Bump to Business Owner
E1: “The Guinea Pig Generation” with Steph Douglas
Published: 6 July 2023 at 01:00 UTC
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I’m delighted that my guest for this first episode is Steph Douglas, founder of gifting business, Don’t Buy Her Flowers. Steph started her business after receiving a whopping eight, well meant bouquets following the birth of her first baby and realising what a terrible gift flowers are for new mums. She has successfully grown her business over the past nine years, alongside raising her three young children
Don’t Buy Her Flowers has grown from Steph packing boxes in her spare room to having an incredible team and a warehouse. Our conversation covers everything from the challenges of running a business through the pandemic, juggling a business and a young family, and managing maternity leave when you are a business owner. We also talk about how women are still the ones that carry most of the mental load of running a home, we’ve both experienced unhelpful comments from other people when we mention our husbands taking on jobs such as cooking and shopping, and Steph has some wise words of advice about how we all need to be questioning traditional gender roles.
Don’t Buy Her Flowers is continuing to expand and is now offering gifting services for businesses offering an alternative to terrible and uninspiring corporate gifting. They are the company I personally use for team gifting for my agency and I highly recommend them. If you want to use them for your growing business you can find out more here: https://www.dontbuyherflowers.com/corporate-gifting/
Links:
Website: www.bumptobusinessowner.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bumptobusinessowner/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinepooley/
About Steph:
Steph Douglas founded Don’t Buy Her Flowers in 2014, leaving a role in brand and marketing, to offer a more personal and thoughtful gift initially for new mums; the idea came from receiving eight well-meant bouquets after having her first baby, that Steph saw were ‘another thing to care for when you’re doing more caring than you’ve ever done in your life’. The company now offers gift boxes for all occasions as well as for men and children and B2B. DBHF have partnerships with Stand Up To Cancer, Home-Start UK and Baby Loss Charity Teddy’s Wish.
Steph also writes and talks honestly about motherhood, relationships, business and juggling in this ‘rush hour’ of life many of us seem to be in. She started the Don’t Buy Her Flowers podcast last year with guests including Jessie Ware, Annie MacManus and Kate Lawler
Steph’s Links:
Website: https://dontbuyherflowers.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dontbuyherflowers/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dontbuyherflowers
