Category: Episode
Honest conversations with mums in business, one episode at a time.
This is where you’ll find all the show notes for the Mum Means Business podcast – a space for ambitious mothers navigating the beautiful chaos of raising a family while building a business. Each episode brings real stories, helpful insights and a whole lot of solidarity.
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Episode 61: The Podcast Turns One; Lessons, Downloads and a Glass of Wine in Brittany

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
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Episode 60: Stop Calling It a Side Hustle and Start Building a Real Business with Beth Heyer

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
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EPISODE 59: Sliding into the Summer Holidays as a Business-Building Mum

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
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EPISODE 58: Why Wanting More Money Doesn’t Make You a Bad Mum with Claire Hill

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
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Episode 57: Behind the Rebrand; Threads, Squiggles and Letting Go of Perfectionism

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
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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
