102. From Building and Scaling a Car Seat Cleaning Business without Kids to Launching a New Startup as a Mom of 2 with Jen Saxton, Founder of Tot Squad

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Jen Saxton is the founder and CEO of Tot Squad, a marketplace that connects new and expecting parents with health, wellness and safety services like car seat installation, sleep consulting, babyproofing, and lactation consulting.</span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She's an alumna of Duke, has a Kellogg MBA and is a serial entrepreneur having sold her first business in 2020 and was part of the 2020 Techstars Anywhere accelerator. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But above all, Jen is the mom of Charlotte and Sophie, aged 7 months and 3 years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Jen and I chat about...</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Selling her business in March 2020 (literally when the Pandemic was beginning)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her vision and drive for starting a business centered around family and work-life balance and how she launched a baby company out of business school before she had kids or even was married</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her "infants at work" policy she implemented pre-kids</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">She didn’t take a break after selling her company (10 years) and dove into something new, joined an Accelerator and became pregnant with her second kid</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">What “maternity leave” the second time looked like and her fun out of office response</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she kept her boundaries within the company while on leave</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she implements the Fair Play system at home to create boundaries, manage her relationship, and replenish herself</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advice for founders on when to leave their “day job”</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Jen at...</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Website: <a href= "https://www.totsquad.com/">totsquad.com