It’s this question that is on most of our minds before and perhaps even after we have our first baby (or babies, in my case): can we live on...
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Women Who Waited to be Great
By ‘thinking long’ you can achieve your career and life goals. One evening in 2004, having spent yet another evening scraping a living serving...
Time-out or burn-out
The importance, the skill and the necessity of taking time-out if you want to prevent burn-out as a working mum. In sports like basketball,...
What to do on maternity leave?
You’ve clocked out of the office, and hopefully been bundled off with arms full of goodies for you and your impending arrival – so what to do...
The Top 10 things to teach your child about money
I really believe in educating a child about money when they are young. If you don’t teach your child about money who will? It isn’t something schools teach and they don’t get it from the TV…
Top 6 ways to find work for trailing spouses
Yes, I know there are lots of barriers to working for trailing spouses, and even more for expat mums. But it’s key to overcome those barriers...
Barriers to working for trailing spouses and expat mums
It’s not easy working when you are a trailing spouse and expat mum. First of all, working expat mums face all the well-known issues all working...
How to go from Alienated Expat or Trailing Spouse to Feeling Like a Local?
Life Coach Carole Ann Rice gives great insights on leading a more satisfied life for expats and trailing spouses. There can be fewer, more...
How to manage a senior position and children – Vanessa Vallely
Find out from the interview with Vanessa Vallely how she does it - Vanessa is Head of Business Management at Aviva Investors 4 days/week, she...
Meal planning
We have been meal planning for the past few weeks. There are a couple of reasons; firstly our shopping habits tend to be quite erratic (3-4...
Why all working pregnant women should have maternity coaching
What's the impact of your pregnancy at work? And how to best prepare for it? You can do it all on your own, but why not consider maternity...
How to choose a nursery
As a working mum, finding good childcare is key, a day nursery is a good option and used by many. Let me give you the 4 key points on how to...