a suggestion…
Mornings
With the pressures of being a work-from-home mum, Frankie Tortora – of Doing it for the Kids – needs to regularly remind herself to slow down, breathe… and then continue. Here, she shares her start-of-the-week thoughts…