Lisa Durante shares top tips on how to rock your maternity leave

How to Rock Your Mat Leave | Lisa Durante | Sage Woman Series

Announcing your pregnancy at work and heading off on maternity leave aren’t always joyful occasions. Stigma around working mothers can seriously cramp your style career-wise, even if you’re completely committed to your job. Returning to work after parental leave is a huge adjustment, but, as we learn from communications strategist Lisa Durante, it’s also a huge opportunity to make a …

Mama Says Series: Tracey Ho Lung | Love, Mom

Mama Says is a monthly series where I catch up with cool women to talk work, play, life and (you guessed it) motherhood. Here I connect with Tracey Ho Lung, co-founder of Love, Mom , a mom-based lifestyle blog that profiles career moms and takes a peek into how they live and work. An accomplished career mum herself, Tracey previously held editorial posts at Canadian fashion and …

Mama Says Series: Jennifer Chua | Hip Mommies

Mama Says is a monthly series where I catch up with cool women to talk work, play, life and (you guessed it) motherhood. In this first installment, we meet Jennifer Chua, creative director and co-owner of Hip Mommies, a Canadian distribution company on a mission to do better business. Think: innovative products for babies, kids and pets, manufactured responsibly by suppliers who support good causes and do business ethically. (Hooray for that!) She shares her …

Let’s Talk About ‘Postpartum’ and What it Actually Means

Did you see the first episode of Working Moms? The new CBC comedy series about four women teetering to balance motherhood with everything else premiered last week and it’s a breath of soiled diapers and sour milk – unapologetic, honest and in-your-face funny. When I watched it, what struck me most about the opening scene wasn’t the trio of bare-breasted women …