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The Working Mother ExperienceEpisode #61: "We Get To Do This" with Kinia Romanowska, Founder, Entrepreneur, Mother & ArtistMeet Kinia Romanowska, powerhouse entrepreneur, mother of three, founder. I left my conversation with Kinia uplifted and refocused on what matters, hearing her advice exactly at the time I needed to hear it. Kinia runs and owns the company, Pros & Babes, helping professional STEM mothers find work / home synergy (not balance), helping them to find career, wealth and family abundance and alignment. She has successfully grown her business to a full-time career, employing staff to help her make the magic happen. In our conversation, Kinia reminds listeners (and me) about the importance of our language. Th...
2025-11-1639 min
Hearth2HeartHearth2Heart - Episode August 25, 2025Redefining Motherhood and STEM: A Healing Journey | Kinia Romanowska
What happens when we redefine success by balancing the masculine and feminine energies in our lives? In this episode, Gayathri sits down with Kinia Romanowska, founder of Pros&Babes, to explore how these energies—logic and intuition, structure and creativity—manifest not as gendered traits but as complementary forces that drive personal and professional growth.
Kinia shares insights from her journey as an entrepreneur and working parenthood strategist, offering actionable tips on energetic hygiene, healing, and embracing seasonality. Together, they discuss how wome...
2025-08-2100 min
Hearth 2 Heart with Gayathri ShuklaRedefining Motherhood and STEM: A Healing Journey | Kinia RomanowskaWhat happens when we redefine success by balancing the masculine and feminine energies in our lives?In this episode, Gayathri sits down with Kinia Romanowska, founder of Pros&Babes, to explore how these energies - logic and intuition, structure and creativity - manifest not as gendered traits but as complementary forces that drive personal and professional growth.Kinia shares insights from her journey as an entrepreneur and working parenthood strategist, offering actionable tips on energetic hygiene, healing, and embracing seasonality.Together, they discuss how mothers in STEM and other demanding fields can align their...
2025-08-0142 min
The 6570 Family ProjectWhat To Do Now To Prepare Your Children For The Career & Life Tango In Their Future with Guest Kinia RomanowskaAs a woman so many of us have gone into our careers and passions with 3 false ideas:1. What leadership is2. What success is3. That there is a “balance” between life and career that can be achieved and stabilized.All 3 of these ideals can act as an inevitable emotional cliff that if we were to prepare sooner, we could have been better suited for. Find out in this conversation the tops 3 things you can do NOW to help your children prepare realistically and enthusiastically for their future!About the Guest:My team and...
2022-11-0247 min
Pros & ConversationsEpisode 4: The Motherhood Penalty: Challenges Facing Mother’s with Demanding CareersHost Peter G. Reynolds and Damon Adachi speak with Kinia Romanowska, CEO and Founder of Pros & Babes and the MoMBA, about the challenges faced by mothers with demanding careers and how they can turn the “motherhood penalty” into their greatest strength. Support the showThank you for listening! You can support and help us create great content for entrepreneurs and small business owners by clicking here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1985155/supportSubscribe on your favourite podcast app and don’t miss an episode! We’re also on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pros...
2022-05-2634 min
Ambition Theory: Rethinking Leadership in ConstructionHow To Engineer Your Success As A Mother With Kinia RomanowskaKinia Romanowska is the founder of Pros and Babes. As a strategic advisor to moms in competitive, corporate, high-stress, and STEM careers, Kinia helps people navigate the pressures of growing successful careers and families.
Highlights:
● What matrescence is and how it impacts careers, especially in construction.
● How we can harness guilt to serve career decisions.
● What successful women decide before taking leave so that their careers do not stall.
● Why companies should look to integrate personal and professional resources.
Links:
● Free Report: Imposter Syndrome – If You’re a Wom...
2022-04-1450 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherThe cost of the confidence gap in mothers in demanding careers, and what to do about it!“Think about when you enter a room and you talk with different people who have conviction and confidence within their work. It’s very magnetic to work with these people, and for you to harness this power is so important to not only your earning power but also help the impact that you want to make.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO and host of this podcast Kinia Romanowska talks about what it's really costing us the confidence gap in women, either by being more self-critical or taking a long time to forgive oursel...
