Julie Arvan on Clubhouse

Bio

CEO, founder & designer of Nesting Days - an innovative, skin-to-skin newborn baby carrier and postpartum body shaper for the 4th trimester.

❤️ A career is a journey of the heart | I’ve had a wonderful career—many careers, really. I’ve been a mother of two sons (my most loved job) taught preschool at Stanford (my most fun job); led the product development team for Gymboree’s line of children’s clothing that took the company to an IPO (my most creative job); and been a strategic consultant to small businesses (my most adult job). And those are just the highlights, but I still hadn’t really found ‘my passion’…until I met a doula, a profession I’d never even heard of. She described her job as providing emotional support to women through the birthing process, and when she said, “There’s a whole world of new mothers out there who need our help,” I felt my heart skip a beat. I instinctively knew that was for me. A hundred volunteer hours at San Francisco General and dozens of babies and mothers later, I was helping people and doing work I believed in. But what I didn’t realize was that my career transition was actually just beginning.

🏢 As it turned out, this was a big idea that created a brand-new niche the world was just about to realize it needed. Sure, there were plenty of baby carriers out there. But they were all designed for what I call the backpack paradigm: putting the baby in some kind of “luggage,” so you could transport it somewhere. My carrier would be designed to serve a bonding paradigm—keeping mom’s hands free so she could go about her life with her newborn safely and comfortably nested next to her heart. And it would provide the skin-to-skin contact that the latest evidence-based research had proven to be so important in the first days, weeks, and months of a baby’s life.

❤️ So, let me put on my “career doula” hat and share a few words of encouragement from my heart to yours. It is never too late to do what you love. You’re never too old to make a difference. And there’s never been a wiser, more experienced you than the person you are today.

👭 Interested in collaborations with like-minded businesses and organizations. DM’s are open. would love to chat.

http://www.nestingdays.com