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We turned the tables of Hannah Martin co-founder of Talented Ladies Club. Hannah is one of the largest contributors to our event and has supported us and been involved from the very start. We thought it would be nice for you to get to know her a little better so we asked her a few questions.

From my experience of launching a business whilst on maternity leave, working from home for three years now and Lucy 120 miles away. We use technology and a lot of free or cheap applications to make life easier. So here are our top ten tech apps, some you will know of but there may be some new gems in there for you to look into.

Building a successful startup is hard work – especially when you also have a young family to look after. Having the original business idea can be the easy part. Setting up and running a business to sell this idea is where things get more difficult. Find out what mumpreneurs have to say abotu Xero.

How do you develop career resilience? Some advice from exhibitor and workshop host Talent & Career

I am so pleased to announce I (Lindsey) am expecting my second baby! This is going to bring a whole host of new challenges as a mum and business owner. Wish me luck and follow my journey.

We love to take part and keep on top of Hashtag hours when we can. They are a great way to promote your own business but also see who else is out there and connect with other businesses and people in your field. This is a list of UK regional and business hashtag hours we know of.

The whole reason the Mums Enterprise Roadshow exists is becuase I myself launched a business instead of returning to work after my maternity leave ended in June 2014. On Saturday 12th November 2016 I organised my last client event as I've decided to close that business to focus on organising these amazing events.

Helen is our number one fan and is a star in our videos. Helen described attending our event as 'life changing' how amazing is that. Here she tells us about starting her journey of starting to plan her business venture and how she intends to manage it around her family.

We put our questions to 2016 visitor Anushka Patel who is currently on maternity leave at the moment and has just started a new network marketing business venture.

The first in a series of blogs from our 2016 attendees. Yvette shares her story with us and blimey not only is she an amazing mum who helps others in business but she also suffers from a painful, hidden illness. Take our hats of to you - high five. Read more about Yvette, her challenges and top tips here.

It is 50 days (at time of writing this) since our very first Mums Enterprise Roadshow which was 15 months in the making. This blog is all about the reality of working so hard on something you love, those emotions and why you should never, ever lose that belief in yourself.

So you’ve maybe decided that you want to recruit an apprentice but where do you start? For a small business, untangling the apprentice pathway can be rather daunting. So are some thing syou need be aware of and my top tips to follow for recruiting and retaining a successful apprentice.

There are many challenges I now face in order to keep my businesses and dreams alive and I think this is the toughest road I have ever faced. That is why the VOOM video I watched as part of Andrew Wilsons keynote at the recent Synaxon Conference (a Little Fish client event I managed) had such a huge impact on me.....

We have come a million miles from when I went to Lucy with the idea of the events and needed her help to brand them. I had a very strong vision in my mind,. Here I explain that vision, what I set out to achieve but also the struggles along the way. It has by no means been easy, but I have loved every minute of it.

Starting your own business is very exciting, but no matter how talented, smart and determined you are, it can also feel pretty scary. Even if your heart dreams of becoming a successful business owner, that little voice in your head could be saying something like: What if I'm not good enough?.... What if I fail?....

We have a huge insight as to their movements and therefore the job vacancies within the industry. So, back in 2011 we decided to help journalist to find new roles by advertising those vacancies!

I started working with a Coach just over a year ago, whilst I was working as an NHS Manager in a Prison, feeling pretty burnout and disillusioned with my working life. With the support of my Coach I was able to think about how to use my skills differently.

I work with clients and help them reach decisions about their career, encouraging the recognition of talents and matching these to different roles and ways of working. It doesn't feel like ‘work’ and no two career development meetings ever evolve in the same way.

My life almost 7 yrs on is unrecognisable. I work with many mums who are looking to gain back their identity, build a financial wall around them and their children and create a legacy. Nothing is more rewarding than doing that!

There are lots of reasons why we are exhibiting at the Mums Enterprise Roadshow and we are excited to share more about who we are and what we have to offer ambitious mums.

We put our questions to Michael Ruffles, he is our main contact at Virgin StartUp and will be there at both events and looking forward to hearing all about your business ideas. Read more about Virgin and Mike here.

We put our five questions to MAF founder Iain Morrison, find out more about Iain, how his journey started and how they can help ambitious mums.

We asked 5 questions to each member of our team, read and find out more about our ambitious mum and Virtual Assistant Beth....

I caught the event 'bug' 16 years ago when I chose to become an apprentice instead of going to college or university. That experience was the very best I could have hoped and it will last me a lifetime, I worked for an events company and the rest they say is history.

We put our six questions to Sheryl Jefferson, the lady and who is working her magic on our social media strategy. So you can get to know her a little better.

On November 7th 2015, I wrote a poem about how I was feeling as motherhood loomed. Little did I know, as I sent the file across to Lindsey, motherhood was even closer than I imagined. Baby wasn't due to arrive until November 19th but just 24 hours after sending the poem, I was holding a tiny daughter in my arms.

Every business idea comes from something, a spark of an idea in an instant or after years and years of something niggling away. These are the five things I did, in order before I launched Little Fish Event Management Ltd and now Mums Enterprise. You never know it just may help you with your own mission to the moon.

Little Fish Event Management was set up in June 2014 on a shoestring with just my last months maternity wage. I knew I needed to set the business up like a pro, put systems and processes in place to save time and money down the line. So here are 10 mostly free technology apps which help us work professionally and anywhere at anytime.

I caught the'event bug' as a 16 year old, 16 years ago (booo) coming out of school I didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew it wasn't going to university that was for sure, so an apprenticeship was the ideal solution for me. And the rest they say is history, this is a blog about what I love most about organising events.

Here I show you the original creative brief I supplied Lucy so she could design all the branding elements for the Mums Enterprise events. Lucy is a very good friend and freelance graphic designer, now my Little Fish Event Management business partner. See how it all began and why what she sent me brought happy tears to my eye.

I have shared how I became to start my own business but this post I just tell the story of how the idea for Mums Enterprise came around and what made me just go for it, commit and actually go for it.

Here I tell the story about how I first started my event management company and why. Without launching Little Fish Event Management the Mums Enterprise Roadshow wouldn't exist, so it's all part of our tale.

My first blog for Mums Enterprise about how I became business partner in Little Fish Event Management and creative director of the Mums Enterprise Roadshow. That all actually sounds very fancy, so really it's about how I got involved to work on such an awesome project and right from my home in Staffordshire, 150 miles away from founder Lindsey.