Marcia left her job as an employee of a state-owned corporation, where she had worked for 18 years in HR training and as a corporate teacher, to embark on a new professional path as an entrepreneur in Canada.

“I often say that when I set foot on Canadian soil, with ten suitcases, four kids, and $900 in my pocket, I promised I wouldn’t work for anyone but myself. After four months of deliberation, I got a job at a chocolate shop. I went there at 8 am, and at 2 pm, I thanked the boss and said it wasn’t for me. It was just those 6 hours in almost 20 years that I worked for another person. Since then, I have owned my own business.”

In 2013, no parenting schools in Brazil taught experts to educate newborns about sleep. Marcia Horbacio, a doula and sleep consultant in Toronto, Canada, since 2005, took the first sleep consulting course in Brazil at a California institution where she was on the faculty. She has trained over 400 students since then. In 2020 she launched CAPPE, CANADIAN PARENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, to educate about parenting based on evidence rather than opinion. Marcia has vast communication experience, having been in various television programs such as Bem-Estar on Rede Globo de Televisao and presenting the TV show Bons Sonhos on Canal GNT in 2017. It is now available on the subscription streaming platform Canalis Globo. CAPPE has grown dramatically in just two and a half years by certifying numerous students and teaching hundreds of families. The collaborative team has grown to 14 people working towards happy parenting and a new generation of children who will be better human beings.