Why moms make the best entrepreneurs

Multitasking, problem-solving, and community-building are the skills of both motherhood & entrepreneurship.

Before You Start

Goal: Recognize the entrepreneurial skills motherhood builds and begin claiming and translating those skills more confidently in your career.

Meeting Agenda · Approx. 60 mins

  • Member Updates · 10 mins
  • Icebreaker · 10 mins
  • Key Takeaways · 5 mins
  • Discussion Questions · 20 mins
  • Write It Down · 2 mins
  • One Action · 10 mins
  • Wrap-Up · 5 mins

👋 Member Updates · 10 mins

Go around your Circle and share personal updates. Keep them brief and focused on significant changes or important decisions since the last time you met. It's OK not to have one every month. If you have a One Action update from last time, share that too.

🧊 Icebreaker · 10 mins

Invite everyone in the group to share. Keep answers to one or two minutes per person.

Share a problem you solved recently in a creative or unexpected way — big or small.

💡 Key Takeaways · 5 mins

Jill Salzman makes the case that moms are uniquely positioned to build companies:

  • Motherhood builds leadership skills. Problem-solving under pressure, time management with limited resources, learning on the fly — these are core skills of both motherhood and entrepreneurship.
  • "Making it up as you go" is key to innovation. What looks like winging it is often rapid adaptation, a skill that drives both parenting and business success.
  • Multitasking isn't innate, it's acquired. Women multitask not because they're wired for it, but because they've had to do it, and that capacity is a professional asset.
  • Community-building is a superpower. Mothers often build community for their families, and that skill translates directly into building the networks, teams, and customer bases that businesses depend on.
  • Women-owned businesses are on the rise. The scale of women's entrepreneurship is larger than most people realize.

💬 Discussion Questions · 20 mins

Move through the questions at the pace that suits your Circle. You don't need to cover every one. Pick the prompts that resonate most.

  1. Jill argues that raising children builds real leadership skills: problem solving, time management, and constant learning. Do you agree?
  2. Share an experience of problem-solving, time management, or learning as a parent that challenged you. What new skills did you take away from it?
  3. Jill reframes "making it up as you go" as innovation. When have you had to improvise your way through something at work or in life — and what did it teach you?
  4. Jill says women multitask not because they're wired for it, but because they have to do it. Does that resonate with you? What strategies have helped you manage the pressure to multitask?
  5. Do you have a business idea, either one that you're building, or one that you haven't yet acted on? What's the one step that would move it forward?

✍️ Write It Down · 2 mins

Take a few minutes to connect the discussion to your own life.

What other skills have you built through experience — parenting, caregiving, or navigating a hard season of life — that have helped you in professional contexts?

🎯 One Action · 10 mins

Commit to one concrete action — big or small — you'll take before next meeting. Go around the Circle and share (1 minute or less per member). Vocalizing it helps hold each other accountable.

Share your One Action with your Circle (1 minute or less).

📅 Wrap-Up · 5 mins

Before you break, plan your next meeting and close on an energetic note. Go around your Circle one by one and finish the sentence:

Now I am feeling… (choose one word).

  • Set the day, time, and location
  • Choose the next topic or resource
  • Confirm who's leading the discussion
  • Decide how you'll stay in touch in between