The Hustler's Guide to Elder Care
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🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of Hustling Tech. Today we're going to talk about how to take way better care of the elderly and make a living and doing so. |
| 0:23.0 | With me I have says Sternberg, co-founder and CEO of Honor. |
| 0:28.0 | I've got our Hustler, Samantha, who's going to tell us how she makes use of honor. |
| 0:33.3 | And then I have with me as always my co-host |
| 0:36.4 | who hustled out of the joint to become a leader, advocate, |
| 0:40.4 | management consultant, Shakasengor. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm really excited to talk to you. |
| 0:45.0 | What was the inspiration behind? |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, so the inspiration was my mother. |
| 0:49.0 | When she picked me up at the airport and was driving me home, |
| 0:51.0 | she was just driving slowly. And I I was like what does this mean for five |
| 0:54.7 | years from now or ten years from now because she lives in Connecticut and you know I don't |
| 0:58.9 | want to be the son whoever has to say to his mother hey I'm sorry mom you have to leave your home. And so myself and my |
| 1:04.8 | co-founders looked for any solution around helping the elderly remain in their homes as |
| 1:09.8 | the age and we found home care. It's really hard to figure out who to trust, who to turn to, where to go. |
| 1:17.0 | And it's not just hard for you, someone who |
| 1:25.0 | work-in-home-care, you know, really early on, we identified that, |
| 1:29.5 | you know, we're not a normal tech company, |
| 1:31.1 | no customer cares about a technology. |
| 1:33.3 | They only care about the person who's going to go into the home and serve their mom or their |
| 1:37.8 | dad. |
| 1:38.9 | And so first of all, we call those folks care pros, care professionals, and that's a unique name to |
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