A facebook friend recently posted a photo that took my breath away. It was a photo of her saying goodbye to her daughter as she went off to overnight camp. The woman is laughing and crying at the same time, while her daughter is smiling and comforting her. Despite the fact that I’ve never met this woman IRL (hope to soon) the photo brought tears to my eyes. I was struck by how bittersweet it is to let go of our kids. We bring them into this world and pretty much start preparing them to leave us. With each skill and each word we teach them we are in effect, preparing them to live without us. What could be harder to get our heads around?
Congrats to Janet Weldon from Urban Wellness Studio for winning our Most Inspiring Mompreneur Contest.
And a round of applause to our runners up: Alex Yates from Alex Yates Travel, Karyn Climans from Tail Wags, Clare Kumar from Streamlife, Sarah Cohen from Fertility Law Canada, and Melissa Vroon from Family Fun Canada.
When we started Admiral Road Designs more than a decade ago, what stood out was how little we knew about starting a business, despite our recently acquired MBAs. What’s more, we didn’t have the foggiest about how we were going to add motherhood to the mix. Since then, like mompreneurs everywhere, we’ve been on a steep learning curve.
And while we’ve definitely learned a lot along the way, we are delighted to still be learning all of the time. Our peers are often our best teachers – we are constantly amazed by the creative and smart ways the mompreneurs we meet get things done. In fact, we wrote Mom Inc. as a way to collect the vast knowledge and inspiration of the current class of mompreneurs so that the incoming cohort will have it just a bit easier. That’s why it’s been amazing to be part of the YMC-UPS Canada’s Most Inspiring Mompreneur contest: It has given us the chance to peek into the lives of some of Canada’s amazing mompreneurs.
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