Marketing To Motherhood: How Amelie Hemberger Is Building A Supportive Community For Mothers | 011
Becoming a mother has a way of reshaping not just your day-to-day life, but your sense of direction and possibility. In my conversation with Amelie Hemberger, we talk about what it really looks like to hold onto ambition while stepping into this new chapter. She shares how her identity evolved after having children, and how she learned to honor both her role as a mother and her desire to keep building something of her own.
Amelie opens up about the internal and external pressures to “choose” between family and career, and how she decided to carve out a path that feels aligned instead. Through creating Lumira, a platform designed to bring mothers together in honest and meaningful ways, she’s building the kind of community she once needed. This conversation is about trusting yourself, embracing reinvention, and giving yourself permission to grow in more than one direction at once.
Key Takeaways
- You don’t have to follow a traditional path to create a fulfilling balance between work and family
- Building something meaningful often comes from recognizing what’s missing in your own experience
- Growth in motherhood can expand your vision rather than limit it
- Alignment matters more than external validation when making life and career decisions
About the Guest:
Amelie Hemberger is a mother of two, event expert, and the founder of Luamira, a live virtual platform that helps women, especially mothers, reconnect with themselves through meaningful evening experiences. Alongside building Luamira, she continues to work in marketing and communication, bringing her experience from both corporate and entrepreneurial worlds into everything she creates.
After more than 15 years of designing events around the world, from Buenos Aires to Kyoto, and now living between Germany and France, her life shifted into a very different rhythm. Evenings became quieter, often spent at home after long days with her children. While she deeply values motherhood, she also felt something many women experience but rarely put into words. The longing for inspiration, for real conversations, and for a sense of self beyond everyday roles.
Luamira was born from that moment. A simple question. What if evenings at home could become something more again.
Today, Amelie creates live, intimate spaces where women can pause, reflect, exchange, and rediscover parts of themselves that often get lost in the busyness of daily life. No pressure, no performance, just real moments of connection from their own living rooms.
Her work is rooted in the belief that mothers don’t need more to consume, but spaces where they can feel present, inspired, and seen. With her global experience and her own journey into motherhood, she is quietly reshaping what evenings can look and feel like.
About The Host:
Dr. Christelle Oliver-Dussault is a family physician with a clinical focus on aesthetic medicine, women’s health, and psycho-education. Her work is grounded in a holistic, whole-person approach that integrates medical science with a deep appreciation of the mind–body connection. Alongside her clinical practice, she is deeply committed to medical education and mentors the next generation of family physicians through her work with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
She is the founder of Reclaim The Pink Within, a community created to support women through life’s most profound transitions. This project was born from personal experience. After becoming a mother, Dr. Oliver-Dussault became aware of a quiet but profound shift in her sense of self, one she had long observed in her patients, yet only fully understood once she lived it herself. What had once been a clinical observation became a deeply personal insight, shaping the lens through which she now supports and guides other women.
You can connect with her on Instagram at @drchristellemd and @reclaimthepinkwithin
Website: www.getyourpinkbackproject.com
Email: info@reclaimthepinkwithin.com
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Transcript
It means to me that I think it's very important for each
Speaker:and every one of us to follow our own path, even if it's
Speaker:not traditional, and not to expect to follow something
Speaker:just because other people have told you so or why, because you think this is
Speaker:the right way. But to be with yourself always
Speaker:and feel into yourself what is the next step. And
Speaker:you never know where this path is going to lead. So the only thing that
Speaker:you can do is set one foot, you know, in front of the other
Speaker:and walk and think about when you come to a crossroads, kind of like,
Speaker:do I walk right or do I walk left? But I've always figured
Speaker:that I want to find my own path, and it's not my target
Speaker:to match anybody else's or kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker:taking over other people on this road or something. For me, it's finding
Speaker:for me the individual way of how life works for me.
Speaker:And even if it's not the easiest and not the most linear one,
Speaker:I feel that it's mine. And so that's why I love this mantra.
