Mum Means Business

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Ekaterina Ward - mindset coach and founder of Vivacity, a community supporting female founders aged 40 and over to build vibrant, soul-aligned businesses that support the lives they want to lead. Ekaterina began her career in teaching before moving into corporate financial services. Eleven years ago, she retrained as a coach and has since worked exten...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Liz Mosley - graphic designer, Adobe Ambassador, podcast host and public speaker on a mission to help small business owners feel more confident about their branding and marketing. Liz believes that when branding is not only beautiful but also strategic, it can completely transform how business owners show up. Through her design work, she creates bespo...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Rachael Twumasi-Corson - a multi-award-winning serial entrepreneur, public speaker and non-executive director. Rachael founded her first company, Afrocenchix, at just 18 years old and scaled it to international success, raising over $2 million in investment before exiting the business in 2023. An advocate for ethical leadership and powerful storytelli...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Amy Grilli - former teacher and co-founder of The Five Hour Club , a growing movement challenging the traditional 9–5 workday and advocating for more realistic, family-friendly ways of working. After taking five years out of paid employment to care for her children, Amy found herself staring at a large gap in her CV and questioning how it would be rec...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by my marvellous coach Teresa Heath-Wareing - an international award-winning TEDx speaker, business strategist and host of the #1 rated Your Dream Business podcast. Teresa is widely known as the go-to expert for launching and scaling online businesses, specialising in practical growth strategies for course creators, membership owners and coaches. With a...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall - an Essex-based academic psychologist, speaker, writer and self-described recovering perfectionist whose work explores the real emotional experience of modern motherhood. Tuesday has built a deeply engaged online audience by choosing honesty over polish in a space where so many mothers feel pressure to curate perfection. Her...

As we look ahead to a new year, this week on Mum Means Business I’m joined by Ruth Ashton - founder of RAPT Movement , a personal training business supporting women to rebuild strength and return to exercise safely in the early season of motherhood. Movement has always been Ruth’s way of managing life’s demands and reconnecting with herself. But after returning to work as a management consultant f...

brings honesty and hope to conversations about healing, self-worth and authenticity. Her work centres on supporting women who, as little girls, were made to feel they were too much and who grew up believing they were never enough. Charlotte knows this story personally. After years of hiding parts of herself to feel worthy, she began addressing the roots of those patterns and found freedom, safety...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Rebecca Hogan - a certified life coach who believes that motherhood is feminism’s unfinished business. Through identity-first coaching, Rebecca helps women clarify their values, vision and boundaries so they can evolve through every stage of womanhood with more ease, joy and confidence. Rebecca has just published her first book, Me to We: How to Redis...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Priya Velusami - founder of Pri Pri , an independent zero-waste brand transforming preloved saris into colourful handmade pieces. From homeware and fashion accessories to festive decorations, Pri Pri designs are created in partnership with Animedh Charitable Trust , a women’s charity in Mumbai that supports underprivileged women with valuable skills s...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Jennifer Wood - a digital marketing, communications and social media expert with over 15 years’ experience leading campaigns across multiple industries. Alongside her corporate career, Jen has always had a creative side. She shares healthy, family-friendly recipes that help busy mums swap ultra-processed meals for simple, “kid-approved” alternatives....

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Keeley Bolton - jewellery designer and founder of Moon & Dusk , an indie brand creating delicate, celestial-inspired silver pieces designed to help women reconnect with their sparkle. After years spent raising her two children at home, Keeley found herself slipping into the identity of being “just” a mum. She began craving a creative outlet that b...

This week I’m joined by Dr. Natasha Wallace - a clinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS, and founder of Revive Psychological Services. After the birth of her second child in 2021, Natasha experienced burnout and postnatal depression firsthand. That experience sparked a powerful new mission - to support other women through the emotional and mental challenges of motherhood, h...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Natalie Webster - photographer, business mentor and course creator helping female entrepreneurs and mum business owners get more visible and create more freedom in their lives. After becoming a single mum at 18, Natalie was determined to stand on her own two feet and build a life on her terms. She went on to create a six-figure wedding photography bus...

This week on Mum Means Business, I’m joined by Imogen Partridge - a painter, illustrator and creative workshop host on a mission to make creativity both aspirational and accessible. After more than a decade in interior design, Imogen took a leap of faith in 2024 and turned her side-hustle illustration business into a full-time creative career. Today, her work blends bespoke commissions, brand coll...

This week, I’m joined by Pippa Goulden - PR expert, entrepreneur and founder of The PR Set. After 15 years working in the world of PR, Pippa saw a gap in the market: small business owners wanted to harness the power of publicity but didn’t know where to start. So, she made it her mission to demystify public relations and help founders, entrepreneurs and start-ups get known for what they do - witho...

This week, I’m joined by Helen Buteux - a specialist children’s occupational therapist with over a decade of experience supporting children and their families. After years working in the NHS, both clinically and in leadership, Helen now combines her deep understanding of early childhood development with her own experience of matrescence - the powerful and often challenging transformation women go...

This week, I’m joined by Vicki Knights - a personal branding photographer, visibility strategist, positive psychology practitioner and host of the top-rated Showing Up podcast. After leaving her corporate career in London to start a family, Vicki built a thriving photography business that has evolved beautifully over the past 17 years - adapting to new seasons of motherhood, creativity and purpose...

This week I’m joined by Krystle Frey, founder of Pivot Ball Change - a full-service podcast editing agency helping female entrepreneurs amplify their voices and reclaim their time. Based in Wisconsin, Krystle’s story is one of transformation, resilience and creativity. From professional ballerina to dental hygienist to podcast producer and mum of two, she’s no stranger to a pivot. What began as he...

What’s it really like to freelance with kids in the mix? Graphic designer, community founder and Mum of two, Frankie Tortora reveals the highs, the lows and the lessons learned along the way. Frankie shares her lived experience navigating time pressures, setting boundaries and balancing work with parenting. She also reflects on emotional wellbeing, the importance of feeling heard and being amongst...

From the classroom to the world of digital marketing, Emily Hanson’s story is proof that transferable skills can be the key to building your dream business. A former teacher and mum of two, Emily is now the founder of Emerlilly Digital, an agency specialising in education, family and children’s brands. What began as freelancing soon grew into a thriving business supported by her husband David and...

This week I’m joined by Anastasia Shubareva-Epshtein, Co-Founder and CEO of Carea , a femtech startup redefining pregnancy and postpartum care with a mental health first approach. After graduating from Columbia University, Anastasia built a global career in product management and brand marketing with leadership roles at Bayer Consumer Health and Mastercard. But when she faced fertility struggles,...

This week I’m joined by Louise Lynch – teacher, cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist, hypnobirthing practitioner and founder of The Relaxed Mama Club. Louise is passionate about supporting women through pregnancy, birth and beyond with tools that bring confidence, calm and connection. A mum of two herself, she knows first-hand the challenges of modern motherhood: the pressure to do it all, the imp...

This week I’m joined by Kate Stirling – a high-performance strategist, mindset coach, actor, host of the Club Thrive podcast  and Mum to a little girl.  With over two decades of coaching experience, Kate’s mission is to encourage women to break free from societal conditioning and rediscover who they truly are. Diagnosed with ADHD in 2024, Kate now works to better support neurodivergent women, part...

This week I’m joined by Ruth Edwards, a trauma-informed somatic coach, brainspotting practitioner and certified hypnotherapist, who made the bold decision in her forties to leave behind her corporate career and start again. As a single mum of two teenagers, Ruth wanted more freedom and flexibility to be present with her children, while building a heart-led business that helps others heal from the...