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The Invisible Revolution: Join the empowered Mumpreneurs - Inspiration, insights & practical advice to build a business you love by Nicola Huelin

September 29, 2018 Melanie Hawken
Nicola Huelin

Nicola Huelin

The Invisible Revolution has been written especially for mums by Nicola Huelin, herself a mum and award-winning business coach and mentor. It’s an inspirational and practical handbook bringing you precious insights, inspiration and real-world advice on how to start, grow and sustain a successful business – without compromising your quality of family life, health or sanity. 

Without question, The Invisible Revolution by Nicola Huelin is the book for you if you’re a mum who wants to build a successful business around the family life you love. Discover the 14 Pillars of Empowered Success every mum in business needs:

Pillar 1 - Purpose and Passion

Pillar 2 - Pioneering Vison

Pillar 3 - Performance Mindset

Pillar 4 - Powerful Beliefs

Pillar 5 - Purposeful Action

Pillar 6 - Personal Values

Pillar 7 -(Im)perfect Authenticity

Pillar 8 - Pareto Plan

Pillar 9 - People Power

Pillar 10 - Productive Marketing & Sales

Pillar 11 - Priceless Platform

Pillar 12 - Personal Learning and Growth

Pillar 13 - Persistent Sustainability

Pillar 14 - Posiripple Profits

Join Nicola and a whole host of incredibly successful Mumpreneurs to discover how the women of the Invisible Revolution are carving out a new blueprint for business, achieving a new definition of success and creating a world-changing legacy for their children. Learn what it really takes to turn your dream business into reality.

Author quotes

Mums can start up their own businesses and succeed without compromising the joys of raising children. All you need is the belief in yourself and the passion for what you work at, along with the clever knack of balancing the many roles and responsibilities of family life.

As Mumpreneurs, you need certain ingredients to succeed in achieving your own definition of success with confidence and clarity in a way that’s right for you. Believe it or not, this can be achieved without having to compromise your quality of family life, health or sanity in the process.

The great news is that whatever stage of the journey you’re at, combining motherhood with business, this book is for you.

Welcome to the invisible revolution - welcome to our world of the empowered Mumpreneur.

About the author

Nicola Huelin is a multi-award winning women's business coach and mentor, inspirational speaker and author with over 20 years in business, combining corporate experience as an executive and senior business consultant within multiple industries and 12 years as an entrepreneur, freelance and small business owner. Nicola holds an Honours degree in business economics with a specialism in marketing from Southampton University and postgraduate qualifications in business, change and project management, and was an approved Marketing Advisor on the government's Business Growth Voucher programme. A registered AMAC coach (Associate member) with the Association for Coaching, Nicola is a fully qualified Small Business Coach and Personal Transformation Life Coach, and holds a diploma in Small Business Coaching, Group Coaching and Personal Transformation Coaching from the Animas Centre for coaching, London. Trusted for her expertise, caring and down to earth approach and holistic philosophy when defining and achieving success, as well as having combined a successful career and business success with raising a family, Nicola has become a highly sought-after women's business coach and mentor to other mums in business and is on a personal mission to empower one million mums in business. Founder of the UK network of Mpower Mastermind groups and the Mpower online business community, Nicola's work has been featured on international TV, and has received multiple awards. Nicola is regularly asked to share her business expertise and her inspirational personal story to audiences internationally, and is currently preparing a TED talk on the growing power of Mumpreneurs within the UK economy.

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Why LoA loves it…

For many women entrepreneurs, trying to successfully navigate the challenges of building a business and raising a family can be tough, yet every day millions of women are doing just that. In her new book, The Invisible Revolution, Nicola Huelin reveals her blueprint for making it work, without the guilt and whilst keeping sane in the process. It’s an insightful and practical read that will help mompreneurs to feel empowered to try and find that all important balance in their lives as they fulfill these two important roles. --- Melanie Hawken, founder and ceo of Lionesses of Africa

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