Are you struggling with your little one's sleep? Does this impact your day-to-day life, your relationships and your business? If so, I'm here to help. Sleep challenges in our children can often mean we parents struggle with our own sleep too. The anxiety around bedtime battles, night wakings and whether our little one will nap can often mean we are showing up each day with very little in the tank. Trying to be the best versions of ourselves is SO hard when we are sleep deprived. And knowing where to start can often feel so overwhelming. So I've broken it down, and I'm sharing my 5 top tips to help you get started.

Charlotte Hillyard is an Infant Sleep Consultant and founder of 'The Gift of Sleep', and she is passionate about helping families to improve their little ones' sleep. Based in Essex, Charlotte helps families via her 1-2-1 support package services, Sleep Clinic sessions and with the Mind charity, supporting mums on their local programme 'Mums Matter'. Charlotte also offers 'The Gift Of Sleep' unique gifting boxes and vouchers, enabling you to gift a little bit of sleepy dust to a friend.

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In this episode, you will find out what next for Parents in Biz and this podcast!

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Yemi King is the Founder of Yemi King Photography. She specialises in photography to boost confidence when not behind the camera Yemi is also a freelance creative. Yemi writes and design for herself and others she has a blog, and she contributes to a luxury magazine. Yemi is a mum of 3 which she says has been an interesting journey. She has worked very hard to keep a nice balance between providing, nurturing and also self-love. Yemi says it has been a challenging lesson, but one that she knows will pay off!

In this episode you’ll find out about:

* Details about Yemi’s business and the creative work she does

* Details about Yemi’s family

* Yemi talks about her freelance journey

* Yemi talks about fears and challenges she has had during her journey.

* You’ll hear how Yemi set boundaries for business and family life.

* Yemi talks about the positive influence her dad had in her life

* Yemi talks about who inspires her

* Yemi gives advice to parents who are starting up a business

* Yemi talks about what success looks like for her

* Yemi tells us about her what her future plans look like

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Links mentioned:

Kolours Website 

The Bespoke Black Book

Yemi King

Yemi Instagram

Yemi Twitter 

Be Inspired

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Miranda and her husband run GPS Return a recruitment a company specialising in helping parents return to work. Not only do they help parents find their ideal, family-friendly job, but they also have a career mentoring solution which helps parents work out what it is they want to do and work on their mindset and any confidence issues, as well as practical guidance such as CV updates and interview skills. Miranda and her husband have 2 children aged 3 and 5.

In this episode you’ll find out about:

* Details about Miranda’s business that she runs with her husband

* Details about Miranda’s family

* Miranda talks about her entrepreneurial journey

* Miranda talks about fears and challenges she has had during her journey.

* You’ll hear how Miranda and her husband set boundaries for business and family life.

* Miranda talks about who inspires her

* Miranda gives advice to parents who are starting up a business

* Miranda talks about what success looks like for her

* Miranda tells us about her what her future plans look like.

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Links mentioned:

GPS Return website 

GPS Return Facebook Page 

GPS Return Facebook Group The Returners' Tribe

GPS Return Twitter

GPS Return Youtube

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Who’d expect that a daughter having tantrums over seams in her socks would lead to a life-transforming discovery!

This is how Nina Khoo discovered she & her daughter were part of the 15-20% of the population who share the naturally occurring temperament trait of High Sensitivity. Discovering she was Highly Sensitive was like finally finding the right user-manual to her life, & it explained why her daughter was sometimes really bothered by things like scratchy labels & seams in her socks.

Nina is now passionate about raising awareness of the Highly Sensitive Trait. She coaches Highly Sensitive Women to be strong & inspiring role models for their children through her unique program ‘The A, B, C of High Sensitivity’.

In this episode you’ll find out about:

-Details about Nina’s coaching business

-Details about Nina’s family

-Nina talks about her journey in becoming a personal development coach for highly sensitive women.

-Nina talks about fears and challenges she has had during her journey.

-You’ll hear how Nina manages running a business and family life

-Nina talks about who inspires her

-Nina gives advice to parents who are starting up a business

-Nina talks about what success looks like for her

-Nina tells us about her what her future plans look like.

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Links mentioned:

Nina’s website 

Nina’s facebook

Nina’s youtube

Parents in Biz Be Inspired

Highly sensitive child book

Crazy sexy health book

 

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Links mentioned:

Parents in Business Magazine

Create Launch Grow a start-up course for parents

7 Day self-care challenge 

Productivity challenge

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Exciting news and summer break podcast episodes will return in September 2018.

