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Truly Rich Recommendations {Events}: Think BIG! The 1st Mompreneur Summit

August 29, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you’ll probably know that I love connecting with other moms, and Mommy Mundo is one of the communities that I am very happy and privileged to be part of.

The mom behind it, Janice Crisostomo-Villanueva, is one awesome lady, and is truly inspiring in so many ways! 🙂 Her life is one of the best examples of what it means to celebrate the gift of womanhood, because she is a devoted wife and mom, mompreneur, and “mom advocate” in general, and she does all this with such passion and grace! 🙂 I am so blessed to know her, and I’m sure many other women would agree with me!

Well, Janice and her team have come up with another event that I’m sure all the moms out there would be blessed to join: Think Big! The 1st Mompreneur Summit!

Here’s some information about the event from the Mompreneur Manila website:

MOMPRENEUR MANILA and PLDT KaAsenso proudly announces its upcoming conference for mompreneurs and aspiring mompreneurs: THE 1st MOMPRENEUR SUMMIT with the theme THINK BIG! The event happens on September 15, 2012, Saturday, from 9am to 4pm at the Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City.

The theme of this year’s conference, THINK BIG! aims to rally all mom entrepreneurs to establish their businesses with a strong and BIG vision and mission as a foundation. Whether homebased, web-based, office or mall-based, whether it be mompreneur-run or with a sizeable number of employees, whether profit-focused or passion-based, all mom-founded enterprises will benefit from a professional set up and operations, strategic marketing and sales initiatives, web and social media know-how, while keeping the heart of your business always in mind.

The 1st MOMPRENEUR SUMMIT features speakers to provide valuable learnings and insights. (Find out more about each speaker .)

Following is the programme line up:

The Mompreneur Movement & Why Mompreneurs Should Think BIG!
JANICE CRISOSTOMO-VILLANUEVAFounder, Mompeneur Manila & Mommy Mundo
Managing Director, Mommy Matters & Creative Juice Communications Inc.

Brand Building & Positioning Your business for profitable growth
& Personal Branding for Mompreneurs
JOSIAH GOCEO, Waters Philippines & Co-founder, Mansmith & Fielders
Marketing Expert and Author

Helping emerging MomPreneurs Through PR, Marketing and WOM
AMOR MACLANGDirector for Communications. GeiserMaclang Marketing Communications Inc.,
An Award-winning communications agency

E-Commerce and Social Media Techniques to Build your Business
JANETTE TORALFounder, DigitalFIlipino.com

Social Mompreneurship: Build a Business with a Heart
KRIE REYES-LOPEZFounder, Messy Bessy (www.messybessy.com)

Creating an Online Persona & Finding a Vision Beyond Self
ANTON DIAZFounder and Publisher at www.ourawesomeplanet.com
Founder, MavenSecrets.com

Mompreneur Manila wishes to thank its valuable partner PLDT KaAsenso which has been advocating entrepreneurship
all over the country. Visit the PLDT KaAsenso pages for more info on their products, events and campaigns:

PLDT website – www.kaasenso.pldthome.com
Facebook –
Twitter –
Link to the KaAsenso AVP – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyQLyuHxZCo&feature=youtu.be
PLDT@home – www.pldtathome.com

We would also like to thank the following partners and sponsors for supporting this event and our advocacy for mom entrepreneurship: WORKING MOM MAGAZINE, LIFESTYLE NETWORK, GEISER MACLANG COMMUNICATIONS, WATERS PHILIPPINES and Mommy Mundo publications: URBAN MOM MAGAZINE and MOMMY PAGES.

Participation Fees to the 1st MOMPRENEUR SUMMIT are as follows:
REGULAR RATE: P3,000/ person
*fee is inclusive of a conference kit, lunch, and morning and afternoon snacks.

For inquiries, email .

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For regular updates on the Summit and other events and information on the mompreneur movement in the Philippines, follow Mompreneur Manila on . God bless, everyone! 🙂

Freebie Friday: Dainty Mom’s 50 Tips for Work at Homemakers

June 15, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

I was super happy yesterday when I saw an email from Martine aka Dainty Mom in my inbox, with a link to her FREE eBook, “50 Tips for Work at Homemakers,” EXCLUSIVE to Dainty Mom subscribers! 🙂

Taken from Dainty Mom’s FB page.

