EP #67 - Tanja Lau: Q&A On Raising Kids And Growing A Startup

Timestamps:

2:05 - Managing a work-life balance

3:42 - Missing half of your own wedding

8:00 - Finding out what's really important

14:08 - Preparing for motherhood

18:19 - Finding a challenging part-time job

20:55 - Why not a corporate career?

29:57 - The role of Tanja's husband

32:43 - How to split parenting responsibilities

40:23 - Swiss women in leadership positions

46:05 - What does motherhood teach you about business?


Biography

Tanja Lau is an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of Product Academy, a coaching business for product managers. Previously she was Head of Product at Siroop, where she played a crucial role in scaling the company to over 200 employees. During this intense period of her life she found herself experiencing symptoms of burnout, even suffering a breakdown at her own wedding. With the goal of building a balanced yet challenging career for herself, she started Product Academy and is running it part time while raising her two young children.

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The Swisspreneur Show is a podcast series of in-depth, candid conversations with some of Switzerland’s most successful founders, business leaders and innovators. By getting to the heart of these leaders’ stories - their successes, their failures, their must-have advice and greatest regrets - we hope to both inspire and guide the next generation of Swiss entrepreneurs. Each episode deconstructs and showcases one person’s personal and professional background and provides advice and recommendations for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in Switzerland.