Mumboss
| File:Mumboss book cover.jpg 'A guide to surviving and thriving at work and at home' | |
| Author | Vicki Psarias |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Joseph Sinclair |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Self-help, personal growth, ethics, applied psychology, social philosophy |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Piatkus Publishing, an imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group |
Publication date | May 3, 2018 (UK) |
| Media type | Print, digital, audible |
| Pages | 226 counting index (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781405540629 Search this book on  . |
| Website | honestmum |
MumbossMumboss: The Honest Mum's Guide to Surviving and Thriving at Work and at Home is a 2018 self-help book by Vicki Psarias, the British editor/blogger/vlogger of the ''Honest Mum'' online lifestyle magazine. provides advice and personal anecdotes via essays on balancing parenthood and work, especially by taking advantage of Internet-based entrepreneurial opportunities.
Description[edit]
Vicki Psarias conceived and launched the Honest Mum blog starting in 2015 to document her struggles giving birth five years earlier to her first child. It grew into the present Honest Mum online lifestyle magazine. During 2017 and the first part of 2018 she developed a book-length manuscript entitled Mumboss, incorporating much new material. The book was published by Piatkus Publishing on May 3, 2018. Drawing from the author's experience building a successful career while birthing and caring for two children, Mumboss offers advice on both motherhood and careers, with sections on dealing with maternity leave, post-partum depression, and confidence issues as well as advice on returning to work, building an online business, and establishing a personal brand. A section of the book explains blogging, vlogging, and how freelancing can be more amenable to motherhood than a nine-to-five position. According to the Independent's review, the book is especially intended 'for parents who are looking for a career change into the digital world and building a business around their families'.[1]
The book is divided into eight chapters:
- The Back Story - From Mum to Boss
- Becoming a Mum
- Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, and Returning to Work
- How to Hustle - Building a Business from Your Passions
- Mum Guilt and the Art of Juggling
- Blogging, Vlogging, and Building an Online Business
- How to Be Your Own Best Publicist
- Happily Ever After
The publisher is Piatkus, an imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group (UK). Available in paperback (226 pages counting index) from Amazon and many other sources, it is also available as a downloadable eBook from Amazon Kindle and as a downloadable audiobook from Audible.com, with the author voicing the audio reading.
Reviews and Awards[edit]
The book is in the top five honored in June 2018 by The Independent UK online newspaper as the year's "best business books written by women".[1] The book's cover and first page include praise by UK television presenter Julia Bradbury; British entrepreneur and media expert Natasha Courtenay-Smith; British entrepreneur, investor and consumer champion Sarah Willingham of BBC Two's Dragon's Den; fellow blogger Susanna Scott of BritMums; Digital Mums founder Nikki Cochrane; and others. A four-minute video developed by the Super Mum Society via YouTube in October 2018 presents a review of the book that is favorable for its intended audience: mothers hoping to return successfully to the work world.[2] Una Healy, a television presenter and an Irish singer-songwriter in the British pop music group The Saturdays, is quoted on the book's first page describing the author as 'one inspirational mumboss, who shares her secrets to juggling a thriving business with raising a family in this entertaining and empowering read.'
The author was praised in the UK edition of Marie Claire magazine for her description of her traumatic first birth and its aftermath:
- ..[the] deep panic, the not knowing, the overwhelming sense of "this isn’t how it was meant to be", the loss of control, the trauma… The pain. Following his birth, I felt I was drowning rather than living through the movie-like promise of motherhood I’d been fed my whole life. It took me five years to finally find the courage to write about my experience of birth trauma, to be able to process and share the pain from a place of renewed strength and understanding. Perhaps not surprisingly, the post became one of my most-read, with thousands of women admitting it struck a chord with them, too.[3]
The book has been criticized on ITV and elsewhere for advocating 'lazy parenting' when an expert tutor is hired to teach children things that parents would ordinarily teach them, such as how to ride a bicycle.[4] The author has replied that in the interest of maximizing time for both family and career, 'reaching out for help from experts or family and friends is the way forward. You don’t have to be a martyr to be a good mum.'[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "10 best business books written by women". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ↑ Super Mum Society (3 October 2018). "How to Start an Online Mum Brand - Book Review of Mumboss by Vicki Psarias". Retrieved 5 November 2018 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "How My Experience Of Birth Trauma Changed Me Forever". marieclaire.co.uk. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "MumBoss and Honest Mum Vicki Psarias opens her heart to London Mums". londonmumsmagazine.com. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
External links[edit]
- [1] – Main web page for Mumboss
- [2] – Piatkus [Little, Brown Book Group] page for Mumboss
- [3] - Audible (Amazon)
- [4] - Soundcloud, Hachette Audio
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