YaYa- A Platform for Women Who Are Tuckered Out

As part of my podcasting fellowship with On Deck (beondeck.com) , I had the chance to interview On Deck fellows Nivi Jayasekar and Paula Hernandez Forero, who have recently built a peer coaching platform for women called YaYa over one weekend.

YaYa translates to “woman” in Ancient Greek. Today, the Greeks bestow that title to grandmothers, or women that have achieved the highest level of womanhood. While building the app, this team of six women realized that any woman can be a YaYa. So why not build a community on that foundation?

We chat about their childhoods, professional paths before joining On Deck, how Nivi teaches lucid dreaming, and why Paula spent a year working in India. They talk about their experience building this platform in a weekend, the amazing response it’s had so far, and how they see YaYa evolving over time.

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Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar