For women juggling pitches and play dates!
Hosted by Victoria Phipps MBE, the Mum Means Business is the podcast for ambitious Mothers navigating the beautiful chaos of building a business while raising a family. Each episode shares honest conversations and inspiring stories from real Mums growing heart-centred, purpose-driven businesses designed to make this world a better place for our children.
Whether you’re working during nap time, burning the midnight oil or squeezing strategy sessions between school runs, this is your space. A space to feel seen, supported and inspired.
Join us as we celebrate the wins, unpack the challenges and remind ourselves that while tackling motherhood and entrepreneurship at the same time can be a wild ride, we don’t have to do it alone.
Because motherhood isn’t a barrier to success - it’s a superpower.
88: Death by a Thousand Cuts; Sallie King on Closing a 10-Year Business and Starting Again as a Single Mum
Sallie King built a furniture company from a tiny Greenwich flat over ten years, then closed it in January 2025 as a single mum of two.
In this episode, she talks honestly about slow growth, the pandemic boom, the changes that quietly wore the business down and the grief and responsibility of closing it. She also shares how a networking event pointed her towards property staging, why starting again in your forties can feel like a second wind, and why making peace with slower growth is part of putting your children first. A conversation about failure, grace and the reality that no business lives forever.
23 Oct 2026
87: "I Help Mums Feel Seen"; Untangling My Business and Taking Up Space in My Own Name
After years of resisting the advice to niche, I finally name the thread running through everything I do: I help mums feel seen. In this episode, I reflect on what it is to be a mother in 2026, my beef with the word “just”, and why I have found it far easier to post on behalf of a podcast or a charity than as myself. I also share the scary but necessary decision to step into my own personal brand, and why I cannot ask other mums to take up space if I am not willing to do it too.
20 Oct 2026
86: You Can Have It All, Just Not All at Once; Sunaina Sinha Haldea on Private Equity, Motherhood and Mastering Your Mind
Sunaina Sinha Haldea built Cebile Capital from scratch in the male dominated world of private equity, selling it to Raymond James in 2021 while raising three children under five with no family nearby.
In this episode, she speaks candidly about hiding pregnancies from clients, pumping milk in airports and negotiating a deal while timing contractions, alongside the systems, support and mindset that made it possible. From treating childcare as capital expenditure to raising capital as an outsider, she shares why you can have it all but not all at once, and why mastering how we show up, through practices like daily meditation, is the investment mums are most likely to put off.
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