Growing Pains |  Where Business Owners Come to Plan Maternity Leave

Olivia is a Business and Marketing Success Coach, specializing in helping busy mompreneurs streamline their business and marketing strategies so they can hit that 6+ figure mark (even if they only have naptime to work in!). She is also a Certified Life Coach, co-host of the Marketing Like a Mother podcast, and co-founder of the Like a Mother Movement. Her absolute favorite title, though, is Mom to...

Nicole Hall is a registered nurse, birth coach, keynote speaker, and mother of three. She helps raise awareness of the rare and deadly birth complication of an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). She had three kids before thirty years old and has been with her husband for 16 years and married for 8 years. They have two beautiful girls and one handsome boy. All H names! Harper, Hadley, and Haxton. She l...

Aleasha Bahr is a sales strategist and speaker with 14+ years of experience customizing sales strategies to your personality, audience and service (because sales is not a one-size-fits-all!) Her Matchmaker Sales Method empower solopreneurs to effortlessly convert 80% of their leads without pain, pitching or pretending to be someone else. She’s sold $50 million+ in services herself and has helped o...

Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, author , and founder of We Wild Women , a platform that helps entrepreneurs start and scale their businesses. She’s also the host of the celebrated podcast, Into the Wild , with episodes that features curated interviews with women entrepreneurs and provides actionable advice to women who are launching or growing their own dream...

Kylie Kelly is a business coach & maternity leave coach for CEO Moms. She is also a podcast host of This Mama Means Business, boy mama of two, Spencer & Samuel, and founder of The Pregnant CEO Brand. She helps women business owners in all stages of their life, from planning and funding their own maternity leave to building their perfect audience through a simple virtual summit strategy. Th...

MicKallyn Elis is a financial coach, bookkeeper, and mother of two young active boys.  Five years ago, she felt that her life got flipped upside down. At 7 months pregnant with her first child, she moved across the country and found herself starting a business to distract herself from the “gray cloud” she felt she was in. That little distraction has resulted in a 6-figure business that is on a mis...

Christina Nicholson is a mother of three, TV host, and business owner who lives in Wellington, Florida. Christina started her PR agency, Media Maven , after working as a TV anchor and reporter for more than 10 years. Since then, she has created an online course and group program for solopreneurs and small business owners who want to earn coverage in the media, but don’t have a budget to hire an ag...

​Laura Schoenfeld (SHOW-IN-FELD) is a Registered Dietitian, coach, and women’s health expert trained in Functional Medical nutrition therapy, and a business mentor for integrative and functional dietitians and nutritionists. Her mission is to educate women on how to nourish their bodies, develop true strength, and ultimately pursue their purpose. She is especially passionate about helping women op...

Karen Hite is Co-Owner of Hite Digital, one of the fastest growing agencies in the U.S., now ranked 868 on the Inc 5000 list and also Master Hackers, a community of elite digital marketers looking to scale with stability and purpose. With a background in Operations and CRM implementation, she's committed to helping business owners find clarity so they can focus on creating a balanced life. Sh...

Melissa Smith is a wife, and mother of 5. She is a nurse, turned entrepreneur and co-creator with her husband, Chris, of Family Brand. Family Brand is a movement helping families strengthen their bonds and build relationships that last. While separated and nearly divorced years ago, she and her husband decided to change destructive narratives and rebuild with intention. Now they’re helping others...

Storytelling through video has been a passion of Carly’s since the first video she produced in high school about her special needs sister. Seeing the impact the video had on her classmates gave her the drive to create a career telling stories that motivate, inspire and shed light on different perspectives. This is the foundation of her video production agency she started in 2016, the good vibe med...

Candice went from doors being slammed in her face, being told ‘no’ repeatedly, and almost getting fired on multiple occasions... To winning MAJOR multi-million dollar accounts, becoming sales rep of the month for multiple months, and the go-to sales rep for training newly hired sales reps how to hit the ground running in becoming an expert too! There is much emphasis on giving a quick win and an i...

From wealth management broker to a successful fashion and lifestyle blogger, Venessa Kaufman saw the need for pursuing fashion with a heart. With a role in motherhood grounding her and giving insight into the struggles that women face trying to find their individuality in both their family and a career, Venessa has become an authentic voice and the visionary that created The F Word, a social media...

Amanda Tice is a successful international curve model and the author of The New Mom Code: Shatter Expectations and Crush It at Motherhood (a #1 New Release in 4 different categories on Amazon). She is passionate about helping new mothers reach their full potential and feel less alone in their journey through motherhood. She uses her strong social media following (of over 40k) to shed light on the...

Christy Burch is an event producer who specializes in high-ticket, enrollment, and luxury mastermind events for her entrepreneur clientele. She started her company, Your Branded Event, in 2016 driven by her passion for creating unique brand experiences for her clients. However, Christy is most passionate about her role as mom to her three teenage sons and would trade a flight to Paris for a front-...

Born and raised in coastal Mississippi, Molly Martin discovered her love of food when she was gifted a cookbook on her 13th birthday, and promptly prepared a four-course meal for her family. Martin moved to Tennessee to attend college at Sewanee and began working in hospitality at the university coffee shop. She then migrated to Nashville after graduation to pursue music, and her creative energy a...

Hi and welcome to Growing Pains! I’m your host, Alyson Caffrey. I’m the founder of Master Maternity Leave and Operations Agency. I’m an operator by trade, strategic coach, and fractional COO to several multi-seven and eight-figure businesses. Ultimately, I help business owners create a business that is independent of them so that they can have a work-life balance all while achieving their professi...