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Coaching Showcase | Learn How Mompreneur Coaches Can Help Your Business

Join Vend Raleigh Mompreneur Coaches and learn how they can help you and your business! Do you feel like a coach could help you, but you’re not sure how? Have you ever wanted to seek inside the world of what coaches actually do, and how they could help? We’ve got 3 unique perspectives from mompreneur coaches, Susan Hand, Noa Ronen …

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What I Learned from Hiring a Business Coach

I started 2014 so optimistically, declaring resolutions and making goals for changes in my photography business that I hoped would bring growth.  Early 2014 brought about some tough times personally, which drew me away from my business, and the growth and goals.  In the middle of the year, I realized I’d hardly had any sessions or gained any new clients, …

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When the world says you can’t, shout “Yes, I can!”

Here we are in the last part of 2014, which has gotten me thinking. At the end of every year, we tend to reflect on the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly moments of the previous 12 months. We make resolutions and often pick a “power word” for the upcoming year, and for the first six weeks or …

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Are you juggling or balancing? Find “Success from Within”!

The Illuminate Planning Committee is delighted to introduce this year’s Illuminate Conference Keynote Speaker Mary Michele from Style FinderID.  Michele will not only answer these questions but she’ll also share her insider secrets about finding that  “Success from Within.”  Tweet this: Get insider secrets to finding that “success from within!” This is the click to tweet link!  Just in case! Calling all Mompreneurs …

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Vend Gets Personal

While Vend Raleigh is a professional group, Vend gets personal.  It’s personal to me and that’s really how it started, connecting the inspirational women in my life, the women I meet through business. Who knew that two years into Vend I’d be doing international mission work with women I meet right here. This April, I’m traveling with several Vend Raleigh …

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January Is GO Month!

Have trouble sticking to those New Year’s resolutions to become better organized? You are not alone. Although just about everyone seems to understand the benefits of being organized, it’s not always easy to figure out just where to start. Thankfully, January is GO Month!  What is GO Month? GO stands for “Get Organized”  Here are Five Easy Tips to Get …

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The SuperMoms’ Guide to Planning for the Holidays

Have you noticed the holiday merchandise creep? Even before all of the Halloween candy was put out on the shelves, festive snowmen and reindeer were stealthily sneaking around the corner. It’s enough to strike fear in the most seasoned of SuperMom hearts, because for many of us, the word “holidays” is synonymous with the word “stress.” We can all use …

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How I Don’t Do It All. And Africa.

I’m asked all the time, “How do you do it all?”  Those close to me know my secret.  I don’t do it all.  I have learned the art of saying no, and I think I can give you some solid examples of how I do that.  I’m headed to Uganda, Africa for some short term mission work with Watoto Church.  …

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How to Make Summer Work Work

Remember being a kid and the start of summer vacation? It meant FREEDOM, ice cream, skinned knees in the driveway, bug bites, late nights playing outside, and days at the pool. For about 2 weeks. Then it meant boredom and screaming “MOOOOOM what can I do NOW!?” Well, guess what? Now I am Mom. And now summer vacation is here …

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Strategies for Balancing Life at Home

Wow, I can’t believe we are halfway through our year-long SuperMoms Anonymous series! I hope everyone has found at least one or two tips that you have put to good use in your own struggle for work/life balance. This month is all about getting more control over your home life. As a busy mom and entrepreneur, I get asked all …