2022-03-1617 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherEliminating your mental B.S. to break out of living a mediocre lifestyle“The acronym, BOLD, is being a brave, outgoing leader deciding. This means that you decide on the legacy that you want to leave behind, both in your career and with your children. This takes being outgoing, having strength in your core values, and being willing to speak about them.”In this episode, Mary Bicknell, CEO of See the Signs, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about how she has been helping women break free of their psychological limitations so they can become leaders in their life and business.Tune in to this...
2022-03-1436 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherUse project management to focus on your family priorities“As with companies, it’s important for your family to have their mission statement and core values to drive decisions. When I started thinking about this for my family, it helped us and our kids to have a guiding principle to go off of when we feel overwhelmed or anxious.”In this episode, Hilary Kinney, Director & Author joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about her book, Project Management for Parents, engaging the family, building teamwork and succeeding together.Tune in to this episode as Hilary provides resources and tips for busy famili...
2022-03-0936 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMaternal mental health and looking stylish while being comfortable in maternity clothes“When I started my maternity clothing store, I really wanted to go back to my roots and use my creative side. And this journey to make my vision a reality connected me with amazing people in my life, made me figure out who I was beyond being a mom, and made me better by growing the community around me.”In this episode, the owner of the Fourth and mom of three, Iris Toon, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about her journey through her business of designing and selling maternity clothes that help moth...
2022-03-0734 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to be an investor in local businesses: Opportunities for wealth-building while empowering those“It’s so important to get women into investing because it gives women the confidence to persevere. This will help with the next step in their journeys and they will be able to use this to carry them info other places and have the confidence to get what they want.”In this episode, Bryan Slauko cofounder at Metiquity joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about early-stage investing, how you can explore that opportunity and make a difference in the lives of local entrepreneurs.Tune in to this episode as Bryan discusses buildi...
2022-03-0247 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMake your return to work smooth and confident by bringing support, resilience and structureIn this episode, lawyer and working-parent advocate Lori Mihalich-Levin joins Kinia Romanowska to discuss the rituals and key conversations that can bring support, resilience, and structure into the delicate transition back to work after maternity leave. Lori also offers key strategies for managing energy, honoring our needs, and staying grounded when hardly anything about life and work is normal and predictable.Listen in to glean insights and tips on cultivating mindfulness in your daily life and building supportive relationships at home and at work so you can make your return to work smooth and confident.
2022-02-2846 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow our careers affect our children“Our careers definitely affect our children. Seeing us go to work sets a precedent for your children of showing that we have a skill and we are choosing to use this skill to impact our community positively.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Rachel Jones from Kepler Academy to discuss the juggling act that is working-motherhood in ways that make us feel confident and empowered in our identities and choices.Tune in to this episode as Kinia and Rachel discuss society’s expectations, pressures from work-family condit...
2022-02-2352 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherWe shall never pump milk in a toilet stall again! And other reasons why we’re changing the world“The world needs us to embrace our differences and create a better world. Women bring so many new perspectives such as being nurturing and being more inclusive, which the STEM field can use in the community.”In this episode, Women in STEM Mentor, Brenda Denbesten joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to discuss facing career challenges like being penalized for having children through cutting salaries, promotions or having to pump milk in a bathroom stall because the workplace doesn’t normalize having a designated space for mothers.Tune in to this episode for insigh...
2022-02-2136 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMaking the deliberate choice to feel good can boost your confidence“You need to be deliberate in what you want, otherwise life will give you whatever it wants to and you won’t have a choice. So using affirmations like writing down your goals and creating steps towards them is the best thing to being deliberate.”In this episode, Jibs Abitoye, a city councillor in Fort Saskatchewan and CEO of Divineity joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about the true meaning of confidence and why feeling good and looking good doesn’t come from external approval but is truly a habit of the mind.Tun...
2022-02-1639 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherBecoming a goddess in your business by building wealth in a way that’s aligned with your values“I want to remind the women listening to really connect with their inner ambitions. If you want to make more money or spend more time with your children, go for it! Fully open up to that desire that you have inside first, then worry about a strategy later.”In this episode, Merel Kriegsman, Women’s Wealth Advocate and Business Mentor, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about how Merel has helped women to become the wealthiest in their lineage by showing them to sell whatever they want at whatever price that they want.T...
