👀 A parent-friendly business note from Amy...

Events This Week + Workflow Ideas For You ⬇️

Upskilling Hour: I'm hosting a free online workshop Tuesday March 24th at 11 AM (ET) all about pursuing career growth while raising young kids (your family are more than welcome to join alongside you). [RSVP for the Workshop - FREE]

Community Closes Thursday: You can register until March 26th at 12 PM (ET) to receive immediate access to parent-friendly business micro trainings and resources to support you doing flexible and remote work, entering corporate spaces as a parent, private foundations podcast, optional live events and messaging portal. Registration will reopen the week prior to our summer meetup in early June. [RSVP for the Community - $27/month - available as monthly or annual payment plans, cancel anytime]

Q1 Meetup: Join us on Friday March 27th at 12 PM (ET) for the first quarterly Community session of 2026, covering the themes of 'Recalibration + Showing Up'. You'll have the opportunity to seek feedback, connect with other parents and further integrate activations from our foundations podcast. Hosted via Zoom live over 45 minutes, with audio replay and transcript available. [RSVP here - registration closes Thursday March 26th at 12 PM]

🌈☃️March Break/school holidays are wrapping up and for us it looked like...

Not doing as much as I've done in years before for health reasons but still doing little bits, playing with the kids and baking between rest and appointments. My partner took time off, met up with friends and their kids and my parents helped out coming in to visit and taking one of our kids for a farm sleepover - Very grateful for rebuilding our local village here in Ottawa over the past eight years...it has been slow and steady, but there for us during all the ups and downs.

International 🍁🍀family things on light mode because it kept snowing, was -20C 😱 on St Patrick's Day and we had three hockey practices and games to get to - Six Nations Rugby, Premier League games, watching the Dublin Parade livestreamed on RTE, having a Sunday daytime anniversary date while Nana watched the kids.

We renewed our annual family pass for the museums and the kids went three times over five days to explore planes, trains and automobiles - multiple locations for us on one pass is great value, especially when the weather refuses to acknowledge Spring has arrived and kids are bouncing off the walls at home! We miss the free museums and galleries of Europe but when libraries are closed or too quiet, cafes are too busy and parks too icy, this is what we do here.

Hockey practices and games and a half-day soccer camp for the older two kids, with all three kids and a cousin attending an OHL hockey game - Popcorn buckets, Grandparents reliving memories with the next generation, kid-friendly entertainment, keeping their sports passions lit, a video of the players thanking their families and host families for support during the season. 🥹 Fun fact: I used to paint kids' faces at these games nearly 20 years ago, pre-parenthood when I worked for a local art school.

Snack cupboards were hit hard, hills were sledded on, school indoor shoes outgrown, bedtimes ignored, fights over indoor games or Lego happened, snow shovels still out and the hockey season is going into mid April for us here.

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Many days are a combo of these up and down moments: I'm regularly readjusting my own expectations, energy and oftentimes the items in our house.

No one has it figured out 24/7. If they did, parenting and business books, podcasts, TV shows and support groups wouldn't exist.

If you're reading this or mixing babies and business in real time, you're likely becoming more aware of how things can exist on a spectrum. Parenthood is constantly challenging my own beliefs about what things 'should' look and feel like.

How about you, are you with me?

If so, just keep swimming.

You're doing great.

Sending you parenthood solidarity. On that note...

Ideas for making small moves, within the time you have as a parent of young kids, on repeat 🚼📊♻️

These small shifts help to bring you closer to your future goals, without sacrificing your family values: Practiced over time, on repeat, they will gain momentum and your results will compound.

• Recording content from the family vehicle (always without kids present or when they're napping, between errands or school runs, driver seat, always parked and off). Safety first people!

• Hand writing notes, editing content on a mobile device or reading a good old fashioned hard copy book (usually from the local library!) Kids can read alongside or play nearby (co-regulation, synchronous, for the ones whose love languages are quality time or touch).

• When the kids have activities you can't attend, use this time to focus on synchronous business tasks (live calls, podcasts, recordings, meetings). 

• When you can be present for activities you may still get ideas! It's these moments when I get my divine downloads, clarity or solutions (less pushing through = it arrives).

• Kids with friends, at a local park or library? This is great deep work time for the former (60+ minute chunks with pacing in between), or short sprints of things which can be done asynchronously while they play nearby (5-15 min tasks).

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If you haven't already, download my free remote work with kids time blocking weekly template with quick video tutorial, including 30 ideas for work/home/self: https://mixingbabiesandbusiness.com/free-resources

I'll be covering more ideas at my live workshop this week, to support you working within the time you have, as well as acknowledging your current reality, defining the value you bring and opportunities at the intersections of those three.

Thank you for sharing your inbox with these updates, I hope they encourage you to keep doing life, work and parenthood your way, unapologetically.

– Amy Lynch (+ Family)

Founder + Podcast Host

Mixing Babies And Business™

P.S. Share this newsletter and free future of work resources with your network of parents and primary caregivers, it's aligned with United Nations SDGs 5 and 8. 

P.P.S. Mixing Babies And Business™ Community closes for registration this week: Sign up by Thursday March 26th at 12 PM (ET) - 24 hours before our first meetup of 2026! A waitlist will be available until it reopens in early June but you'll miss out on three online events before then.

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