Mums On Cloud Nine

In this episode I'm talking to Berta about how to build your confidence and how to overcome that imposter syndrome, especially if you're starting out in tech for the very first time.

Berta supports well-accomplished professionals to redefine their next chapter, by helping them to reconnect the dots between who they really are and what they can offer.

Here are the highlights:

{1:09} Berta's story

{2:29} How Berta began her reinvention journey

{7:27} How to discover which skills can be repurposed

{11:22} Analysing your psychometric assessments

{15:59} Having self-awareness when choosing your new career

{20:01} Charging what you're worth

{22:25} The importance of knowing who you are selling to

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

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In this episode, I'm sharing a webinar I did recently where I talked about how to make £5k per month working in the Salesforce ecosystem.

I did this working only 3 days per week. I share my journey of how I changed my career to establish myself as a Salesforce consultant, where I started, and how I began.

Here are the highlights:

{5:56} The 4 essential factors to help you earn £5 or $12k USA or Australian.

• Mindset
• Skills
• Your pitch
• Enthusiasm

{30:49} Our offering to help you accelerate your success {37:23} How to book a free no obligations call with our team

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, I'm talking with Ben McCarthy, founder of Salesforce Ben.

Salesforce Ben is run by a small but mighty team, excited about distributing knowledge from the Salesforce community and uncovering the next big thing in the ecosystem – without jargon, hard-sells, or fluff.

We talk about the power of sharing knowledge as well as Ben's new book about setting up your own consultancy.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{1:24} Introduction to Ben McCarthy

{2:24} Why Ben set up his blog to share knowledge

{5:40} Ben's new book about setting up a consultancy

{10:08} Other ways to share knowledge successfully

{16:06} What a Salesforce MVP is

{17:54} How building a personal brand can improve your career opportunities

{19:04} Popular content themes

Connect with Ben at salesforceben.com

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, we're talking with Guilda Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Salesforce and a community thought leader.

We talk about the power of building relationships, how do you find the time to build relationships online and how to build those relationships.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{2:13} Guilda's approach to building relationships

{6:18} How you'll attract your own tribe that resonate with your values

{6:36} How building relatonships can be empowering

{10:20} How to find the time to build relationships using social media

{18:55} How to balance your networking with being a parent

{24:20} How our children can't be what they can't see

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, we're talking about how to get unstuck in your career choices. We'll be looking at reflecting on the questions, Do I need to make a change? Why am I not making that change? What is going to help me make a change? So to answer all these questions, I'm delighted to be speaking with Natasha Stanley, who is Head Coach at Career Shifters.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{1:41} Why do people get stuck in their careers?

{2:45} How Career Shifters helps to tackle this

{6:06} How the biggest obstacles we face are the internal ones

{8:12} How gender plays a part in how we experience feeling stuck in our careers

{11:00} Success Principle Number One - Don't do it alone

{12:43} Success Principle Number Two - Act it out, don't figure it out.

Connect with Natasha at careershifters.org

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

This week it's International Women's Day. And the theme is all about choosing to challenge. In today's episode, we're talking about how to become more assertive as a woman, whether it is you needing to communicate more effectively with managers or your partners or kids to get the balance you need.

I'm delighted to talk with Antoinette Dale Henderson, who is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and founder of the Gravitas Program, and author of Leading With Gravitas and Power Up.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{6:12} Why being assertive is important

{8:37} Why women may find it a challenge to be assertive

{14:06} What being assertive looks like

{19:10} Asking for more flexibility at work assertively

{27:26} Feeling comfortable being assertive

{24:37} Knowledge gives you the evidence to be assertive

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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This week I'm delighted to be speaking to Daljit Bamford, who is the chief customer officer of the Tenth Revolution Group. We're going to be talking about how employers can support employees with great benefits in the workplace.

So if you're an employee listening today, then please do feed this back to employers and suggest to them some great ideas. But if you're an employer, think about how you can really support people right now to prosper in the workplace.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{1:10} Daljit's story

{2:22} Feeling empowered in the workplace

{4:13} The two demographics for empowerment

{7:34} Fear of asking for flexibility

{9:08} Overcoming the fear

{10:21} How can employers support mums?

{12:15} Childcare benefits

{14:34} Retaining your current staff

{18:52} What's going to happen post Covid-19?

{23:27} What makes you feel like a Supermum?

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Awena Naomie Ella to talk all about the topic of maltrescence and how becoming a mother changes us in so many ways that we may not anticipate. We've all heard of baby brain but is this term fair or even accurate? We talk all about how to redefine yourself following your maternity leave.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{0:40} Introduction to Awena

{1:25} What is Maltrescence?

{13:02} Acceptance and Surrender

{13:30} Allowing yourself space to discover who you are

{15:29} Writing a letter to yourself as a form of self love

{17:00} The best way to motivate yourself to work on yourself

{19:25} All about Awena's toolkit

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, we're talking about the power of self-employment. Many of our super mums who've taken our admin courses have become self-employed contractors and secured clients through their own means.

This is what I did when I started out in the Salesforce ecosystem. So I wanted to explore what it can take to set yourself up as self-employed, what the pros and cons are. And so you can really think about whether self-employment is an option you'd like to pursue.

I'm excited to be exploring this opportunity in more depth with special guest, Megan Himan, CEO and principal of Bright Step Partners.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{5:17} The emotional journey of an entrepreneur

{7:18} The difference between being a freelance contractor and being a consultant

{11:09} Having the confidence to run your own business

{15:42} The benefits and downsides of working for yourself

{20:03} What to do if you don't already have a network

{24:29} Growing your team to support your growth

{30:22} Developing your own app for sale

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In this episode, we're talking about home working and how it can give a mum their superpowers if done properly.

There is a need to have a homeworking strategy that suits you and your employer. And there are people and companies struggling to get this strategy right at the moment with COVID being the biggest thing we've faced where we are all home working and trying to balance everything. And so I'm delighted to have Maxine Roberts on the show who is going to shed some light on what a great home working strategy could look like.

Here are the episode highlights:

{2:50} The differences between home and office working

{9:33} What are the motivational factors employees need to be aware of

{13:03} The importance of social interaction in your day

{18:14} How to demonstrate to your employer how you are performing

{26:33} Self-management when home working

{28:59} Structuring your day when working from home

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/