Serial-entrepreneur, Dr. Brandie Keates, has been saving women from painful pregnancies since 2003 as founder and CEO of Experience Chiropractic in southeastern PA. Based on her own troubled pregnancy, experience as a trauma paramedic, and her knowledge of sports medicine, she has set out to educate and empower pregnant women and providers through The Bloom Philosophy. This evidence-based philosophy tackles the common misconceptions behind pain during pregnancy and offers avenues to alleviate the common, but not normal “Villains of Pregnancy”. With a knack for storytelling, a flair for detail, and a hint of humor, Dr. Brandie Nemchenko published her first book What You Don’t Expect When You’re Expecting in 2018, and released the second edition in 2021. Dr. Brandie Nemchenko is also renowned for her podcast appearances and her ample lectures/webinars all the while kicking butt, running her own business, and expanding her personal brand. It is Dr. Brandie's passion to bring awareness and to help those who care for pregnant women to be aware of all the myriad of ways to help them.

The views expressed tonight are solely those of the guest and do not necessarily represent the views of Newborn Care Solutions.

As a proud mother of three young children, including a set of twins, Rachel Lawrence joined the HomeWork Solutions team in January of 2019 to become their Agency Partner Specialist. Rachel has a solid 15 year foundation in the in-home childcare industry. Rachel is a big proponent of developing and adhering to high industry standards. She is the founder of FairAndLegalPay.com, a coalition designed to raise awareness about the need for legal pay in the industry, and to empower individuals to educate others about why it is so important. She holds membership in the International Nanny Association and has also served on their board of directors. She regularly attends, and often speaks at, industry conferences including those put on by iNNTD, Nannypalooza, the INA, APNA, and USNA.

Retirement:
https://www.homeworksolutions.com/knowledge-center/how-can-i-help-my-nanny-build-a-retirement-savings-account/

Fringe Benefits:
https://www.homeworksolutions.com/knowledge-center/nanny-mileage-reimbursement-rates-fringe-benefits/

2023 Changes:
https://info.homeworksolutions.com/blog/2023-household-employment-coming-changes

Missing a W-2:
https://www.homeworksolutions.com/knowledge-center/nanny-question-what-do-i-do-i-didnt-get-a-w-2/

Making Estimated Payments:
https://info.homeworksolutions.com/blog/paying-estimated-taxes-if-your-employer-does-not-withhold-income-taxes

Judy is the co-owner of Swado swaddle.  She has a MBA and a Master in Education, and is now studying pre-nursing.  After working for 10 years with parents and their newborns offering parent-child developmental classes and seminars, she channeled her passion for newborns and empathy for new parents into developing Swado, hoping to help one baby-family at a time.

https://swado.co/?ref=JJ3C9DQG

Christina Caple (pronounced kay-pul) is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Breastfeeding Counselor. She completed her Masters Degree at the University of Alabama and her Dietetic Internship at the University of Arizona Medical Center. In her ten years as an RD, she has worked one-on-one with clients to achieve their health and wellness goals. She recently started her own practice, Hope for Healing Nutrition Co. where she continues to use her personal and professional experience to instill Hope in her clients. On a personal note, Christina is a homeschooling mom of three, avid backyard gardener and aspiring alpaca farmer.

Serial-entrepreneur, Dr. Brandie Keates, has been saving women from painful pregnancies since 2003 as founder and CEO of Experience Chiropractic in southeastern PA. Based on her own troubled pregnancy, experience as a trauma paramedic, and her knowledge of sports medicine, she has set out to educate and empower pregnant women and providers through The Bloom Philosophy. This evidence-based philosophy tackles the common misconceptions behind pain during pregnancy and offers avenues to alleviate the common, but not normal “Villains of Pregnancy”. With a knack for storytelling, a flair for detail, and a hint of humor, Dr. Brandie Nemchenko published her first book What You Don’t Expect When You’re Expecting in 2018, and released the second edition in 2021. Dr. Brandie Nemchenko is also renowned for her podcast appearances and her ample lectures/webinars all the while kicking butt, running her own business, and expanding her personal brand. It is  Dr. Brandie's passion to bring awareness and to help those who care for pregnant women to be aware of all the myriad of ways to help them.

Maranda Bower - CEO and Founder of Postpartum University with Maranda Bower will join us on our Facebook page to discuss the significance of postpartum nutrition.

