How to Build a Business As A Single Mom

What Do You Do With It All?

To be a home-based business owner when you’re a single parent is like balancing flaming torches over a unicycle at the edge of a tall building… Photo from Nora Bloom Gallery

It’s hard.

I mean, really hard.

To be a home-based business owner when you’re a single parent is like balancing flaming torches over a unicycle at the edge of a tall building.

You know it’s bad, but you’re still up there, holding on to avoid anything collapsing.

I am woken every morning by little feet twirling about. Someone has risen and set out to take on the day.

And I?

I’m stomping on my coffee.

The business-building fantasy ringing only in the background, interrupted by breakfast, tantrums and laundry.

Let’s talk about guilt.

It’s an apocalyptic beast that’s ready to bite when I take a risk and look into my own office.

"Is it a bad thing for me to want to pursue my passion?"

I’m like.

The thought gnaws at me. I read people on social media who are perfectly groomed, working and caring for their kids just fine. An…