HerBusiness member Eleni Mitakos was featured in a recent edition of The Sunday Telegraph in an article entitled, The Mumpreneur Myth. The article explores how spending more time with your kids and being your own boss is the dream – but a far cry from reality.
The image of a mum working from home is idyllic: she has the laptop on one knee and the baby on the other while she watches the cash roll in. Delve a little deeper, though, and the reality of being a mumpreneur is a little different.
“The best way I can explain being a work-from-home mum is that I feel like a fridge,” says Eleni Mitakos. “I constantly have a low buzz – also known as non-stop anxiety – and people are always emptying me out, but no one seems to go to the shop to refill me.”
Read the full article in the Sunday Telegraph here. More: View Eleni’s HerBusiness member profile.