Speaker:Welcome back to Reclaim the Pink Within. On today's
Speaker:podcast, I have Amelie joining me all the way from
Speaker:the border of France and Germany, so many miles
Speaker:away and a good few hours ahead of the west coast
Speaker:of Canada. She is a mum of two girls aged four
Speaker:and six. She has a background in marketing,
Speaker:communications, event management. She wears many
Speaker:hats. And before I go any further, I just want to take some time
Speaker:to. Thank you, Emily, to making some time to speak
Speaker:to me today out of your very busy schedule. I'm sure your
Speaker:story will inspire many women listening today.
Speaker:So welcome. Thank you. I'm very happy to
Speaker:be here. Great. So,
Speaker:as we begin most of my episodes, I'd like to learn
Speaker:a little bit more about the Amelie before Motherhood. So if you were to
Speaker:describe who you were before motherhood became part of your
Speaker:identity, how would you describe yourself to others?
Speaker:I think I grew up an only
Speaker:child, and I was always a little bit
Speaker:introverted, I would say. So I was a bookworm, going to the
Speaker:library and coming home with lots of books to read over the weekend.
Speaker:And I also always was interested in things like
Speaker:philosophy and culture, music, literature
Speaker:and things thinking, you know, liking to go and see
Speaker:concerts or lectures or discussion evenings, this kind
Speaker:of thing. Yeah. And also obviously friends. But still,
Speaker:I was always interested in culture. And actually, when I was little, I
Speaker:always had the dream to have, like, a cultural center where things would take
Speaker:place and I could invite other people to share kind of ideas
Speaker:and inspirations, this kind of thing.
Speaker:Oh, wonderful. And I also always have loved languages. I've loved
Speaker:traveling. So when I was 16, was the first time
Speaker:I went to Mexico for three months and learned Spanish.
Speaker:And, yeah, I've spent a year in the U.S. been traveling a lot.
Speaker:So I think this has been a large part of my identity.
Speaker:Different cultures, different countries as well.
Speaker:And how did that change when you became a mom?
Speaker:Well, I just realized that I have a lot less time for myself
Speaker:than what I used to. So a lot of quiet time
Speaker:and also the time to explore my passions. That was a lot
Speaker:less when I became a mom, obviously, because the kids were keeping
Speaker:me up late at night and through the night, and I was just, you
Speaker:know, more at home than before and not able so
Speaker:much to, yeah, explore what I was passionate about
Speaker:anymore. I mean, it was replaced, obviously, by wonderful other things. And
Speaker:I really do enjoy being a mom. I've always wanted to be one. And
Speaker:I became a mom quite late, actually. I was 37,
Speaker:I think, when my first child was born. So that was quite late. It
Speaker:gave me a lot of time before, but still, I didn't realize
Speaker:how much it would impact me not having this possibility to
Speaker:follow my interests anymore so much.
Speaker:Do you find that introverts by nature,
Speaker:and I would tend towards that spectrum as well, enjoy
Speaker:their time alone and their time with their
Speaker:thoughts. How do you find
Speaker:the early years of motherhood impacting?
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, I was always kind of a mixture between wanting
Speaker:to be alone and enjoying company. And just.
Speaker:It took a lot of energy from me not being able to set the
Speaker:boundaries as clearly anymore as I did before, you know, when I.
Speaker:Before I could just say, okay, now I will go to my room and spend
Speaker:some time alone, you know, and the baby just wouldn't let me. So
Speaker:they wanted to drink, they were crying, you know, and it just. There wasn't
Speaker:the possibility to have these borders, you know, like, the
Speaker:limits established very clearly. So that made it difficult for
Speaker:me. You mentioned that you
Speaker:always wanted to be a mother. What did you imagine
Speaker:motherhood would be like? Well, I. I
Speaker:was looking forward to the very close bond that I would want to
Speaker:have with my children and just.
Speaker:Yeah, being able to. What I always also thought is they would
Speaker:enable me to live in the moment. And it does, you know, so it kind
Speaker:of anchors me to the present and love that about my kids is
Speaker:that when I'm with them, I. I don't. I don't know. I don't think
Speaker:about the future. I Have no time to worry about other things. It's just about.
Speaker:I want to play this now and do this now and do this now.
Speaker:And so that is actually good for me and for, you know,
Speaker:because I am often in my head and thinking about stuff.
Speaker:It. It is good for me, but still at the same time, yeah,
Speaker:it's. It can be challenging and, and I am.
