You’re the visionary, the backbone, the bedtime story and the business plan.
This room honours all of it.
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The Pearle Hotel & Spa
April 1 2026
Burlington Ontario Canada
This isn’t another conference.
It’s a room full of women who get it.
The ones who know what it’s like to juggle a launch while booking dentist appointments…
To dream bigger while wiping sticky fingers…
To crave strategy and space in the same breath.
This Mother Means Business Live is where entrepreneurial mothers stop hiding their ambition, drop the guilt, and remember they’re not building just any business — they’re building a life.
No hustle culture. No endless note-taking. No fluff.
Real conversations, real strategy, and the tools, skills and people you need to make your dreams a reality.
You’ve been to other events...
...and you left with a notebook full of ideas, and no idea what to do next. TMMB Live is different.
This is a business strategy designed for women who are also raising children. We’ll talk numbers and nervous systems. Funnels and flexibility. Sales and self-trust. Because growth shouldn’t come at the cost of your health, your family, or yourself.
GRAB YOUR TICKETWhat to expect
You won’t find 12-panel pitch fests or fluff-filled workshops here. This is a curated experience designed to fuel your business and your wellbeing — with zero pressure to “perform.”
Here’s what’s inside the room:
Strategic Keynotes
Real business growth stories from women who’ve built with integrity, not burnout.
You’ll hear the behind-the-scenes truth, not just the highlight reel.
Hands-On Skills & Tools Lab
This new segment is all about doing, not just listening. Build your tech confidence, test-drive tools, and learn the platforms that simplify your systems and sharpen your edge.
Curated Connection
This isn’t awkward networking. It’s intentional conversation with women who see both your ambition and your exhaustion. You’ll make aligned connections… the kind that last longer than a business card.
Founder-Focused Marketplace
Shop from women-owned brands that align with how you live and lead. Support fellow founders, discover new favourites, and celebrate what it means to buy with intention.
This day isn’t about doing more.
It’s about doing the right things in a way that finally feels good.
MEET YOUR SPEAKERS
LAURA SINCLAIR
Your event host and Founder of This Mother Means Business
Dr. Tracy Dalgleish
Psychologist, wife, mom, and someone who knows firsthand that even the strongest relationships can feel fragile when life piles on.
JOHANNA CABILDO
CEO of D-GN, leading innovation at the intersection of AI, Web3, and data ethics. With a background in enterprise AI at droppGroup, she builds decentralized, equitable data systems that expand access to the digital economy. Johanna has collaborated with over 100 global consumer brands, founded the Female Empowerment Initiative “She Wants to Move,” serves on UK venture fund board, championing inclusive and responsible innovation and recently joined as a director for United Nations Next Gen, set to debut in Canada.
JULIE COLE
Julie Cole is a co-founder of Mabel’s Labels, the award-winning company that grew from a basement startup to a multi-million-dollar brand. A recovered lawyer and mom of six, she’s now a Senior Director, bestselling author, and one of Canada’s most recognized voices in entrepreneurship. An award-winning speaker and media contributor, Julie is known for her wit, wisdom, and passion for supporting small businesses and women entrepreneurs.
DEE BOSWELL-BUCK
Dee Boswell-Buck is a LinkedIn Visibility Strategist and speaker who helps established professionals turn their expertise into visibility that actually leads somewhere. She’s built brands, communities, and systems long before social media made it trendy, and today she’s known for making LinkedIn feel clear, strategic, and surprisingly doable.
Rita Nalbandian
Rita Nalbandian is a dynamic Business Development and Project Advisor at ThePrinting House (TPH), where she helps brands bring their visions to life through innovative print and marketing solutions. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Rita has built a reputation for her creativity, commitment to personalized, high-quality client service, and ability to transform ideas into impactful campaigns.
Beyond her professional achievements, Rita is a single mom of two teenagers who embodies resilience, balance, and heart. She thrives in Toronto’s vibrant energy, loves spending time outdoors, and is known for her friendly, supportive nature. Whether she’s guiding clients, mentoring colleagues, or cheering on her kids, Rita brings warmth and dedication to everything she does.
