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The Pregnant Entrepreneur – for Mompreneurs everywhere

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The Pregnant Entrepreneur – for Mompreneurs everywhere

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The Pregnant Entrepreneur

I was offered a chance to review Darla DeMorrow’s book The Pregnant Entrepreneur: How to Handle Pregnancy’s Physical, Emotional and Financial Baby Bumps While Running Your Own Business this month. 

Darla is an award-winning Certified Professional Organizer® who owns HeartWork Organizing.  The website is (www.HeartWorkOrg.com)  and Darla is based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

I wish I’d been able to read The Pregnant Entrepreneur when I was pregnant

As a British transplant in the US, I’d made the decision to leave a business and start a new marriage.   I became pregnant almost immediately.  

Once the twin demands of pregnancy and learning a new culture overwhelmed me, I had to put any ideas of working in a business on the back burner.

Just reading this book would have been validating for me at the time.  We all need help learning to focus our creative forces on our futures!

This book is an encouragement to any parent who may be wondering how to surf the new reality of life and business with a small child.

Learn to work full-tilt, rather than full-time

Learning to work in short bursts can be enormously helpful when time is short.  Traditionally, this is now how most work days are structured.

A minimum 8-hour day is standard in Western business models.  That just won’t work if you are at home with little ones.

Darla’s response to this is: –

I want to have a life where I can be professional, vital, and fulfilled…so when people ask me if I work full-time, I came up with a different answer. 

I decided that full-time wasn’t as important as full-tilt.  My typical workday is between two and four hours long.

Learn to create your Lifestyle Business

Another really validating section of the book for me (although there are many more) is the section entitled ‘This is Your Lifestyle Business’…that is, a business “that has been built around you”.

Truthfully, the business that I co-ran in the UK was built around myself and my business partner, based on some principles that we strongly believed in and were passionate about. 

We focused on using and applying particular skills that we had both developed in the training industry.

I used to call it ‘creating my own job’.  I’d had a few jobs in my time, but creating my own was much more fun! 

Think about an area of focus

I used alternative health methods during my pregnancies and became more passionate about sharing these with other mothers. 

Ultimately becoming qualified as a reflexologist and energy worker led to my current path – giving Akashic Records Readings.

Your lifestyle business could be anything.  It could be an invention to help moms and babies through to a new way to co-op babysitting in your subdivision.

There are simple and excellent tools in The Pregnant Entrepreneur

Darla really shows her organizational chops in this book by including really helpful question lists and excellent supporting documentation.  There are forms, checklists, and exercises. 

I will continue to work through the exercises myself whilst growing my lifestyle business.   

I’m grateful that Darla DeMorrow fulfilled one of the needs of our growing mompreneur community by writing The Pregnant Entrepreneur.

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