2022-02-1452 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to have your career fit your new identity as a mother“We need to look at your new criteria for happiness. To find this, we start at what you really want to contribute with your skills and what you want a workplace to look like. From these we start to look at jobs outside the box, outside of what your resume can get.”In this episode, Laura Berman Fortgang, Career Reinvention Coach, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about how she helps her clients to gain clarity and direction in their career, leverage their experience and skills towards something new, and solidify a strategy pers...
2022-02-0936 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMaternal mental health and looking stylish while being comfortable in maternity clothes“When I started my maternity clothing store, I really wanted to go back to my roots and use my creative side. And this journey to make my vision a reality connected me with amazing people in my life, made me figure out who I was beyond being a mom, and made me better by growing the community around me.”In this episode, the owner of the Fourth and mom of three, Iris Toon, joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about her journey through her business of designing and selling maternity clothes that help moth...
2022-02-0734 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherFiguring out parenting in the 21st Century“In today’s age, every time there is a problem, we will look up the solution to it, look at how others dealt with it, and follow that rather than trusting ourselves. Most of the time, if you take the time to navigate it yourself you will get the answer that is true to yourself and your family.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Rachel Jones from Kepler Academy to discuss how to hold boundaries with intrusive friends and in-laws and how to find the answers you truly need w...
2022-02-0743 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherCreate family harmony amidst the challenges of fly-in-fly-out work“Some of the shifts that I had to go through when I became a mom with a fly-in-fly-out career was to see what other moms were doing to make their careers and family lives become harmonious. Using other mother’s answers and seeing which ones would work for my family and our values helped in creating our routine.”In this episode, Women in STEM Mentor, Brenda Denbesten joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to discuss Brenda’s experience of matrescence, her strategies for creating family harmony amidst the challenges of fly-in-fly-out work, and the shifts in minds...
2022-02-0237 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherAddressing good habits and ergonomics to improve your posture and physical health“When new mothers come in, they haven’t been given direction on how to practice proper ergonomics post-birth or post-maternity leave. So I would highly suggest that you talk to your employer to get an ergonomic assessment at work so that you are comfortable with all the shifts that you’re body goes through.”In this episode, chiropractor, Dr. Max Dekterov joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about addressing good habits and ergonomics, including physical exercise while working from home, work posture, and the correct movements for lifting and carrying your babies.`Tune i...
2022-01-3130 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherDigging deep into the root causes of the exhaustion“With exhaustion or chronic exhaustion, you really need to think about the why’s. Doing this allows us to explore the difference between when you need to do the five why’s and take action or when you just need a couple of days of rest. They also cause you to reevaluate your daily routine so that at 3 o’clock you don’t hit that wall of exhaustion.”In this episode, female empowerment and mindset coach Tara Lehner joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about experiencing burnout as a working mother navigating the unrelenting...
2022-01-2640 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherNon-negotiables vs boundaries: Do you have your priorities set for 2022?“We always talk about mindset before mechanics, and it starts with your inner thoughts and the power of what is in your mind. And this mindset will guide your non-negotiables, as they will reflect your values and what's important to you. This will also help make your inner critic your biggest cheerleader so that you can harness self-love to help you become accountable for your wants throughout the year.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO and host of this podcast Kinia Romanowska goes through her non-negotiables for the next year to come, including focu...
2022-01-2421 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherSanity-preserving strategies for working moms, dropping the ball, outsourcing, and getting expert help“The biggest mistake that I made, before I started working at Kepler Academy, was that I didn’t trust the process. Now that I work there, I can see how well it is managed and handled, and I wish that I trusted them sooner as my life would have been so much easier during the early stages of my motherhood journey.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Rachel Jones from Kepler Academy to discuss sanity-preserving strategies for working moms, dropping the ball, outsourcing, and getting expert help.List...
2022-01-1950 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherFitness for the busy mom, how to find a routine that works for you - and stick to it, and exercising“When we are exercising while we are pregnant, postpartum, or at any stage, we have to think of it as if we were training for a marathon. There are a lot of shifts which will change our energy levels. So we need to have a training plan for this time. But we also need to give ourselves grace and flexibility to take a step back and honor where our energy is at.”In this episode, registered nurse and fitness leader Kellie Willie joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to talk about finding a fitness routine for...
