We want to support and acknowledge moms. Each of you is making a difference whether you are a stay at home mom, working mom, or volunteer mom. When you become a mom, it is often easy to forget the side of you that is also a woman who may have had a career, hobbies and education before you became a parent. As a mom we spend our days multi-tasking and juggling. We are now the CEO of our households. Our job description includes diapers, dishes, carpooling, and an endless amount of laundry. Below are great tips, information and links for moms in the workplace.

Please meet Leah Diamond, owner of Good Cookin': Create Healthy Meals in Minutes. Leah is a mom, a teacher, a business owner, a camp director, and a tireless volunteer in our community. And those are just the highlights!
Leah's newest website - good-cookin.com - encourages and inspires a healthy lifestyle through smart food choices. Leah does not limit her business to adults; she has been teaching cooking to children for 17 years through camps, afterschool programs, and weekend classes. Watch the SBParent.com site for her Healthy Cooking With Kids summer camp!
Leah doesn't just touch lives for the better through her business. She's also a reading teacher and volunteers with two local organizations. My son's class had the pleasure of donating to the Community of Friends last December. Leah's tremendous service of matching donors to anonymous recipients, the sheer volume of donations received, and the organization that must go into the distribution of donations was awe-inspiring. -Irene Milton

Live fully in this moment.
Mother Theresa
Treat everyone with respect and compassion.
If you feel success inside of yourself, you are successful.
Having 2 home births and raising my kids as a single parent and having them be successful, compassionate adults.
The birth of my two children and my daughter getting accepted at UC Berkeley.
Raising two kids in Santa Barbara as a single parent with very little emotional or financial support.
To spend the summer traveling in New Zealand and Australia.
Yoga 3 times/week Pilates 3 times/week Treadmill, biking, and lifting weights at the gym 5 times/week
I had a monkey when I was a child.
Culver City, Ca. (near LA Airport)
One sister and three step-sisters
File clerk in doctor's office (in high school).
To be a full time mom and not work outside the home.
Spice Ave. on State St. (Indian food)
Peet's Coffee
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Many of the old movies, like The Sound of Music.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Healthy Raw Chocolate
The backpack (on your back) for your baby, when they can hold up their head (so you can have your hands free and they can see at your level).
In nature, by the beach (walking) or on a trail.
To help children know that they are smart and have talents.
I want to help others become healthier and to know you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen creating healthy food.
Having enough time to do it all and getting known in the community for what I do.
To help kids feel good about themselves and know they are smart and have talents.
Knowing that they appreciate me and what I do.
Follow your dreams.
Each month we feature a mom making a difference in our community. We want to acknowledge working moms and stay at home moms. Suggest a mom by emailing us at info@sbparent.com.
This page is is sponsored by Women's Economic Ventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating an equitable and just society through the economic empowerment of women across the globe. WEV offers a continuum of programs to help women succeed at every stage of the business lifecycle. Services include comprehensive self-employment training program, advanced training, business counseling, coaching, and networking opportunities to help individuals to startup, launch, grow, and sustain a business. WEV's service area has grown to include north and south Santa Barbara County and Ventura County with offices in Santa Barbara and Oxnard.