Owner To Owner Podcast
Sri Govindaraju cofounder at Zealandia Honey on being in business with her husband but vowing never again!
Episode Notes
@Sri Govindaraju and her husband are co-owners of @Zealandia Honey in New Zealand.
Sri recently published an update on #linkedin, a very honest, open and honest and personal post, about being in #smallbusiness with her husband.
It's a ripping and wide ranging conversation about;
- #familybusiness
- leaving the security of a #paypacket to into business
- moving to New Zealand from India in 2007
- her educational background in #foodscience and #technology
- upskilling in business communication
- her first business (Flavours Authentic Indian Food) - started while she still had her job and her children were still young
- finding strengths she didn't know she had
- the start of Zealandia Honey
- the why for starting - to export #manukahoney to India because India was at that time (and she still thinks) is the diabetic capital of the world
- wanting to make difference to people's lives by introducing honey
- the #pressurecooker of starting a business
- entertaining the idea of going back to work last year, because last year (Covid19) was a pretty low point
- listening to the universe's way of saying stick it out
- #teamwork - understanding that not everyone who's a visionary can do the operation side, and not everyone who's in the operations can be a visionary
- how the ebbs and flow of business impact my children
- deciding why it's best to never getting into another business with my husband (REMAINING A FAMILY)
- her lifetime ambition is to be of service to people and create #impact
- #inspiration from her #dad a warehouse manager at Indian Railways who saw a lot of both misery and happiness coming through that warehouse (caused by financial pressure) that he overcame by creating an innovative financial system - he touched so many hundreds of people's lives through that
- empowerment of women in my community
- #businessmentors
- her lessons for other business founders