Maranda Bower is the CEO and Founder of Postpartum University®, supporting both mothers and professionals in health and whole body healing.

She is a renowned expert and top educator in the fields of functional nutrition and coaching in relation to postpartum and nicknamed the “Womb Whisperer”. Named as a best-selling author, international speaker, and has appeared in over 50+ publications.

Laura Nance has been working with families and professionals for over 20 years. She loves to inspire and ignite passion in professionals to support families in ways that help families to thrive and feel empowered and confident. She serves on the leadership team with CAPPA as the senior program advisor for the postpartum doula and new parent educator programs and has been a trainer with CAPPA since 2005. Laura loves to support families as they navigate the early weeks after a baby is born in a way that helps them to heal and recover as well as to build a relationship of trust with their new baby. She owns a doula and educator collaborative.

Laura lives in the foothills of NC with her husband of over 30 years, Brent. She has 2 children in their twenties, Jay and Brenna, who taught her so much about birth, babies, and being a parent. They also taught her how much she didn’t know as a parent and how much support families need. She recently gained a bonus daughter when her son was married earlier this year. She hopes to one day be a really cool grandma. Both her daughters have followed her into the world of working with families as doulas. Laura is a crazy cat lady currently at 4 cats and another who resides in her heart. She also has a grand dog that she loves to spoil. When she isn’t working, she loves to sit on the beach for hours and read, go to concerts and sing and dance, travel, and get muddy and sweaty running trails.

Tré is the President of Mommy’s Day Off and committed to developing high quality growth opportunities for professionals. She loves working as a Newborn Care Specialist and often works with many agencies worldwide to share valuable information for their candidates, their clients and families, and fills in on assignments. Tré is passionate about professionalism and education in the private care industry, so much so that she has spoken on the topic at the Inaugural NCS Enrichment Conference and was a big hit! She wants everyone to have access to products, services and classes that will keep them in a constant state of growth so that the entire industry as a whole can effectively progress and develop. She has become known as a trusted resource in the NCS and birth worker community, and is always happy to share valuable insight to everyone!

https://mailchi.mp/5ee6c4178110/opacybermonday

Elizabeth Agrapidis is an accomplished educator, pediatric physical therapist, teacher, NDT certified practitioner, author, toy inventor, wife and a mom of two. She is putting many of the puzzle pieces of whole infant and child development together for nannies, caregivers, and professionals like you from the convenience of your home through The Develop Connect Nurture Certificate Program and specially offered seminars. She is offering these programs and building an active community to support children and families by optimizing a baby’s movement patterns and development before anything becomes a problem or affects their future. Her growing movement is called AbiliFit Pediatric Development Specialists and Develop Connect Nurture Method Infant Development Certificate Program!
As a pediatric physical therapist, PE teacher, and adaptive PE teacher for children with special needs, she noticed that there was a gap and missing information and she wanted to help with children’s early development from that point on in her journey. She now takes that knowledge and practical experience and provides hands-on developmental strategies, knowledge and tools for your “Nanny Pack” through coaching and her online program. This will help nannies, caregivers, and families to be appropriately equipped to guide children’s physical, mental, sensory and emotional development and assist the babies in reaching their greatest potential.

Her goal is to promote the Ability of the body, mind, and spirit for professionals, babies, and their families. #thebabiesalwayswin
baby.abilifit.org/infdevseminarv

Kaybee is a certified holistic birth and postpartum doula, certified lactation counselor, advanced newborn care specialist, child birth educator and certified new parent educator. She also provides perinatal nutrition guidance. She is also the author of the cookbook, "Feeding The Postpartum Family With Love ", available on Amazon.

She works primarily with families who feed from the body in her role as an NCS or postpartum doula. She recognizes and understands how important it is to have lactation education to better support her clients within the scope of an NCS and/or postpartum doula.
https://kaybeevillage.com/

Jordan Clapp is a Certified Integrative Nutrition & Holistic Health Coach who focuses primarily in the areas of women's health, hormones, thyroid, and autoimmune concerns. Her mission is to help women feel and function their best without giving up their lives. As a busy mom herself, she knows the challenges that exist when attempting to juggle your own needs and health amidst the demands of mom-life, household needs, career responsibilities, and more. She is committed to helping her clients find sustainable strategies for long-term wellness by meeting them where they are at and helping them get to where they want to be.

www.organicallyoptimistic.com

www.newborncaresolutions.com

Leavitt is a nationally certified CPST (Child Passenger Safety Technician) trained by SafeKids and is passionate about carseats! She is also a "retired" professional nanny and NCS of 12 years - can you ever be fully retired!? She has a passion for being out and about with her nanny kids, and wanted her kids safe when transporting them. Thus she became a tech! She throughly enjoys helping the nanny community understand their carseats and how to get a great install. When Leavitt isn’t doing carseat consults, she is often found photographing concerts and theater shows (or anything really!), snuggling someone else’s newborn, riding her horse Kona (who’s the best fur child!) or spending a chill evening with her husband and friends.

