Sandy Jen, a founder and mother, talks about balancing work and family life. She acknowledges it's hard but insists it's possible, drawing on her own experience managing both roles simultaneously.
Honor is about 3 years old now and I had a baby in year one. Seth also had a baby in year one. And so it is possible and clearly I have another one on the way. So it's not like this is not preventing you from having a family. And the reason I say this is that we've had kids. You know, a lot of the, it's really interesting. A lot of the engineers that came over with me, from Meebo to when I pluck them out of school or my age or younger, they all have kids now too, and they're working at onrr. And ONRR is still the fastest moving, most aggressive, fastest milestone reaching company I've ever been a part of or worked with. Which means to say that we're still moving really fast, we're still pushing ourselves, we have families, we have mortgages, we have social lives, but at the same time we're very focused. And so like I said before, where I think a first time entrepreneurs are just running on adrenaline, we're trying to be a little smarter about how we do things and work. Life balance is hard. I'm just going to tell you. Right, it's hard. There's no magical formula. I'm sure a lot of moms in here understand that. And I had to learn how to be a mom and a founder. And I didn't realize a lot of the challenges, how real they were for working moms until I became one. And it's even harder when you have two babies. You have your human baby and you have your company baby and you have to take care of both and the pressure of being responsible for the livelihoods of your team. We know Honor has a large number of employees as well. That does weigh on you. The point I'm trying to make is that the insecurities that come back, especially when you're a mom, the doubts, the fears, all of that still running inside me all the time. And sometimes it gets really loud, but you just have to keep going. You have to eye on the prize, focus on what you want to get done and then balance that out. And sometimes that balance comes at a cost, but it is possible. I know a lot of founder moms who've had kids while they were trying to fundraise, while they were trying to hire and pop out babies, while they were trying to get out of a hole or raise debt or whatever. So challenges always happen. There's never perfect timing, but if you really want something, you should just go and get it.
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