I have often joked that TechPixies is my third child. Much like motherhood, entrepreneurship doesn’t have an on/off button. June and July were busy months for TechPixies. After preparing to pitch to twelve potential investors in June, we closed on our first round of investment in July… £91.8k from four formidable female investors. The process…
Are you looking to return to work, change careers or start a business? TechPixies founder, Joy Foster, has a reading list for you. Here’s Joy Foster’s Reading List: For everyone: 1. The Power of the Habit by Charles Duhigg – (@cdhuigg / @charlesduhigg) Until I read this book, I had no idea how much our…
Many women who are looking to return to work, change careers or start a business need resilience. Rejection from that job you really wanted hurts, but not applying for it out of fear that you won’t get it means you’ll never have a chance at the job in the first place. Taking a step to…
Where best to start a new chapter in the TechPixies story than The Story Cafe at The Story Museum! And what a marvellous venue for the launch of the new TechPixies platform, with four new self-paced online courses. Located in a brick stable yard that feels rather like something from a Charles Dickens’ tale, two…
Recently TechPixies founder, Joy Foster, was invited to speak at a ladies lunch benefiting the charity Children Today which was held at the Chester Grosvenor Hotel. It turns out, the lunch was the inaugural event – and equally for Joy, it was her very first keynote speaking engagement. It was an easy event to say yes to because…
Having read Hilly Jane’s article ‘Meet the women who want to crack the return-to-work problem – starting with telling you to ‘toughen up’’ in the Telegraph, about Lisa Unwin and Deb Khan’s organisation and a book of the same name, She’s Back – we were intrigued to know more. TechPixies founder Joy Foster is reading…
Winning always feels good. TechPixies has been championing women since our inception and while that is and always has been our primary focus, winning a few awards along the way helps too! Naga Munchetty from BBC Breakfast hosted the event and read the judges’ statement before presenting Joy with the award: “Joy Foster has amazing…
Helen Wright has one mission in life – to help women find flexible, meaningful, well paid employment. We are so happy to have 923jobs.com as a partner and ally! We caught up with her on Zoom. Did you find this video useful? If so, we’d love to hear about it. Please fill out the…
As a full time athlete from 2003 to 2007, I literally lived in my training kit. My hair was always in a ponytail and the only makeup I wore was sunblock. Then, in 2010, I became a mother. I remember looking at myself in the mirror one day when my two little ones were in…
“I wouldn’t be where I am now if I hadn’t done the TechPixies course” Anna had a successful career as a business psychologist – until she found herself the mother of three children under the age of two-and-a-half! The birth of her son had been swiftly followed by that of twin girls, and her new…