Babyproof Your Marriage Angela DiCarlo, MBA, MOM

Babyproof Your Marriage - Business Strategies for Happiness by Angela DiCarlo, MBA.

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Now, what does business have to do with marriage or babies? Well, actually, quite a lot.

We know that many businesses fail if they are not properly planned for and most only last three years; if that. Through my work with many businesses as well as getting a master's degree in business and working for some of the top companies in the world, I know what it takes to succeed. I've also seen failures.

They say that most businesses fail within 3 years. Well, the honest truth is most of those fail within six to 12 months because they don't have a proper plan that they're not on the same page with their team. Or in this case, the partner, whether it's your husband, wife, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, the one you chose to have a baby with your life is going to change.

As parents, we are shaping the future generations and we want them to live a full, happy, productive, environmentally friendly and absolutely fantastic lives. Giving them different opportunities through music, education, school, engineering, whatever it is that they are attracted to that we can help provide for them.

Are you waking up with a smile on your face? Are you waking up exhausted? 

I'm going to give you some tips for that too, on how to be more restful when you sleep, when and if and when you do get your naps, and also how to split the chores up so that it's not all on one person or the other and how to use your strengths to really make sure that both partners are taken care of because it's really challenging when one partner feels they're doing the heavy lifting. 

One thing I really like to encourage couples to do together is to create a Vision Board. Now a vision board is an amazing tool to  really plan and fulfill your life goals. 

What I found is that in today's society, many of us don't go to necessarily an organized place week after week that helps us to get that connection, to keep that connection and date nights and things where we get away from the children together as a couple.

I grew up in a family where my parents never ever hired a babysitter. I remember one night of my entire childhood where my cousin babysat us. Honestly, the rest of the time my parents were at home. Still to this day, my parents love to hang out at home. They watch their TV. My mom reads her books and, they're happy, you know, but that's not the life I want. And my partner knows it so we have a plan and Vision Board to meet our goals and needs.

Now this isn't a fix it program. This is a strategize program from the business perspective that can be applied to any person or couple easily. I am not a relationship counselor. 

Let me give you the reality. The person you fell in love with is going to be the same after you have a child. So if they were a partier then most likely, unless they carry the baby, are going to continue doing whatever habit that they were in before you had the baby.

Our goal here is to use business strategies for happiness with the intent of hopefully baby proof your marriage or relationship. So that not only is your relationship stronger. It's ready to prepare that child for an amazing life and an amazing future because that is the intent. You created another creature and you want them to give the best back.

I'm happy to be here. This is Angela DiCarlo and I've consulted many businesses in all aspects, everything from startup companies to $300 million brands to companies that have grown into billion dollar companies. So I've definitely seen a little bit of everything. Hopefully I can provide some strategies that will help you to achieve more happiness, keep reading.

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Welcome to Parenthood!

Hello and welcome to Babyproof Your Marriage with Angela DiCarlo, MBA, MOM. I created this series for people who are facing the problems of relationships and parenting. Learn more at BabyproofYourMarriage.com



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Welcome to parenthood. It is not easy. It is not always "Happily Ever After". And yes, you may be going through challenges. We've been there in some way or another.  This podcast is designed to help you find some answers, maybe get a little relief, maybe have some chuckles and laughs at my expense or the expense of other participants here who share their fun, ridiculous, awesome, amazing life stories of what's going on and how they're dealing with this crazy ride called parenthood.



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Welcome to Babyproof Your Marriage. In life, when we find out we have a child, we baby proof our house, we baby proof our car, we crawl around on the floor, we pretend we're a baby, but do we baby proof our marriage?



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That is a question that often gets overlooked. Our relationship gets put on the side as we're so busy nesting and preparing for our child that we don't necessarily prepare ourselves for the relationships, the hormonal shifts, all the challenges and things that we don't know we're going to face. We don't know what we don't know is the situation here.



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Whether you're in a new relationship or you've been with this person for a long time, having a child together is an amazing adventure. And sometimes our own personal hopes and dreams, things that we seek that we want to achieve, get put on the sidelines.



That happens but the dreams and goals don't have to disappear forever. You can find a way to do them. I know we're already super busy. So we're going to talk about how to create a life legacy, how to create a game plan and how to get your relationship working in a great way so that you feel great about your relationship and that you feel great about your parenting and that you feel just better overall that you're doing the best you know how to do.



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The baby did not come with an instruction manual. I know there are thousands and thousands of books about parenting, about babies and what they go through about toddlers, about even marriage, but there are not books about baby proofing your marriage about what you go through and the few that are out there, are not taking it from a business perspective.



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Here we're taking a business perspective to look at your relationships, setting goals, making financial plans, creating a legacy, and creating an exit strategy because we all need a break, whether it's taking some time off, or taking a date night. There's all sorts of different plans and methods for making this work.



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Join me on this crazy ride at babyproofyourmarriage.com. I'll be posting a bunch of different fun things over the next years. So join me on this journey. 

Thank you so much, 

Angela DiCarlo



P.S. You can find me on facebook.com/angeladicarlo and Facebook @babyproof. It's facebook.com/babyproof. You can find me on Instagram at @babyproofyourmarriage.



Remember today is the first day of the rest of your life. Choose to live it well.

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