KarenSkidmore
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- Real name
- Karen Skidmore
- Business name
- CanDoCanBe.com
- Website
- http://www.CanDoCanBe.com
- Profile
Hi, my name is Karen Skidmore and I am Founder of CanDoCanBe, the business support network for women starting and growing a business from home.
It was after the birth of our second child that I realised that corporate life was no longer doing it for me. I was bored, needed a new challenge and with our eldest due to start school within the next 2 years, I felt it was important to create a career that could fit around family life.
I wanted to pick up our children at the end of school. I didn't want to have the headache and stress of organising expensive child care in the holidays.
After 18 months of a grumpy "I don't know what to do" period, I stumbled in to a life coaching website. Signing up for a life coach accreditation programme was like the light going on. I felt as if I was creating a toolkit to help me build a business around.
In September 2004, my daughter started school and I became self-employed after giving notice to my 11 year career with my company. My plan was to create a traditional life coach practice, selling myself on a 1-2-1 basis and offering myself as a coach for women wishing to return to work after maternity leave.
A tough business to start up from scratch as I soon begun to realise! And bit by bit I began to learn some pretty powerful lessons. It is these lessons that attracted women to ask for my help and support and CanDoCanBe became the business support network that it is today.
CanDoCanBe now offers informal and fun networking events for women in Surrey and Berkshire, regular dedicated Women’s Business Forums as well as business training and marketing mentoring through teleclasses and online programmes.
If you would like to be part of the CanDoCanBe community and receive free articles and up dates of local events, then subscribe on our website www.CanDoCanBe.com
- Public email address
- karen@candocanbe.com
- Location
- Surrey, England
