The Expecting Entrepreneur by Arianna Taboada

And they were often coming to me due to the stressors they faced in navigating maternity leave. I quickly realized, however, that my favorite clients were entrepreneurs. When I started my business in 2013, I was focused on postpartum support in general. I worked in clinical settings before going into private practice. Question from Mindful Return: How did you get interested in supporting working mom entrepreneurs through their maternity leaves?Īrianna: I am a public health social worker and perinatal health researcher by training. It took me about 10 months to feel like I was in a rhythm that worked for my business and my family. The first year of parenthood, I experimented with different work schedules, childcare hours, and types of client work. So my maternity leave and return to work was a big experiment in how I wanted to structure my work moving forward. It was just myself, a part time assistant, and occasionally some contractors. When I became a parent, I’d been running a small micro-business for 3 years. First, can you tell us a little bit about your own personal working parent story?Īrianna: I’m so thrilled to be back on the blog and collaborating on the new Mindful Return Maternity Leave Course for Entrepreneurs! Question from Mindful Return: Welcome (back!) to the Mindful Return blog, Arianna! We are thrilled to welcome you here as the newest Mindful Return course creator and coach. Whether you call yourself founder, CEO, entrepreneur, mompreneur, business owner, or something else, we hope you’ll join us – and your fellow new mama entrepreneurs – for an upcoming session of this new and wonderful course! Below, please find my interview with Arianna about our new partnership. Particularly with the rise in self-employment and portfolio approaches to career, Arianna’s work in helping new moms entrepreneurs through the maternity leave and return process is extremely critical.

She first visited this blog as a guest back in 2016, when she wrote the helpful piece, Dear Boss…Oh wait that’s me! Navigating maternity leave when you are self-employed. And we have consistently admired one another’s passion for supporting new parents. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Mindful Return has teamed up with Arianna Taboada, author of The Expecting Entrepreneur, to bring you a brand new, 4-week, cohort-based Mindful Return course: Mindful Return’s Maternity Leave Course for Entrepreneurs!Īrianna and I have known one another for years. Until now, however, we have not had a program specifically tailored to the experience of working mom business owners. Big news for working mom entrepreneurs!! For nearly a decade, Mindful Return has supported thousands of new parents as they navigate both the logistics and the emotions of returning to work after parental leave.

The Expecting Entrepreneur by Arianna Taboada