The Parentpreneur Accelerator Podcast

In this week's episode I am re-interviewing Vicky Warr.I originally interviewed Vicky 3 months ago and we want so deep into talking about her fitness business that we didn't get chance to cover childcare and how her business is growing.As a reminder, Vicky is the Founder and CEO of Bump and Beyond providing Online Exercise Fitness Video and Healthy Eats for Mums/Moms and Mums to be (online, global).She is a pregnancy and postnatal fitness specialist and nutrition coach, with over 17 years’ experience in the fitness industry.As a mum of two herself, Vicky helps Mums to be and New mums be fit, healthy and happy during pregnancy and beyond with her online exercise videos and healthy, quick family friendly recipes.She also helps businesses retain their female talent with her health and wellness interactive healthy eating and fun exercise workshops. She is fitness expert for Gurgle Magazine, the UK’s baby magazine and contributor to BBC radio and consultant to Mothercare.In this episode we discuss:The importance of consumer research, how to hire for values, get referrals and compare people to work out who is the right fit

On this week's episode I am interviewing Graham Harris. Graham is the Managing Director of Tech-ni-Fold, which he founded in 1999 whilst balancing a young family at home. As a print finisher at the time he saw the need to eliminate the problem of fibre cracking, which had been a problem that had plagued the printing industry. Since then over 70,000 Tri-Creasers have been sold worldwide, which is renowned for its speed, running costs and quality.Through Graham's knowledge and expertise, Tech-ni-Fold is fast emerging as the world's leading authority in the field of creasing.Graham's children are now grown up but I am looking forward to hearing more about Grahams business / family journey and how he found things in the beginning against how things are now.In this episode, we discuss: His expertise is in bringing ideas to life and creating a business to sell them, how the world / media and inventors have all contributed to how inventors are perceived and how he came a Best-Selling author by using marketing strategies he relied on when inventing.

On this week's episode I am interviewing Igor Bekker. Igor is a former retail executive who is now a co-founder of a direct-to-consumer ecommerce business ""MADE OF"". ""MADE OF"" provides new parents with simple, organic-first and safe everyday baby products, whilst creating consistent shopping experience without exploiting their pockets and time. Historically, he has worked with high profile brands such as Swatch, ALEX AND ANI, Bauer Hockey and Serta Simmons. He is currently trying to disrupt the baby product industry by being the only brand that is truly non-GMO and certified by the government. He has found that there is no regulation over the term ""natural"" and ""organic"" in this space and he is trying to raise awareness in terms of the actual location of where the ingredients come from and its manufacturing. The product line is already winning national awards and is set to do some amazing things. In this episode, we will discuss: The current personal care/beauty industry and its regulation or lack of. Emerging startups in the personal care/beauty industry. The new generation of consumer demand.

Kelly is a Soulmate Strategist and Love Mentor, helping you to find connected love in a disconnected world. She teaches intuitively with a number of methods including but not limited to Positive Psychology, Meditation, NLP, deep reflective work and mentoring. Kelly is an expert in the personal development industry and has been a major contributor at The Best You EXPO, Psychologies, The Metro, Alternatives and The Mindful Living Show. She currently helps women around the world to create their dream relationship. After a decade of disastrous relationships Kelly turned to meditation and met her soulmate inspiring her to help others connect to their truth and power within. In 2017, she quit her Country Manager job and moved from Scotland to England to be with her partner. Throughout this time, she has juggled starting and scaling her business along with becoming a stepmother. This has been challenging at times but she hopes to help people with what she has learnt so far and how she has grown into both roles.

Over the last year I have interviewed over 50 amazing entrepreneurs about how they’ve built businesses whilst having time with their family, I’ve gone back through the last year of episodes to identify the top things I’ve learned. So in this episode, I share my top 5 lessons learned, and exactly which episodes go deeper into these topics to help you put them into practice.

In this week's episode I am interviewing Martin Majlund, who is the founder of Sky.Garden, an SaaS e-commerce platform built for African retailers. Martin graduated with a Masters in Economic Science in 2006 and then spent 5 years working agency side (advertising) before shifting over to the corporate side in 2011 heading up global tech at Carlsberg Breweries. He founded Sky.Garden with Christian Grubak in 2015, quit his job at Carlsberg in September 2016, launched Sky.Garden in Kenya in May 2017, and today has 4,500+ businesses in Kenya using the platform. The next funding round aims at scaling Sky.Garden to more East African territories and eventually they intend to become the preferred online sales channel in Africa. Martin is married and has his hands well and truly full with 4 kids. In this episode, we’ll discuss: His decision to quit a well-paid corporate job to build a tech company in Kenya, despite only having visited Africa once over 20 years ago. How tech can solve real global problems. How the mix of parenting and being an entrepreneur makes you a better parent and a better entrepreneur. How Martin has embraced a failure culture after initially struggling with this.

In this week’s episode, we talk about how starting a new business can be so SCARY! There are a million questions you ask yourself as an entrepreneur starting out in business…What if you fail? What if you never make any money? What if it’s all a waste of time? What if you never get any customers? What if you spend all your savings? What if you get copied? What if you never even try? But then… a new business could bring you the life you want: Time with your family, free from financial worries, interesting challenges, doing something meaningful. Every single successful business owner you know had to ‘get started’ once so listen in to find out how to get moving when you feel so stuck.

On this week's episode I am interviewing Gwendoline Alderton. Gwendoline is a professional interior designer creating stylish, elegant and healthy homes for residential clients. Her designs have been published in national interior design magazines. She is also a professional speaker, sought after for radio, conference and private events to speak on her specialist topic of interior design trends. Gwendoline transitioned from a senior I.T. expert to a creative interior designer and she now shares her personal stories in her new book, Memories To Cherish (How To Create Your Stylish, Healthy and Happy Home) to be published later this year. In this episode, we’ll cover:How to become an interior designer, what the challenges for businesses like these are, and what’s worked well, how to combine style, health and mindfulness within interior design and Gwendoline’s upcoming book ‘Memories to Cherish’ and what it’s been like to write a book.

In this week’s episode, I am interviewing Vicky Warr, who is Founder and CEO of The Beez Kneez (www.beezkneezhive.com) and Fitness and Healthy Eats for Mums/Moms and Mums to be (online, global). Vicky is a pregnancy and postnatal fitness specialist and nutrition coach, with over 17 years’ experience in the fitness industry. As a mum of two herself, Vicky helps Mums to be and New mums be fit, healthy and happy during pregnancy and beyond with her online exercise videos and healthy, quick family friendly recipes. She also helps businesses retain their female talent with her health and wellness interactive healthy eating and fun exercise workshops. She is fitness expert for Gurgle Magazine, the UK's baby magazine and contributor to BBC radio and consultant to Mothercare. In this episode, we discuss: • The brain changing effects of exercise. • How entrepreneurial parents can easily fit in exercise. • Healthier eating in the busy life of running a business and family. • How to improve ‘Baby brain’. • How to unlock your brain’s potential to be super productive.

Welcome to episode 61 of the Parentpreneur Podcast. This week is slightly different to usual, because you are invited to listen to one of my live group coaching calls. These are normally part of my Parentpreneur Accelerator program, in which we do a weekly coaching call. However, this coaching call was extra special as I opened it up to individuals outside of the program but to those that are within our Facebook community. We had people joining, posing their questions and sharing where they are with their businesses and I gave support and advice on what they need to do to move forward based on my experience of working with other Parentpreneurs. The feedback from the session was amazing so I thought I would share it with you via the podcast.