I was able to browse through it briefly during my lunch break and, I must say, it is definitely a good read! 🙂 Congrats, Martine! 🙂

If you’re a mom who has been looking to working from home, but don’t know how to get started, I suggest you subscribe to Dainty Mom now so you can get your own copy of the eBook! 🙂

Now I’m even more inspired to start on my own book! LOL! 🙂 I’ve been meaning to since last year, but don’t know where to start. I’ve had a few topics in mind, but I’d love to hear what YOU guys think I should write about, too! 🙂 Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know, OK?

God bless, y’all! 🙂

Truly Rich Reflections: "Amazing Grace" Series on Smart Parenting – There is Hope Beyond Your Suffering

April 5, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

I was privileged to be asked to write a series of inspiring articles for Smart Parenting this Holy Week, starting with this one on how to add more prayer into your life. Another project that I was blessed to be part of is the “Amazing Grace” series.

Starting today, Holy Thursday, up to Easter Sunday, the “Amazing Grace” series on Smart Parenting will feature true, inspiring stories of faith, hope and love from moms who have experienced the grace, love and power of God in their lives. Here is an excerpt from the first article in the series:

Image source here.

“Amazing Grace” Series: There is Hope Beyond Your Suffering

This Holy Week, let us be inspired by the faith, hope and love of moms who have amazing stories to tell — stories of Amazing Grace.

By Tina Santiago-Rodriguez

Today, Maundy (or Holy) Thursday, as we recall Jesus’ Last Supper with His Apostles, followed by His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, His betrayal by Judas and His arrest, we gain inspiration from a mom who also experienced suffering, pain and betrayal, yet found strength in God. Read on to know more about her story.

Alice* is a 28-year old stay-at-home-mom to Abel*, one year old. In her own words, she shares how she moved from being a battered woman to a woman full of hope, faith and love: I became a single mom by chance. I never wanted to be a single mom – I mean, who would, right? When I learned of my pregnancy (which was planned by the way), the father of my child and I already had marriage plans. But things changed when he started hitting me – and it only became worse from there.

I was 26 years old when I got pregnant, while the father of my son was five years my junior. My family didn’t approve of our relationship from the very beginning since he was an undergraduate and unemployed, and my family would always say that someone like me – a professional – didn’t deserve a man like him.

Despite this, I fought for our relationship, going “underground” at times. I would seldom go home to our house and would instead stay at my boyfriend’s place. My usual reason for not going home would be because I was working. I had two jobs at that time – I worked at a call center by night and by day, I practiced my medical profession. So, on the nights when I didn’t go home, my family thought I was spending the night at my office.

I was happy with him. I was happy with my newfound freedom – or so I thought. Everything changed when the abuse began.

My then-boyfriend hit me four times on separate occasions. In all those instances, I was already pregnant. I was having a difficult pregnancy and was at risk of losing the baby, but he still hurt me.

To continue reading Alice’s inspiring story, please click here. Watch out for the other stories of God’s Amazing Grace on Smart Parenting tomorrow, on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday!

Thankful Thursdays: Thank You, Lord, for BC Bloggers! :)

March 29, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

I first wrote about BC Bloggers here, with my latest post about it here. I’m writing this post now because I received an email from Paula of BC Bloggers, part of which reads thus:

Last call for BC Bloggers Participants! If you haven’t signed up or forgot to now is the time to do it. Don’t forget to share in your Facebook page and your blogs so that others will join as well. Remember your blog will benefit more if we have more participants. Those who have alread signed up will be hearing from me by next week.

I actually remember signing up last year, but I don’t know if I “made the cut,” so to speak. So, just in case, I am blogging about BC Bloggers again now. 🙂 (Playing safe, haha!) I have a “deeper” reason for doing so, of course! 🙂

I really believe that my blog’s current page rank is largely due to the help of BC Bloggers, along with my writing gigs elsewhere on (and off!) the Net. 🙂 For all of these, I thank God and all the people who’ve helped me make this blog the way it is now. I hope and pray things will just get better from here onwards, all for God’s greater glory, of course! 🙂 (And to help our missionary family, of course, as this blog has been a great blessing for us, so far, in so, so many ways!)

P.S. If you’re a blogger, I would encourage you to join BC Bloggers. It’s really easy to do so. 🙂 Here’s the link to the sign-up form. 🙂 May you be blessed in all you do! 🙂

{Sort-of} Freebie Friday: Join Fabulous Mom-Blog Giveaways from Dainty Mom, The Painter’s Wife, Chronicles of A Nursing Mom and Topaz Mommy!

