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Michelle Ong

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<div><span id="isPasted">MANILA -- Becoming a mother builds a very powerful resume, said Edamama chief executive officer Bela Gupta D&#x27;Souza.</span></div><p>D&#x27; Souza founded Edamama, a mother-and-child retail platform, in 2020, and has since made over 4 million package deliveries to moms.</p><p>She also sells more than 95,000 products on her online store, and has opened four physical stores in the Philippines.</p><p>&quot;I think moms make excellent leaders,&quot; she said in response to a question about what she can tell women about balancing their family and professional lives.</p><div><span style="line-height:107%">&quot;So rather than seeing it as a setback in your career, I would say becoming a mother builds an incredibly powerful resume, for you in terms of really being able to multi-task, be able to really apply a lot of empathy in your leadership, because these are skills that you are forced to practice at home,&quot; she said.</span></div><div><span id="isPasted"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/08/29/23/list-9-ph-firms-in-forbes-asias-100-to-watch-list" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LIST: 9 Philippine firms make it to Forbes Asia&#x27;s 100 to Watch List</a></span></div><p>The executive said she believes that <span id="isPasted" style="line-height:107%">there’s really no right time to start a family, so women have to find a way to weave their personal lives with their professional lives.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%">&quot;Embrace it. Embrace motherhood. I think there’s a way to balance both and decide what matters more to you and find that prioritization for your family,&quot; she said.</p><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%"><strong>--ANC, 14 March 2024</strong></div>

<p>MANILA -- Becoming a mother builds a very powerful resume, said Edamama chief executive officer Bela Gupta D'Souza.</p>

MANILA -- Becoming a mother builds a very powerful resume, said Edamama chief executive officer Bela Gupta D'Souza.

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#AmazingWomen: How Edamama's CEO balances being a mother and running a business

Michelle Ong,

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Published Mar 14, 2024 02:37 PM PHT

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Updated May 28, 2024 03:57 PM PHT

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