80 episodes

The show is hosted by Heather Black, a champion for women in tech and founder of Supermums, a global brand supporting mums to develop a career in the salesforce eco-system.

The podcast aims to inspire and support mums new or already working in the sector to develop their career in the tech sector whilst achieving flexibility and the salary they deserve – sharing top tips, insight and inspirational stories from women who carved out a successful career and employers who champion diversity and gender equality.

Through our podcast series we will cover four key areas of insight:

Explore your Potential

Understand what roles are possible and how to feel assured it’s right for you.

Create a Vision for Change

Coaching tools and tips to change or develop your career.

Have a Life you Love

Foster a flexible career working with your employer, team and family.

Create your Success

Develop your skills, network, profile and reputation as the go to expert.

Mums On Cloud Nine Heather Black

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The show is hosted by Heather Black, a champion for women in tech and founder of Supermums, a global brand supporting mums to develop a career in the salesforce eco-system.

The podcast aims to inspire and support mums new or already working in the sector to develop their career in the tech sector whilst achieving flexibility and the salary they deserve – sharing top tips, insight and inspirational stories from women who carved out a successful career and employers who champion diversity and gender equality.

Through our podcast series we will cover four key areas of insight:

Explore your Potential

Understand what roles are possible and how to feel assured it’s right for you.

Create a Vision for Change

Coaching tools and tips to change or develop your career.

Have a Life you Love

Foster a flexible career working with your employer, team and family.

Create your Success

Develop your skills, network, profile and reputation as the go to expert.

    Relaunch your Career - Part 6 - How to juggle a career and kids

    Relaunch your Career - Part 6 - How to juggle a career and kids

     
    Welcome to Part 6 of the Relaunch your Career series. Do you worry about giving your children quality time whilst also juggling your career? Do you feel guilty at the thought of going back into the workplace?
    Today we’re going to be talking about how to juggle a career and kids. I am joined by Abigail Wald today, founder of Mother Flipping Awesome, to discuss this topic.
     
    Here are the highlights:
    (01:52) Mother Flipping Awesome
    (03:30) Strong-willed kids
    (06:44) Invisible burden
    (12:35) Know your power
    (17:39) Failing at home
    (21:42) Community
    (31:22) Love languages
     
    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 41 min
    Relaunch your Career Part 5- How to Manage Your Time Better

    Relaunch your Career Part 5- How to Manage Your Time Better

    Welcome to Part 5 of the Relaunch Your Career series. Do you struggle with time management? Do you find yourself running out of time before finishing a task? Fear not, as it is often at the top of people’s lists of struggles, particularly with mums.
    Today I am joined with Nikki Oden to discuss the importance of time management. 
    Nicki will be sharing her secret tips on how to manage your time efficiently.  
     
    Here are the highlights
    (01:10) Nikki
    (01:57) Fight or flight
    (03:55) Alice in Wonderland
    (07:00) Bite size
    (12:06) Agile prioritisation
    (15:58) Mum guilt
    (21:01) Technology can help




    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 27 min
    Relaunch your Career Part 4 - How to Avoid Burnout

    Relaunch your Career Part 4 - How to Avoid Burnout

    Today I am joined by special guest Jacqueline Kerr, burnout expert who recently did a TED talk on how to stop burnout before it starts. This is a topic I believe is important for both mothers and fathers if they are interested in relaunching their career. 
     
    Here are the highlights:
    (03:53) Burnout warning signs
    (09:28) Recalibrate
    (15:04) Role modelling 
    (24:34) Setting boundaries
    (31:32) Unlearning the 24/7



    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 42 min
    Relaunch your Career - Part 3 How to Re-energise yourself

    Relaunch your Career - Part 3 How to Re-energise yourself

    Today’s episode is about re-energising yourself to learn. This is a topic that I think is very important because re-energising can motivate you to relaunch your career and stay focused on the task at hand in a day to day setting.
     
    I am joined by Jo Lightfoot today, she shares her tips and tricks on reenergisation and how that links with other energy stores we have
    .
    Here are the highlights:
    (01:02) Jo Lightfoot
    (05:20) We’ve already got it
    (10:51) Who am I?
    (16:30) Feeling good
    (20:38) Sexual energy



    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 29 min
    Relaunch Your Career Part 2 - How To Overcome Anxiety

    Relaunch Your Career Part 2 - How To Overcome Anxiety

    In today’s episode I am joined by Dr Maryhan Baker, a psychologist and parenting expert who hosts the podcast “How Not To Screw Up Your Kids”. We are going to be discussing how to overcome anxiety today. 
    We will also be sharing support and tips on how to help families where there is anxiety present.
     
    Here are the highlights:
    (00:34) Dr Maryhan
    (01:36) Excitement VS Anxiety
    (04:06) Reinforcement
    (07:34) Where’s the evidence?
    (10:04) Glitter jar



    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 14 min
    How to Relaunch your Career with Confidence Part 1

    How to Relaunch your Career with Confidence Part 1

    In today’s episode I am joined by Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO of iRelaunch. We discuss how to support women returners when they want to relaunch their careers after taking a break because of family issues, maternity leave, being a stay-at-home mother or any other responsibility.
    Both Carol and myself are very passionate about this specific topic, and go into depth about all the ways in which women returners can be helped during this time.
     
    Here are the highlights: 
    (02:04) Carol’s background
    (04:19) Employer role
    (06:20) Normalise career breaks
    (09:26) Changing directions
    (12:48) Companies
    (26:24) Institutional shifts



    Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 
     
    Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 
     
    Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 
     
    Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  
     

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

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24 Ratings

24 Ratings

JenWood8 ,

Back with a BANG!

The podcasts from the previous series have been super inspiring so I’m glad to have you back for series 5!

Gboycott76 ,

Amazing

What an amazing and relevant podcast!! Loved it!

Reevio ,

Great series

Varied, interesting speakers with some great insights into new work opportunities

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