The new year is here! What will 2019 bring for you? Is the 2019 IBLCE exam in your future? We have big plans for 2019, and I’m excited to share all of them with you! I’d love to see you at one of my live courses! My live courses are Read more…
A woman told us she had received our postcard listing the dates and locations for our live review course. Along with the rest of the day’s mail, she plopped the postcard onto the counter, and began making dinner. Soon, her husband found the card, walked over to the computer, and Read more…
What’s that? You see this picture and you’re thinking, “Is Marie the birthday girl?” Oh, no, much better than that! Waaaaaaay MUCH better than that! (More on that in a minute.) I can honestly say I have enjoyed every live course I’ve ever taught in the past 25 years or Read more…
In an earlier blog I explained why I believed it’s important for IBCLC-wannbees to have a live, in-person component to their 90 hours of lactation-focused education. But in almost the same breath, I’ll tell you why I created an all online lactation course: Because hundreds of people asked for it! Read more…
Have you taken the IBLCE exam in the past, and failed it? Don’t give up–you can still pass it! And we can help. Today, I had a sad phone call from a woman we’ll call Pam. Pam felt distressed because she had taken the IBLCE exam last summer and failed Read more…
Planning, writing material for, and teaching a 90-credit course was one of the more difficult things I’ve done in a long time. Like most difficult things, I probably wouldn’t have attempted it if I had known how really difficult it would be! Now, I’m finished. I’m sitting Gate 14 in Read more…
The first time I arrived in San Diego, I realized why some people come here and never return. Once again, I am here in one of the country’s most lovely cities. The pace is a little slower than what I experience living outside of Washington DC. The sun is a Read more…
Just rolled into Dallas for the tenth time in eight years. Big. Huge. Each time when I arrive, I am amazed at how big Dallas feels. Yet, I have come to embrace that bigness. There is always a big welcome at the hotel front desk, a big group of course Read more…
I just finished teaching my Lactation Exam Review and my Picture Perfect courses in Baltimore. I trudged out the door thinking “5 down, 3 to go.” These long teaching days wipe me out. Yet, as exhausted as I am at the day’s end, I feel more motivated, more inspired, more determined Read more…