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Do you feel overwhelmed by the pressures of being a Mum sometimes? Or perhaps you put unrealistic pressure on yourself to be the absolute best mum you can be, forgetting that you are only human and sometimes it ain't always going to go to plan?!!! Gervase Kolmos of Shiny Happy Human shares how she deals with the pressures that come along with being a modern-day Mum as we try to do and be it all, and how she helps other Mums in her Mommy Soul Tribe cope with the pressures as a mum life coach. As Gervase says, Motherhood is definitely challenging (and really messy) but beautiful, if you know how to focus on what really matters and stay true to yourself. As each experience (and challenge) is unique for each Mum, we need to stop comparing ourselves to other Mums, and instead find encouragement and support from one another. Learn how to be guilt-free, let go of unrealistic expectations, and embrace your role as a Mum no matter how far from perfect you may be in this inspiring chat between Jo and Gervase. You can w

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Ready to discover Maria Foy's tips for building a social media following? If you've spent weeks, months or even years posting content but haven’t got a good number of followers, then this interview is for you! Maria Foy started the Happy Mum Happy Child page on Facebook 2 years ago, reached her target of 10,000 followers in the first year and now has over 50,000 followers! Amazing, right? Plus Maria achieved it while taking care of a baby and toddler all at the same time! Find out how posting her activities with her kids grew into a hub of information, making Maria a well-known mum on social media. Watch the full interview here >> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e047 #MariaFoy #HappyMumHappyChild #blog #audience #mumpreneurs #getitdonemum

Do you own an online store or run a product-based online business? After deciding that she wanted to convert her passion for swaddles and sleep into a business that would secure her family's future, today's podcast guest Louise Tanguay has since gone on to launch and grow The Sleep Store, a highly successful online shop devoted to helping tired parents find sleep solutions for their kids. The Sleep Store is now recognized as one of the best online retailers in New Zealand and Australia with over 50k customers in their database and a huge product range. How did Louise manage this? What business strategies and tools does she use to keep her business growing, and how has she built such a loyal following of customers who continue to buy from The Sleep Store again and again? Find out the inside story by watching or listening to her interview. For the full show notes, including links mentioned, please visit http://www.getitdonemum.com/e046/. kek5sytq

Do you have a clear business blueprint but gets stuck in building your website? Neta Talmor has worked with so many entrepreneurs and realized most of them are having difficulty when it comes to building their own website, which prompted her to launch the No Hassle Website. For someone who has created so many websites, Neta has mastered the formula for a website that sells. In this podcast episode she shares with us some great tips in building a website. Neta also provided website critique to point out the things to avoid, what to focus on, and how to make the visitors stay and become interested in what you offer. Learn more by watching the interview here ->> http://www.getitdonemum.com/e045/

Episode 44: How to Increase Sales by Narrowing Your Niche with Jo Foster and Janine Ogg We have observed that most people start a business with a very wide range of niche. People think that a wider niche could get you more clients, which means more sales. That’s how we started years ago, as Love Your Small Business, targeting all women entrepreneurs. There are a lot of women entrepreneurs, but having a wide niche didn’t work because it’s too vague, too broad, and has high competition. Then we refined our niche to mums trying to build a business part-time, and it was a success. Why narrowing your niche earns you more clients and make more sales With a refined niche, customers easily say yes to you. Mums in business know that we understand them – their challenges, wants, and struggles because we’ve solved it with other mums in business in the past. We can offer specific solutions as experts with a narrow niche, without much competition. It is also easier to create products and services. Once you have narrowed y

Do you struggle to convert your hard-earned Facebook likes to new business? Perhaps your target clients are on LinkedIn, but you're finding it hard to connect with them? Our guest for today, Vanessa Leota, has a knack for finding clients on social media, growing her virtual assistant business from a solo, part-time practice to a multi-VA company in a very short period of time at low-cost, by connecting with her ideal clients on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. In this interview, Vanessa shares her top tips for connecting directly with clients on social media, so that you can do it too! Facebook Ads - a source of confusion and stress?  We know that many of you are playing around with Facebook Ads and getting mixed results. Vanessa also shares her personal experience and success running Facebook Ads, and reveals how you can make them work for you. Are you ready? Hit the play button!

