Leading a startup to become the world's best childcare service with Rachel Carrell

If you’re a parent, you’ll know what a minefield childcare is, not to mention how inaccessible and unaffordable it can be. Which is why we’re super excited to talk to Rachel Carrell, an incredible and highly accomplished entrepreneur, who is on a mission to build the world's best childcare service. 
Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, a fast growing tech company that raised over $15 million from the most respectable venture capital investors in the world. 
“I am a Kiwi, a mother, and an entrepreneur. And I'm interested in almost everything.”
Rachel has received numerous awards including Inspirational Mother and Best Business Woman In Tech. Before she founded Koru Kids, she was the CEO of a multinational healthcare company where, when she had her first baby, she experienced firsthand how difficult and expensive it was to arrange childcare, and decided to found Koru Kids. 
In this episode, you learn the worst thing about being CEO, the importance of setting up a powerful vision for your business and communicating it widely, why she named the company Koru Kids, and why her fantastic protip to female founders who are fundraising is: do not have it in your head that you are a female founder, when you walk into the room.
And finally she shares how she manages her day to day life as a high achiever through having her own nanny and sharing domestic responsibilities 50:50, with her husband, as well as how transcendental meditation works for her, and why she lies on a bed of nails before going to sleep. 
“When you first do it, it is excruciatingly painful for about one minute. And then what happens is all the blood rushes to that area of your body. And it starts feeling very warm, and all your muscles relax. You get this incredible rush. And it makes you feel really sleepy.”
For all founders, female especially, this is a truly insightful episode, don’t miss out!
On today’s podcast:

• The best and worst things about being CEO
• The magic of setting a powerful vision
• Advice to female founders who are fundraising
• The help she has at home
• Relaxing through transcendental meditation and a bed of nails

Links:

• Koru Kids
• LinkedIn - Rachel Carrell
• Twitter: RachCarrell
• Insta: rach.of.koru.kids
• Clubhouse @rachcarrell