Episode 78

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10th Nov 2021

Starting a Subscription Box Business From Home, with Tina Sequeira, Ep. 78

Tina Sequeira recently left a full-time remote work position in order to focus on Trouvailles, her travel-themed subscription box business that she had been developing on the side. Tina is well-traveled and is currently located with her husband and daughter near Montreal in Quebec, Canada; however, she originally spent the first 15 years of her life in Dubai, UAE, which was an excellent launch point for her family to travel internationally each summer as they left to enjoy cooler weather elsewhere.

Tina launched Trouvailles, a bi-monthly travel subscription box, last year during the pandemic. In March 2020, when pandemic lockdowns began, Tina was preparing to go on year-long maternity leave. Shocked by the mass travel shutdowns worldwide, she began to think of a safe way to bring authentic travel experiences directly to people's homes. As she had more time on her hands, she found herself researching and creating a detailed business plan, all on her phone while holding a sleeping or nursing baby. By October, she had launched a fast-growing innovative subscription box service that delivers a curation of authentic imported foods and lifestyle products from new destinations every two months. Now, a year later, it has been named amongst the "Best Travel Gifts of 2021" by Air Canada's enRoute magazine.

In this episode, Tina speaks about how, over the course of her 8 years with her previous company, she experienced working remotely, working onsite, and a hybrid of each before entering into the lockdown stage of the pandemic where many colleagues ended up working remotely unexpectedly and how that affected some who had worked remotely for some time. For the past year, she was continuing to work her full-time job in addition to launching the subscription box company, and as of October 2021, she was able to resign from her previous job and took on a part-time position with a company out of the UK. She talks about some of the struggles and freedoms she’s experienced and some creative ways she was able to keep a two-year-old happy and busy while attending zoom meetings during a season when their daycare was closed.


You can check out Tina's subscription boxes here: https://trouvaillesbox.com

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April Malone interviews people who work from home
Yes, I Work From Home is a community where people share stories about their work-from-home journey. April Malone is the host and interviews a wide variety of people who work from home in different capacities. Guests include entrepreneurs, freelancers, teleworking employees, and those managing a home-based business or remote team. April and her guests discuss how they started working from a home office, some of the challenges they've faced, benefits, and tips and tricks that might help others. Interview guests will talk about why and how they work from home, what they do, who they help, and how they balance work with household responsibilities. They'll also talk about how they manage staying connected with colleagues, clients, and work to maintain healthy habits and a social life. Listeners will be informed about upcoming WFH community events and hear about helpful physical products, digital tools, and services that April and her guests feel are worth recommending.

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April Malone is the founder of Yes, I Work From Home and the host of this podcast. She is an adult educator who helps people improve their work-from-home situation by cultivating a community of sharing and accountability for people who work from home. April has worked from home for 12 years in a variety of roles including as an employee of a major health organization, running an online store selling physical product, and she spent two years as a full-time online ESL teacher. April is in the USA and is originally from the northern state of Minnesota known for its lakes, mosquitos, and brutal winters; but she now lives with her husband and three children in Arizona, where the desert summers are incredibly hot but the winters are lovely.