Today on Women On Business, I’m happy to welcome guest blogger Jacquelyn Butler of JackiesBizBlog.com who brings us the following guest post, “Raising Entrepreneurial Children.”

I recently was reading a post on a forum about raising children to be entrepreneurs and I was grateful for the fact, that I, myself as a parent do NOT want to raise my child to think that she has to go and work for the Corporate world in order to make a living.

For those of us who were not raised to be independent from working outside the home, we now have that opportunity to mold our children into thinking for themselves and living their lives passionately and freely to do whatever it is they are set out to do. Educate them not only through school or what is right or wrong, but educate them to actually live their lives free from 9-5, time away from family and the morning commute. Continue reading »

The holidays provide a perfect time to remind businesswomen about the importance of taking time off from work.  From entrepreneurs to corporate executives and everyone in between, taking a vacation can easily become one of those things that gets relegated to the bottom of the list of priorities.  Women are particularly prone to feeling guilty about taking time off from work, but believe it or not, your absence for a few days or even a week is not likely to make or break your business.  Continue reading »