Balancing Two Loves: My Business and My Baby
Becoming a mom while running a business is one of the biggest learning curves I’ve ever faced. My baby boy Elias is 7 months old now and the last year and a half has been full of surprises, tough decisions, and moments of anxiety, grief & joy.
In this session, I’ll share my personal experience of preparing for parenthood while keeping my business running, and how things go so far, what I’ve learned (and am still learning) about balancing work and family life.
Work gives me pure joy—I simply love the creativity that comes with my profession. When I was pregnant, I worked until the day I gave birth, knowing I didn’t want to take a long break afterward. I slowed down for about six weeks postpartum before gradually picking up again (tons of learnings in this period).
In this session I will share:
• How I tried to prepare for the transition—and what actually helped.
• The guiding principles we chose for raising our baby and how they shaped both our energy and our baby’s eating/sleeping patterns.
• How I structure my work now (including business travelling abroad while breastfeeding).
• The role of embodied learning, movement & staying connected to my body during pregnancy, labor and the postnatal period.
Why join?
This isn’t about having it all figured out—it’s about sharing real experiences. I would love to learn from each other, and find ways to make it work!
About Parenting Circle
Parenting Circle, facilitated by experienced learning & development professionals, is a monthly event for parents who navigate the worlds of work and parenthood and believe that "Parents Grow Too 🌱". Practical, engaging, supportive, refreshing - that´s how participants describe it.
Looking forward,
Lena
About the host:
Lena is an L&D Consultant who believes that “Moving is our brain’s favourite way of learning”. She holds a Master's in Lifelong Learning & BSc in Educational Studies, is an EMCC-accredited Coach and Coach supervisor, and loves working with trainers, facilitators and leadership teams to help them accelerate their development. In 2017 she founded Lena’s Moves, which creates non-boring onboarding programs for multinational organisations like Netflix, H&M, and Johnson& Johnson, so they no longer struggle to get new hires or executives up-to-date but ensure they are effective and profitable from day one.