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Special Feature Bounce Back and Thrive

Being a business owner is difficult, to say the least. You have a lot of pressures facing you - growing your business, raising kids and finding time for yourself are all challenges. When COVID-19 came to the world, for a lot of business owners, it was a borderline catastrophe. For parent business owners, there was no ‘borderline’ about it. This was an unknown, easily transmitted disease with a very high mortality rate which put a lot of clients and customers out of a position to buy services.

Despite this, many business owners have managed to bounce back in these trying conditions, and many plan to thrive.

The Unknown Future

For a lot of business owners, this was basically a business-killer. One of the main issues that was no doubt being faced by parent business owners everywhere was the distinct lack of childcare. Most business owners could focus on their business during the day because their children were in mainstream education.

This plan quickly went out of the window in the face of COVID-19. It was now the case that many parent business owners had to try and tackle a selection of issues such as homeschooling and having partners working from home. The situation was further compounded by the lack of business, late

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