Business Advice & Ongoing Support as you need it!
Carer Mums in Business is a new community created especially for carer & SEND Mums who want to start or grow a business so that they can continue to earn, use their professional skills and maintain their sense of identity, even when things at home get a little chaotic.
Running your own business can be a lonely experience and caring for a child with additional needs can be isolating. But for so many carer & SEND Mums, starting a business is the only option that enables them to continue working while caring for their child. That's why we've created Carer Mums in Business.
A community of people who 'get it' and where you can be supported to build a business strategy that actually feels doable for you.
We're building something quite unique
Think... expert business advice & support, accountability, and mindset development, all with a community of people who actually get the real-life challenges of striving to earn enough to create the life you want, while juggling all the hurdles of raising a child/ children with complex or additional needs.
That's what we're creating in the background through our Business Learning Hub.
We prioritise practicality when it comes to your business strategy and we'll also be there with the tissues when you need softer support with all the plates you're spinning.
This will be launching soon but you can learn more and join the waitlist right now.
Come sit with us in our free community.
Truth be told.... starting a business is not the easy option. It's hard to switch off, it can be lonely and you have to make ALL the decisions.
But you don't have to do it on your own. Carer Mums in Business has a free online community offering peer support to help you continue to earn while juggling the school runs, the hospital appointments, the IEP meetings and everything else in between.
Braving the Wild: SEND Help is our dedicated podcast for working parent carers. Here how other carer & SEND Mums are balancing work with caring for their child.
The Carer Mums in Business blog is where you'll find lots of guides, tips & advice to support you in building a business around caring for your child with additional needs.
The Learning Hub is being created specifically for women just like you - women juggling caring for their child with ambitions to grow a business.
Want 1 on 1 support to grow your business?
Our founder Claire, who has been mentoring start up businesses for over 17 years, has limited availability for 1-2-1 strategy and business development mentoring sessions. Email claire@carersatwork.com and we'll have a chat.
Where carer Mums in Business Came From
When Claire O'Hanlon, founder of Carer Mums in Business, suddenly lost her mother in 2018, she found herself without a support system almost over night.
That's challenging enough for any working Mum, but Claire is also mum to 2 boys, one of whom lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy & Autism and one who has DCD (Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder).
There are no creches who provide 1-2-1 support for disabled children so childcare simply wasn't an option.
By Mid 2019, Claire was struggling to balance the 9-5, travelling to England from Northern Ireland every week for an appointment with her son who has Duchenne, an average of about 10 appointments per month and just being a regular every day mum.
Something had to give!
At the end of 2019, on the verge of breakdown, Claire's options were to leave work and sign on benefits, or leave work and go self employed.
With almost a decade and a half of experience supporting small businesses to start up & grow, under her belt, Claire chose the latter.
Even though Claire had been supporting other businesses as a qualified business advisor for most of her adult life, she found that it's a completely different ball game when you're on the other side of the table and running your own business.
She found that so much of the support and advice out there was simply unworkable for parent carers, and she grew her business her own way. But she really wanted to connect with more parent carers also embracing the juggle of caring for their children with needs with their ambitions to start & grow a business.
Fast forward to 2024, and Claire has brought her experience as an award winning business mentor, her training as an NLP Mindset Coach and her third sector leadership experience to create Carer Mums in Business - a unique community dedicated to providing peer to peer support, expert business advice and bitesized resources to fellow carer and SEND mums in business.
Carer Mums in Business is brand new right now but under Claire's leadership, the company will grow to support as many carer & SEND mums in business across the UK as it can.
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