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Charlotte Wise always wanted to start her own business but it took for her to become a parent to make her dream a reality. After surviving a traumatic birth and ending up in intensive care, she realised life was too short to wait any longer. When her son was 7 months old, she launched BipBopShop, an online and pop up children’s shop selling children’s gifts and traditional wooden toys. Now an award-winning entrepreneur and Huffington Post blogger, Charlotte tells us her story of juggling her business with parenthood.

In this episode you’ll find out about:

* Details about Charlotte’s family and business

* How Charlotte got started on her entrepreneurial journey with £50

* Charlotte talks about starting a business while on maternity leave

* Charlotte talks about her traumatic birth and ending up in intensive care

* Her number one fear was failure and she talks about overcoming that fear

* Her two biggest challenges one of them being mum guilt and how she is overcoming them

* How she manages running a business and family life

* The things she enjoys doing for herself

* Charlotte talks about who inspires her

* Details about what she has outsourced for her business

* Advice for parents who want to start a business

* What success looks like for her?

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Links mentioned:

Be Inspired

Bip Bop Shop

Bip Bop Shop Instagram 

Bip Bop Shop Facebook 

Bip Bop Shop twitter 

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Medina King-Sam is the only London based children’s Interior Designer and Child Wellness Expert that creates personalised, colourful and fun bedrooms and playrooms for children. With almost a decade of experience in the Interior Design profession, she has built a client base of successful professionals across Chelsea and Kensington, Mayfair, Hampstead, Islington, and Surrey. With a calm, down to earth personality and the technical skills of an interior designer Medina has won the hearts of many clients and have designed amazing spaces for families with young children. Her skills are vast, ranging from plan drawings, fabric and furniture sourcing, colour consulting, designing bespoke storage solutions and project managing making her the ‘one stop design shop’ for your child’s or children’s rooms.

What contributes most to Medina’s success as an Interior Designer and Child Wellness Expert is her understanding of the impact a space can have on children and how to best design a space that will have a positive contribution to children’s wellbeing.

After working a few years in furniture retail while she pursued a Bachelors of Arts degree in Interior Design at the renowned University of the Arts London, Medina has developed an extensive knowledge on designer furniture and trending accessories. Medina is also an experienced Interior Stylist and has worked on Stills and Commercials for projects, such as for Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine, Hilary’s Blinds, Argos, Microsoft, John Lewis and Workx.

Medina is passionate about the development of children and also run's workshops, teaching children 'arts & crafts' and 'interior design.' Through MK Kids Interiors Medina gives confidence to children by involving them in the design process of their rooms

In this episode you’ll find out about:

* Details about Medina’s interior design business

* Details about Medina’s family

* Medina talks about how she ended up following her dreams and becoming an interior designer

* Medina talks about the support she received from the prince’s trust

* Fears she had and the discrimination she has faced

* Details about her upcoming workshop for children

* How she manages running a business and family life

* Medina talks about who inspires her

* Advice to parents who are starting up a business

* Medina talks about what success looks like for her

* Future plans

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Links mentioned:

MK Kids Interiors 

MK Kids Interiors Instagram

MK Kids Interiors Twitter 

MK Kids Interiors Facebook 

MK Kids Interiors Pinterest

Nesting Properties 

Nesting Properties Instagram

Nesting Properties Twitter

Nesting Properties Facebook

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Alec Grant is a father of 2 young boys, who keep him on his toes every day and he loves it. Being an only parent means that he is very passionate about fatherhood and being a good role model to his boys. Alec has a couple of side projects the first is about being a widower & fatherhood the second is about shining a positive light on all the good things being done in the UK by people who are Black & British.

Having spent many years in the corporate world as a software developer and then owning various global tech platforms, Alec now runs his own software consultancy business in addition to being a partner in a tech startup.

He loves playing/watching sport and only stopped playing rugby a few years ago. Alec states that “nowadays a kick about with some school dads once a week is as competitive as it gets.” He exercises most days, enjoys mountain biking and get outdoors for walks and running as much as he can. Music is his world too and he’s rarely seen without his headphones in nodding away to various genres of music.

In this episode you’ll find out about:

* Details about Alec’s business a software consultancy business and co-working space

* Details about Alec’s family

* How and why he left corporate work

* Alec speaks about the loss of his wife

* Fears he had of being a single dad how he overcame them

* The challenges he has faced

* How he supports his older son after the loss of his mum

* How he creates harmony between business and family

* Alec gives insight into his work and home routine and apps he uses to manage

* Advice for parents who are looking to start a business

* Tips and information on things he has learned on his journey

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Links mentioned:

Co-working space – Digital work hub

Twitter I am black British

Twitter Widower After Afe

4 hour work week

Book Rich Dad Poor Dad

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