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The essence of the project was to evaluate retirement homes. This project developed with her mother was not an easy one. Elodie’s mother hadn’t given up her job and therefore had time on her hands. As for Elodie, although she was involved in the latter, she nevertheless conducted parallel studies. Elodie, passionate about history, did a bachelor’s degree in history, then a master’s degree in the same field, then a second year master’s, broadening her field of knowledge towards Ethics, organization, CSR, in short, a more sociological field of knowledge.

Elodie, however, became heavily involved in this business with her mother at the same time. “I had done everything in this company with my mother”: business development of the company, project management, organizational audits in health care institutions, consulting, processes, communication, finance, etc. The list would be too long to enumerate. The life of an entrepreneur in fact, especially in a structure where there are only two employees….

But the two ladies, maybe they had different goals. “My mother was interested in retirement homes, and I was interested in project management”. The business was dropped after about three years and Elodie returned to the workforce. “My mother understood it very well, my studies in addition to this company, I was just washed out…”.