The innovation: What was the biggest breakthrough for you with your business?
With the initial intention to roll out monthly Immersion Programs where women would gather in person, sit, share and connect with each other and feel seen and heard being blown out of the water with COVID-19, I reluctantly moved to online sessions. And like many businesses, it surprisingly delivered the same outcome – women feeling more confident, calm and better equipped for their motherhood journey in these unprecedented times.
It has certainly changed my perspective and opened up more possibilities for Reviving Motherhood to help women not just locally but nationally and even internationally.
Yin and Yang: How do you balance work and family?
What would it feel like to be at peace with this balance between work and family? It would be the holy grail wouldn’t it? Discovering how to ground myself and stay calm is one of my favourite ‘must-haves’ in my motherhood toolkit. Yet it’s hard, so hard! And definitely one that I am constantly working on again and again.
Over the years, what I’ve found is that awareness and peace come hand in hand. The more you become aware in the moment of madness that you need to find your peace, the easier it becomes to ground and calm yourself.
Because peace begins with me.
The drive: What challenges have you overcome?
Reviving Motherhood is a start-up so there are many daily challenges, but mostly it’s my inner critic that often tells me that it’s all too hard or turns the volume up on imposter syndrome and well, that can drain out any resilience pretty quickly.
I am often told by my mentors two things: firstly, to cut myself some slack – what a tough year it was to start a business and secondly, that I am not alone, that everyone who works on their on, in their own business feels this way at some point and even over and over again.
I guess growing up for many reasons I didn’t build the skills of self belief and now that conditioning is rearing its head as I try to build a business. Now on a daily basis, I need to back myself, encourage myself, remind myself of my ‘why’ and believe in myself. And that is why it is so important that I run my business from my purpose because nothing can shake that foundation.
For better or worse: What are the pros and cons of running your own business?
I haven’t really thought about pros and cons. There are a lot of challenges so I guess they are the cons, and the feeling I get when I read a participant’s review of the program and knowing I’ve made a REAL impact is the stand-out ‘pro’, but instead, I like to think of it this way… I was recently asked, “what is your vision for 2021?’
And I said I don’t have a bunch of targets I want to reach, which sounds ludicrous in the business world, but to me working daily on purpose, making an impact and feeling good while I do it are my core driving pillars – otherwise what is it all for?
Hopes and dreams: What next?
2020 was a slow start for Reviving Motherhood so the near future is bright and promising. There will always be beautiful pregnant mamas-to-be to connect with and help them through the most profound transformation. So 2021, we will launch a series of programs and ways to help nurture her through so she can be more confident, prepared and calm.
This is not about scores on the board; this is about changing the way we prepare a woman for motherhood so she is not left alone questioning herself and spiraling into the depths of confusion, doubt and self silencing or even worse, postnatal depression.
Women are left to figure this motherhood thing out all to themselves and way too late in the piece: when the baby is in her arms and she has no idea what had just happened to her and she has no village to turn to. We as a society and as a community have done this for way too long and the postnatal depression stats are alarmingly on the up.
There are no other support businesses working in the early intervention space for motherhood and I believe if we see more women understanding their transformation early, guided and supported, we can possibly reduce PND.
I also believe strongly in reducing warring amongst women and building a sense of tribalism where mothers are uniting rather than dividing. And through this as a result and where we hope to see the largest impact, is less self-silencing, less comparison, less mother’s guilt and more progression and a new inner centre that drives women. A centre of self belief, self compassion and a confidence that glows – no matter what her makeup, background or day job.
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