Mum Means Business

This week's solo episode takes you behind the scenes of one of the most fun projects I have worked on this year - the rebrand of the Mum Means Business podcast and my photography business, Victoria Phipps Photography . I share why I decided the time was right to invest in a professional graphic designer, what the process actually looked like and how working with the brilliant Liz Mosley of Buildin...

Michelle Newman is a business transformation specialist, founder of Flow Business Support and an award-winning advocate for women in business. Combining years of corporate expertise with a passion for entrepreneurship and self-care, she helps founders to streamline operations, reduce overwhelm and scale sustainably without the stress. A mum of one and stepmum of seven, Michelle's own journey into...

This is an honest reflection on one of the most repeated pieces of advice in the online business world: be consistent. Show up every day, post without fail, feed the algorithm! For a long time, I did exactly that. I posted on Instagram every single day for 14 months while navigating two babies under two, a new home, financial pressure and a new version of my photography business I was desperately...

Kendall Marie Platt is a horticultural therapist, writer, speaker and founder of Adventures with Flowers . She brings together horticultural therapy and sensory-led garden design to create spaces that don't just look beautiful but actively quieten the mind, restore the nervous system and support the body and brain in a way that no amount of productivity hacking ever could. As a mother of two who h...

Atomicon is the largest sales and marketing conference in the UK for small businesses and this year I finally went for the first time. It was not a smooth run up. Between taking the hit on a non-refundable train ticket and a last-minute rebooking to make it home for my daughter's first ever sports day, a soft brand launch timed for the exact same day and a train journey spent trying to learn Adobe...

Caroline Britton is an intuitive coach, author and agent of change for leaders, entrepreneurs and public figures who are ready to transform their lives. For over 14 years she worked in global consultancy, during which time she became a mother of two. Four years ago she made the decision to lean into her intuitive gifts, bet on herself and use her abilities to help people connect to who they truly...

This is the first solo episode of Mum Means Business. No guest, no carefully crafted bio to introduce, no one else to bounce off. Just me, unfiltered, taking up space in my own podcast for the first time. This episode marks the start of a new weekly format. Each Friday, I'll share a short and honest reflection on whatever is on my mind that week across my photography business, my work teaching pho...

For 49 episodes, I've been the one asking the questions. For episode 50, the tables are turned! Putting me in the hot seat is Sarah Garrod.  Sarah is a qualified journalist, founder of copywriting practice Put In A Good Word and one of my oldest friends. We met on our first day of secondary school at the age of eleven and have navigated teenage years, university, adventures in business and the com...

Christina Townsend is a mum of three, a former early years teacher and the founder of Spout - an award-winning bath play system that gives children a defined space for bath time play before converting into a calm, grown-up bath setup for worn-out parents in need of rest and restoration. The idea grew directly from her own evenings at home, navigating dinner, bath and bed on repeat when everyone is...

Sam Chetwood is the founder of CeCe & Me, a mobile children's shoe fitting service transforming the way parents shop for their little ones' feet. Her journey began not in business but in frustration - as a mum who struggled to feel confident buying shoes for her toddlers and couldn't find a service that truly put foot health first. What began as a personal mission has since grown into a franch...

Charlotte Vincent is a branding designer and founder of Rose Studio, a creative studio based in Auckland, New Zealand that helps female-led businesses create premium, strategy-backed brands that attract their dream clients. What began as early morning design sessions stolen between the demands of family life has grown into a full-scale creative business, built intentionally around motherhood rathe...

Fiorenza Rossini is a coach, founder of INNOW and host of The Belonging Project podcast . Having begun building her coaching practice in 2016 alongside a career in investment banking, the birth of her first child brought the clarity she needed to make a change. Today she supports driven professional women who find themselves at a similar pivot point in early motherhood — helping them navigate chan...

Kristin Longacre is a Meta Ads Expert and Facebook Blueprint Certified strategist with over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, the last decade of which has been laser-focused on Facebook and Instagram advertising. Having managed six figure ad budgets for everyone from Fortune 500 companies to small business owners running their very first campaigns, she knows just about everything there...

