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So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

906: Samantha Razook, Founder of Curious Jane

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2009 Samantha Razook was finishing a program in Industrial Design and searching for something her young daughters could do while she got a “real job”. While the economy was struggling, she decided to start a camp, initially just for her daughters and their friends. But that first camp turned into a business that has grown into Curious Jane, a summer camp and print magazine that has projects revolving around science, engineering, and design. In 2014, Curious Jane was the recipient of the Chase’s Mission Small Business Grant — an unrestricted $250k awarded to 12 businesses from an applicant pool of over 35,000. Today, Curious Jane runs camps, classes, and workshops year-round; prints project books and a maker magazine for girls; and collaborates with like-minded organizations to share content with girls nationwide. Curious Jane has partnered with TheConfidence Code for Girls, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and LiveGirl, Inc. Learn more about Curious Jane at their website: https://curiousjane.fun/ And follow Curious Jane on Instagram and Facebook where they share fun project ideas. You can find Curious Jane on Instagram @curiousjane_fun and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/curiousjanefun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So Money episode 906, Samantha Rizzuke, founder of Curious Jane.

0:06.8

You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru Farno Shorabi.

0:11.5

Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnoos yourself.

0:20.0

Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?

0:25.0

Sorry, you're in the wrong place.

0:27.0

Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.

0:30.0

Welcome to So Money.

0:35.0

He would have me balanced checkbooks. First, his own and then when I was old enough to get a checking account, my own

0:40.0

checkbooks, and this is pre- Internet, pre-all of this, right?

0:44.1

And I remember this lesson that he would say to me, he would say,

0:47.4

Samantha, if you get to the end and you're one cent off in balancing this,

0:52.0

don't, don't excuse that, Don't say that that's close enough.

0:56.5

Do you have any fond memories of summer camp growing up? I went to Worcester Academy camp for about four weeks one summer. It was a day camp and it was really

1:06.2

expensive. My parents put all their pennies together to send me and it was the only summer I got

1:11.6

to do it because it was just that expensive.

1:14.2

We couldn't keep doing it.

1:15.2

But I remember it was a formative four weeks.

1:18.2

I packed in a lot of punch in those four weeks.

1:21.6

I remember there was violin lessons, soccer, it was so hot.

1:28.4

That's one thing I really, really remember that it got so hot one day I was in middle of a violin

1:36.2

lesson in this un-air-conditioned attic and I was you know holding my violin and in my pose I pretty much passed out to the point where they like I passed out they called my parents and my mom had to come pick me up. That may have been my last day at Worcester Academy Camp.

1:55.0

I didn't want who's from the Worcester area.

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