Balancing entrepreneurship and being a mum of twins with Kate Mosley
“Children are so non-judgmental, they show so much love to you, you can be silly with them and they’ll laugh along with you. That’s the beauty of children.” The Garden Eatery created the menu for Back To The Garden Childcare and todays guest is Kate Mosely is the co-founder of The Garden Eatery, Hale. She started the business with her best friend, Amy Sheperdson in 2014 and it’s grown from strength to strength with a loyal local community of customers, it’s also become a destination hot spot for health and wellness and has a strong following online. Her husband Chris joined the team in 2017, focusing on the commercial kitchen premises for the cold pressed juices, smoothies and raw cakes & bakes. Kate is also a yoga teacher working in Hale and Altrincham as well as online. She gave birth to twins, Winnie and Rupert in December 2017. Kate now balances being a mum to both her children and also her business baby. Her passion for healthy living, nourishing foods, sustainability and love of life comes through all that she does. She’s a wonderful soul and pleasure to have as a guest on the show. “Had i slowed down, honoured the transformation my body was going through I really do think I wouldn’t have experienced the anxiety i did when i was in the post-natal period.” In this episode we discuss: Kates career paths (marketing/primary school teacher) and what led her to creating The Garden with her best friend. The hurdles the business faced and what lessons they've learnt along the way. Her journey as a mother and the lessons she's learnt and why she's so passionate about teaching pregnancy yoga. What led her to becoming a yoga teacher. Why sustainability is so important to her within her business and how she took this a step further with the 'Love Your Mother' campaign. How she balances running a business with her husband, Chris and at the same time raising twins. How lockdown has affected The Garden and the support they've received from their local community. How the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired her to take action within herself and also her thoughts on ways to integrate more awareness into the home to help her twins on this subject. Her inspiration, current books, what she's grateful for and so much more. Kates honesty is so refreshing and I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. ------ Thank you for listening! We’d be so grateful if you could take 2 minutes to leave us a review on your preferred podcast app. Please share with anyone who you think would love to listen. This episode is sponsored by Kit + Kin, award winning nappies - head to https://kitandkin.com/ and enter the code BABY20 specially created for our listeners to use on the first subscription. Recorded via Zoom and edited at LBS, Stockport. https://lbs.co.uk/ Producer: Adders Jeffry Original Music written by Sadie Pickering, performed by Sadie Pickering, Dan J Logan and Jay Ansill