Mums On Cloud Nine

Welcome to Part 6 of the Relaunch your Career series. Do you worry about giving your children quality time whilst also juggling your career? Do you feel guilty at the thought of going back into the workplace? Today we’re going to be talking about how to juggle a career and kids. I am joined by Abigail Wald today, founder of Mother Flipping Awesome, to discuss this topic. Here are the highlights: (01:52) Mother Flipping Awesome (03:30) Strong-willed kids (06:44) Invisible burden (12:35) Know your power (17:39) Failing at home (21:42) Community (31:22) Love languages Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

Welcome to Part 5 of the Relaunch Your Career series. Do you struggle with time management? Do you find yourself running out of time before finishing a task? Fear not, as it is often at the top of people’s lists of struggles, particularly with mums. Today I am joined with Nikki Oden to discuss the importance of time management. Nicki will be sharing her secret tips on how to manage your time efficiently. Here are the highlights (01:10) Nikki (01:57) Fight or flight (03:55) Alice in Wonderland (07:00) Bite size (12:06) Agile prioritisation (15:58) Mum guilt (21:01) Technology can help Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

Today I am joined by special guest Jacqueline Kerr, burnout expert who recently did a TED talk on how to stop burnout before it starts. This is a topic I believe is important for both mothers and fathers if they are interested in relaunching their career. Here are the highlights: (03:53) Burnout warning signs (09:28) Recalibrate (15:04) Role modelling (24:34) Setting boundaries (31:32) Unlearning the 24/7 Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

Today’s episode is about re-energising yourself to learn. This is a topic that I think is very important because re-energising can motivate you to relaunch your career and stay focused on the task at hand in a day to day setting. I am joined by Jo Lightfoot today, she shares her tips and tricks on reenergisation and how that links with other energy stores we have . Here are the highlights: (01:02) Jo Lightfoot (05:20) We’ve already got it (10:51) Who am I? (16:30) Feeling good (20:38) Sexual energy Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

In today’s episode I am joined by Dr Maryhan Baker, a psychologist and parenting expert who hosts the podcast “How Not To Screw Up Your Kids”. We are going to be discussing how to overcome anxiety today. We will also be sharing support and tips on how to help families where there is anxiety present. Here are the highlights: (00:34) Dr Maryhan (01:36) Excitement VS Anxiety (04:06) Reinforcement (07:34) Where’s the evidence? (10:04) Glitter jar Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

In today’s episode I am joined by Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO of iRelaunch. We discuss how to support women returners when they want to relaunch their careers after taking a break because of family issues, maternity leave, being a stay-at-home mother or any other responsibility. Both Carol and myself are very passionate about this specific topic, and go into depth about all the ways in which women returners can be helped during this time. Here are the highlights: (02:04) Carol’s background (04:19) Employer role (06:20) Normalise career breaks (09:26) Changing directions (12:48) Companies (26:24) Institutional shifts Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

In today’s podcast episode I am joined by Ghada Fourane, Director at Slalom. Ghada is brilliant at advising her clients on how to develop their CRM roadmap, and she will be sharing her expertise on the podcast today. We also discuss how Ghada began her journey in the consulting world, and how she advanced in her career to get to where she is today. Here are the highlights: (01:03) Introducing Ghada (03:07) What is a roadmap? (07:33) Timelines (15:09) Have a clear vision! (20:39) You are not in it alone (37:38) Overwhelm Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

In this four part series, we will be talking about the Skills and Awesome Admin that you can really put into place to make sure you perform effectively as a Salesforce administrator. In today’s episode we are diving into the world of security management and thinking about what that entails. I am delighted to be joined by Hetty Boardman-Weston, who is head of Marketing and Sales Operations and, and Salesforce admin at Prova. She will be guiding us through how she keeps their systems safe and secure. Highlights from this episode: (03:17) Demystifying it all (06:12) Vetting 3rd party applications (08:40) GDPR (11:10) Logging In (14:42) Permissions (26:01) Suppression List Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

In this new four part series, we will be talking about the Skills and Awesome Admin that you can really put into place to make sure you perform effectively as a Salesforce administrator. In this week’s episode I am talking about data management and making sure that you've got a fantastic CRM system in place with good data. At the end of the day if the data isn't good, nobody will trust it and nobody will use it. People have to have faith in the system for it to work effectively. So, I have an interesting chat today with Justin Barss and colleagues from Apsona and we discuss data literacy and how it can really inform and shape your business in terms of the decision making and in terms of its engagement with customers. Crucial for CRM! *this was a 4 way Zoom conversation and as such there are occasional slight drops in sound quality due to bandwidth issues. Highlights from this episode: (01:36) Trusted data (04:36) Justin introduction (08:40) Benefits for admins (10:36) Reducing time (16:58) Excel comparisons (22:46) Opportunities available Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ This Podcast Proudly Produced by The Podcast Boutique https://www.thepodcastboutique.com/

In this new four part series, we will be talking about the Skills and Awesome Admin that you can really put into place to make sure you perform effectively as a Salesforce administrator. Today we're talking about how to manage a Salesforce system and everything that entails. I am delighted to be joined by Jack McCurdy, who is a DevOps advocate from Gearset, and he will be talking and offering sage advice about how DevOps can support Salesforce professionals in managing changes every day. Highlights from this episode: (01:57) The 40 Tasks (08:32) Part of a wider network (11:45) Solid Communication is key (18:36) Gearset (20:47) The Blog Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ This Podcast Proudly Produced by The Podcast Boutique https://www.thepodcastboutique.com/

