Mums On Cloud Nine – Details, episodes & analysis

In this empowering episode, Heather, Lyn, and Kelly dive deep into the topic of Ambition. What it means for women today, and how to shape an ambitious mindset that aligns with life and career goals.

They explore why Ambition is so often misunderstood or downplayed in women, and share personal stories of how their ambitions have evolved across motherhood, career changes, and personal growth.

You’ll hear them unpack:

• The actual definition of Ambition and how it doesn’t have to mean burnout or hustle
• How to reclaim your goals after career breaks or life transitions
• Mindset shifts that help you stop playing small and start owning your aspirations
• Tips for setting aligned, sustainable ambitions that support your whole life and not just your job title

Whether you’re dreaming of a new career, launching a business, or just craving more purpose in your day-to-day, this episode will inspire you to permit yourself to want more and go for it.

💡 Ambition isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being intentional. And yes, you’re allowed.

Mums on Cloud Nine is your go-to destination for inspiring content that empowers women to build a life and career they love.

Each week, we share expert advice, personal stories, and practical tips on a range of topics, from health and mindset to money and career growth.

Check out our website at www.mumsoncloudnine.co.uk and subscribe for weekly tips, free resources, and expert advice to elevate your mindset.

Welcome to Part 6 of the Relaunch your Career series. Do you worry about giving your children quality time whilst also juggling your career? Do you feel guilty at the thought of going back into the workplace?

Today we’re going to be talking about how to juggle a career and kids. I am joined by Abigail Wald today, founder of Mother Flipping Awesome, to discuss this topic.

Here are the highlights:

(01:52) Mother Flipping Awesome

(03:30) Strong-willed kids

(06:44) Invisible burden

(12:35) Know your power

(17:39) Failing at home

(21:42) Community

(31:22) Love languages

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  

 In this new four part series, we will be talking about the Skills and Awesome Admin that you can really put into place to make sure you perform effectively as a Salesforce administrator.

Today we're talking about how to manage a Salesforce system and everything that entails. 

I am delighted to be joined by Jack McCurdy, who is a DevOps advocate from Gearset, and he will be talking and offering sage advice about how DevOps can support Salesforce professionals in managing changes every day. 

Highlights from this episode: 

(01:57) The 40 Tasks

(08:32) Part of a wider network 

(11:45) Solid Communication is key 

(18:36) Gearset

(20:47) The Blog  

 Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/ 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/  

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What is it like working with Marketing Cloud?

In today’s episode  I will be discussing everything Marketing Cloud. 

(Check out the previous episode as well!) 

Marketing Cloud opens up a range of new career opportunities, and can advance your position as a Salesforce professional. 

For this show, I'm delighted to be joined by Danielle Lathy, Principal Salesforce consultant of insurance at Silverline. She's also a Salesforce MVP, Salesforce marketing Cloud champion and community leader

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellelaffey/

Highlights from this episode:

(01:00) Danielle’s Journey

(05:23) Insurance considerations

(11:20) Educated, Enabled and Rewarded

(06:56) Communication is key

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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 Why Salesforce Admins need to know Marketing Cloud 

In today’s episode and for the next few shows I will be discussing everything Marketing Cloud.  

Marketing Cloud opens up a range of new career opportunities, and can advance your position as a Salesforce professional.  

This week, I’m talking to Chris Zullo, the marketing practice director at All Cloud, about why salesforce admins need to be aware of Marketing Cloud. 

Join us for an inciteful chat.

Highlights from this episode: 

(01:20) Marketing Cloud Champion 

(02:37) Why should we be familiar with Marketing Cloud? 

(04:23) Discussing Training 

(09:33) The Importance of Data 

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ 

How to pitch yourself for a Salesforce Consultant Job Role

In today’s episode I discuss how to prepare for a job interview, how to present yourself, and how to stand out from other applicants. In this episode I am joined by Melanie Debenham, who shares her insight on what makes a great candidate and  offers interview tips.  

This has been a six part series during which we have looked at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We have looked at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! 

If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. 

Highlights from this episode: 

(01:26) Presenting yourself 

(05:14) Taking the next step 

(06:50) Making your CV stand out 

(13:58) Culture of an organization  

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ 

How to manage Salesforce changes with Dev Ops

In this week’s podcast I am joined by Inshu Misra, to discuss DevOps and what consultants should know in order to perform the best in their roles in this capacity.

Inshu has been in the Salesforce ecosystem for more than 11 years, and throughout those years has worked as a technical architect and behavioural analyst. 

This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more!

If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us.

Highlights from this episode:

(02:04) What is DevOps?

(04:50) Salesforce ecosystem

(11:02) Copado

(15:26) Certification programs

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/

How to empower Salesforce users with Coaching Skills 

In this week’s podcast we’re talking about how coaching can empower you as an individual to build your confidence and overcome imposter syndrome, and also how coaching can apply and be directly beneficial to how you manage yourselves with projects and communicate with people.

This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! 

If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us.

Highlights from this episode:

(01:19) Coaching background

(02:55) Communication

(05:52) Team building

(13:36) Training strategy

(14:17) Positive reframing 

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit https://supermums.org/

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on CloudNine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ 

How to increase adoption of Salesforce users with Change Management Skills

In this week's podcast, We are going to talking about Change Management - 

Some people embrace change and others fear it. We talk today about how we can manage that to get the best results. 

Why is it important? What the value is to the company that you are engaging and working with and what does it entail?  

This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! 

If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. 

Highlights from this episode: 

(03:48)   It’s a people game 

(05:12)  Considering the culture 

(12:46) Which approach to take is key 

(19:27)  The importance of communication skills 

(23:37) Keeping it going and getting feedback 

 
Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/ 

How to prioritise Salesforce requirements with Agile Project Management

In this week's podcast, we're talking about understanding and applying Agile Project Management and why this is an essential skill for any Salesforce professional if they are going to be managing expectations of stakeholders on a Salesforce project 

We discuss why it's important, what the value of it is,  why is it in the norm approach for tech? Why did it come about for tech agencies? We  touch on why it's different between traditional and agile project management methodologies and which agile project management methodology would suit you in your job role. 

This will be a six part series during which we are going to look at at how to empower Salesforce users with coaching skills as well as how to manage Salesforce changes with DevOps. We are going to look at how you can pitch yourself as a Salesforce consultant for any job role you might be going for. And more! 

If you enjoyed this episode please follow, share and leave a review to help others find us. 

Highlights from this episode: 

(02:40) 4 Key Principles 

(06:42)  The beginnings of APM 

(09:53) An alternative approach 

(14:58)  SCRUM explained 

(17:52) The courses we offer 

 
Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org 

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/ 

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/ 

Supermums helps women to boost their Salesforce career from starting out to progressing up their career ladder. Sign up to their weekly newsletter to benefit from weekly tips, events and insight https://supermums.org/insights/newsletter/