How to Empower Working Moms and Bootstrap a Platform with Alexandra Badea

Plus the weirdest food Diana ever ate 🐙

Hello from your friend in Bucharest, Romania.

In this issue: how to empower working moms, the weirdest food Diana Florescu ever ate, quotes by Adam Carolla, and more!

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Innovators Can Laugh

How can you empower working moms and bootstrap a platform?

After facing initial rejection from investors, she bootstrapped a platform with her own money that provides resources and a supportive peer community to empower working women and Moms. In this conversation with Alexandrea Badea, founder of She is Mom, we discuss her experience of creating an online community, the importance of looking for people with different perspectives, and her latest project that aims to help Ukrainian moms. 🇺🇦👩

🎙️ Catch the show on Apple, Spotify, or other player here.

Show highlights:

-   1:05 – call for Ukrainian Moms, what resources are you providing them?

-   3:18 – do these services give guidance on starting an SRL? (LLC)

-   5:17 – outside of Romania, do you get visitors to the platform from other countries?

-   7:30 – what tips would you share to improve one’s soft skills?

-   11:04 – what are some countries where people are more outgoing?

-   13:28 – when was your ‘aha’ moment and decided to create SheisMom?

-   16:55 – did you try to get investment and if so what was that experience like?

-   18:22 – how many mentors are on the platform?

-   19:18 – how many different professions?

-   20:22 – what does the process look like for people joining the platform?

-   22:38 – if you could have one super power, what would it be?

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Funny Clip

What is the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?

I was surprised when Diana Florescu shared this strange food with me. See clip. 

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Some Fav Quotes

💻 “You don’t cruise the internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling.”

😅 “People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity”

🤣 “What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.”

Adam Carolla

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Funny Tweet

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The End

Hey Everyone! This weeks has been extremely quiet as the kids are with bunica (aka grandma) this week. Which means, my wife and I have been dining out almost every night!

A couple of great restaurants we’ve discovered in Bucharest:

🍣 Kanpai - great Japanese food, best Raman I’ve had in the city. Thanks to Mircea Popa for introducing us to this place in Floreasca.

🐔 Mom - awesome hamburgers and korean fried chicken. Thanks to Maria Sas for introducing us to this place which is in City Center.

Do you have a favorite restaurant in the Buch you suggest I check out? If so, hit reply and let me know!

Cheers!

Eric M.

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