Female Founders: Yummie O of KOSA Professionals On Why We Need More Women Founders, and The Five Things You Need To Thrive as A Founder

Women make the best founders because we are natural nurturers. We listen and we care! The need to listen to your consumer’s needs early on in business will help grow your business faster than you can imagine. Additionally, our need to always help others serves us well in the area of customer service, which is also particularly important in growing a business. I can go on and on…..

As a part of our series about “Why We Need More Women Founders”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Yummie O, a Nigerian-American Entrepreneur in the beauty space. She is a wife and a mother to 4 girls, one adopted and three biological. She has a background working in IT Management for 10 years and loved what she did however she knew she was called for something bigger. After her second daughter was born, her namesake hair extension collection, Yummy Extensions was birthed out of the desire to build a legacy for her girls. Yummie then set out to expand her brand by creating a professional…