Julie Cole is one of the founding mom entrepreneurs behind and is the proud mother of five (although she's expecting #6!). Julie writes about about the daily drama of running a small business from home, kids, family, all that good stuff! Julie has more children and more energy than anyone we know!
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Mom Entrepreneurs
I have been known to spend a decent amount of time offering advice and mentoring would be mom entrepreneurs. Lately there have been countless e-mails making their way into my inbox with messages from would be mom entrepreneurs asking the same question: is a recession a good time for mom entrepreneurs to launch a business?
There is no easy answer, with various arguments for and against taking the plunge during these tough economic times.
All things considered, my short answer is yes but it comes with two major caveats:You recognize that it can be years before you earn an income from your business (if ever). If your family is counting on you becoming Sugar Mama, there will be a serious gap between expectation and reality;The money-maker in your household is not at risk of losing a job because of the recession.
If you can check those two off your list, then don’t backburner your business plans just yet.
Mom Entrepreneurs have different motivators then the more typical entrepreneur...
I used to look at my dining room and think “why?” There it was - a formal dining room with a big, beautiful table where absolutely no actual dining takes place. As a business owner and mom to five small children, formal dining does not take priority in my life.
If I am called upon to entertain, I will strategically plan the event so that it does not hover around a traditional mealtime.
If entertaining during mealtime can not be avoided, it happens in the summer — outside, with my husband at the helm of the barbeque. Not only are there time constraints to prevent me from creating fabulous meals, I’m not actually interested in cooking. Perhaps there will be a day that I gleefully throw on an apron and relish in filling satisfied bellies. But for now I remain the anti-Martha Stewart.
So what was happening in my dining room? Mostly piles. You know the kind of piles I’m talking about — those collections of paper you are going to deal with later. Storage of sports...
Mother’s Day is the one day every year that we are all expected to take a few moments to appreciate the fine women who keep this world turning. Besides patting myself on the back, I’m one of the lucky mamas who can thank my own mother - whose positive attributes are too many to attempt listing. Have the rest of you noticed that once you have your own children, you learn to treasure your mother’s new role as the mama’s mother?
My mother morphed from being an exceptional mother into an exceptional grandmother of eleven. In my case, I scored the mom trifecta – she lives locally, has retired from the working world, and is genuinely invested in the lives of her grandchildren. Don’t get me wrong, she has a life of her own but these 11 little people take up some prime real estate in her heart. As the saying goes, your grandchildren are your reward for not killing your own children. And my mom enjoys this role to its fullest.
As I’ve met more and more mamas in my life, as a...
