Told by a Teen / Female Founder Stories
Inside Luna — The Digital Big Sister in Your Pocket
The conversation
Jasmine Schembri-Stothart built Luna, an app that answers the questions teenagers actually have about their bodies and their heads.
The same sentence, heard differently
The part that stayed with me was about raising money. Jasmine said women are typically asked more around challenges and risks. Same meeting, same business, a different set of questions. Once you have heard that you cannot unhear it.
The challenges just change
She was clear that the hard parts do not stop. There are so many of them, she said, and it does not really stop, the challenges just change. She spent all of her savings on an MBA and had nothing spare afterwards.
That is the part the story usually skips.
Don’t stop at the first hater
Her line was that if you genuinely believe in your idea, don’t stop at that first hater and don’t stop at that first hurdle.
And then the one I think about most. If she had had Luna when she was younger, it really could have changed the trajectory of her life. She built the thing she needed.
What I took from it
Mental health is just as important as physical health.
Mental health is just as important as physical health, and we still don’t act like it is.
If I sprain my ankle everyone can see it. If I have a bad week nobody can, and I’m expected to carry on as normal. Jas built an app for exactly that gap.
Both of them stop you doing things. Only one of them gets a note.
