Ep 10: To Co-Found, or Not to Co-Found: Co-Founding a Community

Katya Libin Takin’ Care of Lady Business with Jennifer Justice Episode 010: To Co-found, or Not to Co-found: Co-Founding a Community Katya Libin is the Co-founder and board member of HeyMama, a private online community of entrepreneurial and working moms. Building on a background in partnerships and tech, Libin conceived of HeyMama based on the need for support and community she felt in her own life as a working mother. Alongside her HeyMama HQ team, Libin has since grown the business to reach over 5,000 members, located in 50+ cities (and counting). As a voice for the experiences, challenges, and needs of working and entrepreneurial moms, Libin has been published in TODAY.com, She Knows, and Thrive Global, and has been featured in Woman’s Day, Parents, Forbes, Inc., and more. Recently, she was named an AdWeek Trailblazer, one of the Center for Women & Wealth’s 20 Most Inspiring Women to Watch Out For and as a For best Next 1000 recipient. Her biggest role is that of mom to her daughter, in whom she tries to instill the relentless work ethic and unflappable belief that anything is possible that she got from her own parents, who immigrated with her to the US from St. Petersburg when she was 3. Katya is building her consultancy business, Katya Libin & Co., supporting high growth startups in cultivating community, building strategic partnerships and fundraising so she can help incredible founders achieve their goals.   Listen to this information-packed Takin’ Care of Lady Business episode about how Katya and her co-founder Amri are working to help working mothers, and how they came to form a partnership of lady-power.   Here is what to expect on this week’s show: How Katya met her co-founder Amri, and what made them decide to co-found Hey Mama The unfairness that new mothers face in male-dominated industries that Hey Mama is seeking to remedy Exciting new ways that Hey Mama is creating online communities of working mothers Ways that Amri and Katya uplift and balance each other as co-founders How Amri and Katya moved past “bootstrapping it” to grow Hey Mama into the success it is today   Connect with Hey Mama: WEBSITE: https://heymama.co/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/heymamaco FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/heymamaco INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/heymamaco/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heymama/ PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/heymamaco/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLr_2NTz9kgItEVuueUIr-w     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices