With the combined help of baby experts and fashion designers, Z’fina’s pouch-style baby slings have been created for fashion and function, perfect for today’s professional parent. Only recently, parents have been revisiting baby slings as an alternative to bulky child carriers. Nicola Wolters of … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Nayla Natural Care
Here at the urbanmoms.ca Marketplace, we pride ourselves on bringing you the stories of moms making their way in the world as entrepreneurs. This week, we bring you Gwen's story: I am the owner of a brand new online store called Nayla Natural Care. The name Nayla comes from my 2 daughters, Naomi and … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Momcessories
Momcessories was created by sisters Kate and Emily Scarlett who, over coffee one morning, were discussing the need for fashion-forward practical mom/tot friendly accessories - voila Momcessories! Kate, bank manager, mom of 2 and MBA student, was tired of trying to juggle toys, wipes, sunscreen, etc. … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Clippopotamus
Clippopotamus was started in late 2007 by Alexandria Durrell, a mom who had happily left her job as a Conference Developer to stay home with her daughter. Encouraged by her husband, and inspired by her daughter’s abundance of hair, Alexandria started making hair accessories. First for her own … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Dallas & James Adventure Wear for Kids
Durable, Breathable and Made-in-Canada of Premium materials, Cyndi has employed the power of motherhood to develop her “All Weather” Play Suit / Rain Suits made from waterproof-breathable fabric... The Dallas-James “All Weather” Jackets & Pants are produced in her own ethical … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Room to Grow
Becoming a mom is a very rewarding and incredibly life changing event. It can also become a very isolating time, and that is just what Room to Grow founder’s Alisha Brignall and Shannon Kozak found after having their children in 2005. Shannon had just moved to Calgary from her home town of … [Read more...]
Adding “work” into the life balance equation
Balance. For most women, this means managing work - to achieve better work/life harmony. A self-professed contrarian – I flipped this equation around and realized for me, balance meant adding work back into my life. After the birth of my second child, I made the decision to stay at home for a … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: ECHOage.com
ECHOage.com is an online system that easily enables children to celebrate giving at the time of their birthday. Through the ONE GIFT, ONE CAUSE solution children everywhere are contributing to society, the environment and each other. ECHOage is easy to use and convenient for mothers. The site … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Little Bodhi
This week, the urbanmoms.ca Marketplace is thrilled to bring you Paola's story: Shortly after the birth of my daughter, the realization that I was now a "parent" and responsible for a new, pure & innocent being deeply changed my life in more ways than one. As if learning the ropes to … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: LIVFIT
This week, the folks at the urbanmoms.ca Marketplace are pleased to bring you the story of Dianne, mom of a busy two year-old and founder of LIVFIT. Personal Online Training that is finally personalized! Personalized training just took a leap forward and this jump is utilizing technology that … [Read more...]