Balancing Business and Babies, with Yamel Belen

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Do you struggle with balancing the demands of both your family life and your work life, and sometimes feel like, despite your best efforts, you just aren’t quite nailing either? If so, we have all been there! And this is the episode for you.

In my 17 years of being a mother, the career side of my life has gone through all the cycles and, even though I am passionate about my role as a mother and my family are at the centre of my life, I didn’t want my career aspirations to fall by the wayside when I became a mom. In today’s episode, I am joined by someone equally passionate about both mothering and their career – my good friend, Yamel Belen.

Yamel is a fellow big family mom and an ambitious entrepreneur running multiple businesses, and in this episode she joins me to talk all about balancing business and babies.

Yamel is a registered nurse with extensive experience in Pediatrics and is a trailblazer in the birth community. Over a decade ago, she founded One Love Doula Services, dedicated to supporting individuals throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and she recently expanded her impact by launching One Last Nanny last year. Yamel is a respected leader in the birth & parenting community and last year she launched ‘The Motherhood Kit’ podcast to offer further invaluable support to women on their motherhood journey.

In this episode, we discuss the challenges that we and so many other women experience when it comes to balancing family life alongside career pursuits, and share our insights on how we work to foster connection and maintain a loving environment within our families, alongside pursuing our professional goals.

So put in your headphones, settle in, and get ready to shine!

Table of Contents

In this episode, we cover:

Yamel’s journey to working in the birth and postpartum world, and how the seed was sewn when she supported her own mom during her younger brother’s birth, when she was just 10-years old.
Yamel’s story of starting her business to allow for more flexibility in her life, to enable her to spend more time with her family.
Some of the challenges that Yamel has come up against in her journey of building her businesses, and her commitment to dismantling some of the expectations associated with being a woman and mother in business.
The power of making mistakes in business, firstly because of the opportunities they provide to learn, and also to model to your children that mistakes are an inevitable part of life and not everything has to go perfectly.
How to foster strong connections within your family environment while also pursuing your professional goals, including the importance of prioritizing time with your partner, and spending intentional time with your children as individuals.
The importance of prioritizing self-care and how self-care doesn’t have to be an extravagant spa day, but can be as simple as just taking a moment to yourself and tuning into what will bring you comfort and peace in that moment, and help you recharge.

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