Welcome to Business Foundations for Mums. This is the show for you if you are a Mum, either in the early stages of business, wanting to turn a sideline into a full time business, or dreaming of having your own business but not really sure where to start. By joining us at Business Foundations for Mums, you will be getting inspiration from Mums who are running their businesses, hearing about the realities of the challenges that often face Mums in business, how others have overcome these challenges and lots of bite sized practical, inspirational and mindset advice and thoughts. Here at Business Foundations for Mums, I aim to help clarify some of the areas that can often seem overwhelming when you are new to business, to give you the confidence to take the next steps to get your business up and running, or moving on to the next steps in the right direction.

The weekly episodes will alternate between interviews with awesome Mums, who are successfully juggling business and motherhood around 30 minutes each, and shorter bite sized episodes around 10 minutes each, where I will share my own insights and practical advice. The interviews will be fairly relaxed and conversational in style and I will be finding out from my guests about how they juggle business and motherhood, the challenges they face, the advice that they have, and I always love a good book recommendation.  Through joining myself and my guests as we talk through all things business and motherhood. You will feel as though you are not alone in some of the struggles that we face.  That there is a way forward even when times are tough, and it all feels impossible.

So a bit about me and how I came to be here sharing this with you. I am Kate Butcher, Mum of two young children and owner of a virtual assistant business that works with Mums in business.  Since becoming a mum I have faced a number of challenges in running my previous businesses, starting this one and working to grow it and I’ve learned so much along the way.  However, I did spend a lot of time searching for the info I needed and really wanting somewhere where all of this information could be readily available in one place, and in the small bite sized format that I had time to consume in between all of the Mum duties.  I have also found the support that I needed in a variety of areas, but I’ve always sought out and found huge solidarity in networks of business mums, where I feel that I have really found my tribe, those I most relate to. As such, my virtual assistant business quite rapidly became all about supporting other Mums as they faced the challenges of business and finding balance. However, I also found myself offering advice to lots of Mums whose businesses were in the very early stages, and who were not yet in a position to outsource some tasks to a VA, and it reminded me of the early days, when I spent so much time learning, seeking out knowledge, figuring out how to do it all myself and steadily working on my mindset which I quickly realised was absolutely key.  My passion to share all of that knowledge with a wider audience grew.  So along with my love of podcasts, I decided that this was the best way to share some of the practical foundations that are so important when starting a business, along with some of the mindset insights that I have learned along the way.

And so Business Foundations for Mums was born, where all of this knowledge, information and inspiration can be shared in a podcast. However, if podcasts are not for you, the same episodes will be going out on YouTube as videos and on our website as blogs so that you can consume in the format that works best for you. You can find out more on our website, businessfoundationsformums.co.uk.  I really look forward to sharing all that I can with you and sincerely hope that some of what I say may help you to start, or move your business in the direction that you want it to go and to achieve your dream.