It can be said that CEO Thao Le – Business Partner, Director at Vietnam Enterprises Co. Ltd. (USA) is a model of many women who just had the successful jobs with the happiness in family life.
In the conversation with the Start-up World News, Ms Thao Le shared sincerely about her opinions, her success know-how, her concept about modern woman’s happiness.
Hi! Ms. Thao Le. What is your special impression as a successful business-woman about the International Women Day March 8th, particularly, or other holidays and memorial days, generally?
The special thing about my aforesaid days is, it’s still like normal days. Faithfully, my husband is not a type of romantic and sweet-spoken man, but almost 365 days a year, we are always focusing on building our happiness with the simplest things like drinking coffee and sharing conversations every morning, eating meals together with the family, spending quality time with my children, my husband and I are doing business together, so we have more time to be together, to understand each other’s challenges, we have sympathy and self-balance in our emotions.
You have a successful business career, is there any know-how to fulfill your work and family life?
My husband and I have quite the contrary speech, when we first lived together, we encountered so many small conflicts. I was tempered, my husband was calm, I was reckless but my husband was very cautious, The difference in working condition also makes the distance between our thinking is gradually longer.
But luckily, we found a solution soon. We decided to change the work environment, which let’s easier to find harmony in our thinking and concept. Of course, not all families can choose this way, because each family has a different way of thinking. Above all, what I want to share here is that both sides have to sit down and discuss for establishing and sharing the target and orientation of life.
I’m fortunate to work with my husband and we both share the responsibilities, although it was not always like this.
We decided to go to the classes for individual developing, read the same books, refuse the fatigue of divided mind for traveling and life refreshing. That’s how my husband and I built a common standpoint. Because children will be influenced by their parents very much, hence for their happiness, parents must be happy and selves-developed more and more every day toward their children’s feeling and forward moving.
For many people, business starting is a sacrifice acceptable and even somebodies ignore family to achieve their career success. And you really have both, can you share more how you balance your life?
CEO Thao Le – Le Thi Thao, born in : 1978, studied at Hue University of Science, and 2nd degree at HCM City University of Economics. She was a permanent guest of the CEO program – The Key to Success of VTV1 channel. Top 6 of Television Faces on HTV 2017. Thao Le is currently a business partner and Senior Director in Vietnam business field.
In the past, like many other families with little children, I started a new day in a busy manner “with scratch hair” and ending the day with quarrels as “who picked children today ?”. Our big turning point came from the decision to quit the work at a foreign corporation and start our own business in 2012. Because I want to own my life, to have the time for my children, I choose to become a partner of one corporation with the existence more than 30 years on over 50 countries, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. A solid fulcrum was given by this corporation that helps me start a business well. 2 years later, I persuaded my husband to accompany my business.
At the present moment, I can reliably say that we find a common voice in both career orientation and life goals. When we look in the same direction, together solve the big problems of traditional business such as large capital, fixed costs, places, personnel, staff, inventory, risks, debts, Because of the development ability based on an international corporation’s foundation in accordance with the leverage of 4.0 tech-revolution, we not only develop business but also find tranquillity in mind.
I believe that family is the most precious asset and if we choose a better business solution, so we’ll find a way to protect and bring our family to grow better and happier.
With the success in business, the social position admired by many people, the happy family, so what are the factors that make family happiness as your life experience?
Every woman in the world can build the family happiness belong to their own formula, and surely the happiness concept depends on their own definition, no one is anyone’s version. From my own personal experience, it consists of 6 factors:
First is an investment in self-development. When husband and wife together learning, expanding their thought, they will co-understand easier and see the problem more gently.
The second factor is to jointly build the common goals. Each year we will plan what we’ll do that year, how the company grows, and which direction our children need to develop.
The third factor is both husband and wife need the private space for their discussion and expression. After sending our children to school, we often spend the time to sit down together with coffee drinking and talking.
Fourth, the travels help family members being closer, so yearly we often have 3-5 trips abroad to explore the world, making us live more active and more sympathetic.
The fifth factor is the self-confidence, which is women’s attraction and also contributing to the harmony in the couple’s activities.
The final factor is mutual trust.
With these factors, does the woman have to sacrifice for building the family happiness, Sister?
For me, sacrifice doesn’t create happiness. The base of happiness must be built from mutual respect, which includes the spirit of both sides’ cooperation. People often say about the women’s sacrifices in birth pain but I don’t think so, but rather, children are our happiness, a nice gift in our life. Of course, when giving birth and rearing children, a couple must do collaboratively. Working together is never considered as sacrifices.
Yourself you are a person who often shares your family story on social networks, so through those stories, which message do you want to send to modern women?
Two things that I always want to inspire women around me, including my daughter:
First, women must love themselves. We should not confuse between the self-love with the egoism, because in fact, only from our self-love, we’ll love others and get their respectional love.In order to do this one, you have to invest in caring for your appearance and bring up your mind and soul. The beautiful woman is who collects these 3 elements.
Second, women must self-control their own lives. The opinion of “husband does business, wife does house-keeping” isn’t right. Because by that way, women no longer live in their passion. Maybe at the commencement, they like feeling taken-care well and not doing anything, but in the long term, they lose the capacity to self-control and to own their lives. An independent woman will be more attractive in her partner’s eyes, certainly.
To your daughter, how do you teach and orient her to become a successful person like her mother?
Of course, we hope the success of our children but we also understand that success is not all. The most important problem is that they have to become a good person with love.
Children are the mirror images of parents. For many years, my husband and I organized and participated in many charitable activities, focusing on supporting the fund of gratuitous heart surgery for children in congenital heart disease. Through this activity, I want to share a part of the burden from difficult circumstances. At the same time, I also want my children to see what their parents do for learning, following, nurturing the honest soul.
Thank you for your sincere speech and advice to the Start-up World News readers.
Mr Le Nang Hung
