Startup Life Show With Ande Lyons

Raising businesses and babies at the same time, especially during a pandemic, requires tremendous courage, resiliency, tenacity, and commitment!Our guest, Jeannette Abayie, founder of three business and mother to five children, exemplifies all the ingredients needed to juggle the demands of both worlds.This remarkable skillset was not created overnight, and it has not been an easy journey.With a bachelor’s degree in Biological Science and a prepharmacy education on pause, Jeannette needed flexibility in her life while raising her babies.Like many women with children, she chose entrepreneurship to meet the needs of motherhood and the role of primary income generator for the family.Jeannette turned to her passion for serving women and children, and built three businesses: Oohs N Coos (a nonprofit for women and children), The Bow Hub (a children’s hair accessory business), and Jeanne Ette Millinery (a hat making company for women). She also found time to co-author two children’s books: a children’s coloring book