Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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Then there's Kristy Carr, who was at a baby shower when she had her epiphany. She was taking part in a party game where you taste the baby food. She thought it was disgusting, and if she never wanted to taste it again, why would babies? She created Organic Bubs baby food. It is sold worldwide, but its biggest market is China, where anything Aussie, clean, and green, is a hot commodity.

And consider Jessica Rudd, who was living in Beijing as a new mom. When she would travel back to Australia, she'd stock up on baby products for her baby and her Chinese friends. When Rudd eventually moved back to Brisbane, she started posting the Aussie baby products online and found the Chinese market was snapping them up as fast as she could list them. She sells her organic baby products, through the behemoth Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.

Primary Income Streams & Multi-Million Contracts

These are the women the media have taken to calling the Mompreneurs – women who have taken the skills and experience they learned in their pre-motherhood careers to make their new careers suit the family life they want to have. And by the way, these women are all making millions of dollars working from home while caring for their children. They are serious entrepreneurs who just happen to be mothers.