Outsourcing poses a dilemma for mumpreneurs. On one hand, you know that you need extra hands to get all your tasks done. There's a blog post waiting to be proofed and formatted but you can't get it to it because you're busy connecting with potential clients on Facebook. Meanwhile, there are dozens of emails sitting in your inbox and a stack of bills that have to be recorded and filed. To have a virtual assistant helping with all these tasks would be lovely. On the other hand, you're not sure if you have the budget to hire extra help. That money could go to a new website which you've been saving up for a while now, and you might not even be paying yourself much (if anything) yet so it's hard to justify paying someone else. And what about your concern about letting someone else into the business. You've heard too many horror stories about outsourcing and you'd rather not deal with the stress. Can she or he take care of your customers like you do? What if they make a mistake or disappear on you? If you can relat

How one Mum built a highly profitable 4 hour week business Tim Ferris Style with Sophie Howard Sophie started her business two years ago, selling products in the United States through Amazon. The first few products were sold pretty fast, so she re-invested all the profits to sell more products. Now, she has over 300 products on Amazon, and works on the business for only four hours a week! Maximizing Resources For Sophie, Amazon is a very good platform for business. She discussed how Amazon pretty much takes care of everything when it comes to selling the goods. All Sophie has to do is choose products that will sell, ship the products directly to Amazon, and wait for the profit every two weeks when her products are sold. Since Amazon’s business structure has been proven to work favorably for Sophie, she’s not keen on advertising her products on Facebook or other platforms. For her, Amazon already does the job, and advertising on Facebook would only cost her time and money. Hollywood Tea Party Sophie’s products

If you are a Mum building a business part-time you have to be smart and maximise your productivity. The cry  'if only I had more time' is one that we hear so often from our Mums that we decided to dedicate today's episode to sharing our tips around productivity for Mums, because like you we work part-time, from home. At the moment, Jo works around 8 hours a week and J9 works 15-20 hours so between us,  it's still not equivalent to one full-time position!  In this time, we manage a team, host a video podcast, deliver our coaching programmes (VIP coaching, mastermind groups, webinars and workshops) AND juggle the other admin and marketing sides of running a business online. And we get that you are just like us. Whatever stage of business you are at, start-up or established, you are juggling a heck of lot in your part-time hours too. So that's why we have dedicated this episode to sharing our take on productivity, specifically for Mums who are working part-time and who don't have 40 or 50 hours a week to build a

With so many marketing strategies to implement, how do you decide which one to use? Do you look for the most cost-effective? Are you looking for one that's the least time-consuming? Perhaps you're looking for something that has the potential to go viral. If you answered yes to all three then consider video marketing. Video marketing has been around for quite a while but statistics show that only a small percentage of businesses are using it. We think it's largely because of the fact that not many people are comfortable in front of the camera. Also, there's the prep work: you have to fix your hair, put on a bit of makeup, ensure yu have the correct lighting, create some slides, etc. Video seems to be a lot of work. Our guest for today, Melissa Groom of Empowered Mums, seems to disagree however. A video markerting specialist, Melissa shows us that video is only as complicated and hard as you want to be. You can literally wake up every morning, shoot a video and you're done. You just need to know what tools and

When you walk into your home office, what do you feel? Do you feel energized to work, or do you feel the need to pack up your laptop and head to the closest cafe because it's not an inspiring space? Or worse, it's such a mess that you have to battle your way to the screen! While research shows that heading out of the house to  work in a cafe can boost your productivity, as Mums we can't always manage  it. Between school runs, household chores, client meetings and admin work, it's often more practical for us to work at home, meaning that it's super-important that our home office makes us feel energized and raring to get into our work. When did you last pay attention to the space you are working in? If you know that your home-office set up is less than ideal, then today's interview with Feng Shui consultant Moni Castaneda is going to inspire you to take the time to whip it into shape. With a degree in architecture as well as her Feng Shui qualifications, Moni is an expert at creating beautiful, functional space

Aside from being the CEO of Ocassio Enterprises, Kylie Travers is also a sought-after speaker, multi-award winning blogger and advocate/ambassador for a number of charities. With all these accomplishments, you'd think that Kylie has led a charmed life, but that's where her story gains it's real power. Kylie has fought her way through domestic violence, finding herself homeless with two children, robbery, and a series of serious health scares  to get to where she is today, and all by the tender age of 30. But you know what, despite all that incredible back-story, it was Kylies sense of energy and fun that we really took away from this interview. Yes, she has been through a lot. And yes, for a long time Kylie worked herself to the bone so that she could support herself and her kids. What she has achieved in such a short time has come at a massive cost to her health and wellbeing, so we don't want to sugar-coat it. But it's the coolest thing to chat with Kylie now and see what a great space she is in and how she

All work and no play makes [insert your name here] a dull mum. Between raising a family and building a business, who has time to play house, build sandcastles or climb a tree?We do so much (and sleep so little) that it's hard to squeeze time for yoga or a massage. Isn't that right, ladies? There's no time to play.  This is exactly the kind of thinking that our guest for today, Vince Gowmon of Remembering to Play Events, wants us to dispel. An advocate of the creative spirit children and professional life coach, Vince's mission in life is to give people a playground to discover their authentic self. He contends that play is not about finding time; it is a state of being that most adults are afraid of. Why? Because being playful means allowing yourself to be vulnerable and challenge self-limiting beliefs and perceptions that have been ingrained Why? Because being playful means allowing yourself to be vulnerable and challenge self-limiting beliefs and perceptions that have been drilled into you since you were a

