Category: Episode

Leila Green was raised in a family of entrepreneurs, started her first business at 26 and grew it to six figures without any outside investment. She sacrificed a great deal to keep it going through the pandemic. Then came the curveball that changed everything. After two heartbreaking unexplained miscarriages, she became pregnant with triplets. Fast… Read more

This week’s solo episode is a little different. It is the story of a project that pretty much took over my life in 2018 and 2019. A project I have been thinking about sharing ever since a recent visit stirred up a lot of feelings and prompted a flurry of DMs from people who had… Read more

Ella McKay is a self-proclaimed food obsessive, a marketing professional turned entrepreneur and the co-founder of FATSO, a premium dark chocolate brand on a mission to prove that dark chocolate can be every bit as fun, flavourful and full of personality as its milkier counterpart. The idea was born in lockdown from a conversation about… Read more

This week’s solo episode is coming to you from a converted VW Crafter in Tours, France – heavily loaded with me, my partner and two small children with all their associated paraphernalia, snacks galore, an expanding laundry bag and a portable penguin potty! Van life has this idyllic reputation, hasn’t it? The footloose digital nomad,… Read more

Emma Bardwell is the founder and managing director of BardWood Support Services, a fast-growing recruitment business specialising in security and facilities management. Driven by a desire to create flexibility for her young family, she left her career in recruitment in 2015 and began building her business from the ground up, with two daughters aged two… Read more

This week’s solo episode is coming to you from a bench on the shoreline of Brittany, recorded after a day of full sun, a generous glass of wine at dinner and several failed attempts to get the usual tech setup working from a campervan! It was a perfectly imperfect way to mark the first birthday… Read more

Beth Heyer is a single mum who launched Babysitting Connection from her kitchen table in Texas in January 2020, six weeks before the world shut down. By 2022 she had scaled to over 700 families across six locations and been named Austin Businesswoman Employer of the Year. She has since expanded her vision with Petsitting… Read more

This week’s solo episode lands on the first day of the summer holidays for most children across England and it feels like exactly the right moment to talk honestly about what this season actually looks like when you are a mother with a business to run. No perfectly scheduled content calendars. No fully cleared to-do… Read more

Claire Hill is not your usual business coach. She identifies as the ‘Queen of Unstoppable Self-Belief’ and works specifically with the “I thought I’d be making more money by now” crew, teaching women in business how to stop leaking money, energy and power so their income can finally match how epic they are at what… Read more

This week’s solo episode takes you behind the scenes of one of the most fun projects I have worked on this year: the full rebrand of the Mum Means Business podcast AND my photography business, Victoria Phipps Photography. I share why I decided the time was right to invest in a professional graphic designer, what… Read more