Saturday, September 4, 2010

title pic Mom Guilt: It’s a Heartbreaker

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 10, 2010

As moms, there probably is nothing more draining, sad, and unavoidable than ‘Mom Guilt’. Mom guilt can come on strong and without warning, making your judgements seem askew. Regardless if your children are young or old, the thought that they need you and you are not there is a killer.
I can tell you now – [...]

title pic Is Working At Home What It’s Cracked Up to Be?

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 8, 2010

Let me first start by saying that since my work-at-home business is writing – a thinking job – I may me a bit more biased about how much ‘fun’ working at home is sometimes. When I have full days to get the job done, my brain isn’t always on the same page as the rest [...]

title pic Can You Handle It?

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 6, 2010

Being an entrepreneur that chases their dream and makes concrete their vision is like nothing else in this world – if you have right mentality. Entrepreneurship takes a certain kind of person. You have to be willing to be flexible, confident, aggressive, social, hard-working, able to handle rejection, revel in the thrill of victory, and… [...]

title pic How To Do It: Part Four – Claim Your Space

Posted by Tisha Tolar on April 20, 2010

There are many difficult aspects of working from home but few compare to the difficulties of claiming a work space as your own – especially if you are a mom. If you decide to work from home, you probably already have a work area in mind – a spare bedroom, the attic, the basement – [...]

title pic How to Do It: Part One – Motivation

Posted by Tisha Tolar on April 12, 2010

After the seemingly monumental task of pre-planning the entire business process before you even open the door for business, you’ve got to sit back and realize you’ve only just begun. After all of the legwork has been completed, you may just be plum tuckered out from the work. If your enthusiasm is flailing, now is [...]

title pic Business Spotlight: Kimberly Davis and Hugga-Bébé

Posted by Tisha Tolar on October 14, 2009

Website:
http://www.myhuggabebe.com/
Business Description:
Kimberly Davis has created one of those incredible products that make moms slap themselves in the head and say ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ The Hugga-Bébé  website describes the Hugga-Bébé product as “a patent-pending, innovative product that allows children 4-months to toddler years to experience comfort and security while playing in activity [...]

title pic Balance House Work With Work At Home

Posted by JuanitaRitter on October 13, 2009

Working from home requires that a person stay focused and have good time management skills.  It’s natural to think that once you’re working from home, everything will magically run smoothly because you are in the  home all of the time. But it quickly becomes obvious that unless you are sticking to a schedule, you will [...]

title pic Strengthening the Family Bond

Posted by Tisha Tolar on September 21, 2009

One thing us EMB’s know is that working for yourself takes up a lot of your time and energy. This is especially true during the first years of establishing a business of your own. Spending quality time with your spouse is difficult enough  – add kids to the mix and you are creating a recipe [...]

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 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 [...]