ThriveMommas!  I am SO excited to introduce you to another inspirational Momma, Kelly Schott, founder and CEO Momma of The Oil Dispensary.  The Oil Dispensary was born of Kelly’s own journey to create a toxic free home.  With The Oil Dispensary, Kelly takes the countless hours of research and product reviews she’s done for own family and guides the well-intentioned, short-on-time momma down a path to a toxic free lifestyle.  Kelly’s coaching sessions help take all the guess work out of finding which companies are doing honest work and which products are in our families best interests.  Best pa ..read more

Parental Leave Checklist for Expecting Moms and Dads For expecting parents, a new baby means a lot of things to prepare for from packing the hospital bag to filling the nursery.  Additionally, working parents know that preparing to take leave from the office can bring its own list of to-dos.  An out of office email message should be the least of your worries come delivery time!  No matter where you’re at in your pregnancy, there are steps you can take to plan a smooth departure so that you can focus on your little one, and not work projects. Bestow created an easy interactive parental leave ch ..read more

ThriveInspire: Strange Bikini CEO Ali Conway I am so excited to introduce a new ThriveMomma Series — ThriveInspire — a series featuring Mom-Preneurs who are willing to give us some insight into the good, the bad and the ugly on balancing motherhood and business! “Making women feel their best and looking their strangest, Ali Conway: killin’ the bikini game.” The only thing more awesome than Strange Bikinis is Ali Conway, the mom behind the brand!  Ali is momma to an adorable 6 month old boy, Calvin, and the mastermind behind the handcrafted swimwear for women, Strange Bikinis.   I wanted to int ..read more

Automating Daily Life During the Work Week A guest post by Isaac and Isabel CEO, Sarah Ballard: Before sharing the guest blog post that Sarah wrote exclusively for the ThriveMomma community, I wanted to share a little bit about her Company, Isaac and Isabel which has JUST launched.  If you’ve been a part of the Thrive community for more than about 60 seconds, you know that I am ALL about automating as much of the boring parts of life as possible (see post HERE and HERE). For starters, Isaac and Isabel is the first company that I’ve seen that automates both shopping for children’s clothes AND ..read more