Thursday, August 28, 2014

Singapore Mumpreneur Awards

About a month ago, I was asked by my friend to be nominated for the inaugural Singapore Mumpreneur Awards (Mumpreneurs are mothers who juggle being a parent and an entrepreneur). I was hesitant, partly because I thought it would be a little strange since my friend is the organiser and secondly, I'm usually very paiseh to join such competitions lah.

But she assured me that she's not a judge so she'll have no say in the results, plus I wanted to support her since she's doing such a fantastic job helping mothers return to the workplace. She's the founder of Mums@Work Singapore which now has thousands of members. Personally, I think she should win Singapore Mumpreneur of the Year!

So I agreed to be nominated. Then on Saturday night, I received an email saying that I was a finalist in one of the categories! Wah. But then the tricky bit - the winner is based on public votes and that's another thing that makes me uncomfortable - canvassing for votes. So I'll just keep this brief: I'm a finalist in the Most Socially Responsible Mumpreneur category based on the fact that:

1) My business pays it forward by engaging mostly mums as writers (7 out of 9 of my writers are mums). These are capable women who gave up their careers to look after their kids and writing for me gives them meaningful flexi-work.

2) I write a blog (this one, haha!) to share my views on education and parenting with other parents.

3) After becoming a published author with Lesley-Anne, we do our part to give back to the community by sharing how we nurtured our love of reading and writing to school kids.  

So if you feel this is worth a vote, you can cast your vote for me here (my category is the last one). You can actually vote every day, up to 12 September 2014 so if you're feeling extra supportive, you may wanna do that :)

Thanks a million!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi ! Already casted a vote for you! Cheers! Jiayou!

monlim said...

Thank you!!

Sarah Tan said...

I've voted too! Inspired by your book with your daughter.

monlim said...

Thank you, Sarah! Very happy to hear that :)

Anonymous said...

Voted! All the best��

monlim said...

Appreciate the support!

Anonymous said...

If I want to start my own business, what tips do you suggest?

monlim said...

Anon: Depends on so many things, it's impossible to advise based on no information. Perhaps you would like to check out Mums@Work?

Anonymous said...

I am definitely going to vote for you! I enjoy every piece of writing on your blog :)And i have alot of respect for Mumpreneur. Not only you are managing a biz, you are managing a family with kids :)

I am going to introduce the books you written with your gal to my daughter too!

monlim said...

Anon: Thanks so much for the support!

Anonymous said...

Sorry Mon, I am late in reading this again. Would have loved to vote.

After PSLE, my child will go read the Danger Dan series and then I would have something to say. Meanwhile, wish you all the best in the award and actually with or without the award, you are a winner to me already.

qx

monlim said...

QX: You are ever so supportive :) All the very best to your dd for PSLE! I'm sure she'll blow it out of the water!

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