Speaker:I do find it very nice to spend time with my kids and you
Speaker:know, looking forward to having these shared experiences with
Speaker:my family, travel with my family. But the
Speaker:247 aspect of it, I wasn't prepared for that. So,
Speaker:yeah, I don't think anyone is. I don't think any amount
Speaker:of advice you can get from friends or family can really prepare you for
Speaker:it unless and until you are in it.
Speaker:Would. What would you say becoming a mother shifted in you in terms
Speaker:of, say, identity, relationships to others and
Speaker:your ambitions?
Speaker:It kind of extended my identity, I would say.
Speaker:So it kind of. It did feel in a way a little bit
Speaker:more complete because I had always been yearning for it and
Speaker:I thought it would be part of my identity someday.
Speaker:And I was in my early 30s. I was really sad because I.
Speaker:I didn't know if it would still happen or not. And I was looking
Speaker:very much forward to it. So I would say that my identity,
Speaker:it became more. More present and more appreciative also of
Speaker:what I have before. I sometimes, although, you know, I had all
Speaker:this time to myself, I also felt lonely sometimes before and I was,
Speaker:you know, looking forward to having a family, like a close
Speaker:knitted community kind of thing around me. So this is something
Speaker:that gave me a lot of security and a lot of, you know,
Speaker:pos, you know, feelings towards life in general.
Speaker:But still also it made it more apparent how important
Speaker:it is to do something for yourself as well and to, you know,
Speaker:to look as to who am I if I'm not a mom and
Speaker:not in that moment with my kids? Who do I want to be and who
Speaker:is what is important to me in life? And that became more
Speaker:apparent by having it taken away basically and then having
Speaker:to really think about what is it that's important to me
Speaker:and what impact did motherhood have on your ambitions
Speaker:or did it shift the way you view ambition?
Speaker:For one thing, it gave me the opportunity to.
Speaker:Well, at first, I mean, we are very lucky here, where I live in Germany,
Speaker:to say that when you have kids here, you get
Speaker:to have up to three years that you can stay at home
Speaker:and your job that you had before is still guaranteed. You can Come back to
Speaker:it after. So in the first moment, it gave me the
Speaker:option to not work for a while. I stayed at home for, I think
Speaker:16 months with each of my children after they were born.
Speaker:And you even get, you know, from the state, you get paid during this
Speaker:time. So it's kind of like a maternity leave where you are,
Speaker:but very much extended compared to what you guys get in the US
Speaker:So I know that we are very fortunate in that regard.
Speaker:So at first it meant for me, you know, just pausing my
Speaker:ambition, focusing completely on raising the
Speaker:kids. But then it also showed me that my
Speaker:career is important to me and that it's important part of my life. And
Speaker:I'm personally, and I respect everybody who does it, but I'm personally
Speaker:not made for staying at home completely. And not being a stay
Speaker:at home mom is not my thing entirely.
Speaker:And so for my ambition, it meant to say, yes, I do still
Speaker:want to work, but I need to find a way to combine it with my
Speaker:life, how it is right now with the kids. And so when I went
Speaker:back to work, I actually went back part time. So right now I work
Speaker:in the full time job that I still have. I work 25 hours.
Speaker:So it's kind of like, yeah, it's not a
Speaker:little bit more than 50%. Usually in Germany we have 40 a
Speaker:week. So that's, it's very good. And at
Speaker:the same time it also showed me, I mean, I enjoy the job that I
Speaker:have right now, but I also felt like from a creative perspective, I
Speaker:wanted to do more. And this is why, you know, about a year ago
Speaker:I've started becoming an entrepreneur on the
Speaker:side. So basically setting up something that is my passion
Speaker:project as well. Because I did feel that, yeah,
Speaker:for my daughters and for all the children, I kind of like, I
Speaker:wanted to do something for myself. I want to show them that it's important to
Speaker:follow your passions and not only maybe in a corporation,
Speaker:but also to do something that kind of leaves a lasting
Speaker:impression for them and showing them, you know, what their mom is about when they
Speaker:look at it in a few years and how, you know,
Speaker:it is possible even. So now I have two kids, I have a
Speaker:job in a corporation, and I still on the side, have my own
Speaker:business. So I'm, I'm a busy woman these days. You are a very busy
Speaker:woman. And I think sometimes motherhood does that. It highlights
Speaker:gaps or areas that you weren't aware
Speaker:were unmet needs. And it can give you a little bit more clarity
Speaker:in that respect. And that's Both how. How we met each other
Speaker:virtually, because you're kind of on the border. France and.
