From rejection, illness and setback to business millions | Jo Stone | DRIVE Podcast

What do you do when your business partner, who is also your best friend, is hit with a life changing illness?

 

Jo Stone is the co-founder of Puddle Ducks, a leading franchise business that delivers baby and child swimming classes across the UK. She founded the business with Tracy Townend who she met at pre-natal classes where they became good friends and the rest, they say, is history.

 

It wasn’t plain sailing though, hit with several challenges including a real David & Goliath legal battle, before Tracy was affected by a crippling life-changing illness meaning she had to re-learn to walk, talk and Jo needed to deal with this whilst also keeping the business running.

 

Hear her story and how this most unassuming yet dedicated and driven person has brought baby pool safety and swimming lessons to a national scale.

 

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