Jodi Congdon is the founder and owner of Hip to Heart, a birth + postpartum doula agency in Boston. You could say that she is obsessed with all things birth, parenting and babies! She loves to learn and strives for expertise in her field. She is a trained Labor Doula and Childbirth Educator as well as a certified Lactation Educator and Postpartum Doula. She is also a member of the CAPPA Faculty as the Postpartum Doula and Lactation Educator Trainer for New England. In addition to training doulas, She helps birth professionals create a strategy to grow their businesses and a plan for implementation.

http://www.hiptoheart.com

Tanya Tringali is the owner and founder of Mother Wit Maternity. She is a Midwife on a mission to provide wellness services that promote optimal pregnancy outcomes, safe and satisfying birth experiences, and ease the transition into parenthood. Mother Wit is committed to reducing maternal morbidity and mortality by helping people make lifestyle and healthcare choices that are sustainable and improve their quality of life.
Tanya is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, CrossFit Level 1 Coach and Pregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism Coach. Tanya works with people who are navigating fitness throughout the perinatal period and particularly enjoys helping people who have diastasis recti, pelvic organ prolapse, and stress urinary incontinence that impact their work, lifestyle, hobbies and goals. She also provides education to healthcare providers with the goal of dispelling myths, reducing fears, and improving their evidence base so they can better support their clients’ goals.
https://www.motherwitmaternity.com/

Dairian Roberts received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. The thought of an additional 4 years at pharmacy school was daunting, thus prompting her premature quarter-life crisis and career change.
Dairian landed in the windy city to complete her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ask anyone from her cohort and they’ll tell you she was passionate about hand therapy. Yes, Dairian transitioned from splints and casting to babies and birth equity. Motherhood will do that to you.
Dairian has trained in traditional postpartum care, homeopathy, newborn care, and manual therapies. She is a passionate advocate for Black maternal health equity – creating opportunities for high-quality, accessible care within her community.
Dairian lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, son, daughter, and family pet, Fire Dragon, a bearded dragon lizard.

Lauren Fucci is the Director of a School Counseling program and a Holistic Pediatric Sleep Specialist. As a sleep specialist, her mission is to provide education for parents on what normal sleep looks like, so they can manage their expectations for those early days. She also enjoy helping parents get more sleep without using sleep training methods, while keeping emotion and attachment at the forefront. She has always been drawn to helping others, and after becoming a Mom, realized there was a big gap in education surrounding normal infant sleep and the value of a mothers intuition. She has 12 years of experience in working to support mental health first in adults, then children & now in mothers and babies.
https://www.holisticmamasleep.com/

Marcy Stoudt is passionate about developing leaders, bringing teams together, and creating a work environment where people thrive. For the past 25 years, she has worked with hundreds of women and executives and has coached, taught, and inspired results through confidence and balance.

Based on the knowledge that there is no better time than NOW for women to be successful as executives and mothers, Marcy & her sister launched their company, Revel Coach, to lead programs that are dedicated to Women in Leadership. She spent 22 years in Corporate America in various roles from VP of Strategy to VP of Sales & Marketing. This experience influenced her passion for working with people, creating opportunities for others, and hiring talent based on character and potential. When she’s not coaching, you can find Marcy in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida enjoying time with her husband, admiring her 3 teenage children, and enjoying the endless pursuit of finding joy in every moment.

https://www.revelcoach.com/

Dairian Robertsreceived her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. The thought of an additional 4 years at pharmacy school was daunting, thus prompting her premature quarter-life crisis and career change.

Dairian landed in the windy city to complete her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ask anyone from her cohort and they’ll tell you she was passionate about hand therapy. Yes, Dairian transitioned from splints and casting to babies and birth equity. Motherhood will do that to you.