2022-01-1738 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherThriving as a STEM mom of two kiddos“Without a comprehensive program like the MoMBA, I would have been left to figure out critical areas of my work and family life alone, wasting time and energy. As a mom, it’s already hard enough!”“Being part of the community has been amazing. I’m taking step after step for my health, my career, and my family. My decisions carry so much purpose. There were things I was too scared to tackle before. Now I’m like, “Yes, I can do it. How can I make it happen?”In this episode, senior...
2022-01-1239 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherBudgets, prices, salaries: How to make sense of it all“I truly believe that everyone needs to be financially self-sufficient in their life so that they can be spending their money in ways that align with them. Especially for women and girls, we need to help them see that although society has ingrained that they won’t be able to much with their money, there are really no limits as to how far it can go.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Carolyn Scissons, certified public accountant and founder of Finance Learning Lab joins us to discuss what it tak...
2022-01-1040 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMore of us in the arena: how women can grow their numbers, influence, and careers in STEM“When it comes to crises of confidence, it doesn't matter how powerful or confident or educated or high up you are in the food chain. So many moms who look like they have it all together still feel scared and confused and wonder if this is still what they want to do. Almost everybody feels difficult emotions inside through this transition of going back to work. When we don't talk enough about it, then there's no progress in terms of how we support working parents.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is j...
2021-12-2741 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherManaging emotions at work, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and territory after mat leave“When you're when we're talking about emotional intelligence, the foundation is recognizing your emotions and understanding how they show up. More and more science is showing how important it is to acknowledge and feel our emotions. So because it's such a huge emotional transition for women, we need to talk about it we need to say like you're going to feel a lot of different, new, and terrifying emotions. All you need to remember is that you're not alone, just make space for those emotions to identify them.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO...
2021-12-2050 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to attract opportunities for meaningful work“One of the ways that I find provides more successful outcomes in negotiations is when people have stopped thinking of themselves as having the possibility of losing. In negotiation, there is no winning or losing, it’s more like a team overcoming a challenge together. Negotiation is creative problem solving, and when you think of it like this it becomes less of an obstacle and more of an opportunity.”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska is joined by Heather Barnhouse, a corporate lawyer who works with many entrepreneurs to grow their businesses to discus...
2021-12-1736 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamother3 ways to build your personal brand using LinkedIn“If you want to get started towards your goals, you first need to see what those goals are. Many people come to me after years of working 70 hours a week with no direction in life. And once they add up the number of hours they work, it’s easy to see how little time is left to make memories with their families, which they still say is one of their priorities. If your goal is to spend quality time with your family, then why spend it working?”In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia...
2021-12-1333 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHPV and Cancers: Why you and your children are at risk“Back in the day, having breast cancer was stigmatized to be a shameful thing. Fast forward to today, you can’t even pump gas without seeing a campaign about preventing it. We need to destigmatize HPV because it is a form of cancer as well, but it’s surrounded by so many negative connotations that we can’t have a proper, educational talk about it without those connotations in the back of your mind.”In this episode, CEO and founder Kinia Romanowska is joined by Founder and President of HPV Global Action Teresa Norris to discuss her...
2021-12-1036 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMothers, leadership, and the “empathy” advantage“Working moms bring a different type of leadership that can be very useful with interacting with others. The way that you connect with your child is very pure; you can be stern, you can bring discipline, but it will always come across as loving and empathetic. You need to be able to exploit that and bring it to the workplace. Sometimes, we all act immature, and no one knows how to deal with that better than a mother.”In this episode, Master leadership consultant Rosa Ponce de Leon joins Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Roma...
2021-12-0646 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow overwhelmed moms can turn career setbacks into relaunch opportunities“During my own podcast, I ask all of my guests, looking back at their setbacks, if they would ever wish that it didn’t happen to them? And not one person has said that they would change it. But why is that? It’s because things happen for you, not to you. And these big changes in your life can really shake up your life, but they also put everything into perspective of the things that are important to you”In this episode, we talked with award-winning entrepreneur and transformational neuro coach Hilary DeCesare about how the...
2021-12-0329 min
Engineering The FutureEpisode 14: Engineering Your Motherhood: Strategies For The Working Mom with Pros & BabesEngineering the Future host Jerome James, P.Eng., speaks with Kinia Romanowska, the founder of Pros&Babes and creator of the “Mom MBA”, Canada’s only 360-leadership and personal development program designed for the busy, ambitious mom, and Melanie Richmond, P.Eng., a civil-environmental engineer who has benefited from Pros & Babes program.
