Myleene Klass has teamed up with Yahoo! Lifestyle to talk tips, tricks and the truth behind parenting myths. Following on from her Sunday Times best selling book ‘My Bump And Me’, Myleene has created Bumps, Babies & Beyond, a 48-part series of short videos that bring together the views and experiences of experts and mums.

Myleene invited Tracey Wall, Director of Empowering Mums, to feature as an expert in confidence coaching in two of her videos that will air on Yahoo! Lifestyle. Tracey shares her insight into two major mum-related challenges and provides both her professional advice and...

The most recent edition of Empower, our monthly newsletter, focused on the benefits of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and creating a long-term plan for wellbeing. Many mums neglect their own physical and mental needs and focus instead on taking care of the rest of the family. What mums must realise is that they must look after themselves in order to look after others.   

 The role of mum is such a complex one! We try our utmost to ensure the rest of our family is healthy, fit, well and happy, yet we take little time to reflect on our own situation. This is such a shame and mostly comes down ...

As a budding entrepreneur, allowing self-doubt to consume you could be catastrophic for your future success. Theoretically entrepreneurs exude self-confidence and have an absolute belief in what they set out to achieve. In reality, mumpreneurs face an inordinate about of challenges that can test self-belief, and the pressure only rises once doubt sets in.

Of course life for many mumpreneurs differs greatly from those cash- and time-rich entrepreneurs. When you consider failure, not only is your money and reputation at stake, the future you had in mind for your family could also be threatened....

Are you procrastinating about setting up your own business or have you been deferring the growth of an existing venture? Do you have tangible reasons for this lack of action or do you simply fear failure and the unknown?

Fear can be an all-consuming emotion that causes inactivity and results in unfulfilled dreams and aspirations. Allowing fear to control your decisions will damage your self-esteem and create a void where there was once potential.

Everyone, even the most successful entrepreneurs, fear failure. However, success is only achieved by those individuals who know how to manage their...

Throughout the Empowering Mums website, our monthly e-newsletter and our blog articles, we have discussed the many benefits of becoming a mumpreneur. The main benefit is about fulfilling your potential, your entrepreneurial spirit and your lust for life: attaining goals that give you a significant boost in self-esteem. A plus point is the greater flexibility it offers you, enabling you to regain financial independence by generating your own income.

However, you may be reading this thinking, “Can I really do this?” Do you have the business ideas, acumen and confidence to attain your ultimate g...

Life as a busy mum is certainly a balancing act! When work is added to the other mum-related roles and responsibilities, life can seem pretty hectic. In our latest edition of Empower, we shared some tips to help you achieve a better work/life balance. One of those tips related to eliminating time wasters: identifying the unnecessary moments of your day that drain you of time. With some careful planning and brushing up your time management skills, you could claim back some much needed time! Here are some great tips to help…

Mum: “You are special”

Child: “Why?”

Mum: “Because You’re You!”

How many times have you had this conversation with your child? Other favourite mum/child phrases are:

“I love you just the way you are.”

“Just be yourself and you’ll be fine.”

“Be yourself: you can do this!”

Mums seem to be desperate for their children to celebrate who they are and their special qualities. So why can’t you think this way about yourself?

Women tend to struggle with an idealised form of perfection, which in turn makes it difficult to accept who they really are. Here is a fact: no one is perfect. Everyone in ...

This month we have discussed ways to overcome Working Mum Guilt but we often feel guilty for failing to live up to the ridiculous standards we set ourselves. All mums have an idealised concept of perfection, but with kids and a business thrown in, how fair is it to apply these pressures to our lives?

Perfection does not equal happiness

If you are striving to achieve the perfect life it is likely you are stressed, uptight and very unhappy! Why not stop to consider your true values, the goals you want to achieve and how you would prefer to spend your time?

No-one is perfect

You might think y...

Having little self-confidence can significantly impact your life by causing isolation and unfulfilled ambition. We work with mums to help them overcome issues relating to low self-esteem so they can become happy, confident women. Such coaching sessions adopt a step-by-step approach taken at the mum’s own pace so she can be sure she is putting in place realistic ways to live confidently.

If you were considering contacting us about a coaching programme to help increase your self-confidence, we would love to hear from you. In the meantime we would like to share some tips that may help you to b...

Do you feel that no matter how hard you try you constantly face challenges that have to be overcome so you can get on with maintaining a happy home and managing a successful business? Have you ever assessed various experiences and wondered whether the outcome could have been better, had you chosen a different response?

It is all too easy to find a blame for why things go wrong, take longer to achieve or are just downright frustrating. Have you ever considered your mood or attitude to be at fault? If things are going wrong or you are faced with a problem, do you deal with it with anger and f...