If you don’t know it yet, it is my inherent mission in life to help women in Malaysia with their child care problems. Unfortunately in Malaysia, we hear of babies and kids DYING whilst in the care of others and this is happening all too often so much so that it is crazy. You would be deemed crazy if you left your child with a nursery, or day care or a maid. But what choice do women have really? Not everyone has parents or in-laws to help with child care and not everyone can afford to have Mom stay at home full time to care for the kids. So how would we solve this problem???

Most people would just laugh at me and my crazy ideas and slam me down that this would never happen. Malaysia will NEVER allow children to the boardroom.

I say bring a baby to the boardroom in a literal sense but actually mean having offices become more child friendly, force companies to provide childcare facilities or at the very least landlords, force the Government to take a more pro-active stance on helping women and childcare (have some strict guidelines and proper enforcement, for goodness sake!), and Moms, do your job REALLY well so that your requests for help with child care won’t fall on deaf ears.

Sure, companies want to make money and most will close the door in considering spending a little extra beyond the salaries but what they don’t realise is that by making an employee happy, productivity soars. It is common sense. And if it doesn’t, get rid of that employee!

I definitely see the value in companies helping Moms out by being more flexible with working hours and flexibility with the normal office rules. OK, so a baby might be a serious distraction at a Board Meeting where multi-million dollar decisions needed to be made, but surely there are ways around that. Perhaps the Mom is included into that meeting via video-conferencing, perhaps baby is happy to play with Nanny just outside the boardroom, I don’t know. But there must be a solution to it.

If Mothers would do their jobs REALLY well, companies would find it hard to lose them. Of course, no one is indispensable but certainly some more than others and sometimes, if you worked really hard (and smart), people WILL start noticing you. And once the CEO likes you, he is more likely to bend the rules for you. Admit it, if someone were a superstar employee and ultimately making you money, wouldn’t you accommodate her request to bring her baby to work? Whatever the setback, solve it. If there is a will, there is a way.

This week, I brought T2 to my client’s office because I didn’t have a choice. They are a global technology provider listed on the Milan stock exchange. It wasn’t for a presentation (thank God) but just a meeting to resolve some pending issues. I had some curious looks from 6 matsallehs who were in another boardroom, the locals were tickled and the person I had the meeting with said nothing. We just got on with it and admittedly, there were some moments of Ssshhhhh!!! to T2 but all in all, we had achieved what we’d set out to do.

More and more of this needs to happen before any change can take place. People need to accept that bringing a baby (or a child) to the boardroom is OK. Who knows? It could be the child that solves your multi-million dollar problem and gives you a head start with a new idea!

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.