#1026 - New Mom Recruits 3,000 Chinese Caregivers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
After moving to a new state, an operations manager struggles in finding a Mandarin-speaking caregiver for her baby—so she starts a network that matches them with families.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite things about producing Sideosal School is hearing stories from our listeners. |
| 0:14.0 | Success stories from listeners who have taken action and created a project for themselves that we're now featuring on the program. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, today's story comes from someone who's been listening since 2017 and that same year started her project. |
| 0:26.0 | It's perhaps a quintessential example of how a product or platform that is built for the masses might not work well for a smaller population. |
| 0:34.0 | And whenever that's the case, that creates an opportunity. |
| 0:36.0 | So after moving to a new state, this operations manager had a hard time finding a Mandarin-speaking caregiver for her baby. |
| 0:42.0 | The mainstream platforms that connect caregivers with families weren't that helpful. |
| 0:46.0 | So she goes on to start her own network. |
| 0:49.0 | And she does this two different ways. |
| 0:51.0 | First, through an agency model where she does all the matchmaking herself. |
| 0:54.0 | And then as demand increases throughout the country by transitioning to that platform that connects people directly. |
| 1:00.0 | Now this isn't easy. She has some challenges along the way. |
| 1:02.0 | So we'll look honestly at the challenges and rewards of this listener's success story. |
| 1:07.0 | We're calling it new mom recruits 3000 Chinese caregivers. |
| 1:11.0 | That story is coming up in just 30 seconds. |
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| 1:45.0 | When Sof was going through a lot of changes. |
| 1:48.0 | She had just moved to a new state with her family, which included an eight month old baby. |
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