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Flexible working Mum: Part 5
Flexible working Mum: Part 5
We have been following @TJ_BraLady since very early on in our twitter-witterings.  She is a lovely lady with a great concept.  When she tweeted that she was looking for more "Bra-ladies" we thought she might be interested in telling us a bit about her business.  True to form, TJ put us in touch with one of her bra-ladies so that ...

So you want to be an author?
So you want to be an author?
We have had a guest blog post about  motherhood and creativity before from Writing Parents, and hopefully that inspired many of you to pick up a pen and see what popped out.  If you're already a blogger then you overcome that blank page fear on a regular basis and are already stretching your creative muscles.  Well, it may (or may ...

Flexible working Mum: Part 4
Flexible working Mum: Part 4
It sems that you have all been enjoying our posts about flexible working over the last few Fridays. (See previous posts here) Today we have an interview with Candi O'Reilly.  She has just started a new part time job working for a charity which allows her to use her social Media skills and interest to earn her a bit of ...

Flexible working: part 3
Flexible working: part 3
If you have been inspired by the stories of Emma and Erin in our flexible working series, but neither cooking nor jewllery are your thing, you may be interested in Jenny's story.  She too is a Mum who looked for something different to fit around family life.  We met Jenny when we did a review of me&i products earlier in the ...

Flexible working for Mums: Part 2
Flexible working for Mums: Part 2
Following on from the success of our post last Friday about homeselling as an opportunity to work for yourself as a stay at home mum, we have an interview today with Erin Thomas-Wong who started running a Small Print franchise having given up work after the birth of her son.  Whereas working for Pampered Chef, Emma is an employee, Erin ...

Flexible work for Mums
Flexible work for Mums
Here at More than a Mum, we are passionate about women being brilliant Mums and rediscovering themselves as women.  For many women, motherhood means a break in career. We may have given up work to enable us to stay at home with our children; we may have given up work as the hours/travel/lifestyle were not compatible with family life; we ...

Mumpreneur: Positive or Negative?
Mumpreneur: Positive or Negative?
Having written last week about being a Mum and working flexibly around your family, I have been thinking about the term “Mumpreneur”.  I know that the term made it into the OED at the end of last year and that this caused a bit of a debate to arise.  There are many who seem to find the term derogatory, and ...

Flexible working with children
Today’s post is part of a clever little linky dreamed up by Maria of FeistyTapas.com. She is a very hard working lady, juggling an 18 month old and a fulltime work-from-home job as a translator, oh and blogging about it all. (I bow to her superior abilities!) Her linky  is all about working with children. The only real guidelines are that ...

Our fancy new banner and logo
Well we do hope you've all noticed our fancy new banner and logo...have you?  We like it a lot! And it's all thanks to a lovely and very talented lady called Rachael Jane (@rachinald).  She's a textile designer, photographer, graphic designer, vlogger, blogger, poet and overall creative thinker.  Talk about an inspiring lady!!! We found out about Rachael when we noticed ...

First steps to rediscovering your identity
First steps to rediscovering your identity
One of our aims and commitments as More than a Mum is to not only help you to be a brilliant mum but to help you rediscover your identity as a woman too.  We want our posts to be practical as well as informative, constructive as well as inspiring. I’m conscious we could easily neglect the identity issue as it is ...

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