Empowering the Working Parent with Joan Nguyen, Co-founder and CEO of Bumo

This episode is an exciting one because Sarah and Sabrina are interviewing their first-ever guest, Joan Nguyen. She is the co-founder and CEO of Bumo, a tech-based platform that provides affordable, accessible, on-demand child care to families. They will get into:

• How Joan got Bumo started and what it looks like today
• The importance of positioning childcare as a benefit that parents deserve in the workplace
• What it takes to become an entrepreneur and why they each chose to take the entrepreneurial path
• Advice on starting a business and the lessons you’ll learn along the way

Thank you for listening and thank you Joan for joining us this episode! Stay tuned for the next Full Stack Beauty episode and follow @LandingInternational and @ClearForMe.

About Joan:

Joan is the co-founder and CEO of Bumo. Raised by refugee parents, Nguyen spent much of her childhood living in poverty. Her father finished 7th grade and her mother, high school - as a result, she was raised with the understanding that education was not only important but also a privilege that she needed to pursue wholeheartedly. With a budding passion for education and learning, Nguyen started MeriEducation, an INC500 company, at 20 years old with $3,000 saved, giving educational services ranging from SAT preparation to academic tutoring.

As a mother of two, Nguyen and co-founder, Chriselle Lim, founded Bumo with the mission to disrupt the childcare industry through a tech-based platform and provide affordable, accessible, on-demand child care to families. A "parent care" company - Bumo serves busy parents, designing every feature with the parent experience in mind.

Interested in Bumo? Nominate your company for enterprise at Bumo For Employers or get started with your own free account on Bumo and get an instant $50 BumoCredit to use towards back-up child care!

Follow @joan.bumo and bumoparent!

[00:00] Introductions and catch up

[06:05] Welcoming Joan Nguyen

[07:20] How Bumo got started and what it looks like today

[13:50] Positioning childcare as a benefit and working with businesses

[14:33] Understanding childcare delusion

[18:10] Joan’s beginning and what made her want to become an entrepreneur

[21:00] Why Sarah decided to become an entrepreneur

[22:00] Failure is an entrepreneur’s biggest lesson

[22:25] How Sabrina became an entrepreneur even though she didn’t see herself as one initially

[24:35] Imposter syndrome and how it’s a universal shared experience

[25:26] High intense emotions like passion or delusion are what drive entrepreneurship

[26:47] Advice that Joan would give to people who want to jump and start their own company

[29:00] Raising a child is like raising a company

[30:50] Tips Sabrina has for entrepreneurs

[32:45] Sarah breaks down what it takes to be an entrepreneur and founder

[34:00] Wrapping up and sharing what’s coming next for Bumo

[35:40] Quotes of month