Age does not define who you can be
by Sherry Kallergis / Photography Simon Armstrong Age may define who you are but it doesn’t define who you can be. Zuhal Kuvan-Mills is living proof. At 26 she was a veterinarian, 36 a science teacher, 46 an art student and 56 an eco-fashion designer. I [...]
The dark side of following your dreams
Just because I have made my dream into a job doesn’t mean it is all glitz and glam (follow me on my Instagram feed). Running Mums in Heels is 90 percent pure joy, excitement, and learning. The other 10 percent is like that of peeling off [...]
S.U.P.P.O.R.T
By Becky Clifford / Photography Elizabeth D'Alessandro One thing that I think helps in this magnificent union of “mum” and “entrepreneur” thing is the process of creating a positive support system around you. You don’t even have to be both. We all need support. Yet sometimes [...]
The tale of Jing Su and her fashion moments at Maison Gassmann
Photography Elizabeth D’Allesandro / Styling Kathy Patellis-Schmidt When I meet Jing Su (Sophie for most of her friends in Switzerland) for the first time she reminds me of the exquisite pen-and-watercolor scenes from the Chinese folktale The Shell Woman and the King. Just like the beautiful Shell, Sophie [...]
What makes mothers successful entrepreneurs
Photography by German Osorio Sometimes you go for a business meeting with the intention to get things done and move on, but things just click and it gets personal—like a first date gone really well. You know, the other person is just so cool and [...]
Stop trying to be perfectionists
Interview with the co-founder and CEO of the AWE Summit Tulia Lopes Modern leaders today recognize that lasting success happens when you align passion and knowledge, experience and inner wisdom with a higher purpose. Yet everyone has a different definition of success. What is success? The only [...]
The Globaltrotter in Heels Part 2
Idea Tsitaliya Mircheva / Styling Style-Etc. / Photography Ruth Hofmann Two years after her son was born, Marion and her husband decided to move back to Zurich. “We often discussed returning to Europe, but at the end it was my husband’s idea to move back. He [...]
Is there such a thing as authentic business
Did you know that the latest buzz word in the world of marketing and branding is “Authenticity”? As an entrepreneur that word plays a special part in my life. Just like me, many other women leave a corporate job so they can feel that they are more connected and [...]
Follow your dreams – a cliché or madness?
We recently were discussing at Mums in Heels what exactly Iconic Living means. I remember suggesting that following your dreams surely is part of the iconic living. Tsitaliya then huffed and said “but isn’t living your dream become one of the biggest cliché of our [...]
Fashion at its heart
Photo Credits: aéthérée - aetheree.ch If you are a fashionista, you most likely love magic and illusion. If you are a fashion designer I am sure you can easily find a job as a magician as well. For me the relation between fashion and magic [...]
Mama is a fashionista
This is how this story begins I met Anna years ago, when we both had our first ones (our kids I mean, what else were you thinking)? Anna is Swedish and has two boys, she studied in London and then moved over here in Switzerland [...]
Deja Rose and Angelica Cipullo, Co-Founders of the Girlfriend Guide to Zurich
https://youtu.be/Uf1AF5XP7Bo When you think about it, some of the most important life-changing decisions are taken over an innocent rendez-vous between friends or spouses. Something like that happened when two “new to town” ladies met in a small Zurich Cafe over a pot of Mint Tea. Eventually, [...]