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Bio

Carol is the owner of two businesses dedicated to connecting moms. After graduating with her Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Texas at Arlington, Carol returned to her hometown of Edmonton with her husband and started her first business; Canadian Houses, which is a virtual tour and photography business working in the real estate sector. After running that business with her husband and working full time for the makers of COLD-fX as their Corporate Programs Manager, the McBee’s decided to start a family and began with their daughter Madelyn.

While on maternity leave in 2009, Carol created Mommy Connections; a post-natal program and new mom’s social network dedicated to educating, enlightening and connecting new moms. A similar program has been run by the provincial health care system, but could not keep up with the demanding baby boom in the Edmonton area. After speaking with many moms that had been through the public program, Carol took the strengths and weaknesses and created a similar six week program geared toward the needs and interests of today’s modern mother. The program highlights postnatal fitness and health, nutrition for mom and baby, baby dental concerns, mom & baby classes, hip clubs, returning to work and more! At the end of the 6 week program, the large group of moms will be divided into smaller groups depending on what neighbourhood they live in so that they have their own intimate moms group for continued meet-ups and support. The program now includes seven communities in the Edmonton Region.

During the planning of the sessions and organizing of speakers, Carol began to meet so many amazing mompreneurs. It was then that she began to research what networking groups were available in Edmonton to mompreneurs. Carol missed the beneficial networking events that she used to regularly attend in her “corporate life” and wanted to create similar events to help mompreneurs grow their business. Bossy Mama was then born and officially launched in January 2010 and has more than 180 members presently.

History

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1 year 31 weeks