Business and Balance for Busy Moms
What is a Small Scale Business? A small scale business employs only a few people (or one!), it makes a small profit and is generally privately owned. It can be a sole proprietorship, corporation or partnership, but usually it is not focused on growing super fast or super huge. This kind of business is perfect for the stay at home mom or wife who wants to bring in some money
Why budgeting has always failed me I’ve set up so many budget worksheets. I’ve used apps, paper, spreadsheets, but they all had one thing in common…I failed to stay on track. Most of them were created and immediately forgotten. The few I tried to stick with were so confusing to use I gave up in frustration. Part of my problem has always been that my husband and I haven’t been
Tell me a little about yourself and your family. I’m Purusha Rivera, a mother to 13 year old girl/boy twins and a rambunctious 3 year old. My husband and I juggle the kids and our business, My Baby’s Heartbeat Bear, while trying to stay sane and enjoy this amazing journey. It’s not always easy, but it’s always worth it! How did you get started with building an online store? I
Unique Small Business Ideas I belong to a ton of Facebook Groups for women business owners. I love to see the creative small scale business ideas that these women come up with. It is so inspiring to see the cool and unique small businesses that come out of people’s ideas. I had the idea of sharing some of these unique business ideas with all of you. All of these women
Tell me a bit about yourself and your family. Is it true you are a real life rocket scientist? Yes! I have two degrees in Aerospace Engineering, one of which is from MIT. I worked as a spacecraft systems architect for 10 years designing and flying all different kinds of spacecraft. These days, though, I’m an entrepreneurship coach, speaker, and vision architect. I take the same structured principles and approaches
Tell me a little bit about yourself and your family. I’m a mom of 4, ages 7 years and younger. I started a business over 6 years ago to help my daughter with an itchy skin condition called eczema. What started off as a hobby turned into a growing business that’s now global. My littles have been a part of this entrepreneurial journey and are able to see business through
How I am changing my thinking… When I first started a blog last June I thought it would be pretty easy to start making a few hundred dollars a month. I figured a few months of writing content and I would be getting enough visitors to make one or two hundred anyway. Fast forward nine months and I have no income for my blog again, for the third month in
Tell me a little bit about yourself and your family I’m an artisan and mompreneur originally from Massachusetts. I now live in Georgia with my husband, Lee and our beautiful babies, Kalila and August. How did you get started with Amenta’s Key? Amenta’s Key was more of a hobby for us when we got started. It was a stress relief tool we had implemented. There was a lot of things
Vision Boards and Small Business Goals Does anyone else remember when Oprah got in to the Law of Attraction? I have this memory of being a teenager and watching Oprah interview the women who wrote The Secret and having this totally skeptical reaction. Like “What the heck is she talking about???” Fast forward a few years and I found myself creating a Vision Board to help me focus on my
Tell me a little bit about yourself and your family As life long entrepreneurs, we’ve had great successes and dismal failure. We’ve gone from “riches” to “rags” and back again. My husband, Rob, and I have three sons in total. Two are grown and experiencing their own journeys while our 9-year-old, Boegley, travels with us. For the next 18 months or so, we’re traveling full-time as we work and live
