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🏠🔨 updating our 90s capsule home
👧🏼👦🏼👶🏼 twins + baby | 3 under 3
🇨🇦 Toronto-ish
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If not now, then when?

I’ve spent a lot of my life chasing the next thing.

The next idea. The next version of the business. The next challenge that forces me to learn something new and become someone new in the process.

For a long time, I thought the goal was to eventually reach a point where everything felt figured out. Where I had more certainty, more time, and a perfectly clear path forward.

Then I became a dad.

Nothing makes time feel more real than watching your baby change in front of you. It’s made me realize there probably isn’t a perfect season coming. Life doesn’t wait until the business is ‘stable’, the idea is fully formed, or you finally feel ready.

Most of the best things in my life started before I was ready anyway.

They came from following my curiosity. Choosing discomfort. Telling stories. Building things. Reinventing myself whenever the old version stopped feeling true.

Fatherhood has made me more intentional about what my ambition is for.

I want Lenny to grow up seeing that you can bet on yourself, change direction, build something meaningful, and keep becoming a new version of yourself. But I also want her to see that success means being present enough to enjoy the ordinary moments while they’re here.

So start the thing. Make the change. Share the idea. Take the risk. Go for the run. JUST ENJOY THE MOMENT.

If not now.. then when?

The current thing I’m building ^

working on a sub 20min 5km

finding new routes with lenny in the grenny

Quick cozy cabin road trip

Dinner in the PNW 👨🏻‍🍳

Highway camping

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Had an amazing time @createcultivate festival ✨

I’ve always said that “opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor”. That’s what this weekend was all about for me. I got to learn from some of the best , connect with incredible female CEOs and founders, and of course a few laughs & dance parties!

Big love to @marinaamiddleton & @jaclynrjohnson for bringing together over 4,000 women - no easy feat.

Chapter 40 is for expansion. ❤️⚡️

#CreateandCultivate

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There was a time when babies did not belong to mothers alone.

They belonged to the village.

If a baby cried, any woman nearby might gather them into her arms.
If a mother was exhausted, another breast was offered.
If a mother was sick, another woman fed the child without hesitation.

Milk was not guarded.
It flowed where it was needed.

A hungry baby was everyone’s responsibility.

Women knew something we have slowly forgotten:

Human babies were never meant to survive on one mother alone.

They survived through circles of women.
Through shared arms.
Shared wisdom.
Shared milk.

Aunts.
Sisters.
Friends.
Grandmothers.

An entire web of mothers surrounding a child.

For most of human history, motherhood was not solitary.

It was communal.
Protective.
Interwoven.

One woman rested while another rocked the baby.
One woman labored while another fed the toddler.
One woman healed while another breastfed the newborn.

The village held the mother.
And the mothers held the babies.

And that is how our species survived.

Because long before parenting books and baby monitors and isolated nuclear homes…

there were women.

And women took care of each other’s babies.

Follow for more @wombtoworldarchive

Text: @badassmotherbirther
Special thanks to @abbiwarden @hungry.mummy for allowing me to share these photos of their story. ❤️

#womanpower #womenempowerment #mothernature #motherhood #sisterhood

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There was a time when babies did not belong to mothers alone.

They belonged to the village.

If a baby cried, any woman nearby might gather them into her arms.
If a mother was exhausted, another breast was offered.
If a mother was sick, another woman fed the child without hesitation.

Milk was not guarded.
It flowed where it was needed.

A hungry baby was everyone’s responsibility.

Women knew something we have slowly forgotten:

Human babies were never meant to survive on one mother alone.

They survived through circles of women.
Through shared arms.
Shared wisdom.
Shared milk.

Aunts.
Sisters.
Friends.
Grandmothers.

An entire web of mothers surrounding a child.

For most of human history, motherhood was not solitary.

It was communal.
Protective.
Interwoven.

One woman rested while another rocked the baby.
One woman labored while another fed the toddler.
One woman healed while another breastfed the newborn.

The village held the mother.
And the mothers held the babies.

And that is how our species survived.

Because long before parenting books and baby monitors and isolated nuclear homes…

there were women.

And women took care of each other’s babies.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
@badassmotherbirther

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
@abbiwarden
@hungry.mummy

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New Episode with @abbiwarden drops TODAY at 1pm CST!!! During this part of our conversation, I felt this to my core..so much of my experience with breastfeeding my first was filled with stress around how much milk I was getting per day, per feed and I was driving myself crazy..it partially took away some of the joy I should have been experiencing. The way that @abbiwarden talks about her experience with her twins versus with her third baby was healing and encouraging! Be sure to listen in!!

@abbiwarden you were so honest, so real and I am so thankful that you shared all that you did. Thank you Thank you 🫶🏼

#motherhood #breastfeeding #momsofinstagram #postpartum #mom

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THIS Mom Advice from @abbiwarden! Not only do all moms need to hear this but we need to follow through on this advice.

Ask for help if you need it! Take some time for yourself!

#momlife #motherhood #momsofinstagram #parenting #momof3

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Postpartum anxiety is SO real..if you have experienced this, what helped ?! Drop a comment below! For me it was running, I am not a runner but at night when I would put my daughter to sleep..I got my shoes on, put on some good tunes and just ran my heart out.

I also think there is such truth to what @abbiwarden mentions. While you are in the trenches you don’t even recognize it..it’s once you start to feel more like yourself that you understand where you were at. If you are feeling this now, you are not alone!!! Do something small each day that you love.. it does get better🤍

#momlife #postpartum #motherhood #healing #pregnancy

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Introducing the next guest on Mom Mode is always so exciting! I get to relive the conversation I had with each mom, each one is so special and filled with a unique motherhood journey..there is so much more behind that journey than we often see over social media and that’s what I love about podcasting.

This week I would love to introduce @abbiwarden ! Momma to 3 beautiful babies under 2! Her first pregnancy being twins! Abbi’s journey is unique- when she first got pregnant her and her fiance were living across the country away from family and it wasn’t until after the twins were born that she realized the importance of family, community and accepting help. After accepting a role as COO and moving to Toronto to be closer to family they found out they were expecting their third!

Our conversation is filled with so much! What it’s like working as a mom of 3, how she has begun to prioritize self care, surviving the trenches of postpartum anxiety, learning to lean on family and accepting help when it is offered, physically healing from 2 c-sections (the 2nd c-section she found out she had a hernia) all while in the midst of (finding her pink) again 🤍🤍🤍

Such a real honest motherhood conversation! Episode drops next Tuesday, March 3rd!!! Thank you for your honest @abbiwarden 🫶🏼

#momlife #motherhood #momsofinstagram #workingmom #momof3

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I’ve been building a business since I was 20. Because I’ve always believed there should be no limit to what’s possible in life.

I dreaded the idea of working to build someone else’s dream while they told me what to do, and when/where I had to do it.

The last decade has been filled with lessons that I’ll continue to grow from forever. But since becoming a father it’s completely changed my perspective on time, and this road trip from Kelowna to California has emphasized that perspective.

Time is a gift. Not a guarantee. I’m going to try to live accordingly

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Not just sharing life’s highlight reel - thank you for being here 💌

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A gorgeous mama of two, with another one on the way 🥹

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Summer of 2025 on Big Gull Lake. Great weather, friends, family and fun! 🍷🚤🩲👙🌞🪺🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏊‍♂️🍽️

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