 a very good Tuesday morning to you. You are watching Entrepreneurship Tuesday, only on Y in the Morning on Y254 channel. I hope you did catch that interview with one Barrymore and DJ Jomber, and I guess all of you now know that your art can also make you some money. Anyway, with us in studio, if you do want to participate in the conversation, our handles are at hashtag Y in the Morning on Twitter at Y254 channel, and on Facebook we are at Y254, and on YouTube we are at Y254 channel, just in case you missed any of the valuable insight here. On Instagram we are at Y254 underscore channel, and today in studio with me, I have a couple that's going to let us know how to make love and money work. They are the founders, Marsha Arts, they are the founders of Mashulea. I have one Maria Nyambane Waweru, and Nahashon Gugi Waweru, together they are the Wawerus, and I will allow them to say good morning to you. Good morning, this is Maria Nyambane Waweru, the founder of Marsha Arts, Marsha Arts, the young magazine, the author of Love, The Original You, and the director of Mashulea application. Good morning, I'm Waweru, Nahashon Demester. I'm the co-founder of Mashulea, Mashulea the developer in the co-founder, the co-founder of Marsha Arts company. Okay, in case you're wondering what Mashulea is all about, they are going to let us know how they learned and how they decided to create a business out of digitizing education. How do you find the perfect school on your palm just easily in real time? They'll let us know in quite a minute. However, I'd like them to first let us know. As a couple, why the interest? Why did you endeavor in this journey? Mashulea, what is Mashulea? In case someone at home is wondering. Okay, I'll say my middle name is Cupid, I call myself that, because I realize that for you to be with someone, you must have one thing in common. And I have issues with trusting people, so I have to find something that can make us argue on the same level. When we started Mashulea app, we realized that we can work together, live together, and be together. And that's how we became a couple and still became business partners. It's actually the easiest thing I can say that has made our marriage look so beautiful and easy to handle. Even when challenges come, when you're mad at each other, you'll realize that at the end of the day you need to contact a school and you have to discuss that first. So, let's hold the grudge and do something. So, working together has made even the marriage look interesting, yeah. Interesting, so why is it that you decided that we needed an app where parents can easily find schools rather than going to look for the place physically or online? What gap did you identify in the market that you saw? I, okay, no, no, no. We need to be able to find the perfect school for our child in real time. I've been in teaching industry. I was in teaching industry for about seven years before I decided to quit and go to a city completely. So, as a teacher of both primary school and high school, I realized that most of the parents were relying on information from other parents or the information from teachers to know about a certain school. If you want to take your kid to a kindergarten, a standard one or a formal one, you have to inquire from other parents or you have to hover from one place to one place looking for school. So, when the idea of Masuri app came, the idea of how can we digitize this activity? That's why we came up with the formation of Masuri app. And also considering that we have a magazine, considering that we have a kids magazine called The Young, which features schools, which features the activities of kids in schools. We realized that most of these kids have turned up to the ICT, have turned up to technology. And this has forced us to realize that as far as it is concerned, there is the reading culture which you have to bring it back to the society. The reading culture. The reading culture. That's why we have even the digital magazine which is free in the mobile application. So, instead of your kid spending 100% of his time in social media, he can have at least a little bit of time reading the magazine in the mobile application. Other than the magazine, we even have the test papers in the magazine. We have, I mean the test papers in the mobile app. We have even other product in the same mobile application. Wait, the mobile app has test papers? Yes. Wow. It has the new curriculum in PDF. We read more about the new curriculum in PDF. So, it's a one stop shop for academic sector. Yes. Interesting. I'd like to understand from Maria. You're also an author. Love the, love you. Love the original you. Love the original you. What inspired this book? In fact, let me just hold it up. Just in case. Just give Mashule up a little break. Do go so that we can highlight one Maria over here who is also a child trainer. Well, she has a book called Love the Original You. And I'd like to understand, what was the idea behind this book? Just before we continue. The idea behind the book. Okay, the book generally talks about self esteem. I have worked with kids all my life. I would say when I was a kid, I was still working with kids. And growing up, I realized