In reaction to the down-turning economy, several stay-at-home moms have decided to pick up their hobbies and turn them into a business.
“Mompreneurs,” or stay-at-home moms who redirect their creativity, experience and education into starting businesses on the side, are on the rise.
Some moms find a niche that needed to be filled.
After 15 successful years in corporate America, Rebekah Cooksey decided to become a stay-at-home mom during her second maternity leave. As vice president for a major company headquartered in Plano, Cooksey found it hard to be equally committed to both her employer and her two young children.
“Not many companies will accommodate a lot of time for working Moms to be with their children,” Cooksey said. “I felt that it was more beneficial to my kids to stay at home with them.”
Cooksey soon found that staying at home full-time is very isolating for a women and wanted to find a way to connect to other stay-at-home moms. When Cooksey searched the Internet, she found that there were not many Web communities for stay-at-home moms and immediately began work on MomsOutLoud.com.
Scheduled to officially launch in October, Cooksey created MomsOutLoud.com to “provide an avenue for moms and women to get information, connect to one another and celebrate being mothers.”
“I want to help moms to not lose their identity as a woman after having children,” Cooksey said. “Women can still lead very fulfilling lives and still be 100 percent attentive to their children.”
Logo from Moms Out Loud.
David Gerrard on July 30th, 2008 at 6:52 am
This is a very good point that should be used t0 it’s fullest potential.There is an army of stay at home moms-who are still very capable of working at home.These moms can offer the same amount of dedication, hard work and commitment as any other person out there in the work force.
Christine on October 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I applaud all stay-at-home moms who start their own businesses and become WAHMs.
I’ve done a lot of reading about becoming one at http://www.consultantjournal.com (a good site with tons of free info for people who want to start their own business), but I just haven’t taken the plunge yet.
Someday, I think I will though!