Monday, March 15, 2010

title pic Financial Survival Ideas for Work at Home Moms

Posted by Debbie Dragon on March 13, 2010

The current economic climate is making it increasingly difficult to support a young family. However, there are a number of ways for Moms to gain that vital, extra income, by working from home, and still taking care of the family. Here are just a few ideas to help increase the bank balance. They won’t make you a millionaire, but they are great methods to earn some much needed extra cash.

title pic Why I Watch ‘The Office’

Posted by Tisha Tolar on October 23, 2009

For the last however many years, I make certain that each Thursday night I sit down and watch The Office. It is really the only show on television that I watch consistently. Not only is the show really funny, completely ridiculous, and overall genius – I think I watch it mostly because it is TRUE.
Since [...]

title pic MOM BIZ SPOTLIGHT: MELISSA SULLIVAN

Posted by Tisha Tolar on June 1, 2009

Melissa’s Websites:
Melissa Sullivan Stampin’ Up!
Melissa Sullivan Usborne Books
Melissa Sullivan Gold Canyon Candles
Melissa Sullivan, who lives with her husband Sean and their two young children, first became an entrepreneur in August of 2004 before she even became a mom. As a life-long crafter, she was usually involved with creative projects to fulfill her [...]

title pic One of These Things is Not Like the Other: The Entrepreneurial Mind

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 18, 2009

Silicon Valley Blogger over at The Digerati Life, has posted an AMAZING post on the mind of the entrepreneur. This is one of my most favorite topics – one that endlessly fascinates me.
I have always realized I do not think like many of the people I know, even in childhood. It used to bother me [...]

title pic How I Plan to Work During the Summer…At Home…With the Kid

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 13, 2009

Last year around this time, I was very anxious about how my first summer working from home and managing a kid was going to work out. I wrote about it on our former website and you can find the post here. Funny enough, now it is such a blur, I can hardly believe it was [...]

title pic You Must Be Able to Say “No”

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 8, 2009

Wow! The May Mom Giveaway has really been taking off! If you haven’t turned in your name yet – get to it. Of course we are all busy. Some of us more busy due to our own lack of abilities to say no. (But still – none of that is an acceptable reason to not [...]

title pic SHOUT OUT: The Work At Home Woman

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 4, 2009

Special thanks to Holly over at The Work At Home Woman for the giveaway plug.
Holly’s site is very complimentary to Empowering Mom Blog, as they reaffirm what we have been telling you forever!! There is work out there for entrepreneurs who want to work from home and establish an amazing career all for yourself.
The Work [...]

title pic We’re Working On It…Let’s Hear from You

Posted by Tisha Tolar on April 15, 2009

Hello public! We at Empowering Mom have been working our tails off on a re-relaunch of the Empowering Mom Blog. We’ve got some great up-and-coming ideas, including a giveaway for Mother’s Day. It’s going to be GRRRREEEAAATTTTT! We promise.
We hope you all in internet land had a great Easter weekend and enjoyed some downtime. We [...]

title pic Writing for Money – Without Being Published

Posted by Debbie Dragon on March 28, 2009

I used to hate it when someone would ask me “What do you do for a living?” because I never knew quite how to answer the question. Do I say I’m a stay-at-home mom of two boys? Do I say I’m a writer? Both are correct, but telling people you are a writer for a [...]

title pic Getting Bored With Yourself?

Posted by Tisha Tolar on March 13, 2009

I hate to even admit this out loud and deal with a million eye rolls, but sometimes I get bored stupid working