2021-11-2924 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherMastering the mindset to reach peak performance“If you’re a woman navigating a difficult environment, often you think that you have to work harder to be successful. But what if you redefined the game you’re playing as something that’s easy for you and allows you to shine a light for other women? What if you decided that you enjoy being in that flow, and that you’ll thrive through that roller coaster of emotions?”In this episode, we sat down with Swiss Olympic athlete and coach David Karasek to discuss the power of the mind and the principles of ‘peak performanc...
2021-11-2937 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherThree steps to start building your wealth and net worth as a mom before 2022“All of us have a certain level of comfort around how much money we can make. The mindset we bring to the game really impacts all our money decisions. So the first, critical step, is to decide that wealth building will be a priority to you and your family.” In this episode, Pros&Babes founder and CEO and host of this podcast Kinia Romanowska goes through how you, as a working mom, can reframe your beliefs around money and get started on a wealth-building journey that will allow you to create the future you want while...
2021-11-2627 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherIs work-life balance a myth? Creating time, tackling burnout, and becoming a leader“There's no such thing as balance. There’s juggling, there's adaptability, and there's choice. We wear a variety of shoes throughout the day: the parent, the spouse, the employee: I don't think there is a place of perfect work-life balance. Instead, we need to admit that both family and work fulfill us in their own, different ways.”In this episode, business and executive coach Stacie Riffert joins Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to explain why work-life balance is a myth, the mindsets shifts that help us tackle career burnout and how we can lead o...
2021-11-2238 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to reclaim your feminine body after birthing and breastfeeding“When we spend so much time living in a world of logistics and processes, and getting things done, we disconnect from our body. To heal and feel enlivened again, there needs to be a softening of that kind of continuous-thinking mind. We need to come back into the body.”In this episode, Women's Holistic health therapist Kendra Toothill joins Pros&Babes CEO and host of this podcast Kinia Romanowska to discuss childbirth, breastfeeding, and other milestones of the motherhood journey through the lenses of her innovative work on physical and emotional scars. By addressing the role...
2021-11-1940 min
Networking and Marketing Made SimpleEpisode 317: Understanding That Motherhood Is Not A Penalty with Kinia RomanowskaKinia Romanowska, CEO and founder of Pros&Babes
Kinia Romanowska is a well-traveled award-winning journalist turned entrepreneur, maternity leave strategist, and working mom whisperer.
A wife and mom of two passionate about making sure the next generation doesn’t experience the “motherhood penalty,” she is the founder of Pros&Babes and creator of the MoMBA (Mom MBA), Canada’s only 360-leadership and personal development program designed for the busy, ambitious mom.
Kinia helps highly educated moms who have careers in male-dominated, demanding, or competitive fields redefine their career-minded mom identity, design a strategic personal...
2021-11-1836 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherBuilding your village, thriving in motherhood, and making an impact in a male-dominated field“Being a mother is the most rewarding experience, but is also the most challenging thing I’ve ever done. Earning university degrees, building a career as a woman in a male dominated industry - all of these things are challenging, don't get me wrong, but motherhood takes life’s challenges to a whole new level.”In this episode, member of Pros&Babes’ MoMBA community and mom of two Megan Sutton joins founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to discuss how she discovered her love for engineering and how she’s made her voice count in a profession w...
2021-11-1547 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherNavigating learning, parenting, and personal growth with a neurodiverse child“I have a seven-year old son who has autism. I don't have autism, and I'm not an expert, but I have been very intentional about seeking out experts. And by experts, I mean not only doctors and psychologists, but also neurodiverse people, whose voices are not always listened to. Part of my journey into understanding my son and how to best parent him has been about paying attention to those voices. That’s where many of my thoughts and ideas originate from.”In this episode, conservation biologist and mom of three Rebecca Ellis joins founder and CE...
2021-11-1246 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherUsing the science of genes, hormones, and metabolism to overcome chronic fatigue and sizzle in your forties, with age-reversal expert Larisa Petrini“Epigenetics is the future of physical health. It analyzes our individual genetic information to only choose habits that are good for us. Epigenetics tells us what we can do with this information for the rest of our lives, and how we can influence it through our lifestyle.”In this episode, Age-reversal Expert Larisa Petrini joins Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to discuss the science of epigenetics, and how our lifestyle - from when and how often we exercise to how we fuel our body - impacts our health in profound ways. Unveiling the key mec...
