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BestestMommyBoss Tiara Caldwell, Doula and Lactation Consultant

Tiara Caldwell

Tiara Caldwell is a mom of three and a licensed practical nurse. In 2015, she started Crowned and Cradled, a business offering pre-and-post natal birthing and lactation services.

Tiara Caldwell, 30

Hometown: Upper Marlboro, MD

Business: Crowned and Cradled 

Website: crownedandcradled.com

Tiara Caldwell knows how it feels when a birthing plan goes wrong.

During the delivery of her twins, she was told her son was breeched and she needed an emergency C-Section. “With the twins, I had a traumatic birth experience, the care I received was less than favorable and I feel it was because I was perceived as a young black woman who didn’t know her options,” Tiara said.

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Bestest Mommy Boss Cherri Dashields: Personal Vegan Chef

Welcome to Bestest Mommy Boss, a new section on the blog that will feature entrepreneurial moms who have turned their passions into lucrative side hustles and full-time businesses. 

Cherri Dashields, personal vegan chef

Cherri Dashields is a Philly-based personal chef who can make a mean vegan version of any meat dish.

Cherri Dashields, 45
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Business: Brown Veggie Mom,
plant-based personal chef
Profit: Between $500 and $1,500 a month
Reach her on Instagram @brownveggiemom

When Cherri Dashields tells people she’s vegan, the first question she gets asked is: “Oh wow, what do you eat?”

“Anything you can make with meat, I can make vegan,” she says, proudly. “Someone asked me about oxtails and I said, ‘come on over and I will make you some vegan oxtails.’”

Vegan oxtails huh? Cherri could sense I might be a skeptic. “If you lived closer, you could come over my house and I would feed you,” she promises.

And apparently, that’s how it starts. [Read more…]