183 - Don’t Let One Bad Day Turn Into Two: Resetting Momentum in Your Business
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
Release Date: 03/17/2026
Episode 186 - How to Build a Profitable Business in School Hours or Less Without Sacrificing Your Life
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
If you’re a mum in business trying to build a profitable business in school hours or less, this episode is for you. I’m talking about the difference between building a business that fits your life and squeezing your life around a business that keeps taking more and more of your time, energy, and headspace. We’ll look at how to notice where your business is creeping into everything, why you always feel behind, and how to decide what kind of work-life balance or work-life blend you actually want. I’m also sharing why the real shift is not asking “how do I find more time?” but asking...
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185 - All or Nothing Thinking is Killing Your Business (Especially as a mum)
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
All-or-nothing thinking is one of the biggest reasons your business feels harder than it needs to. Especially when you’re trying to build a business around nap times, school hours, and real life. In this episode, I’m breaking down what all-or-nothing thinking actually looks like in your business—and how it’s quietly keeping you stuck, overwhelmed, and feeling behind. Because it’s not just about mindset… It shows up in how you: say yes to work you don’t have time for avoid marketing unless it’s perfect feel like you need big chunks of time to make progress struggle to balance...
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184 - Building a business with kids -The reality no-one talks about
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
If you’re trying to build a business around nap times, school hours, or limited childcare… this episode is for you. Yesterday, I had to message a paying client and tell her I’d be late to our call — because my baby wouldn’t go to sleep. And for a moment, I felt unprofessional. Like I should have it all figured out by now. But here’s the truth no one talks about… Building a business as a mum is different. In this episode, I’m breaking down: What it really looks like to run a business with young children Why “perfect professionalism” is an outdated standard for mums and why...
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183 - Don’t Let One Bad Day Turn Into Two: Resetting Momentum in Your Business
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
Have you ever had one of those days in your business where you just… don’t feel it? The motivation isn’t there. Your productivity drops. Messages pile up. Your engagement slows down. In this episode of School Hours or Less, I’m sharing one of the most important business habits I’ve learned as a coach helping mums in business grow profitable businesses while working school hours only. Because the problem isn’t having an off day. The real problem is when one low-productivity day turns into two… then a week… then a month of lost momentum. In this episode I talk about: • Why ups...
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182 - I Dropped the Ball (Here’s What to Do When You Mess Up in Business)
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
Ever dropped the ball as a business owner and spiralled into guilt, shame or self-blame? In this honest episode, I’m sharing the story of how I forgot to renew my passport in time — and how that one mistake could have cost us our family holiday. But this isn’t really about passports. It’s about what happens when you’re an ambitious mum in business, juggling growth, family life, admin, deadlines and everything in between — and something slips. Because it will. In this episode, we cover: How to handle mistakes in business without destroying your confidence, and instead switch into...
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181 - BTS (Part 2): How I found time for the gym without losing business hours (time strategy for mums in business)
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
If you’re a mum in business struggling with time management, productivity, and fitting everything into limited work hours, this behind-the-scenes episode is for you. In this honest episode, I’m sharing the real moment I realised I was avoiding going to the gym — not because I didn’t want to get fit, but because I felt guilty taking time away from growing my business. As a business-owning mum working in school hours only, every hour matters. So instead of choosing between my health and my business, I figured out how to make my gym time support both. Inside this episode, I share: • How...
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180 - Behind-the-scenes (Part 1): Stop Hoping For Time - Start Guaranteeing it
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
This is the first episode in my behind-the-scenes series, where I’m sharing what it really looks like for me to build multiple businesses as a mum with very limited childcare. I created this series because so much of the “behind the scenes” we see online is from people with teams, established audiences, and years of momentum. That’s not my reality. I’m rebuilding my coaching business from the ground up, growing a networking community, launching a brand-new franchise, and starting a new community business — all while raising a nearly two-year-old. This is the real version. The...
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179 - Building a Six Figure Business With Kids Through Self-Awareness w/ Anna Bateman
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
Ever wonder how some mums actually manage to build a six figure business with kids, prioritize their mental health, and somehow not completely fall apart in the process? This week I'm chatting with Anna Bateman, founder of Halcyon Education, who's been consistently hitting six figures for four years whilst raising two boys. She shares what it actually took: prioritizing exercise even when she hated it, choosing part time work to protect her sanity, and developing the self awareness that's kept her from burning out. If you've been wondering whether it's possible to build something...
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178 - How She Built a Six Figure Business After Bedtime with Sam Hoyle
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
Ever wonder how some mums actually manage to build a six figure business whilst juggling a full-time job, kids, and life, without completely burning out? This week I'm chatting with Sam Hoyle, founder of Harmony Accounting, who did exactly that. She shares honestly what it took, the late nights after bedtime, the focused use of every spare moment, and the systems that kept her sane whilst running a business while working full time. We talk about practical time management for business owners: doing the hard tasks first, using Asana as your external brain, and why finishing...
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177 - How Time Management Coaching Changed Everything for Maev
School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family Life
info_outlineHave you ever had one of those days in your business where you just… don’t feel it?
The motivation isn’t there.
Your productivity drops.
Messages pile up.
Your engagement slows down.
In this episode of School Hours or Less, I’m sharing one of the most important business habits I’ve learned as a coach helping mums in business grow profitable businesses while working school hours only.
Because the problem isn’t having an off day.
The real problem is when one low-productivity day turns into two… then a week… then a month of lost momentum.
In this episode I talk about:
• Why ups and downs in motivation are completely normal when running a business
• How entrepreneurs accidentally stall their business growth after one “bad day”
• The simple reset strategy I use to get back into momentum quickly
• How to rebuild productivity and focus without overworking or burning out
• Why small actions create faster business growth than waiting for motivation
If you’re a mum in business trying to grow your income, increase productivity, and build a successful business in school hours, this episode will help you reset quickly and get back into action.
Because building a profitable business isn’t about showing up perfectly every day.
It’s about resetting fast and keeping momentum moving forward.