Meet Mumpreneur & Motivating Mum, Alli Price

Hi, I'm Alli and I'm the founder of Motivating Mum, a business offering support and advice for mums in business.

I first started working with mums as a coach, launching my business four years ago, at the same time as giving birth to my first daughter, Amelie.  Stuck at home for a lot of the time either feeding and changing nappies or working on the computer I quickly realised how isolating it was to work from home and decided to host a networking lunch on the hunch there were other mums like me.  There were - 40 or so of them - and the Businessmums' Networking Lunch was born!  

Four years on and over 700 mums have been to a Businessmums' Lunch in the UK to hear mumpreneurs from Organix, Cath Kidston and Bravissimo (to name a few) speak.  However, I realised that as inspiring as these women were there was a need for the opportunity to turn theory into practice. Brainstorm in a Teacup was introduced; a chance for mums in business to not only work on their business, but to offer their skills and experience to help others at the same time.

Following emails from Scotland, Wales and even from Australia I decided I needed to launch Motivating Mum nationally and bring support and advice to mums in business across the UK.  January 2010, following a huge website overhaul and 7 months pregnant, Motivating Mum Mark II was unveiled.  The new website included articles and features, an online forum and phone mentoring with established and successful mums.  For just £40 mums got tips and advice from the likes of Rachel Elnaugh of Dragon's Den and Antonia Chitty of ACPR.  In addition, I took on associates in Chiswick, Kingston, Wimbledon, Crystal Palace and Blackheath to run Motivating Mum events.  

In April 2010 I gave birth to Freya and, being a sole trader with no funds for staff, was back brainstorming ideas for the business the next day in Hospital.  Breast feeding whilst running workshops and networking followed a few weeks later!  Then, not content with simply running a business and raising two kids we relocated back to my home town of Melbourne later that year and nearly sent myself grey in the process.  It was worth the trip and the box of hair dye though as I'm ecstatic to be back. 

And that's where I'm at right now.  Writing this from my new desk in my new house in my old country with a new business.  And my aims? To create a business just like the one I had in the UK as when I'm helping mums in business I'm happiest.  But I guess you'll have to wait and see how I get on with that one...

Cheers! Alli