2021-11-0856 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherThe action steps successful moms take through pregnancy, maternity, and the return to work“Success is not only what you do, but how you feel. You can set an intention that can be very broad and say: ‘I want to feel empowered, joyful, and communicative.’ ‘I want to surrender and trust.’ ‘I want to show up as somebody who's prepared and competent and communicates in a successful way.’ “You can set a broad definition of success in terms of how you want to feel and appear. And then you can also have a checklist for the goals and milestones that you want to achieve.”In this episode, award-winning journalist Pros&Babes founder...
2021-11-0528 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to conquer time and manage your energy for a joyful, productive life“If you don't get organized, others are going to organize you. If you don't tell your time where to go, other people are going to decide where it’s going to go. That’s a recipe for not feeling good. That’s the fastest path to overwhelm.” In this episode, mom, executive leader and mindset master Khairy Varre sits down with Kinia Romanowska to share a radically different perspective on overwhelm, and the benefits of mindfulness and time-blocking for a joyful, productive life. They also discuss Khairy’s healing journey from deep-rooted pain into the pain-free del...
2021-11-0150 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to maintain intimacy while growing tiny humans: everything dual career and power couples need to know“There are small things you can do as baby’s on the way, so that you don't lose each other. Silliness and laughter open up your heart, which strengthens emotional intimacy. During pregnancy, rubbing on the mama's belly, hips, and lower back is orgasmic in and of itself! And you can ignite and move that same energy even when you have a crying baby at home.”In this episode, Balance and Relationship Expert Naketa Ren Thigpen joins Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska to share how pregnancy and parenthood - and the hormonal changes couple...
2021-10-1836 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to prepare a back-to-work plan for a successful return to work after maternity leave“I still hear stories of women being treated differently when they have children. You need to consider how you're going to respond without letting emotions get the better of you. Think about how you can project motherhood as something that makes you more effective. See it as your opportunity to communicate with professionalism, seek mentorship and bring change to the workplace.”In this episode, former award-winning journalist and Pros&Babes CEO Kinia Romanowska shares the ins and outs of a successful return after baby. Listen in to gain insights into the tools that will help you...
2021-10-1822 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow matrescence impacts your identity and career, and what you can do about it“Giving birth to a baby is demanding, but it's not the only process that will require energy after this life-changing and dramatic event in a woman's life. Giving birth to a new identity, matrescence, can be as demanding. It requires time and support to fully integrate it into your new identity as a mother.”In this first episode, award-winning journalist Pros&Babes founder and CEO Kinia Romanowska, and host of this podcast, talks about the fundamental changes new mothers experience under the process called “matrescence,” and how they impact your identity and career. Understanding matrescence will hel...
2021-10-1816 min
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherBreaking through our money blocks and being ready to ask for more“Every time you think about having that conversation, your stomach ties itself into a knot. So there's your conscious mind in the future saying: “I want a raise.” You haven't gotten the raise yet and you've got a pit in your stomach. Why? Because of something that happened to you in the past that you might not even be aware of.”In this episode, PhD and Mindset Coach Deborah Fryer joins Kinia Romanowska to discuss the reasons behind our resistance to receiving, and how we can start embodying a new, confident “self” that’s ready to ask for mor...
2021-10-141h 02
Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamotherHow to make money work for you (instead of working harder for it): your financial journey to “having it all”“Remember: the financial services industry was built by men for men. It’s important to ask yourself the question: “Do I know that there’s someone in my corner caring about me and how major events in my life will affect my future?”In this episode, senior financial consultant Afsha Butt joins Kinia Romanowska to discuss why financial planning and wealth-building strategies are essential to every working mother who wants to take charge of her future. The award-winning financial advisor offers priceless advice on how women can approach the events that shape their career paths and impact...
2021-10-141h 07
ReLaunch to a Rich LifeHow to Prevent Burn Out Using Your Values with Kinia RomanoskaHow do you deal with burn out when it feels like everything in your life is happening at once? Kinia Romanowska says you HAVE to prioritize your values! After trying to escape the pain she felt from suddenly loosing her father and grandmother, the need to confront both her reality and mortality started to weigh on her physical body as much as it did on the inside. Sharing her personal journey out from the dark, she shares her best advice and the step by step exercise she completed to find her top 3 values, teaching you how to avoid burn...