that there is a niche that needs to be covered. Okay, we have everything for the youth, for women. We have all those things, but we don't have one thing for the kids. And if you look at our generation right now, things are changing. Our kids are not, the same way I would raise my child is not the same way I was raised. There were grounds that were put in me, that are not going to be put in some other kids. So growing up, I realized that people are getting lost. And of late, I think, all of you in the media will testify with me that suicide rates have gone high. So I realized that self esteem is an issue that needs to be talked about. And having, I've suffered from self esteem at a point in my life. You feel self esteem. Yeah, at a point in my life I suffered from that. And I realized that this, that is the one thing that people have not addressed so much. So I decided, let me do a book that will help the teenagers, the young people and the youth so that they can at least understand more about themselves. So Love the Original is basically a bit of my story with a lot of generational changes that are coming in and more on self esteem, more on ways of handling self esteem. So if anyone, for anyone who has read the book will tell you that when you read this book, you don't read it because they, you know, their chapters, their pages, everything is interesting in it. But the only interesting thing about this book is the fact that you get to understand yourself because I have covered all types of personalities in the book. All types of personalities. All types of personalities in the book. I had to do a research, all those, I had to do a huge research so that I can at least cover everyone who has issues and then I've worked with kids. So it's easier for me to understand, like when you go to teach kids, you realize that they're different kids. They're raised differently. So you have to at least try to understand those kids while they're growing up. And having to work, like, starting the young magazine was, I started the magazine because I wanted to deal with kids. So writing the book was also because I wanted to get to kids. So my entire life is based on the young people, yeah. Interesting. The reason why I wanted you guys to talk about your books is also that everybody at home can know that the founders of Mashulea are parents themselves. They are people who are passionate about children. So you can trust them. They started this in the year 2015. Am I wrong? Yes, yes. So what can you say in hindsight, now that you're the CEO's and you've been the CEO's for a minute now, in hindsight, what is it that you wish that you know now that you wish you knew then? One thing I've realized, I wish I could have that, that was facing the charges. I think in the development of the mobile application, in the development of the magazine, and in the publication of this book, because she has written about 15 books, but it became so difficult because I was reading all the manuscript. But when I read this specific one, I had to force it to be published. Indeed, the publication was done within few weeks. I have to get people to write the forward, people to read the book again, to correct the book for it to be published. So I realized that there is that aspect of you can do it. If we had that attitude back in 2015, I think you could be having, you could be being a notch higher than where we are. But as always, we say God's time is the best time. And also a journey of 1,000 miles starts with one step. So every day, you tend to run something new. And two, I've realized that we have a lot of charges in the education sector, especially in schools. And if I knew this, at that time when I was 30, we could have known how to approach these things on which side to serve them for. Interesting. What about you, Maria? Do you have anything you can add on to that? Yeah. I wish I knew that things are not easy. You know, when I was 30, I thought, like, okay, I'll just go to someone, I'll talk, and then everything will be easy. You'll just talk? I'll just go talk, things will be easy. And I'm a talkative person, by the way. So I knew I'll work in a school, ask them what I need, and they'll say yes and everything. But I wish that someone told me things were not so easy. And the one thing that I'm glad I never did was giving up. Another thing I wish I knew is that I wish I understood people more. I am not so social. I don't know how to interact so well. So I wish I had learned how to interact with people before I started all this. Okay. Another thing now, the biggest one, is that I wish I knew how people can win trust. How you can win people's trust? Yeah, because that has been the biggest, the biggest challenge that I've faced so far. That is the one thing that I'll tell people that even when you're starting something, if it's new, you have to walk that journey. You have to walk the journey. You have to walk the journey. It's not easy. Okay, interesting. Now that you have finally achieved it and there it is, Mashula Up is up and running, can you take us through the process in which once I get the app and I click on it, what do I do next? And I've downloaded it, for example. What do I do next? I can