Lessons learned from 1 year in business… How our business baby made us better mothers.

These lessons might sound familiar parents, sure we learned them when we became mothers... but it turns out we needed to learn them again in business. A glance in the business rearview mirror has helped us see how far we have come on the whole parenting journey too!

One year ago we launched our business baby, an online membership, Walky Talky Baby and we are SO proud and excited to see how she has grown! We love supporting parents on their parenting journeys. Turning 1 is a big milestone for babies and business babes alike!

To celebrate we have created a gift guide, a curated list of our favourite toys for supporting development through play. A special resource for parents who want to create oppurtunities for learning through play, without all the clutter! ...scroll to the bottom to get yours now!

 (PS 🤫 big SALE starting tomorrow, check out instagram for the code!)

1. Not every thought you have at 1am is a good idea… (but some are)

Night time breast feeding plus business creation means lots of time to think. Sure we have had flighting moments of genius between midnight and 6am but A LOT of the things we worry about in the middle of the night are not actually true come sunrise! How do we know? The 6am text we receive back from the other person gently telling us so!

This is why we are so passionate about the village component of our membership. It is important to us that our members have a calm, professional source of information when they are having midnight worries about their baby’s progress. No, we will not answer them until morning, but yes they can ask us straight away when the worry sets in. Spending time ruminating hasn’t been helpful for us in parenting either babies or business babies. We are action girls in business and parenting, if we are worried we like to get working!

 2. The village is everything

Of course true in parenting, this one holds true for raising business babies too! Below 👇 you will see a fantastic new resource brough to you from our friends at Tiny Tones, Shoe Baby Shoe, Joykids, Hubby Made, Peach and Pip, Wooden Wonderland, Wood Made Mike, Possum Kids, and Bookieboo. 

This year we have had wonderful professional Q and A sessions in our membership from Tarryn from FitRight, Courtney from The Parenting Edit, Andrew from Pharmacy 777 and Tarryn Circle of Security Educator. 

Without all these wonderful professionals, and providers of high quality products, we would be unable to bring such a breadth of information to our members... and bringing a broad, balanced and varied range of ideas to our members is very important to us. 

There are unlimited parenting resources and philosophies available but nobody will ever be exactly the parent you are. Parenting is all about grabbing ideas from friends, family, and other resources and curating them into your very own special brand of Mum or Dad!... turns out building a business is much like this too!

3. A solid structure is worth the time and energy it takes to create

Taking time to plan can be hard when you are being pulled in so many directions but we have well and truly adopted the old adage from Winston Churchill “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” 

As parents, we like tools like visual timetables to create a structure. In business, the tools are more high tech, like Asana and Planoly but the purpose is the same;

• to break each day into manageable chunks,
• to create structure which helps build our confidence as we try new things,
• to help us communicate effectively and to keep us on track to follow our goals.

If you, like us, would rather spend more time creating and playing and get the boring stuff  over and done quickly we have a free resource around visual timetable one of our favourite tools for gently building structure into your parenting day.

A THANK YOU gift to our Walky Talky Community!

To celebrate 1 year in business we have created a gift guide for you. It is a curated list of our favourite toys for supporting development and learning through play. These gifts are perfect for a 1 year old BUT will also provide lots of opportunities for learning through play over MANY years to come!

The guide will be followed up with a new blog series 5 Ways to Play. Each Blog will go deeper into the benefits of each toy, how they support development and give you 5 ideas to support your toddler through play.

Watch this space parents, our second year at Walky Talky Baby will mean a journey into toddlerhood! We have SO many toddler play ideas and NEW CONTENT for older babies and toddlers waiting in the wings! 

We hope this year brings you and us all the confidence, strength of will and independence of toddlerhood … without quite as many tears and tantrums! 😂

Download the Gift Guide now

What we would love from you… a birthday present, oh you shouldn’t have! 😂

There is something you should probably know about us… we are clinicians, we have 10 years at university between us and have each practised for 14 years BUT we have absolutely NO skills in marketing, or IT (Instagram still baffles us regularly) and we rely 100% on word of mouth to grow and help new parents find us. 

If you learn anything you love we would REALLY appreciate it if you:

• Tell a Mama friend and invite them to follow us @walkytalky_baby, join our mailing list or become a member
• Post a photo of the tip in action on your instagram and tag us @walkytalky_baby  
• Write us a google review

Thank you SO much! One day we hope to be big enough to employ someone to do our marketing for us but for now we rely on the kindness of our community to share what they love and learn!

Want to be part of the next chapter at WTB? Join now!

Got a question for us about the membership?

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If you'd like more from us ....remember what we have for you:

 ❤️ Walky Talky Baby Membership

❤️ For pregnant mothers, FREE Baby Play Checklist for setting your home up to play!

❤️ For parents of NEW babies. FREE Born to Play e-book and 'Play the Week Away' course 

❤️ For parents of older babies, FREE mini course and webinar to Revitalise Playtime

❤️ Buy our Tummy Time e-book No Tears Tummy Time

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