Her story is one of strength and inspiration, proving that motherhood and leadership go hand in hand. Rita continues to show that success is not just about business growth, but also about building meaningful connections, uplifting others, and living with purpose.
CRISTINA GALEANO
Cristina leads a diverse team of professionals within CIBC’s Business Banking group supporting organizations across the Greater Toronto Area.
Prior to this current role, she held a Cash Management function within Commercial Banking for over 5 years. Cristina brings to CIBC over 20 years of progressive finance, treasury and cash management experience within the financial services sector. Cristina is a graduate from Concordia University where she earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance, and she is a Certified Treasury Professional.
LESLEY TURNER
Lesley Turner helps women stop living by internalized expectations and start choosing on purpose.
Her work blends somatic awareness, intuition, and emotional pattern recognition to uncover the reactions, guilt, overthinking, and second-guessing that keep capable women stuck in smaller lives than they’re meant for.
A wife, mother, and entrepreneur, Lesley creates the kind of clarity that changes how you parent, lead, relate, and make decisions - so your life reflects who you actually are, not who you learned to be.
Anora Weste
Anora Weste is the founder of WMS Bookkeeping, a Canadian bookkeeping and accounting firm supporting growing service based businesses. She works closely with six and seven figure entrepreneurs to bring structure, insight, and confidence to their financial operations, from compliance to cash flow to long term profitability.
Originally from the Nature Isle of the Caribbean, Dominica, Anora brings both resilience and perspective to her work. After starting her firm while working full time and navigating early motherhood, she built a multi six figure practice grounded in sustainability, strategic thinking, and honest decision making. Her approach blends strong financial fundamentals with real life business realities, helping founders understand their numbers without overwhelm.
Known for making complex accounting topics practical and accessible, Anora speaks openly about what it truly takes to build a profitable business alongside a full life, with discipline and intention at every stage.
Carly Hickey
Carly is an experienced Registered Nurse of 12 years and specialized in adult critical care. Her professional experience revealed a gap in care for which this solution was built - helping families create and communicate care plans well in advance of a health emergency.
Jill Rothe
Jill Rothe is a mom of three, wife, engineer, athlete, investor, and multi-business founder who’s redefining what it means to build a career and life on your own terms. With over 20 years in Fortune 50 global corporate leadership spanning operations, sales, supply chain, analytics, and strategy, Jill has led teams across five continents while simultaneously launching and growing multiple six-figure businesses.
Today, she runs Our Warehouse, a founder-focused fulfillment and operations company built to support underestimated founders and simplifying the 3PL partnership, alongside her own lactation product business called MilkWorx, where she holds her own patent on the revolutionary Freeze It Flat. Jill speaks candidly about motherhood, entrepreneurship, and the often-unspoken realities of ambition and navigating a recent corporate exit. She rejects the “default spouse” narrative and role, and builds systems at home and at work that actually support growth and a family, not hinder it. Her work centers on helping women build businesses that are profitable, sustainable, and aligned with the life they want to live.
Susie Adelson
Susie Adelson is a Toronto-based marketing and partnerships leader with a career spanning media, experiential marketing, and brand collaborations. She is Co-Founder of Kelly Greene Co., a brand partnerships agency that works with organizations such as the PINK Awards, Toronto Star, and Monday Girl to build meaningful sponsorship and collaboration strategies.
She also leads brand partnerships for her clients, working with companies including Deciem, IKEA, Sephora, Aritzia, National Bank, Mastercard, and the WNBA to create impactful partnerships that support women’s careers and communities.
Earlier in her career, Susie helped launch The Globe and Mail’s experiential loyalty program — the first of its kind in North America — and later brought experiential marketing to Spin Master’s marketing teams. She has also built integrated partnerships across leading media brands, including FASHION, Toronto Life, Weddingbells, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Today’s Parent, and HELLO! Canada.
Her work focuses on building authentic partnerships, storytelling through community, and creating experiences that bring brands and audiences together.
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The Pearle Hotel & Spa
April 1st 2026
Burlington, Ontario Canada | 9 AM to 3 PM EST
