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7 Indisputable Truths About Being a Working Mum

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Tweet These are the 7 indisputable truths about being a working mum in my eyes – truths I have observed from my working mum clients over almost 10 years of listening to working mums.  And from almost 11 years of being a working mum myself! These are the truths that we don’t seem to talk  Continue Reading…

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Stop comparing yourself to other working mums!

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Working mums are exceptionally good at comparing themselves to others and judging themselves harshly! One of my coaches used to tell me “Comparison is the killer of creativity”. She’s right. But it’s not just that. Comparison is the killer of confidence too.

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Six Top Tips for Working Mums Who Want to Build Their Courage

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Tweet Last week’s Friday Fives was the first of a two-part post about courage. This is the second part – 6 Top Tips to Build Your Courage. Please read these 6 tips if you have anything coming up in your life that you want/need to achieve. At least one of them is bound to strike  Continue Reading…

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How to Access Your Courage

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Tweet Last Sunday, I took part in “Tough Guy Nettle Warrior”, described by the organiser as “The safest most dangerous event in the world”.  I was in the Jelly Leg squad – a 12KM run combined with 2 laps of the fiendish assault course and the Tough Guy “Killing Fields”. Soft Girl Does Tough Guy  Continue Reading…

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Don’t Let “Alpha Female Boss” Get You Down!

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Tweet Do you know what makes me so mad that I want to go “grrrr grrrr grrrrr”? What really, really makes me mad is when women – women who are also working mothers – sabotage other women’s confidence in the workplace. For the purposes of this rant post, let’s call these woman Alpha Female Bosses.  Continue Reading…

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What will people think of me?

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Tweet As you may have seen (!), I won an award last Saturday – Coach/Mentor of the Year in The Women Inspiring Women Awards. In a private chat conversation on Facebook on 29th May with my friend Heather Bestel  of A Little Bit of Me Time  ,  Heather suggested an idea for spreading the word to  Continue Reading…

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What did 11 working mums talk about when they spent a day on a canal boat?

Tweet On Wednesday I ran a Business Retreat Day for the “Mums Who Coach” groups I mentor. As you can imagine, when a group of working mums get together, nothing is off limits and anything goes! However, whilst our canal boat crew were all mums, we were also all coaches, and the purpose of the  Continue Reading…

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