Speaker:France and Germany. I'm all the way west coast of Canada. And we both ended
Speaker:up doing a business course by Tracy Matthews,
Speaker:who's based in the United States, called the Art of
Speaker:Reinvention. And I was so intrigued by the project that
Speaker:you're building, probably because it has a similar lens to my own project
Speaker:of trying to connect with mothers and, you know, see the different
Speaker:facets of who we are as, you know, individuals, mothers,
Speaker:women. I will circle back to that program we did in a few
Speaker:minutes, but before I go into that, I wanted to ask you,
Speaker:have you ever felt, or do you feel nowadays
Speaker:any pressures from either society, industry, or within
Speaker:yourself to be a certain kind of mother or professional?
Speaker:I think I'm mostly. I mean, yes, obviously, to some
Speaker:extent, feeling pressure from the outside is
Speaker:more. I
Speaker:don't know. I mean, of course, I grew up a certain way, and I have
Speaker:a family that kind of looks at things a certain way.
Speaker:I think I've actually broken some of the patterns that were
Speaker:established in my family. So, I mean, me and my mom, we have our issues
Speaker:in some regards, so to say, I mean, we are very similar. I grew up
Speaker:in a. In a happy childhood. I don't want to neglect that
Speaker:or negate it. But still, for me, there were some
Speaker:things that I wanted to do differently. And I'm trying to,
Speaker:you know, very consciously
Speaker:raise my kids in some areas in a different way than what I
Speaker:experienced. So I think, yeah,
Speaker:this is. Has been a pressure I've put myself
Speaker:under, kind of to make sure that in those areas where I was maybe not
Speaker:100% happy with how I grew up, to do it differently. And that's more like
Speaker:a pressure, I think, that I'm putting on myself with regards
Speaker:to society. I mean, we are. Yeah. So also
Speaker:my. My partner, we are trying not to
Speaker:focus too much on what others think about us, but it's more.
Speaker:It's easier for him than it is for me. I'm still on a learning path
Speaker:here, I would say. Yeah, I think it's one that is very hard to
Speaker:escape as. As moms. And I think you really hit the nail
Speaker:on the head when you talked about how when you become a mom, it really
Speaker:makes you reflect on your own childhood, how you were
Speaker:mothered and how you then want to mother yourself. Whether that's the
Speaker:exact same way, the completely different way, or a hybrid. You kind of
Speaker:pick what you felt was right and try new
Speaker:things. That maybe didn't feel as aligned when you were a child. And it's very
Speaker:much an ongoing learning curve that I feel never
Speaker:ends or probably will never end. But
Speaker:you mentioned that you had the opportunity to go back to your
Speaker:corporate job on a part time basis. How did
Speaker:you find juggling that corporate work and motherhood in
Speaker:those early years, particularly like after your first when you went back.
Speaker:I mean it is challenging when
Speaker:you are kind of split between wanting to be there for your baby
Speaker:and knowing that you have to leave it in the care of somebody else and
Speaker:then having a job at the same time. But I was to be honest, quite
Speaker:happy to go back because I had missed it during my absence and
Speaker:when I was because I pur. Stayed at home those 16 months
Speaker:and I was happy to be able to talk to adults again
Speaker:and to kind of for me my work is also
Speaker:always something I love and I enjoy and that's something that gives me
Speaker:joy. And coming back to that actually was
Speaker:quite. Was quite nice. I mean
Speaker:that sounds maybe weird but you know, it's still like everyone is
Speaker:foreign but yeah, everyone's different. And I think it was lovely that you had
Speaker:that opportunity to the 25 hours. I think sometimes if
Speaker:you're. You don't have those that time without the financial
Speaker:strain and you have to go back earlier that makes can make things more difficult
Speaker:and it's different for everyone. There's no right or wrong
Speaker:way. I kind of want to jump into that artery
Speaker:invention program now because it was very
Speaker:transformative for me. I'm curious to see or find
Speaker:out what brought you to that program or how you came across it, what drew
Speaker:you to Tracy's program.
