The Expecting Entrepreneur®: An Interview with Book Author Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH

Today I’m thrilled to welcome Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH to the blog. She is the founder of The Expecting Entrepreneur®, a consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs design parental leave plans that meet their business model and personal needs.

This fall, Arianna will be releasing a new book called The Expecting Entrepreneur®. The book translates the scientific evidence around parental leave and postpartum health into tangible best practices and processes that service-based business owners can use to design a parental leave plan that meets their needs.

I hope you enjoy our interview!

Leah RomanAugust 16, 2021Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, consulting, Consultants, Working parentComment

A Day In The Life Of A Public Health Consultant: 2020 Edition

Well! A lot has changed since my last day in the life post. I had a second child and started homeschooling my first child due to a global pandemic.

On my Instagram account, I share many glimpses into my everyday life (attempting to) balancing work, kids, and homeschool. I have gotten so many questions in response to these posts and stories, that I decided to dedicate a blog post to a day in the life at the moment.

Leah RomanDecember 14, 2020Working parent, Consultants, DayInTheLifeComment

Public Health Consulting Without Childcare

When I did a few posts on COVID-19 back in March, I could never have imagined we’d be where we are now. I hoped we’d flatten the curve, take precautions, see improvement in access to testing and PPE, and we’d have some “normalcy” back in our schedules. While this may vary by your geographic location, I can tell you that not much has changed for my family from those days in March. We are still very strictly social distancing and we do not have childcare for our six year old boy and nine month old baby girl.

Leah RomanJuly 20, 2020COVID19, Consultants, Consulting, Working parent Comments

Mailbag Post #1: Ask Me Anything Public Health Friends!

I get a lot of questions via email and social media. Sometimes they are specific to public health consulting, and sometimes they are questions about my work and life more broadly. I’m excited to share some of the questions and my responses here in my first mailbag post.

Leah RomanMarch 4, 2019Public health, Mailbag, Work from home, Working parent, CHES, MCHES Comments