2021-10-1330 min
The My Sleeping Baby Podcast with Eva KleinSEASON 2 EPISODE 3 How to maximize your career during your maternity leave- with Kinia RomanowskaKinia helps transform successful women who are temporarily overwhelmed by new motherhood into confident parents, skilled leaders, and thriving working moms without having to compromise family happiness or health.Kinia and I talk about how moms can leverage their careers after having a baby so that moms can get the best of both worlds. Have a listen!Want to get your little one consistently sleeping 11-12 hours at night so you can be a functioning human? Join my FREE training HERE: https://mysleepingbaby.ac-page.com/registration-page-v-2 Free sleep chart download - https://mysleepingbaby.ac-page.co...
2021-06-3035 min
Choose Unstoppable89: Between The Lines - Unpacking Episode 88In this episode we "Read Between The Lines" of episode 88: How She Reclaimed Her Professional Identity As A New Mom And Created The MoMBA W/Kinia RomanowskaI talk about the importance of being fully self expressed even if that means we're not always liked.
2020-11-2705 min
Choose Unstoppable89: Between The Lines - Unpacking Episode 88In this episode we "Read Between The Lines" of episode 88: How She Reclaimed Her Professional Identity As A New Mom And Created The MoMBA W/Kinia RomanowskaI talk about the importance of being fully self expressed even if that means we're not always liked.
2020-11-2705 minChoose Unstoppable88: How she reclaimed her professional identity as a new mom and created the MoMBA W/Kinia RomanowskaKinda Romanowska is the founder and CEO of Pros & Babes - an organization that empowers successful professionals navigating the enormous demands of parenting to regain their professional identity, parenting confidence and career success.You can learn more about her organization here:website: www.prosandbabes.comSocial: @Prosandbabes
2020-11-2429 minChoose Unstoppable88: How she reclaimed her professional identity as a new mom and created the MoMBA W/Kinia RomanowskaKinda Romanowska is the founder and CEO of Pros & Babes - an organization that empowers successful professionals navigating the enormous demands of parenting to regain their professional identity, parenting confidence and career success.You can learn more about her organization here:website: www.prosandbabes.comSocial: @Prosandbabes
2020-11-2429 min
The People Teaching People Podcaste022 – The Part-Time Jungle Podcast: Be The CEO of Your Life with Kinia RomanowskaKinia Romanowska, the founder and CEO of Pros&Babes, transforms successful, leadership-minded women who are temporarily overwhelmed by new motherhood into confident parents, skilled leaders, and thriving moms, without them compromising family happiness or health. She helps mothers contribute their talents fully to our world, as professionals and parents and wants to eliminate the "motherhood penalty" and the million-dollar wealth gap. As a business owner, wife, and mother of two, Kinia has helped hundreds of women pursue leadership, develop stronger, more intimate relationships with their partners, bond more closely with their children, and take the right actions to consistently crush...
2020-10-1651 minThe People Teaching People Podcaste022 – The Part-Time Jungle Podcast: Be The CEO of Your Life with Kinia RomanowskaKinia Romanowska, the founder and CEO of Pros&Babes, transforms successful, leadership-minded women who are temporarily overwhelmed by new motherhood into confident parents, skilled leaders, and thriving moms, without them compromising family happiness or health. She helps mothers contribute their talents fully to our world, as professionals and parents and wants to eliminate the “motherhood penalty” and the million-dollar wealth gap. As a business owner, wife, and mother of two, Kinia has helped hundreds of women pursue leadership, develop stronger, more intimate relationships with their partners, bond more closely with their children, and take the right actions to consistently crus...
2020-10-1652 min
Women in Leadership and EntrepreneurshipSupporting career-minded parentsJoin Heather Barnhouse, Partner in our Edmonton office, as she explores women in leadership and entrepreneurship, and the ecosystem that supports them. In episode 3, Heather chats with Kinia Romanowska, Founder and executive director of Pros&Babes, a company created to facilitate programs that include both career and parenting topics. Pros&Babes is also home to the MoMBA, one of the only programs in Canada that helps women align their goals as a parent and career professional throughout motherhood. More information can be found at www.prosandbabes.com.
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