Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. This is David Meltzer, and I am thrilled to have this next entrepreneur. Tamara Lucas is the CEO and founder of an incredible company, trust me, the founder of My Panda. Welcome to the playbook, Tamara.

Thank you, David. I'm happy to be here.

You know, I will tell you that I probably

get to listen to more pitches than most people on Earth, and I have more TV shows about pitches

and all types of range from elevator pitch to two-minute drill to go fund yourself. And

there is something about women who see business differently.

I think men are just lazy. They, they see a need and they just let it pass them by.

And you have created this unbelievable nationwide virtual village that is so obvious that nobody else has ever thought of it before

and my panda is going to change the world looking at your new we funder campaign I want to make

sure that everybody knows they are able and capable of investing in this amazing company but

give me a little bit of

background on where you saw the need for my panda. Yeah, sure. Well, I appreciate what you're

saying. I mean, yeah, as a single mom that's like constantly figuring out solutions to problems.

And I think women tend to do that anyway. Yeah. So, you know, I,

prior to COVID was working in wine sales and traveling and whatnot and single mom, two kids.

And I mean, I just was completely overwhelmed, right? I didn't have the support I needed. My family was

500 miles away. My friends were as busy as I was. I just couldn't get, like, the laundry pile was constant. The sinks were, dishes in the sink were constant. And, you know, it's funny, I'll tell you, the one day that the spark was lit was, I was having lunch with a friend of mine who was working as a

dog walker as a little side gig and she was like my god i go in these people's houses and like they

give me their keys i go in i take their dog out but their kitchen is a disaster like if if they would

just throw me 20 dollars i would pick it up for them and And I was like, my God, that's what I need.

And so then we just started talking. We were like, there's so many people like her that are like

literally walking by my house that have time and people like me that have none. And we were like,

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