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Jun 30, 2025 6:59 pm
👀 Scroll for your parent-friendly business news, events + opportunities – but first...
A NOTE FROM AMY
🚼📊TLDR:
I'm going online this week (Wednesday, July 2nd @ 12 PM ET) to host another FREE webinar for parents all about: 4 Proven steps to get business results.
You'll hear about how I've used this process on repeat to get:
🌱 Access to programming
🌱 Speaking gigs + sponsorships
🌱 Funding, mentorship + PR
🌱 Contract + client work
💡And you can too! Because I believe showing up with your kids in business spaces is an unconventional BUT highly effective way to invest in yourself, grow your career and get those kinds of results.
🚼📊 After nearly a decade of practicing it IRL and online as an employee, consultant, contractor and small business owner, I promise there will be something you can take away from this session. Kids are always welcome, cameras on or off and I do my best to ensure a safe virtual space for all.
Hellooooo from the other side...
🚜🌱 I'm back from the post-surgery staycation.
🎒✅️ Our Grades 3, 1 and preschool YR 1 are done.
🌞⚽️ Summer camps and soccer season now loading.
Sometimes you need to look back to remember where you're going.
And the past month I spent a bit of time going through old photo albums at the Grandparents' farm, laughing at how much big performer energy I had before I turned five years old. ✨️🎤📣💃
Nice to know I'm congruent with my inner child, the desires I had and ways I used to show up authentically before life told me otherwise!
In hindsight, the past 15 years are making a lot of sense.
👀 How about you?
Have you ever took a moment to tap into what the younger version of yourself would have spent their time doing?
I love it as a kind of temperature check for where you are and what you want to focus on next.
Now I know, I need to add to my baseball cap collection as the kids have taken most of them!
Have a great week + blissful start to the season,
– Amy Lynch (+ Family)
Founder + Podcast Host
P.S. Keep showing up (as and when you can). It all matters. To support you in that, I've relaunched the Mixing Babies And Business™ Community in 2025 for a flat fee of $25 CAD for the year.
You'll get the best value the earlier you join, as we have two more quarterly meetups (August and November). In the first six private monthly podcast and resources, I've covered how I tune into my intuition, regulate my nervous system, practice grounding, manifesting and create from a more playful place – all practices I've used over the years in my work, advocacy, speaking, travels (and parenting!)
P.P.S. Want a look behind-the-scenes (BTS)? Here's a website page I created to share some of the digital tools, resources, books, podcasts and programs which have helped me grow alongside my business over the years.
PARENT-FRIENDLY BUSINESS NEWS / OPPORTUNITIES / EVENTS
⬇️ Not sponsored links ⬇️ simply spreading the word + business goodness for parents like you. I hope it helps! Please forward to your connections if you think they'd be interested. If I've missed any important updates, please hit 'reply' and send them my way.
ADVOCACY: Thank you to entrepreneur and fellow parent Elaine Alec for sharing the trend she's noticed in requests for sources and validation – and her response based on her own lived experiences, voice and the value she provides in her very being – it's a potent reminder of the importance of embodying the work, practicing nervous system regulation and leadership from a place of your own truth (via a LinkedIn post).
ADVOCACY: Calling all parents who've returned to PAYE work within the past three years! Entrepreneur and fellow parent Joeli Brearley (via a LinkedIn post) has a questionnaire she'd love to get your feedback on.
ADVOCACY: Check out this 10-minute survey request from entrepreneur and fellow parent Brea Starmer (via a LinkedIn post) for their research into developing an updated playbook for leaders building blended teams.
STARTUP: Congratulations to entrepreneur and fellow parent Lottie Whyte (via a LinkedIn post) on her journey building MyoMaster! Despite the doubters, visibility but following her gut instincts...they're now in The Sunday Times top 100 fastest growing companies in the UK.
STARTUP: Thanks to entrepreneur and fellow parent Hollie Fraser for sharing her parenting while freelance journey and a helpful list of UK / US resources, including rights, unions, finance, legal and other supports (via a LinkedIn post).
MEETUP: Rosalind Lockyer CEO of PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise has shared the dates coming up for the 'Self-Made Breakfast Tour' across Canada (via a LinkedIn post) as St. John's (September 18th), Calgary (November 27th), Vancouver (March 31st 2026) and Ottawa (2026). Learn more and apply to the waitlist online!
MARKETING: Loving this reminder about who you AREN'T for, trying to attract, serve or speaking to, focusing on who you serve and how you show up (via Instagram @somaticallysam).
CAREER: Thanks to entrepreneur, remote work advocate and fellow Rowena Hennigan for sharing this list (via a LinkedIn post) of A-Z remote companies and career hubs.
CAREER: Love this post from Claire Owen-Jones (via a LinkedIn post) about choosing a 'happiness goal' and how she breaks it down to separate it from a money goal, while keeping it tangible as an accountant for freelance creatives.
CAREER: Generalist World has curated and shared a list of five new role opportunities for generalists with 40+ included in their free newsletter (via a LinkedIn post).
FUNDING: Cohort 4 of the Government of Canada's i.d.e.a. Fund™ Program is open for applications from incorporated businesses in Southern Ontario with high growth potential, you could receive non-repayable seed funding of up to $20K with matching funds and up to 30 hours of fully funded support from business leaders. Applications close Monday, July 7th 2025.
FUNDING: Thanks to Sarah Anto for sharing Women TechEU is open for applications to 40 spots which includes access to €75K non-dilutive equity-free grants, business development support, one-on-one mentoring, coaching, and training (via a LinkedIn post). Apply before Monday, August 4th 2025.
PARENTING: Love this updated visual one-pager with seven ideas from entrepreneur and fellow parent Rachel Carrell (via a LinkedIn post) about Child Development Then Vs Now.
PARENTING: Thanks to entrepreneur and fellow parent Lea Turner for this vulnerable share of how she lost her way in business growth and the path she's taken in 2025 to get back to joy in parenthood and life alongside running her business (via a LinkedIn post).
PARENTING: A relatable post from entrepreneur and fellow parent Frankie Tortora about life as as freelance services provider WITH kids over summer break (via a LinkedIn post). I added a comment about doing contract remote and hybrid work around little ones and what I've focused on over the past 16 years.
WELLNESS: "Sometimes you have to let go of the life you thought you wanted to make room for the life that's trying to find you." – James McCrae and other beautiful reminders on letting go, shifting and allowing for change to happen as we move into this next season of summer in the North, winter in the South (via Instagram @wordsarevibrations).
WELLNESS: Who doesn't need a bit more delight in their day (or feed) brought to you by a pink suited, disco ball helmeted, roller blading higher version of Source called the 'Inner Peace Police' (via Instagram @endangerhood).
As always, thank you for reading, supporting this work and advocating for the needs of parents in business settings!
More from Mixing Babies And Business™:
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