Fairygodboss Of The Week Sascha Mayer

Fairygodboss Of The Week Sascha Mayer Want to know what a true innovator looks like? Introducing Sascha Mayer, whose company Mamava is using progressive and sleek design to support a social mission Mamava delivers workplace solutions for mamas on the go, and at Fairygodboss, we dont know many who arent Huge applause to Mamava for making it easier - and mora attractive - for women everywhere to breastfeed and/or pump.Fairygodboss of the Week Sascha MayerCo-Founder, CEO - MamavaBurlington, VTFGB Tell us about your career. How did you get to where you are now?SM The day after I graduated from college I went to work for then Congressman Bernie Sanders. After a few long years, I decided to head to the private sector, and began my career as a brand strategist for a design studio. The studio called Solidarity of Unbridled Labour (the name says it all) was lead by an amazing Owner-Creative Director named Michael Jager who was notlage only a mentor to me and many others, but allowed me to inc ubate my current company within the design studio.FGB What is an accomplishment that you are proud of?SM I am proud to have not only created a mission-based company, in which every employee has an ownership stake, but also one that has created a category and is shifting the cultural perception of what it means to be a breastfeeding mama on the go.Lightning RoundFGB What do you do when youre not working?SM I spend time with my husband, two kids, five chickens, and dog. Not necessarily in that order. FGB If you could have dinner with one famous person - dead or alive - who would it be?SM BeyonceFGB What is your karaoke song?SM I am terrified of karaoke. FGB What is your favorite movie?SM Motorcycle Diaries FGB What book would you bring with you on a desert island?SM Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff. Maybe if I was stuck on a desert island I would finally get through it FGB What is your shopping vice? What would you buy if you won the lottery?SM A trip to France with all three generations of my family. (And then a trip to a beach resort with my best girlfriends to recover after.).FGB Who is your Fairygodboss?SM Michael Jager, Owner and Creative Director of Solidarity of Unbridled Labour for whom I worked for twenty years. His relentless energy, belief in the power of design to shift culture, and his ability to connect people, ideas, and causes truly made me what I am today. FGB What is the 1 career tip youd like to share? SM Perfection is the enemy of progress. At a certain point you have to put yourself, your idea, your product into the world and see what happens. Fairygodboss is all about women helping other women - so each week, we celebrate a woman who made a difference in another womans career. Is there a woman who has made a difference in your career?Celebrate her and thank her by nominating her here.