say as a developer, as the main developer or the sole developer of the application, supported by her. When you come to business, she's the boss. When you come to family, I'm the boss. Okay. She's my director. I'm the operations manager. So in short, one thing which derives you to have the app is the need. What do you want? If you want to get materials for school, if you want to look for uniform, if you want to look for school, if you want to read the magazine, if you want to know about curriculum, so there is the need. So I'd like to start from the first point. You have downloaded your app from Google Play Store. And I think in the latest next week, you'll also be in the A-Poster. You'll be able to download the app from there also. Actually, we've downloaded it on a Mac, so I'm guessing it's there. Yes, yes. It's up already. Yes. So, if you need, I would like, once you download the app, and the app is very small in terms of memory. I think about 9MB. So it's economically, it's bad or, you know, it's bad or zaku, it's considered. So once you download the app, if you want to look for a school. Wait, how many bundles did you say? I think it's about 9MB. 9MB only, wow. Just 9MB. That's easy on the phone. So once you download it, you are home and dry. The app doesn't require you to register anything. It doesn't require your email. It doesn't require your contact. As a programmer and as a person in ICT security, my career background is totally in ICT, computer science and security. So we have ensured that we don't want to take any of your details. Most of the mobile applications, she realized that they are taking either your emails, your contacts, your ID number, and then it becomes very tricky for you. It becomes very tricky for you to start receiving images, to start talking of cyber crime. So we have ensured that that is not the case in our mobile application. Okay, so the security. The security aspect is 100%. That's guaranteed. So what we have ensured that once you download the app, the first page you get is such. FIDER school. FIDER school. FIDER school. We have three schools in that place. That's what we call the prime space of the app. So if you want your school to appear in those, in that page, that's the prime space. You have to pay a little bit higher. Indeed, we are calling it as token, because it's very cheap. Because we are only paying 10,000 more than other schools, which are only paying 20,000 for a whole year. Yes, because I was actually going to ask you, I've seen you also have a fee for the schools that want to be featured. I can see Brookhurst International. Yes, we have Brookhurst. We have PC, Ten Academy. We have Tadakia Academy. We have Sokyumau. These are some of the schools, we have interacted with, especially when you come to the magazine. We have interacted with, so we are partners with them. So they have gone a step higher to realize our business and what we are doing. And to adopt, these schools have really adopted technology as they are running, as they are running module. And if you go to the new curriculum, computer science is somewhere in the upper secondary. And computing, it's starting even at the lower level. And considering that everybody has a phone. So we have to go, even if you have a student in school, you have to ensure that technology has been taken care of. Yes. Because of moderation and discipline part of it. So once you download the app, you go to the first page where you meet the search. So you get FEDA perfect school. FEDA perfect school? Yes, FEDA perfect school. What are you looking for? So for example, if we are looking for a school, maybe I can just give an example of a school we have in the mobile application. If for example, we have a school like Fred's School Kamusinga. Indeed, we have all type of schools. Kidgarten, primary and secondary. High school. And high schools we have. So if we are looking for a school like Fred's School Kamusinga, whatever, that place where it's written, FEDA perfect school, you just write it. Oh, you need to put the mic next to your mouth also. So you write Fred's School Kamusinga, then you search. So it will give you the option of that school. So the option will appear somewhere down. Then you'll click that school. Once you click that school, it will bring you to this page now. You read about the school. About the school. The location of the school, and the events. For public secondary schools, it's absolutely free. Wow. So we want to ensure that by the end of this week, we have about 8,000 schools in the application. For all the parents taking students to form one, you don't know the location of the schools from the up. You won't have to struggle. This is quite timely, considering it's January. I hope I'm going back to school. It's the back to school season. Yeah, you won't have to struggle for that. For the other schools, for the private schools. So once you get to this page, you read about the school, then you get to the location of the school, the exact location up to the estate. We have ensured that this. Up to the estate. Up to the estate. The teniest detail you want. We have ensured that this is correlated with the Google Maps. So if the school has not been mapped in