Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH, is the founder of The Expecting Entrepreneur, a consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs design parental leave plans that meet their business model and personal needs. Her highly personalized services for entrepreneurs incorporate both her expertise as a maternal health professional and her own experience as a business owner and mother. Prior to her consulting practice, Arianna worked on maternal health issues for over a decade as a health educator, a social work trainee, a reproductive health researcher, and a yoga therapist. Arianna speaks and writes about parental leave and respectful maternity care as an issue of social justice, human rights, and economic equity. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Health Equity, Advances in Social Work, and Ethnicity & Health. She is a coauthor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School, published by The University of Illinois Press in 2020. Learn more at www.theexpectingentrepreneur.com. Follow Arianna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ariannataboada/ Mentioned in the episode: the state programs and a better balance to compare them: https://www.abetterbalance.org/our-issues/paid-family-medical-leave/ For more, follow us on all social media channels: Website Instagram Facebook Linkedin Twitter Youtube To get in touch with us, send us an email at [email protected]!