About Us - The Mumpreneurs Networking Club

	Sara is a co-founder of the Mumpreneurs Networking Club and publisher of Mums Inc magazine. She has three children, two boys and a baby girl. She is conversant with the language of Star Wars and has won awards for umpiring sword fights! Her favourite things in life are lazy afternoons, long holidays and me time. She plans to start these in about 17 years time! She can be found at her computer, attending business meetings or dishing up fish fingers in her kitchen and looks forward to The Mumpreneuring events.
	Nicky is a co –founder of The Mumpreneurs Networking Club and the Director of Mums in Biz which runs business start up seminars that focus on issues that affect busy mums. The seminars provide practical answers and inspiration, all with the ultimate aim of establishing a business that you can enjoy in tandem with motherhood. She can be found dancing to Abba, pottering/hidding in her very small vegetable patch, is partial to trashy TV and baileys and likes to dream up ways to buy a sky blue VW camper van!
	Debbie is the Burgesss Hill & Crawley Area Manager, owner of Independent Property Inspections, school volunteer, mum of two and wife of one! She is passionate about her work with residential property and networking but adores laughter, trips to the theatre (husband - take note!), dry sunny days and walks with the family. There are 24 hours in every day and she is well known for trying to squeeze in an extra 30 minutes - well if you want something done ask a busy person!
	Claire is the Worthing area manager. Claire has been a Club member for a year and has decided to step up and take on the challenge of working closely with MNC Head Office! Claire set up Straightforward Coaching eight years ago and since then she's been helping people do the things they want to do (and having a ball doing it!) with 1-2-1 coaching, workshops, public speaking and article writing. 'I've really enjoyed meeting such a friendly, inspiring, supportive and knowledgable bunch of people at Mumpreneurs meetings since joining this year and I'm thrilled to be taking over as manager for the Worthing area. I'm proud to be at the helm as we take our networking, and our businesses, from strength to strength in 2012!'
	Louise is the co-manager of the Teddington area, and runs her own image consultancy business, ImageHappy. Prior to setting it up 3 years ago, she spent 15 years managing maternity services and so has got a fairly good idea of what women need, and her business aim is to make women feel better about themselves both inside and out. Louise is also a mum to 2 school age boys (she has also got a fairly good idea of what small boys like - food and wooden sticks!). In her spare time she would like to be found surfing netaporter.com whilst sipping cappuccino - in reality she is usually picking up Star Wars Lego pieces from the floor and confiscating DSis from her sons! She is really excited about bringing Mumpreneurs to Teddington which is a hotbed of savvy business mums!
	Heidi is the co-manager of the Teddington area. She loves connecting people, supporting local businesses and other Mumpreneurs! She feels that the Mumpreneur Networking Club is an amazing example of the positive energy women create when they come together to support each other and is so pleased to be involved with the Teddington chapter. Heidi launched her Life Coaching business, The Difference Life Coaching Ltd in June of 2010. She is also working on an idea for a chilled drinks business, Minted Refreshments, and recently co-founded a new group coaching business in partnership with her sister's, called Ready The Jets. She is mother to Madison, Cole and Donovan and is married to Jim, whose support, patience and sense of humour makes it all possible! In the New Year the family are embarking on a 2 year relocation to Beijing and Heidi is looking forward to using the power of the virtual world to assist Louise is managing the Teddington chapter, staying in touch with her UK network and looking for an opportunity to bring the Mumpreneur Networking Club to China, and hoping to learn some Mandarin on the way!
	Dawn is the Manager of the Chichester branch and has a varied business portfolio. Her main job is working as a Sales Coach which allows her to work 1-2-1 with solopreneurs who are looking to improve their sales techniques and procedures in order to boost their business. Dawn has a great deal of empathy for her fellow Mumpreneurs and comes with over 20 years sales experience and a vast contact list. Having a busy family life with a husband, two teenage children, two black Labradors, twelve fish and lots of water snails, Dawn is a firm believer in making time for everything and squeezing in as much as you can into every day. Dawn also runs her own holiday cottage business, has a passion for all things vintage and at weekends can be found singing in a local covers band The Chain.
	Jennifer is the Area Manager for Shoreham and a Qualified Accountant turned Mumpreneur! After planning many events for her local CMA Chapter, she decided to leave the corporate world of long and stressful work days! She recently located to West Sussex from Canada and founded HolyCow! Event Planning. She is mum to Joshua (7) and Ty (6) and lives with her fiancée Steve. They have a second home/vacation rental in Canada that she manages. She has a passion for music and concerts and helping other women connect and support each other as they build their businesses. Shortly after becoming a member of MNC, Jennifer was so inspired by the women she met, she jumped at the chance to become Shoreham Manager. She is waiting for the next opportunity to expand MNC into Canada!
	Ali is the Area Manager for Arundel and Littlehampton. She is a mobile holistic therapist and has been running her business since 2000. Ali has been passionate about complimentary therapies ever since aromatherapy cleared her eczema after suffering for 14 years and she used to use steroid creams. She has been married for 24 years and has two boys aged 20 and 16, so once a mum always a mum!! Ali is also Chairman of Arun and District branch of the Federation of Small Businesses and is interested in businesses and lobbying in protecting entrepreneurs. Her interests are in crafting, knitting and making cards. She also enjoys reading and watching anything on TV that is of sport or syfy such as Stargate or Town Called Eureka. She enjoys walking and in September completed a 26 mile walk for Help for Heroes. That is her favourite charity as her husband served in the Army.
	Carol is the Area Manager for Putney, Barnes and Sheen and also runs a growing global botanical health and beauty business with Arbonne International. Prior to running a home-based business, Carol was a PR professional for over 20 years during which time she learnt the importance of it’s not what you know but who you know! She likes nothing better than meeting new people, encouraging them to connect with each other and then, ever the socialite, helping to celebrate their success stories! Being the mother of two teenage boys she has become adept at sorting out floordrobes, teaching them the importance of personal grooming and to always look on the bright side of life. In her spare time (what’s that?) she can usually be spotted on the tennis court but networking is never far from her mind as, after all, her mouth is her office!