Mavis Amankwah

Bring It: Business Trends To Bring into 2022 It’s official- we are 16 days away from a new year! As I am typing it, I still find it hard to believe, but it’s true! You have made it through another unpredictable year. Take a few seconds to acknowledge that!  This is...

Recovery Loan Scheme: Everything You Need to Know in Light of The Application Deadline Extension I have already shared with you my guide to the Bounce Back Loan (if you haven’t already, make sure to check it out!), but I am back today to give you the scoop on the...

Bounce Back Loan: All You Need To Know & How to Ensure You Make Your Repayment The pandemic has been tough on most of us: office cubicles were replaced by Zoom meeting rooms; classrooms were replaced by living rooms; there were many changes and challenges we have...

Everything You Need to Know about Buy Now, Pay Later A lot has been said recently about buy now, pay later schemes. While some defend that the schemes allow people to divide the costs in an interest-free way, others are worried that it opens the door to taking on...

Entrepreneurship Week: A Brief Guide to Sucess If you have or are thinking of starting your own business you know how hard it can be. Seriously, we take a huge leap (many times of faith) and put ourselves out there to try and make it on our own. We deserve a week of...

  Volunteering at Race for Life to help fight against breast cancer   Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. Over 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK and around 370 men. One in seven women in the UK will develop...

  Kickstart Programme: 6 months of talent, hard work and many rewards   There is a central mantra that I have used in my personal and professional career that I thought was essential for the theme of this article: give people the opportunity to improve...

Black History Month with Mavis: Celebrating Oprah Winfrey Those of us who are into entrepreneurship probably have our favourite story of perseverance. You know, the one that moved you to either start your venture or to keep going after a bump on the road? For many of...

How to optimise your money spending We have all been there. You get to the last Friday of the month, get paid and go out with your friends to celebrate. By Monday morning you look at your bank account and wonder where the money has gone- how did you manage to spend so...

Black History Month with Mavis: A month-long celebration As October begins you have probably started looking for warmer coats and anticipating all the seasonal drinks that come with it. Don’t worry, no judgements from me, I am the same! I go running for pumpkin...

How to work less and make more You have probably heard the saying: “work smarter, not harder” and for good reason. Too often we are discouraged from pursuing a specific goal because we think that it will be too hard; too time-consuming; and impossible to balance with...

How to make money using your mobile phone  If there's one thing we never leave home without, it's our mobile phone. Your purse and driver's licence are more likely to be left than your phone. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Unlike a purse, which allows you to...

Mavis' short guide to making passive income In a country where 1 in 3 middle-class adults would have to borrow money for a surprise £500 expense, it makes sense that everyone wants to earn more money. But time is also an important factor. If you work 40 hours a week,...

How to make money from home!  Making money from home in the United Kingdom has never been easier. Years ago, there were only a few options for working from home, but today, more and more people are realising that the standard 9-to-5 job is becoming obsolete. We...

Get to know me better on my birthday! Happy Birthday to me! What a roller-coaster of a life I have had, but if there is one thing, I have learnt is that no matter the fall, I will always find myself rocketing higher than ever before. I feel like I'm exactly where I'm...

How to go from an "I wish" mindset to an "I will mindset": 3 top tips “The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” Charles Dickens As an entrepreneur,...

The transition from 9-5 to self-employed At a young age, I worked on market stalls trying to earn some money for myself, which gave me first-hand experience in how business works. Down the line, I ended up working in IT for 20 years before deciding that this was no...

Lipstick Day - Lipstick and Feeling Confident In honour of Lipstick day last week, I hosted a lipstick day at the office and had all the beautiful women I work with wear the lipstick they feel most powerful in. We took cute photos and discussed female confidence and...

Being an entrepreneur & a mother Being a mother is such a blessing. My kids mean the world to me.  But It tends to get hectic balancing working full-time and taking care of a household and extended family. I constantly battled with feeling guilty and going back...

Black Leaders’ Awareness Day: My favourite black-owned businesses As a black woman in the business world and as a diversity expert, I am probably more aware than most of the real racial disparities in the field. I have experienced racism first-hand throughout my...