DON’T CALL ME A MUMPRENEUR
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Anyone ever heard of a dadpreneur? Exactly. Google churns up something, but that term has not been hijacked by the media with the same gusto as ’mumpreneur.’
Because I am a mother, and because I run a business set up whilst being a mother, it seems I am a mumpreneur. Even if my business was arms dealing, if I set it up with children at home, it seems I would be a mumpreneur: a faintly pejorative term, which, for many, conjures up images of a mum selling cute bibs online during naptime.
OK so I admit I never would have set up my business,
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Lulubaby, if I hadn’t been a mother. For one, you can’t train to be a breastfeeding counsellor unless you have breastfed yourself. Sorry, boys. Secondly no one could possibly do what I do, run antenatal and postnatal classes, if you hadn’t had children as you just wouldn’t really get it.
HOWEVER, do I really need to be called a mumpreneur? I work very hard, yes I juggle my time and yes my children do come first; ultimately, however, I am just like any other entrepreneur or businessman or woman across the country who is trying to drive sales,
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reduce costs, keep a happy workforce and most importantly for me, provide an amazing service to the many women who entrust themselves to our care and guidance.
Oh and ask any business man, do your children or your work come first? Most would say the former, and quite right too.
Running a business and being a mother is arguably far more challenging than heading off to work every day, doing your job and coming home in the evening. I need to organise myself with an efficiency that would put Barack Obama’s private secretary to shame.
I need to
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take off one hat and put on another several times throughout the day. I need to meet the needs of my children, my colleagues and my clients. Oh and let’s not forget my husband. Yes he thinks he comes after the dogs. He’s probably not wrong.
So yes I am a mum. And yes I run a business. Can we just leave it at that?
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Louisa Van den Bergh - 21 May 14
Anyone ever heard of a dadpreneur? Exactly. Google churns up something, but that term has not been hijacked by the media with the same gusto as ‘mumpreneur.’
Because I am a mother, and because I run a business set up whilst being a mother, it seems I am a mumpreneur. Even if my business was arms dealing, if I set it up with children at home, it seems I would be a mumpreneur: a faintly pejorative term, which, for many, conjures up images of a mum selling cute bibs online during naptime.
OK so I admit I never would have set up my business, Lulubaby, if I hadn’t been a mother. For one, you can’t train to be a breastfeeding counsellor unless you have breastfed yourself. Sorry, boys. Secondly no one could possibly do what I do, run antenatal and postnatal classes, if you hadn’t had children as you just wouldn’t really get it.
HOWEVER, do I really need to be called a mumpreneur? I work very hard, yes I juggle my time and yes my children do come first; ultimately, however, I am just like any other entrepreneur or businessman or woman across the country who is trying to drive sales, reduce costs, keep a happy workforce and most importantly for me, provide an amazing service to the many women who entrust themselves to our care and guidance.
Oh and ask any business man, do your children or your work come first? Most would say the former, and quite right too.
Running a business and being a mother is arguably far more challenging than heading off to work every day, doing your job and coming home in the evening. I need to organise myself with an efficiency that would put Barack Obama’s private secretary to shame.
I need to take off one hat and put on another several times throughout the day. I need to meet the needs of my children, my colleagues and my clients. Oh and let’s not forget my husband. Yes he thinks he comes after the dogs. He’s probably not wrong.
So yes I am a mum. And yes I run a business. Can we just leave it at that?
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