Rebecca Taylor is the co-founder of Mums Who Build , a growing community on a mission to close the gender wealth gap that widens even further in motherhood. Known affectionately as the MOB, the community helps ambitious mothers take charge of their finances, grow their wealth and design a life that allows them to mother exactly as they choose. Together with her co-founder Georgie, Bex brings her o...

Kasia Bromley is the co-founder and brand director of ACAI Outdoorwear, a performance-led, style-driven brand redefining the outdoor experience for women. Her path to building a multi-million pound global brand began in the rarefied world of high fashion, where she hand-crafted the iconic Butterfly Dress at Alexander McQueen. But it was designing for real women, not runways, that truly captured he...

Barbara Nixon is a success coach, award-winning speaker, author and leadership consultant with over 30 years of experience in people development. As the founder of Smash Your Own Ceiling, she works with ambitious business owners to help them remove the internal blocks holding them back - self-doubt, fear of failure, imposter syndrome and the habit of saying yes when every instinct is telling them...

Yinka Ewuola is a multi-award winning business strategist, mindset coach, TEDx speaker and founder of Calla Success Systems. A mother of three who exited the corporate world at the start of her motherhood journey, she helps ambitious women create wealth both within and through their businesses by concentrating on what matters most: cashflow and strategy for the business, and mindset and habits for...

Sarah Collins is a media trainer and communication coach with two decades of experience in television production, including roles at ITV Daytime and ITN. Having spent her career shaping stories and crafting interviews that connected with millions, she retrained as a coach and discovered a striking gap on the other side of the fence - thought leaders and business owners with brilliant ideas and fas...

Katie Elliott, known professionally as HR Katie, is a human resources expert supporting startups and scale-ups with the people side of running a business. With over 15 years of HR experience and 11 years of motherhood behind her, she has come to understand that leading a team and raising small humans have more in common than most people expect. In this episode, we explore the human side of HR, the...

Emma Zangs is a choreographer, movement and communication coach whose work spans public speaking training, fashion show direction, dance workshops and entrepreneurship education. Born in France and trained at Trinity Laban in London, she now lives in Norwich with her husband and two young children, coaching entrepreneurs, lecturing at Cass Business School and UCL's Entrepreneurship MSc and trainin...

Rebecca Cracknell is a coach, mentor and mother of three whose work sits at the intersection of ambition, identity and transformation. Through her podcast  'A Woman's Guide to Starting Fires' , her 1:1 mentoring and intimate group programmes, she invites female entrepreneurs to break free from the shoulds that society has imposed upon them and unlock the most unapologetic visions they have for the...

Nicky Denson-Elliott is a professional feminist, community builder, writer, podcaster and mother of two whose work sits at the intersection of feminism, creativity and business. Through The Wilder Collective, her Wilder:LIVE events and her award-winning podcast Women's Business, she supports female founders, creatives and leaders to own their value, unlearn patriarchal conditioning and build busin...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by actor, voice artist and founder Kate Okello Tarrant, also known as Mrs. OT. A millennial mum of three boys, Kate has appeared on countless stages across the UK and worked with household names including the BBC and Audible. But when the performance industry paused during lockdown, she began documenting her experience of motherhood online and something...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Maria Rush - leadership mentor, speaker and host of the Women Don’t Rush podcast. For the past 15 years Maria has dedicated her time not only to raising her two children, now teenagers, but to promoting self-leadership, emotional intelligence and solution-based communication in entrepreneurial spaces, state organisations and private businesses. Maria...

My guest this week is Isabelle Pearcey, founder of Izz Whizz VA, where she helps founders, small teams and legal professionals bring structure, calm and confidence to the way they run their business. With a background in law, executive support and charity governance, Isabelle has spent years as the unflappable right hand to high-level leaders; quietly building effective systems, leading with empat...