Podcast with Mary Ann O’Connell about Influence & Franchising

Influence takes different forms and has many applications. Founder and CEO of Casa de Corazón, Natalie Standridge, talks about developing a franchise program that has lasting positive effects that influence children’s development and franchisees’ lives slowly and methodically with good results for the franchisees and don’t vary from the brand values.

Mary Ann and Natalie focused on influence and franchising. They went into a deep discussion about how influence relates to the Casa de Corazón business and franchise model.

They discussed how Casa Influences…
· Cognitive Benefits
· Spanish Immersion
· Franchise Prospects
· Intercultural Connections & Leadership

“Having that immersive environment in both languages where home is English, school is Spanish, in a very thorough way, creates these connections in the brain that are permanent and lifelong. It creates the foundation for more mental flexibility, better math skills, and verbal skills in both languages and these connections are actually permanent. The research on children who are raised in a bilingual environment from those first five years of life and how that impacts them in terms of cognitive abilities lifelong is so amazing to see. But the cool thing is, even if kids that graduate from my program do not go on to do Spanish immersion in elementary school, if they choose to study Spanish or live abroad or travel or be immersed in Spanish again later in life, it will come back to them so much easier because they were exposed to it in those first five years.” – Natalie Standridge