Sri Govindaraju cofounder at Zealandia Honey on being in business with her husband but vowing never again!

@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 

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