Dairian has trained in traditional postpartum care, homeopathy, newborn care, and manual therapies. She is a passionate advocate for Black maternal health equity – creating opportunities for high-quality, accessible care within her community.

Dairian lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, son, daughter, and family pet, Fire Dragon, a bearded dragon lizard.

www.humbledbymotherhood.com

Jennifer has been in the healthcare field since 2011. She graduated with a bachelors in nursing from the University of Florida and from University of South Alabama with her masters. She worked 7 years in labor and delivery before becoming a family nurse practitioner working in Urgent Care settings. Since the COVID shut down and a move from Florida to Tennessee she has been working as a stay at home mother to four kids and creating a side business selling apparel and gifts for Birth Workers.  Despite all the career changes her true passion still remains with all things pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a special love for VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). As a labor and delivery nurse, it was her mission to help her patients find and maintain their voice and autonomy during the laboring process. In her spare time she enjoys getting the kids, ranging from 8yrs to 1 yr old, out of the house. Their favorite places are parks and playgrounds around beautiful Knoxville TN. She is a lover of coffee, espresso, and chocolate and is known to stash oreos away from the kids to enjoy in peace after they are all in bed.

http://www.birthworkboutique.com/

Tré Moment is an Atlanta, GA based Newborn Care  Specialist and proud owner of Mommy’s Day Off! She has been a valued member of the birthworker community for over 7 years and she takes pride in encouraging herself and others to never stop seeking education in the industry. Through her own work, business, trainings and coaching she has touched hundreds of families worldwide! She is looking forward to sharing the importance of staying educated as a NCS and seeking training opportunities.

Wendy Sjaardema is a CACHE certified Newborn Care Specialist, Master NCS® and a seasoned nanny with over 15 years of professional experience. After years working in the industry and networking with nannies from all over the world, she recognized the need for targeted coaching for caregivers in the areas of interviewing, effective communication, setting healthy boundaries and resolving conflict professionally to promote healthy employment relationships.

From this need she developed her consulting company, Nanny Consults, to work side by side with nannies, newborn care specialists, doulas and other caregivers to help them through the business side of employment relationships. Nanny Consults bridges the gap between employer and employee and offers a variety of consulting services for Caregivers including Resume and Contract Writing, Interview Coaching, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving and General Coaching. Wendy also works alongside domestic employers advocating for nannies in the areas of legal pay, benefits and setting clear and appropriate expectations in a nanny/employer relationship.

In her personal life, Wendy resides in Denver, Colorado and is passionate about traveling the world, exploring the depths of the oceans while scuba diving, pairing wine with gourmet home-cooked meals and experiencing all the joys life has to offer. She takes "work hard, play hard" to heart and prioritizes self-care and adventure alongside her entrepreneurial endeavors.

As a proud mother of three young children, including a set of twins, Rachel joined the HomeWork Solutions team in January of 2019 to become their Agency Partner Specialist. Rachel has a solid 15 year foundation in the in-home childcare industry. She has worked as a nanny, has operated her own boutique nanny placement agency, and as a working mom, she has also been a nanny employer. Rachel served as the Operations Manager for the International Nanny Association, and subsequently as a Placement Specialist for a larger agency, and a national NCS agency, before becoming the Agency Partner Specialist at HomeWork Solutions.

Rachel is a big proponent of developing and adhering to high industry standards. She is the founder of FairAndLegalPay.com, a coalition designed to raise awareness about the need for legal pay in the industry, and to empower individuals to educate others about why it is so important. She holds membership in the International Nanny Association and has also served on their board of directors. She regularly attends, and often speaks at, industry conferences including those put on by iNNTD, Nannypalooza, the INA, APNA, and USNA.

https://www.homeworksolutions.com/

Since 2005, Donna Shannon has helped people in private service land jobs they love, working closely with the high-net-worth (HNW) employers across the country and abroad. Her company, Personal Touch Career Services, is recognized as the Gold Standard for resumes by top agencies and recruiters across the US. In 2014, Donna received the Private Service Educator of the Year award from the Domestic Estate Management Association (DEMA.) Donna is the author of “Get a Job Without Going Crazy,” host of the “Tattooed Freaks in Business Suits” podcast, and has presented at national conferences in Denver, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Orlando. The Personal Touch Career Services is one of Denver’s top-rated resume and career coaching service on Google, with over 90 5-Star reviews.

http://PersonalTouchCareerServices.com