Do you ever feel sick of being on your computer all the time? Would you like to get off the screen and into nature and the outdoors more? We certainly would, and many of the Mums in our community also seem to crave more time outside, in nature, doing fun stuff. Both for a bit of 'me' time with friends and as a bonding experience with the kids and family. I think it's safe to say that even Jo and I aren't getting into the outdoors as much as we'd like to since having kiddos, despite our backgrounds in the outdoor industry (although you can see pics of my latest excursion into the bush here, the first overnight trip since Bella was born over 5 years ago!) We know it's good for us, so why don't we do it more often?  It's pretty clear from all the research just how beneficial getting outdoors is to our health and wellbeing, as well as for the learning and development of our children, so what's holding us back from getting out there more often? The answer is going to be different for each of us, but today's guest

Sales pages are so crucial to your business, yet so hard to getright!The worst part is when you pour your heart into writingyour sales page, with all the emotions that go with it (excitement,passion, self-doubt, fear, mindless staring at the screen, to namejust a few) only to feel like a complete failure when you finallyput it out there, and no one buys. It's like a dagger through theheart!But you know what we are going to say next right?It doesn't have to be that way! That's why we've invitedCourtney Johnston on the podcast to share her top tips for writinga kick ass sales page.In this interview, she takes the mystery out of the process andshares her formula for pulling together a sales page that is goingto get you results.Courtney also gives us some easy ways to measure success withyour sales page, so you can accurately judge whether it is yoursales copy that is holding you back, or some other part of yourmarketing funnel (like a lack of traffic to the page, forexample).Whether it's copy for your website, s

Do you want to get better results from your day and feel more energised too? As you may  already know from experience, building a business alongside the chaos of family life can be a roller-coaster of emotions. In fact, many women entrepreneurs comment that starting their business kicked them off on the most intense personal development journey of their lives (other than Motherhood, we're guessing). Why? Because when you start a business you are taking a massive leap into the unknown. You are getting out of your comfort zone and into your 'challenge' zone (that's what we used to call in back in our adventure-based learning days!). Combine it with Motherhood and BOOM! you have a fantastic recipe for increased stress levels, anxiety and burn-out. That's why we choose to interview wonderful women like today's guest Debbie, and previous guests like Victoria Hood (on mindfulness), because our goal is to empower you with tools to help you choose how you respond to these incredibly challenging situations, feelings a

Do you want a business that empowers you to make more money, in less time? We're guessing for most of you reading this, the answer is a resounding 'hell yes!' Indeed, the majority of Mums we work with in our coaching programmes have come to us because they need help to up their income, but not their time input. And that's why we're so excited to share the story and expertise of today's podcast guest Kathryn Hocking with you. If you have a skill or expertise that you want to share and create a big impact with, but you don't know how to get it out there and make money from it, then Kathryn's story is going to get you all fired up! In this interview Kathryn argues that eCourses are the most time-effective way to package up your knowledge and expertise into an online product. Hailed as Australia's ecourse queen, Kathryn is the best person to take advice from when it comes to two  very important things: 1) translating all that knowledge in your head into fantastic ecourse content that you can share with thousands

Are you a great multitasker? Many Mums are and it's something that many of us feel proud to claim. There's even a recent scientific study that claims to have proof that women are better multitaskers than men (your partner may be rolling his eyes right about now!)  But does multitasking really do us any good? Are we really more productive when we do several things at a time? The answer, according to Mindful Mum founder Victoria Hood, is NO. It appears that we might actually be harming our effectiveness by juggling several tasks at once. By not focusing on a single task, we're actually making room for error and mistakes, as well as adding more stress and overwhelm into our already busy lives. In J9's interview with this inspirational young Kiwi Mum, we explore how being present in the moment and focused on one thing at a time can transform the results you get - both from your business and your relationships. We also hear Vic's tips on how to bring up happier, balanced kids who are better-equipped to deal with t

Makaia Carr is the founder of Motivate Me, New Zealand's largest community of free-thinking women looking to empower their lives by becoming fit and healthy. The story of how Makaia has built her Facebook page to a multiple income streams business in just a few years is inspiring and today her community has more than 2,400 paying members! In this episode Makaia shares how she has done it. We hear about the early days, when Makaia started it all by sharing her personal health and life stories on Facebook, right through to the growth of the current Motivate Me 'empire' which includes the Motivate Me membership community, a popular clothing range, digital information products and Makaia's work as a speaker and brand ambassador. We loved Makaia's straight up, honest and direct style in this interview and you will love learning from the insider tips she reveals in this podcast - her first ever online interview (lucky us!).   To listen to her full interview, go to http://www.getitdonemum.com/e030/.