Balancing Life as a Mom and Entrepreneur With Maria Smith | Ep 19

Nov 13

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Ep 19 - Balancing Life as a Mom and Entrepreneur With Maria Smith

In this episode, Maria Smith, owner of CleanExClean and Real Bizy shares how she balances life as an entrepreneur and a homeschooling mom. Her journey of being a single mom who chose to pursue entrepreneurship to have more flexible time with her kids who need special attention is very inspiring.

Key Takeaways From This Episode:

It is essential to have other people helping you with your business and what to do next.
It's also crucial to identify what you can and can’t do and find someone who can do what you can’t do.
If you don’t invest in your business, your business won’t invest in you.
Delegate to someone who has expertise.
Networking and collaborating is a big part of succeeding in business.
Do not be afraid to charge for your work or your ability.
Don’t be afraid to involve your children.

Today’s Guest:

Maria Smith is the owner of CleanExClean, and Real Bizy. They offer commercial and Airbnb cleaning. She also supports home-based learning families. A single mother of four, Maria admirably balances life and business.

She transitioned from being a hairstylist to starting her cleaning service. She started the business because she needed flexibility in her schedule for homeschooling her children with special needs. So for a while, she was doing both hairstyling and cleaning and tending to her kids. She wanted to offer women entrepreneur opportunities so they can also be independent contractors.

She wanted to help mothers have the flexibility of homeschooling their children without having a problem of how or where they will start.