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086 Christina Rakestraw | Teaching to Tech

Redirected

Andrew East

Business

52K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today in episode 86 of Redirected, we sit down with our next guest on this 30 under 30 series, Christina Rakestraw. Christina chats with us today about her journey of transitioning from teaching to tech. Christina founded Homeroom, an online platform for after-school enrichment programs, that offers stakeholders (mostly parents, schools and PTA groups and private programs) a safe online space for scheduling, enrollment, insurance, communication and payment processing. She has since transitioned away from Homeroom and currently works with a company known as Famtech. Famtech offers a wide variety of services, but is mainly focused on building the family IOS and aims to create more efficient communications within a family. If you haven’t yet, please rate Redirected and subscribe to hear more. And if you have someone you'd like to see on the podcast, send us your recommendations in the comments below! Last but not least, be sure to check out the links below to learn more about Christina and all he's got going on at the moment. Check out Christina's Forbes article! ▶ https://www.forbes.com/profile/christina-walker-rakestraw/#256e44376ba7 Homeroom ▶ https://www.homeroom.com/ Website! ▶ https://christinawalk3r.wixsite.com/christinawalker Subscribe to the Redirected YT Channel! ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUrE19kuOlhiFlMHZ3703w

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Redirected, my name is Andrew East and this is show we sit down

0:12.2

with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs.

0:14.6

Anybody who has experienced a pivot or change in life at some point or another, we all

0:19.0

go through them and so I wanted to sit down with people who have made it through these

0:22.4

changes well in order to glean wisdom for myself and share that wisdom with you.

0:28.2

Today we are continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series and we're joined by Christina

0:33.1

Raikstraw, who is a Stanford graduate, she's a Stanford student athlete and the co-founder

0:39.5

of Home Room which is a platform all about after school enrichment.

0:43.7

Christina talks us about what it was like to transition out of Stanford student athletics

0:48.5

and into a different career she taught for a little bit and then realized that that wasn't

0:52.6

for her and how she was ultimately able to co-found this company.

0:56.8

And she has some really good things to say, some really unique insight and she talks

1:00.3

us about what she's up to now and so if you want to find out more about Christina and

1:04.4

the things she's involved with we'll link that down below.

1:07.2

We're honored that Christina joined us today and before we jump into this interview with

1:11.5

her if you haven't given the show a subscription or rated it please do so on whatever platform

1:16.8

you're listening to.

1:17.8

I hope you enjoy this interview and without further ado, Christina Raikstraw.

1:21.8

Christina thank you so much for joining today it is truly an honor to meet you.

1:25.1

Yeah it's nice to meet you as well.

1:28.5

So I'm excited for our conversation and I'm impressed with your resume as I've researched

1:33.5

it.

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