077 | Unschooling kids, designing rural coliving and coworking ventures with Joy and Mayur Sontakke | PT 1

PT 1: Joy and Mayur Sontakke are entrepreneurs, coliving hosts, community builders and parents of three kids.

Through building NomadGao, Remote Explorers and the Nomadtuktuk brand and retreats for families, they're focused on connecting like-minded individuals and creating their own village with experiences closer to nature.

This is the first of three mini episodes of our conversation. In this interview, we talk about Mayur's transition of going from a digital nomad remote worker and Joy's transition as a handicraft designer and single mother to become a family of five, building businesses while unschooling their three kids.

THINGS WE TALK ABOUT:

• Mayur's journey leaving his small community in India to become a digital nomad and remote worker travelling around South East Asia, meeting Joy and becoming entrepreneurs and founders of multiple businesses
• Relocating from Vietnam to India, with three kids in 2019 to start their first coworking and coliving community space
• Bootstrapping with credit cards and getting investment from friends to grow NomadGao
• The transition from school routines to homeschooling, unschooling and world schooling their three kids over the past year as entrepreneurs and remote workers

Thanks to Joy and Mayur for taking part of their day to speak with me about what their current parenthood and business workflows, how they've bootstrapped NomadGao and how their unschooling plans have evolved.

Season 5 has been sponsored by the Startup Women Fund, presented by Startup Canada, Scotiabank and UPS.

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ABOUT JOY AND MAYUR SONTAKKE
Joy and Mayur Sontakke are entrepreneurs, coliving hosts, community builders and parents of three kids. Through building NomadGao, Remote Explorers, the Nomadtuktuk brand and retreats for families and Anvi's Granny Handicrafts, they're connecting like-minded individuals looking to do remote work closer to nature.

CONNECT WITH JOY AND MAYUR
Website nomadgao.com
LinkedIn @mayursontakke and @joy-pham-sontakke and @nomadgao
Twitter @nomadgao
Facebook @nomadgao and @nomadtuktuk
Instagram @nomad.gao and @nomadtuktuk and @anvisgranny
YouTube @nomadtuktuk
Etsy @anvisgrannyhandicrafts

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