Here to help with ...
Financial advice, Career support, Legal help, Health & wellbeing
Woman in Progress exists to empower single women with (or without) kids to take control of their circumstances.
Every hand-picked service provider in our database is here to help you make this happen.
Our service providers are renowned for being skilful and caring providers of excellent customer service. In short, they’re the bee’s knees.
Please note ...
The Woman in Progress database is a work in progress.
We’ve launched with a small but select group of service providers, but the word is spreading, and we are growing.
If you have a top service provider you’d love to see listed here, let us know, and we’ll contact them.
How to connect with a service provider
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Explore the database
Before you do, get clear on what you want. Talk this through with a trusted human (if you can) and make a list. When you look for a match, let your list guide you, but also listen to your gut.
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We'll connect you
We'll forward your EOI form and introduce you to the service provider(s).
They’ll choose a skilful, experienced person familiar with your needs to contact you.
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Fill out an EOI to speak to interesting business(s)
Complete and send us an EOI form for a service provider (or providers) you’d like to talk to.
You’ll get an email confirming that we’ve received your request.
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Not sure who to choose?
Tell us what you need, and we’ll recommend someone from the database.
Financial Services
No matter how much or little money you have, make it work as hard as you do.
Get to grips with budgeting and bill paying. Take small, incremental financial steps toward securing 'future you.'
When you're struggling to make ends meet, it's tough to imagine how you could make scarce resources stretch any further.
And YET, with some savvy financial advice combined with generous and skilful support to help you stay on track, you can reset your money mindset. Instead of saying, ‘I can’t afford it,’ you’ll start asking, ‘How can I afford it?’.
Legal Services
Get clear, comprehensive, genuinely caring legal advice on family law matters, including the impact of separation on your children and your finances.
Moving into and managing single parenting means confronting a heap of hard choices and making difficult decisions.
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Talk to our compassionate, experienced lawyer. You’ll still have to make hard choices, but they’ll be more informed and confident ones.
“I have met myself, and I am going to care for her fiercely.”
Glennon Doyle, Writer and activist
Career Support
Figure out what meaningful work looks like for you and find a job you love.
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Remember, there's no work like mother's work for building the top bunch of transferable 'soft' skills employers seek.
Think, flexibility, creative problem solving, conflict resolution, being cool under pressure, do we need to say more? So, if you're stressing about being capable and competitive in the job market, do your best to let that go!
Whether you've got a headful of 'return to' or 'reinvention' career ideas or no ideas at all, you'll find people-centred recruitment agencies, career coaches, and community organisations to help you make the right career moves.
Wellbeing
Make self-care financially doable and fun. Do 'feel good' fitness and 'look good' fashion and beauty your own sweet way.
You're 100% immersed in raising small humans and taking care of All. The. Things. No wonder 'self-care' comes last on your to-do list. Maybe the mere thought of finding funds and time for self-care feels selfish...and exhausting.
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But here's the thing. Single parenting is an endurance event, Every. Single. Day. Depriving yourself of activities that energise and recharge your batteries does you and your kids no favours.
Furthermore, self-care doesn't have to be expensive. The Woman in Progress wellbeing database is brim-full of great value beauty and fashion retailers and fitness providers who will work within your budget to give you energising results that are probably priceless.
If you're looking for a great haircut, a savvy skincare routine, a fab 'from home' fitness routine or fearless fashion advice. It's here.
"Perhaps sometimes reminding ourselves that we do have a choice makes it easier to pick the harder one."
Eva Melusine Thieme, Travel writer and adventurer