EP 150 Leveraging the Power of Community to Bring Resources and Relief to Working Family Caregivers

No one plans to become a caregiver.

And when they are thrust into this new role, family caregivers often don’t know what they need help with or they fear asking for help because they don’t want to be a burden.

Especially when they have no idea if it’s going to be nine days, nine months, or nine years.

This leads to deep isolation and loneliness.

Our guest, Jessica Kim, is the co-founder/CEO of ianacare – a health tech platform on a mission to encourage, empower, and equip family caregivers with practical tools, resources and communities, so no one does it alone.

The platform leverages the powerful combination of technology + caregiver coaches to organize and mobilize all the layers of support.

Her passion and dedication stems from being the primary caregiver for her mom who fought a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jessica is a 3x startup founder, speaker, and caregiving advocate. She was honored as Crain’s Top 40 under 40 and currently serves as a Venture Partner at Praxis Labs, the inaugural Entrepreneur-In-Residence and Presidential Council advisor at Brown University, and board member of Be the Bridge for racial reconciliation and justice.

To learn more about ianacare: https://www.ianacare.com/

Follow Jessica and ianacare on social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ianacare/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessican2/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessicaNamKim and https://twitter.com/ianacare
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicanamkim/ and https://www.instagram.com/ianacare/

Watch this moving video about ianacare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHMlZO5XYsE

Grab a copy of Debi Kleiman's book First Pitch: https://amzn.to/3BNqwTO

00:00 - Meet Jessica Kim!
06:00 - Jessica Kim's founder journey
07:50 - Meet Jessica's first business - Jessica's Wonders - a fab food business she launched in college, scaled nationally, and raised $1 million!
15:20 - meet Jessica's second business - Babbaco - a subscription box service she founded while nursing first baby!
19:05 - align your business model to scale - Andelicious Moment!
21:30 - break your vision down to phases - focus only on each phases' milestones
27:00 - ianacare's origin story
38:03 - how ianacare's app works
43:17 - choosing the best investor money for your startup
50:30 - raising capital while pregnant - terrific story + advice for female founders!
54:19 - find your believers - Stitch That On A Pillow!
56:55 - ianacare is hiring - add wind to their sails and help spread the word!
59:30 - redemptive entrepreneurship - how can we build businesses that leave folks feeling uplifted, seen, heard and loved.
1:00:30 - life is fleeting, and the one thing we can give the world and leave the world is LOVE.

Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!

Ande ♥

Ande Lyons
http://andelyons.com

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