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Your life is baby-ready-but did you babyproof your business? When you're the boss, planning for much-needed parental leave, making money, and the survival of your business can feel overwhelming. You deserve to recover from childbirth and transition into this new chapter without the stress of work. How do you design a parental leave that works for you, your family, and your business-without sacrificing entrepreneurship success? In The Expecting Entrepreneur, parental leave consultant Arianna Taboada provides a step-by-step blueprint for expecting business owners to plan parental leave while ensuring that their small business runs smoothly and successfully in their absence. Full of easy-to-implement strategies and diverse case studies of women entrepreneurs during pregnancy and motherhood, this is your guide to confidently prioritizing your health and your baby with a leave that fits your business model. You'll discover: A foundation of five principles for planning your ideal leave. Scientific evidence on the importance of parental leave for you, your baby, and your business. How to update operations and client communications to keep day-to-day tasks moving forward. Financial options to fund your time off when paid family leave isn't possible. Strategies to ease the transition of returning to your business postpartum. In the absence of a company policy, you have the power to design your parental leave, your way! Get The Expecting Entrepreneur to prepare yourself and your business for your promotion to parenthood.

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Arianna Taboada gives readers the much-needed tools to go beyond survival and get on with the business of thriving. -Nathalie Molina Nino, Managing director of Known Holdings and author of Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs The go-to guide for any business owner looking for concrete tools and planning support in navigating the adjustments to work and life necessitated by childbirth. -Katie Bethell, Founder, Paid Leave for the United States (PL+US) This book makes the clear case why we all-business owners, thought leaders, advocates-must step up and rally behind the policies, programs, and supports that can help make parental leave possible for all. -Christine Michel Carter, Best-selling author of Mom AF and global advocate for working moms Running a business with a baby has some inevitable challenges, but you can plan for a smoother transition with The Expecting Entrepreneur. Arianna Taboada has done the hard work for you, simplifying and systematizing exactly what you need to consider to 'babyproof' your business and thrive postpartum. -Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE, Best-selling author of Real Food for Pregnancy This guide is generous, thoughtful, science-meets-art, and will help you build the self-awareness you need as you move through the momentous shifts into parenthood. This book will lift you up! -Rebecca Egbert, Entrepreneur, former midwife, and perinatal health tech pioneer The Expecting Entrepreneur is an incredibly comprehensive guide to planning out...this huge upcoming change to your life and business. I highly recommend this book to all parents who run their own businesses. -Bari Tessler, MA, Financial therapist and author of The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness The Expecting Entrepreneur is an essential resource and required reading for all entrepreneurs looking to sustainably and supportively take care of their health, their family, and their business as they prepare to welcome a new life into this world. -Parijat Deshpande, MS, CCTP, Best-selling author of Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy Business owners now have a manual for how to map out a maternity leave and return in ways that will quell their anxieties and help them avoid recreating the wheel. A must-read for self-employed new parents. -Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, CEO & founder of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby, partner at Dentons US LLP The pages are filled with practical advice for creating a postpartum experience that works. New parents deserve and need support and space to heal and recover-and this book offers the wisdom to make that happen. -Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH, Director of the Jordan Institute for Families and executive director of the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill With this wonderfully researched, thorough, inclusive, warm, and incredibly thorough gem of a book, The Expecting Entrepreneur allows entrepreneurs to confidently navigate an often nebulous, overwhelming time in their lives. -Ayelet Marinovich, MA, CCC-SLP, Founder of Learn With Less(R) (Strength In Words LLC)

"""Arianna Taboada gives readers the much-needed tools to go beyond survival and get on with the business of thriving."" -Nathalie Molina Niño, Managing director of Known Holdings and author of Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs ""The go-to guide for any business owner looking for concrete tools and planning support in navigating the adjustments to work and life necessitated by childbirth."" -Katie Bethell, Founder, Paid Leave for the United States (PL+US) ""This book makes the clear case why we all-business owners, thought leaders, advocates-must step up and rally behind the policies, programs, and supports that can help make parental leave possible for all."" -Christine Michel Carter, Best-selling author of Mom AF and global advocate for working moms ""Running a business with a baby has some inevitable challenges, but you can plan for a smoother transition with The Expecting Entrepreneur. Arianna Taboada has done the hard work for you, simplifying and systematizing exactly what you need to consider to 'babyproof' your business and thrive postpartum."" -Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE, Best-selling author of Real Food for Pregnancy ""This guide is generous, thoughtful, science-meets-art, and will help you build the self-awareness you need as you move through the momentous shifts into parenthood. This book will lift you up!"" -Rebecca Egbert, Entrepreneur, former midwife, and perinatal health tech pioneer ""The Expecting Entrepreneur is an incredibly comprehensive guide to planning out...this huge upcoming change to your life and business. I highly recommend this book to all parents who run their own businesses."" -Bari Tessler, MA, Financial therapist and author of The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness ""The Expecting Entrepreneur is an essential resource and required reading for all entrepreneurs looking to sustainably and supportively take care of their health, their family, and their business as they prepare to welcome a new life into this world."" -Parijat Deshpande, MS, CCTP, Best-selling author of Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy ""Business owners now have a manual for how to map out a maternity leave and return in ways that will quell their anxieties and help them avoid recreating the wheel. A must-read for self-employed new parents."" -Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, CEO & founder of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby, partner at Dentons US LLP ""The pages are filled with practical advice for creating a postpartum experience that works. New parents deserve and need support and space to heal and recover-and this book offers the wisdom to make that happen."" -Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH, Director of the Jordan Institute for Families and executive director of the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ""With this wonderfully researched, thorough, inclusive, warm, and incredibly thorough gem of a book, The Expecting Entrepreneur allows entrepreneurs to confidently navigate an often nebulous, overwhelming time in their lives."" -Ayelet Marinovich, MA, CCC-SLP, Founder of Learn With Less(R) (Strength In Words LLC)"

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Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH, is the founder of The Expecting Entrepreneur(TM), a consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs design parental leave plans that meet their business model and personal needs. Her highly personalized services for entrepreneurs incorporate both her expertise as a maternal health professional and her own experience as a business owner and mother. Prior to her consulting practice, Arianna worked on maternal health issues for over a decade as a health educator, a social work trainee, a reproductive health researcher, and a yoga therapist.Arianna speaks and writes about parental leave and respectful maternity care as an issue of social justice, human rights, and economic equity. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Health Equity, Advances in Social Work, and Ethnicity & Health. She is a coauthor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School, published by The University of Illinois Press in 2020.Arianna completed two traineeships with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the US federal government's Health Services and Resources Administration-one at the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities and another at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her Master of Social Work and a Master of Science in Maternal and Child Health. She is also an in-house senior researcher at Hopelab, a social innovation lab focused on developing health and emotional well-being interventions for adolescents and young adults, including those who are pregnant or parenting.Arianna is bilingual, binational, and bicultural, and has spent much of her life working across the US and Mexico. She currently lives, works, and plays with her family in Berkeley, CA. Learn more at www.theexpectingentrepreneur.com.

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