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Introducing

H A N N A H

Business Development Consultant & Mum of Two

Hannah is a 30 year old, single mum to two children (ages 5 and 9).

Business Development Consultant by day, life coach/motivational speaker by..other days? AND she also runs the social media for a church!

She loves being creative, helping people, doing crazy things with the kids, upcycling and playing a rather eclectic range of music most of the time.

Hannah has shared her experience as a working mum below… keep scrolling and check it out!

Working Mum Q&A

So Hannah, when did you go back to work?
 I went back self employed when my daughter was 2, and back full-time once they were both at school.

Why did you go back to work?
Financial need, personal need – time to start earning some proper money. As a single parent with no support it wasn’t feasible to work properly when they were smaller as the childcare was just crippling – it made no sense until they were both at school.

Do you use Childcare? If so, what do you use?
I now use a combination of breakfast club at school when required, holiday club, and babysitters. I don’t really have family around to help aside from my brothers.

Did you face any problems with returning to work?
Originally, when I just had my daughter, I was asked by an old boss to join her in helping a struggling newspaper generate more advertising sales (I’d previously worked for her magazine) – the hours meant the cost of childcare rendered me PAYING to be at work, I didn’t have the funds to be able to hold out long enough for my client base to grow and earn enough commission to stay.

How did you overcome these problems?
I had to leave.. and work on a plan B!

What is the best thing about returning to work?
Sense of purpose aside from being a caregiver, the social aspect, self development.

“Put reminders a week before, and then two days before anything super important in your mobile phone calendar – having more than one reminder ensures that mum-brain doesn’t get in the way!”

– Hannah, 30 (Essex)

Hannah’s Favourite Mum Hack:

Get ORGANISED. Plan for everything. Make sandwiches that can be frozen – cheese, meats, and take them out at 8am to pop into a lunchbox – they’re ready to eat by lunchtime. You can bulk make them on a Sunday and fill a freezer drawer. Job done!

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