Work & family
There are many benefits of running your own business when it comes to balancing work and family, although it comes with a unique set of challenges! Here fellow soloists provide advice and share their experiences of juggling work and parenthood. This section discusses issues such as what’s the best age for your kids to be when you start working at home, the challenges of sharing your home based business with your kids and if it all gets too much check out Karen Morris’s article about exploding the superhero myth or Jacqui Pryor’s advice for managing your business with a baby. Check out our step-by-step course to solo success.
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Wellbeing
The hardest Flying Solo article I’ve written
In 2014 I was the Acting Editor of Flying Solo during a maternity leave position. The editor who took my place was the dazzling, bright, smart, gorgeous, Kelly Exeter. Kel poured her heart into the role for two years before leaving to focus on other areas of her business.
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Productivity
The art of accepting help: Confessions from a juggler
The most memorable moment from Sophia Russell's first year as a freelance writer happened in the car and it taught her some valuable business lessons about accepting help.
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Attracting new business
Our entire course, now part of membership!
We’ve condensed all we’ve learned into our comprehensive step-by-step course and bundled it into Premium Membership, for just $99. Check out Flying Solo membership.
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Work & family
Why we all need a creative outlet
Malini Parker is a writer, painter and teacher, who discovered the power of creativity following a career in science. It helped her, saved her daughter's life and eased her husband's suffering. Hear her story.
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Work & family
Eighteen things I’ve learnt since turning 18
What better way to help my niece and nephew celebrate turning 18 than with some sharing of knowledge? Better that than some e-rubbish, where even if I tried I’d buy the wrong thing.
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Wellbeing
How to integrate family and business
For many soloists, being able to combine work and family is a big drawcard. But just how do you do it? Here’s my advice.
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Wellbeing
How slowing down created new opportunities
With demand for her jewellery growing just when her young family needed her most, Brooke McAlary knew something had to change. The process of slowing down opened a door to many new opportunities, including the birth of an exciting, new podcast network.
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Work & family
Will your clients give you maternity leave? Mine did
Are you a soloist who’s just about to have a baby? Worried about trying to keep your clients and a newborn happy? What if your clients gave you maternity leave like Zoe Wundenberg’s did?
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Work & family
Double-trouble: Can my business thrive while raising twins?
I am told the first year of raising twins is a crazy time. Adding twins to a family of four while running a business? That’s next level. Here’s what I’m doing to get on the front foot.
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Wellbeing
10 tips for running a business around family
When I started my last business, I was pregnant with my first child. I had no idea what it would be like running a business around family.
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Wellbeing
Till death (or work) do us part
Working with your spouse brings its own unique challenges. This article will help your relationship survive the entrepreneur journey.
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Work & family
What do you do when life and business collide?
Some recent additions to the family mean I now have less time, less sleep, and more to do. So where does that leave my business and the big goals I have for it?
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Wellbeing
My mission for 2016: Let go of ‘having it all’
Coffee in hand, goal planner on the desk, it was time to reflect on 2015 before I planned my business goals for the year ahead.
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Lifestyle business
Balancing parenthood and soloism: how to walk your own path
Many people juggle career and family, but combining parenthood and soloism can be especially isolating, time-constrained, and pressurised.
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Lifestyle business
A Day in the Life: Flying Solo’s Kelly Exeter
She's a mother of two, wife of one, writer, runner, business owner... the list, it goes on! She's also our Editor so a day in Kelly Exeter's life must be ridiculously busy right? Let's find out.
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Work & family
The guilt few men ever talk about
Ever felt like you were missing out on something? What if it was something you’d never get back?
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Work & family
Business lessons I learnt from Granma
My amazing grandmother practiced the principles of quality management as part of her everyday life. Here are four invaluable business lessons I learnt from her.
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Work & family
Working with in-laws. Should it be outlawed?
People think I’m crazy going into business with my in-laws, but there are many advantages.