Speaker:So I had felt for a while that I'm
Speaker:kind of restless in on the inside that I do
Speaker:enjoy my work. But I felt that something is
Speaker:missing for me personally and I want to explore more my own
Speaker:passions. And I was listening a lot to podcasts. I get a lot of inspiration
Speaker:from podcasts. I love it. And I was listening
Speaker:to an interview actually that Tracy did on another podcast.
Speaker:I stumbled cross it and
Speaker:from Kathy Heller. I don't know if you know her. So Tracy gave an interview
Speaker:on one of her podcasts and somehow I don't
Speaker:know, I had looked for support or for a similar
Speaker:mentor here in Germany but for some reason
Speaker:nobody, nobody came along or I didn't find
Speaker:anybody that I clicked with. And I heard this interview that
Speaker:Tracy gave and somehow I thought yes, I mean for her
Speaker:heard the way she talked about reinvention and about
Speaker:evolving into something, I mean, from where you are at right
Speaker:now. But somehow it appealed to me. And also the thing is,
Speaker:I knew that I had to do this in the evening always when my kids,
Speaker:they go to bed at 8 o' clock here and then. So I have two
Speaker:to three hours in the evening for free exploration, so to say.
Speaker:And it was very convenient for me actually that this was in the US and
Speaker:because you guys are working, you know, during your day. And for me that was
Speaker:the ideal time. And everything that I would have done here in Germany would have
Speaker:been during the day and almost impossible for me to attend
Speaker:too. And I just listened to Tracy and for some reason
Speaker:I trusted her. And I was very insecure at the time about whether
Speaker:I would find the courage in myself to explore this
Speaker:and to actually become an entrepreneur. Because I
Speaker:had been in the corporate world for so long and for the longest time I
Speaker:had said I could never imagine being on
Speaker:my own. And I don't know if I'm good at it, if
Speaker:my idea has any merit. And I was looking for somebody who could
Speaker:kind of give me the reassurance or help guiding me towards
Speaker:more being more self
Speaker:conscious and more just believing in myself actually and
Speaker:having the courage to go this step. I was just looking for somebody to hold
Speaker:my hand. And I listened to Tracy for some reason and I had a first
Speaker:call with her and she was so nice and so understanding and, and
Speaker:so supportive and that's what drew me to her.
Speaker:Yeah. What shifted in you throughout her program?
Speaker:What did you. What were your pearls or take homes that helped you
Speaker:grow? It was kind of. I did the exercises. There
Speaker:was exercises every week, kind of questions and
Speaker:questionnaires that you had to fill out. And it just got me thinking so
Speaker:much. She was just asking all of the questions that I. I
Speaker:don't know, she gave me the structure to think about this every week and to
Speaker:continuously work on myself and to working up this. The
Speaker:courage to do it. And also my surroundings are
Speaker:not very have, I have to say in the beginning were not
Speaker:very supportive of the idea. By now they have come around to it. But in
Speaker:the beginning, it's hard to shift
Speaker:sideways sometimes when you have not
Speaker:a wild or mad idea, but a different idea. That might not be the
Speaker:typical path. Yes. And I don't know. There was
Speaker:no one around me in my direct surroundings that actually believed
Speaker:in this, in this idea and that I could do that. And
Speaker:so I just. It gave me so much confidence and so
Speaker:much joy. And then also meeting all of the People in the program was
Speaker:amazing. There was very inspirational women, and not only
Speaker:Tracey, but also the other participants of. Of the
Speaker:class. I think you had Stacy on the podcast as well, right?
Speaker:She was one of the cause members. And somehow,
Speaker:I don't know, all these women that were walking in the same direction, it
Speaker:just gave me so much strength and, you know,
Speaker:the support to keep going and to just keep walking. I can only
Speaker:work on it. Very little time, you know, step by step each
Speaker:day, an hour, two hours, not even, you know, and so
Speaker:it's. It's a very slow progress, but just having, you know, the.
Speaker:The strength to keep going and not stopping and just. It's
Speaker:like a marathon, you know? And each day you run a little. Little bit.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah. Building that stamina. So tell
Speaker:me a little bit about this business that you are building
Speaker:and what that looks like for you.
