{"id":9870,"date":"2025-04-11T04:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9870\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T04:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:32:18","slug":"starting-a-business-on-maternity-leave-meet-the-mums-who-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9870\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a business on maternity leave \u2013 meet the mums who did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">While maternity leave is far from a holiday, it gave these women the breathing space they needed to dream up new ventures\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lisa Nolan Cusack started Pilates teacher training when her daughter was six months old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54e5690e-374e-461f-bb52-dec188e58d4f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lisa Nolan Cusack started Pilates teacher training when her daughter was six months old<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHaving my small business has been an incredible blessing. It gave me a focus and something to look forward to, helping me stay positive through all the medical struggles,\u201d says Niamh Hogan-Campbell, from Sandymount, Dublin, who founded the Nemo baby bag (www.nemobabybag.com) in January last year, three months into her maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cDespite the exhaustion, I&#8217;ve always drawn a lot of energy from my small business. It makes me proud that I&#8217;ve created a product all from my own imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While maternity leave is far from a holiday, it gave these women the breathing space they needed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[51,3134,6686,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114317462288238213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}