“However you decide to feed your baby, we’ve got your back,” says Andrea Ippolito, founder of SimpliFed, a virtual baby feeding support platform for new moms which works alongside the Affordable Care Act. Andrea has previously worked as a faculty member at Cornell University, a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House and was the co-founder of Smart Scheduling, an intelligent software used to schedule medical practices, which has been acquired by athenahealth. Come on in and meet Andrea!

• Entrepreneurship sucks. You have to love what you do.
• Find a peer mentor that is one step ahead of you to help guide you along your way. 
• You are in the driver’s seat to decide what company or organization you want to build.
• Supporting female entrepreneurs is not philanthropy. It’s just damn good business. 
• You are enough. 

Quotes

• “Get mentorship from that near-peer mentor that can walk through the terms so you don't get screwed. That's really important, real deal.” (38:22-38:28 | Andrea) 

• “Investing in and supporting women entrepreneurs is not philanthropy. It is just damn good business.” (42:46-42:54 | Andrea) 

• “We want healthy babies and we want healthy moms. And a healthy mom is one that has the freedom to choose how to feed her baby in the way that she wants that protects her physical and mental health.” (9:24-9:34 | Andrea)

Connect with Andrea Ippolito:

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/simplifedbaby

Website | https://www.simplifed.com/

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