Speaker:So I am building a platform, a space
Speaker:for mothers for where they can meet
Speaker:and connect in the evenings. So it's kind of. The idea is to offer
Speaker:regularly. You would call it a virtual event, but
Speaker:I call it more of an experience. So I'm going
Speaker:to. Or I am inviting hosts for some of the sessions, so we
Speaker:would dive into a topic or an experience
Speaker:together. There's different categories where I want to
Speaker:offer events, so some of them will be in the area of.
Speaker:Of health, of a little bit mental
Speaker:health also, but self development,
Speaker:everything about your health
Speaker:and how to, for example, as a mom,
Speaker:techniques for relaxation and for
Speaker:kind of calming your nerves, these kind of things. But also
Speaker:entertaining things, like a gaming game night, for example,
Speaker:or a discussion group, a book club. I have many, many
Speaker:ideas for, you know, people I can invite. And
Speaker:what is important to me is that it is always life and that
Speaker:is always authentic, and that it's people, real people meeting.
Speaker:Because actually there's something that Tracy's classes inspired in me
Speaker:because I always. I loved how everybody was able to show
Speaker:up and be present also in those classes. And she was
Speaker:able to create a room where everybody could just. Just be themselves
Speaker:and just contribute from where they were in their
Speaker:lives. And that was the first time I kind of
Speaker:experienced a really authentic connection through a
Speaker:virtual channel. You know, I feel very
Speaker:connected to some of the participants of this group, although I've never met
Speaker:any of them in person. It's always been only virtual, you know,
Speaker:But I still feel. I don't know, there was a space, and I
Speaker:just. I got so inspired also to create something where people
Speaker:feel like they are. Are seen and heard. Yeah,
Speaker:yeah. Because Oftentimes you do put everyone
Speaker:ahead of you in motherhood. And it's not
Speaker:always it can be difficult to meet like minded people or people
Speaker:who want the same thing or sometimes you just don't have the energy to get
Speaker:out in the evening. So having a space to do that and
Speaker:envision it from different facets, I think it's going to be a really wonderful
Speaker:opportunity for many women. Tell me a little bit more how you
Speaker:came up with the name. It is
Speaker:actually twofold. So one is
Speaker:part is that it contains the names of both of
Speaker:my children, of my girls. So it's a mixture of both of their
Speaker:names. But it's also so
Speaker:Lua, I mean, I told you a little bit that I have
Speaker:very much interest in other cultures. And Spanish, for example, is one of the
Speaker:languages that is really close and dear to my heart and
Speaker:the whole Latin American and also Spanish culture.
Speaker:Lua is actually in Portuguese is the moon. And Mira is
Speaker:kind of a name where it implies that
Speaker:it's looking at the moon. So kind of
Speaker:mira. But also,
Speaker:yeah, it contains a little bit also of the word miracle. So it's kind
Speaker:of, it's supposed to evoke the evening atmosphere,
Speaker:you know, thinking about the fact that the events are taking place in the evening
Speaker:and that I want them to be a place where you could let
Speaker:your imagination run wild, so to say, and get
Speaker:inspiration and kind of in this glow of the evening kind
Speaker:of atmosphere. So that's what the name is standing for. Beautiful. I love
Speaker:it. Yeah, it, it draws you in. It made me
Speaker:very curious to find out the meaning behind it.
Speaker:What do you feel keeps you aligned nowadays, now that you've gone through
Speaker:the transformation of motherhood, the transformative course of
Speaker:the art of reinvention, what do you find
Speaker:keeps you grounded or true to yourself as you navigate all the different
Speaker:hats that you wear?
Speaker:I am still trying to find little windows where I can
Speaker:ground myself, for example, by being outside in nature. That's
Speaker:something that still helps me a lot. Sometimes
Speaker:I do a little bit of sports things like Pilates and so
Speaker:kind of doing something also to bring myself back into my body
Speaker:and not from the mind perspective, but into the body.
Speaker:And if I have those little windows of time where I can just
Speaker:be with myself and my thoughts, I usually feel myself again
Speaker:for no matter what happens during the day. So that really
Speaker:does help me. And yeah, reminding
Speaker:gratitude is very important to me. You know, life
Speaker:is very precious. It's beautiful. I often ask my
Speaker:guests to share a mantra and I really like the one you shared with me
Speaker:today, you shared that. That for you,
Speaker:you follow the mantra that paths are created by walking
Speaker:them. What does that mean to you?
