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Mama Shaker: Jane, Helping Women Bloom as Mothers

February 29, 2020February 29, 2020

Mama Maker: Ramona, Creating Space for a Fluid Career and Family Life

February 23, 2020February 24, 2020

Mama Maker: Shweyta, Going the Distance

February 22, 2020February 23, 2020

Mama Shaker: Claudia, Encouraging Us to Believe We Can

February 15, 2020February 19, 2020

Mama Maker: Jen, Casting Motherhood in a New Light

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020

Mama Shaker: Ashley, Getting to the Heart of the Matter

February 8, 2020

Mama Maker: Olga, Weaving Together Fashion and Childhood

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020

Mama Shaker: Natalie, Helping Generations of Mothers Finally Heal

February 1, 2020

Mama Maker: Joanne, Keeping Mothers Active in Pregnancy, Postpartum and Beyond

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020

Mama Maker: Dawn, Bringing Our Struggles Out in the Open

January 25, 2020January 30, 2020

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Working in close proximity to her husband is nothing new for Ari Krzyzek. The couple runs a creative agency from their home office in Chicago, while tending to the special needs of their son. “In our early years doing business together it was definitely very hard,” she says. “I found that trying to separate our feelings and our relationship as spouses, versus us as business partners, was a little bit tricky in the very beginning.” Ari says that setting boundaries has helped—as tempting as it may be to talk shop over dinner—and establishing a mutually beneficial relationship for all the “different scenarios building a business and in life.” “We’re obviously not perfect, but we try our best to respect one another and try to really find our own strengths and weaknesses,” she says. “I’m honestly just trying my best to at least set some guidelines,” she says. “There are some exceptions on different occasions and different days, but at least I have some sort of guidelines that I can follow, so it’s not 100% strict rules.” Ari recalls the advice of her mentor who emphasized the importance of being as flexible as you can while starting a family, because “things will change very fast, especially in the first 10 years.” Now, almost five years into parenthood, she and her husband have found a way to run @chykalophia together and be hands-on with their son. “The main reason why I’ve built the business the way I have today is because I want to see him grow too,” she says. “If I focus way too much on work that defeats the ‘why.’” “My son is also in the spectrum, so I have to really understand he’s trying his best,” Ari says, making her keenly aware of questions like, “how can I try to figure out what he is currently learning, the way he’s learning, or what’s the best support he needs right now?” When Ari first came to the United States, she looked forward to meeting other entrepreneurial women. “I feel like I didn’t have that enough as I grew up in Bali,” she says. “There’s not enough opportunity for women to come together in a professional setting and even more importantly, in a more positive impact setting.” Read her full story at BestfortheMoment.com #linkinbio

We accept the dance-off, @enews #bringiton

Charlotte Blake Kaplan brought new mothers together for a decade before becoming one herself. While helping postpartum women recover, she caught a glimpse of the healing power of the sisterhood of mothers. “Motherhood has taught me how to be with women, how to not judge the kind of person I think that I would be friends with, ” she says. “It’s just opened my heart.” “So many of us have grown up—or we were brought up—to gossip and not really know how to be in the circle of women, even though that’s our ancient lineage,” and it results in what’s described as the “sisterhood wound,” says @charlotteblakekaplan. No matter what came before our children, or how adequate we feel going into it, motherhood is the great equalizer. It bonds us together as warriors who’ve been through similar physical and emotional battles. “So I feel like that’s been a big, beautiful gift that I wasn’t expecting,” she says. While it’s impossible to know what motherhood will be like, Charlotte’s instincts were spot on: spending time with moms is guaranteed to ease the transition. “Women need to be together,” she believes. “In my twenties, when I was working with women who had just had babies, it was somehow imprinted in my brain that I was definitely going to surround myself with women who are going through the same thing as me.” She started @charlotteblakepilates Blake Pilates as a way to heal from years of dance that wreaked havoc on her body. Learning how to help others move without pain bonded her to mothers early on. “I feel like I always held myself back because I loved working with moms, but I wasn’t a mom myself,” she says. “But I see, looking back how my work was really helpful and it didn’t matter that I wasn’t a mom.” “I also have the perspective of being a single woman in my twenties to now being married with a baby, and having gone through that experience definitely changes how I work with women and how I relate to them,” she says. “I am giving myself a little bit more credit retroactively.” Read her full story at BestfortheMoment.com #linkinbio #motherhood #mothersday

Even when it feels messy and hard, at the end of the day we’re building something for our kids to feel like they’re part of (and maybe even siblings that feel like friends 😉) #quarantinehaircut

Rebekah Rosler dedicates her waking hours to supporting women who are trying to become pregnant, navigating postpartum and the rigors of motherhood—all of which she’s experienced firsthand on the uphill climb to conceive her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old twins. “Whether you’re a therapist or a coach or a friend, what you really need to be doing is listening and supporting and helping—and oftentimes that’s all somebody else needs,” she says. “They don’t need an expert. They don’t need the most knowledgeable human being on a particular topic. They just need to be to be seen and they need to be respected and they need to be comforted.” In the years it took Rebekah to prove the doctors wrong who told her she could never get pregnant, she formed bonds with a community of women going through their own infertility struggles. She learned how powerful it was to simply be present when someone is grieving. “I often get messages from friends saying ‘I just found out my friend suffered a miscarriage. What should I say or what should I do? How should I act?’ and of course you don’t want to say the wrong thing,” she says. “But oftentimes, people just say nothing. And that’s the worst possible reaction. Even if you say the wrong thing, you’re trying and people want support, even if they don’t want it in that moment, or say they don’t want it.” Rebekah’s advice is universal for the moments that we find ourselves sensing the pain that someone we care about is feeling, but we struggle to come up with the words to show them we care. “I always say what you can tell them is you have no idea what the f*ck to say, you just know you want to be there for them,” she says. “You will be there when they want to talk. You are there for them now, tomorrow, in 10 years, whatever it may be.” “Don’t leave them alone. Don’t leave them to their own devices. Let them know that they’re not alone, they have friendship and family and they have what they need. They might just not be ready or willing to dig deep and ask for it, but be present and be there.” Read her full story at BestfortheMoment.com #linkinbio #infertility #infertilityawareness #postpartum #doula #mompreneur

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