March 8, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

As a relatively newbie mom blogger, I’ve always been uber grateful for other mom bloggers who are more experienced than I am, especially those whom I have personally come to know online. I’m also amazed by how their blogs have grown and touched the lives of other people, perhaps even without the mom bloggers realizing it! 🙂

So, in relation to my recent decision to always be grateful, I’d like to say “THANK YOU” to these fabulous mom bloggers for their help, support, inspiration and friendship-brought-about-by-a-common-love-for-breastfeeding-blogging-babywearing-and-other-things-mommy-related by promoting their current blog giveaways here! 😉

Here we go:

Martine of Dainty Mom has become one of my good online {and offline!} mom-friends. We used to chat a lot online and she is always someone I can go to for anything – whether mommy-related or blog-related! 🙂 We have a lot of things in common, one of which is our love for the Lord and our families. I’m especially grateful to her for her helpful comments and suggestions on how to improve this little blog of mine! 🙂

Anyway, Martine is celebrating her blog’s 2nd anniversary this month through a series of giveaways (every week of March), with prizes from fab brands, establishments and mom-owned businesses such as Sunshine Babies Boutique, Fancy Girl Designs and The Mom Writes, Dwell Studio, Bliss Nail Spa, Manila Baby Shop, and (incidentally, did you know that Jen, one of the mompreneurs behind Sesou, is a homeschool mom? She’s part of ROCKERs, our homeschool support group! 🙂 Just sharing! LOL!).

Here are links to the giveaways that have already gone live (as of this writing):
Dainty Mom at 2: What Makes You Pretty? {Celestina & Co. Contest}
Dainty Mom at 2: Win a Custom Blog Header and Badge Design from Fancy Girl Designs

I plan to join the Fancy Girl Designs contest (as soon as I’m done with my backlog of articles! LOL! OK, I know I shouldn’t be blogging now, but I can’t help it! Ha, ha!)

I can’t recall how I came to know Eliza of , but I am grateful that I did. She helped introduce me to SEO-writing and freelancing (which I don’t do much of nowadays because I’m already swamped as it is, LOL!) and we also used to chat a lot about motherhood, breastfeeding and the like. 🙂 I got to meet Eli in person during my first (and last! har har!) stint at the Expo Mom Bazaar in 2010 (I’ll always be grateful to her for being one of our customers at the bazaar, hehe!).

Anyhoo, Eli is currently hosting a post-delivery birth photography package giveaway worth P5,000, sponsored by . To join, check out the details and mechanics .

I stumbled upon Jenny’s Chronicles of A Nursing Mom blog when we were still on mission in Timor Leste. I was researching about breastfeeding, particularly nursing wear, at that time and found this post written by her. I’ve been a fan ever since and love how helpful and informative her blog is, especially for breastfeeding moms like me. I also credit Jenny and Mec of Mec as Mom, who are behind the Milk Mama Diaries Carnival, for indirectly helping build up this blog. 🙂 Most of all though, I thank Jenny for always being so nice and accommodating, especially when it’s breastfeeding, babywearing and everything-else-attachment parenting-related! 🙂

Jenny and Mi’ann of Babymama are currently having a giveaway for the FREE use of an Ameda Elite pump for one year, especially for working and pumping moms to use in their office. I totally commend them both for encouraging working moms to continue breastfeeding this way! 🙂 Check out the details and mechanics here.

Photo taken from Frances’ blogger profile here. Sorry, her blog doesn’t have a badge! 🙂

Frances of Topaz Mommy is another mom blogger to whom I am grateful. We’re not that close, but we do actually have quite a few things in common – we both love God, our husbands and babies, breastfeeding and Jay, my youngest brother, who also happens to work with Frances for OK! magazine. 🙂 I’m not as fashionable as she is but I love, love, love browsing through her blog! 🙂 I also love how honest and open and frank she is (OK, are those redundant terms?! Sorry! LOL!), especially with her posts on motherhood, being a wife and being a Christian. 🙂

This month, Frances and Rone of Mothering Earthlings (who I was privileged to feature here) are hosting a fab baby footwear promo – i.e. a pair of Tip Tap Soft Soles baby shoes plus a set of Funky Feet Not Quite Shoes socks! 🙂 Read more about it here.
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So that’s it! 🙂 Join these great giveaways now and show a few of my fave mom bloggers some love while you’re at it! Have a fabulous weekend ahead – and don’t forget to drop by Expo Kid 4 on Saturday! 🙂 We’ll be there with some of our friends from ROCKERs and HAPI! 🙂