Author: VICTORIA
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Episode 56: From Survival Mode to Scaling Your Business with Ease with Michelle Newman

Michelle Newman is a business transformation specialist, founder of Flow Business Support and an award-winning advocate for women in business. Combining years of corporate expertise with a passion for entrepreneurship and self-care, she helps founders to streamline operations, reduce overwhelm and scale sustainably without the stress. Through Flow, her digital operations consultancy, she offers operational… Read more
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Episode 55: Why Consistency Alone Is Not Enough and What I’m Doing Instead

This week’s solo episode is an honest reflection on one of the most repeated pieces of advice in the online business world: be consistent. Show up every day, post without fail, feed the algorithm. For a long time, I did exactly that. I posted on Instagram every single day for 14 months while navigating two… Read more
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Episode 54: Burnout, Boundaries and the Healing Power of Gardening with Kendall Marie Platt

Kendall Marie Platt is a horticultural therapist, writer, speaker and founder of Adventures with Flowers. She brings together horticultural therapy and sensory-led garden design to create spaces that don’t just look beautiful but actively quieten the mind, restore the nervous system and support the body and brain in a way that no amount of productivity… Read more
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Episode 53: My First Atomicon; Lessons in Focus, Fear and Showing Up

This week’s solo episode is all about Atomicon, the largest sales and marketing conference in the UK for small businesses, and what happened when I finally went for the first time. It was not a smooth run up to the event. Between a non-refundable train ticket, a last-minute rebooking to make it home for my… Read more
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Episode 52: From Feeling Stuck to Dreaming Big with Caroline Britton

Caroline Britton is an intuitive coach, author and agent of change for leaders, entrepreneurs and public figures who are ready to transform their lives. For over 14 years she worked in global consultancy, during which time she became a mother of two. Four years ago she made the decision to lean into her intuitive gifts,… Read more
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Episode 51: Taking Up Space and Why It Feels So Uncomfortable

This is the first solo episode of Mum Means Business. No guest, no carefully crafted bio to introduce, no one else to bounce off. Just me, unfiltered, taking up space in my own podcast for the first time. This episode marks the start of a new weekly format. Each Friday, I’ll share a short and… Read more
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Episode 50: Turning the Tables; Victoria Phipps on the Messy Middle of Motherhood and Business

For 49 episodes, I have been the one asking the questions. For episode 50, the tables are turned! Putting me in the hot seat is Sarah Garrod, one of my oldest and most trusted friends, a qualified journalist, founder of copywriting practice ‘Put In A Good Word’ and communications lead at Car-y-Mor, Wales’ first regenerative… Read more
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Episode 49: Bath Time, Business and the Courage to Back Yourself with Christina Townsend

Christina Townsend is a mum of three, a former early years teacher and the founder of Spout, an award-winning bath play system that gives children a defined space for bath time play before converting into a calm, grown-up bath setup for worn-out parents in need of rest and restoration. It is a product born directly… Read more
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Episode 48: Foot Health, Franchising and Building a Business That Fits with Sam Chetwood

Sam Chetwood is the founder of CeCe & Me, a mobile children’s shoe fitting service transforming the way parents shop for their little ones’ feet. Her journey began not in business but in frustration, as a mum who struggled to feel confident about buying shoes for her toddlers and couldn’t find a service that truly… Read more
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Episode 47: Branding, Boundaries and Building Sustainably in Motherhood with Charlotte Vincent

Charlotte Vincent is a branding designer and founder of Rose Studio, a creative studio based in Auckland, New Zealand that helps female-led businesses create premium, strategy-backed brands that attract their dream clients. What began as early morning design sessions stolen between the demands of family life has grown into a full-scale creative business, built intentionally… Read more
