Top 40: Amy Rauscher
Okanagan Edge Staff - May 18, 2018 - Columnists

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This year, Okanagan Edge and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce have partnered to showcase some of the Okanagan’s most exciting entrepreneurs, through the Top 40 Under 40 program.

Sponsored by BDO, the Top 40 Under 40 recognizes innovative young professionals in our community and showcases their accomplishments.

Okanagan Edge will feature a new honouree each week, so check back often.

This week we recognize Amy Rauscher, of MOGA.

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In 2015, as an isolated new mom, Amy Rauscher created MOGA Moms as a “non-judgemental space for moms to connect and establish community.”

Rauscher has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters in Business Administration and worked full-time in geriatric health care. But she had seen a need in the community and wanted to fill it, anyway.

MOGA offers what Rauscher calls a holistic approach to health through things like Mom and baby yoga, educational events, stroller run club, doula services, and others.

The program started as “by donation only,” and MOGA was the first ever corporate donor to Mamas for Mamas. Today, MOGA has its own location and continues to maintain its roots of community, collaboration and empowerment.

In 2016, MOGA was a finalist in the City of Kelowna Civic Awards for the Corporate Community of the Year Award. MOGA was also nominated and acknowledged for the Best Community Impact and Best Concept award with Small Business BC.

“I am extremely proud that I have been able to grow the MOGA brand and community with my (now) three-year-old son completely involved,”  Rauscher says. “My son, Landon, tells people he works at MOGA and he will often do a yoga pose or ‘race’ in the middle of the sidewalk. He will grow up understanding the importance of hard work, determination, community and helping others.”

Rauscher says she strives to be a leader in the community and advocate for women’s empowerment. She volunteers on the executive team at Mamas for Mamas and also volunteers in a marketing function on a special project for Mamas TV.

In 2014, she also founded and facilitate a local single mom group in Kelowna.

“I am always available for any mom in need of support in our community,” she says.


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