Speaker:It means to me that I think it's very important for
Speaker:each and every one of us to follow our own path, even if
Speaker:it's not traditional, and not to expect
Speaker:to follow something just because other people have told you so or why,
Speaker:because you think this is the right way. But be
Speaker:with yourself always and feel into
Speaker:yourself what is the next step. And
Speaker:you never know where this path is going to lead. So the only thing that
Speaker:you can do is set one foot in front of the other
Speaker:and walk and think about when you come to a crossroads. Kind
Speaker:of like, do I walk right or do I walk left? But I've always
Speaker:figured that I want to find my own path, and it's not my
Speaker:target to match anybody else's or kind of like,
Speaker:I don't know, taking over other people on this road or
Speaker:something. For me, it's finding for me the individual way of how
Speaker:life works for me. And even if it's not the easiest and not the most
Speaker:linear one, I feel like it's mine. And so that's
Speaker:why I love this mantra. Yeah,
Speaker:that's really good advice. And you can even see how truly
Speaker:it speaks to just the way you light up when you talk about it.
Speaker:Do you have any advice to share with any women who
Speaker:are either pregnant and expecting their first or in those early
Speaker:years of motherhood who are trying to
Speaker:navigate all the shifts that happen throughout the
Speaker:transition? Yeah, I think
Speaker:to be honest with yourself about what you need and
Speaker:what it is, where you're at. So if you feel
Speaker:that you're very tired or you have the opportunity to ask for help
Speaker:that you're not afraid to do. So if it's your
Speaker:partner or other people surrounding you, friends, family, whatever,
Speaker:you feel like it's all getting too much, that you
Speaker:kind of take this chance to ask other people
Speaker:for support and that you're not too hard on yourself with the
Speaker:expectations that you maybe have. It's not always
Speaker:as easy. And for me, for example, breastfeeding was a really
Speaker:hard journey, and I had the expectation that it would be
Speaker:very easy, that I would just start and everything would go fine. And
Speaker:it took me a very long time to get into a good rhythm with my
Speaker:first child because I was very much in my head and
Speaker:expecting everything to go really well. And so if
Speaker:you put too much pressure on yourself, things can get very
Speaker:hard. And just allowing for a different
Speaker:path and maybe to see in combination because you have
Speaker:another human with you, and this person comes
Speaker:as a little personality already onto this world,
Speaker:and it's not something that you can 100% control.
Speaker:Like maybe you were able to plan and control things before and. And
Speaker:it's. You have to allow for things to go differently than what
Speaker:you expected and not be hard on yourself if it's not what
Speaker:you had in your head. Yeah, Yeah. I think that
Speaker:is very, very wise. Is there anything else that you would like to
Speaker:share that maybe we didn't touch upon today?
Speaker:No, I really. I like your project. I've, you know, seen it from. From
Speaker:afar and seen some of the interviews and so on, and I think it's
Speaker:a really great cause and we both help
Speaker:mothers or maybe a little bit
Speaker:the daily what's happening, and
Speaker:I really enjoy that. Or I think it's a great cause and more
Speaker:women, and that's something I can encourage everybody to do. If you feel that
Speaker:you have a passion, don't be afraid to
Speaker:follow this dream and to follow this road. Even though it seems
Speaker:maybe impossible in your life, and even though you might feel
Speaker:that you have no time at all to do something, there's
Speaker:still always little windows of opportunity and
Speaker:you can just follow if you have the courage to start
Speaker:walking. Things will unfold for you.
Speaker:They do. Yeah. In ways that you don't even realize and that you can't
Speaker:envision. So on that note, thank you so
Speaker:much for sharing your experience, your path.
Speaker:I will include the details of your new business in the show notes.
Speaker:So for anyone who's interested in Amli's Lumira events, they will
Speaker:be in the show notes so you can have a look at them along with
Speaker:her details and how you might find her through social media. So thank
Speaker:you so much. And to everyone who's listening, if you have any
Speaker:questions, feel free to reach out to us. The email is
Speaker:inforeclaimthepinkwithin, or you can send us a
Speaker:message through Instagram, the main social media platform that we use.
Speaker:Take care. Bye.
