Designing for Survival: Business, Babies, and What Keeps Us Human with Lexi Montee Busch
In this episode, Chisom sits with Lexi Montée of Happiest Baby to explore parenting, innovation, and building products around real human needs. They discuss the emotional realities of early parenthood, the balance between accessibility and business, and the responsibility that comes with creating care-centered solutions. The conversation also reflects on resilience, leadership, loss, and becoming more human through the work we build.
With Lexi Montée Busch
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Show Notes
This a conversation about what it means to build something that meets people at one of the most vulnerable thresholds of life.
In this episode, I sit down with Lexi Montée of Happiest Baby for a layered conversation on parenting, leadership, product, loss, resilience, and the moral weight of innovation. We talk about SNOO, the science backed smart sleeper designed to support infant sleep and safety, but this conversation goes far beyond babies and bassinets.
We explore what it takes to build a company around a real human need, the difference between luxury and accessibility, the emotional complexity of early parenthood, and why care should not be treated as a private burden. Lexi shares what it means to work inside a family founded business, lead through ambiguity, navigate systems level change, and hold both commercial viability and moral consequence at the same time.
We also talk about loss, rebuilding after the Los Angeles fires, motherhood, imposter syndrome, resilience, and the strange, beautiful work of becoming more human while building something that matters.