the Google Apps, we'll map it for you. Oh, okay. So you don't have to say that my school is not in the Google App. Just tell us where your school is. So you'll be able to trace the location and know if it's the kind of location that you would like your child to be in. Interesting. So from there, and if you want to get a school, if you don't know all the schools, for example, in Umorja Estate in Nairobi, so you'd go to wherever the first page we were, you just write the name Umorja. To give you all the schools in Umorja Estate. So when you come back to a page about a school, you don't know the location of the school. So in that location, I think now you are settled. You can be able to go there now. So another feature we have added is that since it's together with Google Maps, you can be able to trace the direction indeed from wherever you are. I've seen there also other things that happen after I know the location of the school. I can see there's curriculum. Yes, after you know about the location of the school, then you have another page for events. This now looks like a notice board for that individual school. You can know the time dates, the crossing day, the opening day, the exams, the parents' day. All the events you have in your school can be mapped to the application. Indeed, you are the one who is adding this information. And it's very simple. Once we sign a contract with you at the beginning of the, once we sign the contract for a full whole year, your work will be just to sit down, set in the information, we do the work for you. Oh. So it's very easy to understand and navigate through the app. Yes. So once you have the time dates there, you don't have to be cramming. If you have three kids in your home, in three different schools, what should you have three apps? Wait, so even after I find a school for my child, I can also check the events that are happening. I can follow up. Ah, very interesting. Anyway, we need to wind this segment up first. So from there, you can get the events. And once you get the events, I think other things from the app. We have the places for resources. You can get the magazine. As you can see from here, you have the second edition of the young magazine. Indeed, if you go to the, if you download the app now, as you are speaking, you realize that you even have the first edition. But in the next few minutes, one of our programmers is working on having the new curriculum in the app in the next about one hour. So you'll be able to know about the new curriculum from the app. This app is not only going to help me find a school, it's going to help me also keep up with the events that are happening in that school, with the curriculum, with the magazines. Ah, very interesting. All in one, not all in one together. It's education is the holder system, how you have tried to have as much as we can. Quick and easy at the palm of my hands in real time, wherever I am, I can see it. Wow, the young people in this country are really doing a number. So finally, it's still in the application. If you have a bookshop, talk to us. We have a bookshop in the application. Some of the schools have to get uniforms from a specific supplier. So we go to that supplier, we have the information of that supplier in the app. We have a page for Dill said coupons. So if you are a parent, you know about the school, you know about the curriculum, you know about the test papers, and you know how to get the uniform and books. Interesting, all in one, all in one. Wow, you know I'm so surprised because when we were told to go digital, I didn't expect this, but now I'm seeing this is going to another level. Kenyans are really doing it. You could be the next time Pesar billionaires. You never know, with Mashule app. Anyway, thank you guys so much for coming. It's about time we conclude this segment. But I'd like to hear from you, Maria, any parting shots? Would you have any parting shots with regards to the app because National has exhausted very, very deep explanation on how to reach the app? Okay, the only thing I'll tell people, actually the school owners, I would like to tell them to download. To download it? And also call us, text us, go to our website, go to our Facebook page, TheYang, Instagram page, TheYang. It's as simple as that. Contact us as soon as your school can be featured. Because it's easier for you to get parents to know you once you're featured in the app. Another thing is for the parents, download the app. And those who, you know, I've told people to download and they tell me, you know, I don't have a kid. My kids are already in school. People have excuses. But you may help someone else who doesn't know technology. Because they're all people out there who can't do that. You can help someone. So I'll tell them, please do it. Okay. Yeah. All right, all right. You have been talking to the Wawerus, the founders of Mashule app, authors themselves of TheYang and love the original you. All right. Thank you guys so much for coming to Studio Today. It's about time we conclude this segment. I am Hilda Wadibi. The DJ is coming back. Please don't go anywhere. It's Entrepreneur Shift Tuesday here on Y in the Morning on Y2Five4 channel. My name is Hilda Wadibi.