What is it like working with Marketing Cloud? In today’s episode I will be discussing everything Marketing Cloud. (Check out the previous episode as well!) Marketing Cloud opens up a range of new career opportunities, and can advance your position as a Salesforce professional. For this show, I'm delighted to be joined by Danielle Lathy, Principal Salesforce consultant of insurance at Silverline. She's also a Salesforce MVP, Salesforce marketing Cloud champion and community leader https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellelaffey/ Highlights from this episode: (01:00) Danielle’s Journey (05:23) Insurance considerations (11:20) Educated, Enabled and Rewarded (06:56) Communication is key Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ Proudly Produced By The Podcast Boutique https://www.thepodcastboutique.com/

Why Salesforce Admins need to know Marketing Cloud In today’s episode and for the next few shows I will be discussing everything Marketing Cloud. Marketing Cloud opens up a range of new career opportunities, and can advance your position as a Salesforce professional. This week, I’m talking to Chris Zullo, the marketing practice director at All Cloud, about why salesforce admins need to be aware of Marketing Cloud. Join us for an inciteful chat. Highlights from this episode: (01:20) Marketing Cloud Champion (02:37) Why should we be familiar with Marketing Cloud? (04:23) Discussing Training (09:33) The Importance of Data Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to pitch yourself for a Salesforce Consultant Job Role In today’s episode I discuss how to prepare for a job interview, how to present yourself, and how to stand out from other applicants. In this episode I am joined by Melanie Debenham, who shares her insight on what makes a great candidate and offers interview tips. This has been a six part series during which we have looked at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We have looked at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (01:26) Presenting yourself (05:14) Taking the next step (06:50) Making your CV stand out (13:58) Culture of an organization Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to manage Salesforce changes with Dev Ops In this week’s podcast I am joined by Inshu Misra, to discuss DevOps and what consultants should know in order to perform the best in their roles in this capacity. Inshu has been in the Salesforce ecosystem for more than 11 years, and throughout those years has worked as a technical architect and behavioural analyst. This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (02:04) What is DevOps? (04:50) Salesforce ecosystem (11:02) Copado (15:26) Certification programs Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to empower Salesforce users with Coaching Skills In this week’s podcast we’re talking about how coaching can empower you as an individual to build your confidence and overcome imposter syndrome, and also how coaching can apply and be directly beneficial to how you manage yourselves with projects and communicate with people. This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (01:19) Coaching background (02:55) Communication (05:52) Team building (13:36) Training strategy (14:17) Positive reframing Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to increase adoption of Salesforce users with Change Management Skills In this week's podcast, We are going to talking about Change Management - Some people embrace change and others fear it. We talk today about how we can manage that to get the best results. Why is it important? What the value is to the company that you are engaging and working with and what does it entail? This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (03:48) It’s a people game (05:12) Considering the culture (12:46) Which approach to take is key (19:27) The importance of communication skills (23:37) Keeping it going and getting feedback Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to prioritise Salesforce requirements with Agile Project Management In this week's podcast, we're talking about understanding and applying Agile Project Management and why this is an essential skill for any Salesforce professional if they are going to be managing expectations of stakeholders on a Salesforce project We discuss why it's important, what the value of it is, why is it in the norm approach for tech? Why did it come about for tech agencies? We touch on why it's different between traditional and agile project management methodologies and which agile project management methodology would suit you in your job role. This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (02:40) 4 Key Principles (06:42) The beginnings of APM (09:53) An alternative approach (14:58) SCRUM explained (17:52) The courses we offer Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to gather Salesforce Requirements with Business Analyst Skills In this week's podcast, I'm talking about business analysis skills and why they're really important for any Salesforce professional. It's really important to understand the expectations of the stakeholders you're working with. If you want to have a successful career as a Salesforce professional and you have an appetite for learning, then your potential really is limitless. This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (02:37) So what should your priorities be? (08:53) Your elicitation strategy (10:03) The Importance of Clear Documentation (14:08) Business Analysis (16:03) The courses we offer Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

Make yourself indispensable as a Salesforce professional In the fourth of our four-part Parents Flex Up mini-series, I am talking about how to make yourself in demand and indispensable. I'm looking forward to sharing my top tips with you to help you think about how you can stand out in the job crowd, how you can negotiate a promotion or how you can reduce the risk of your job in a possible recession. If you want to have a successful career as a Salesforce professional and you have an appetite for learning, then your potential really is limitless. This mini-series of Mums on Cloud Nine is all about educating and inspiring parents to thrive in our Salesforce career so that you can earn more, work less and love your life. If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (02:25) Having a positive, ambitious mindset (04:35) Pitching for that new job role (08:58) The Suite of Skills You Can Offer (10:05) Your role in the Ecosystem Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

Creating your Recession proof Salesforce career path In the third of our four-part Parents Flex Up mini-series, I am talking about why I believe that Salesforce CRM is the living beating heart of any business – and whether that effectively makes it recession proof. If you want to have a successful career as a Salesforce professional and you have an appetite for learning, then your potential really is limitless. This mini-series of Mums on Cloud Nine is all about educating and inspiring parents to thrive in our Salesforce career so that you can earn more, work less and love your life. If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. Highlights from this episode: (02:08) Are Salesforce jobs safe in a recession? (04:54) Adding value with Salesforce (07:21) The impacts of the pandemic (08:54) So which Salesforce role is right for you? (12:13) The role of the Systems Manager (17:55) Coming in Part Four.. Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/