Parenting / 3 August, 2023 / My Baba
Get prepared for some critical lady discuss as Ellie Thompson welcomes the fabulous Steph Douglas, founding father of Don’t Buy Her Flowers, to the present! Steph can be dispensing the juiciest particulars on all issues household life, conquering these chaotic new child days, discovering the right steadiness between household roles and busy careers, and even tackling the not-so-glamorous perimenopause.
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About Steph Douglas
Steph Douglas based Don’t Buy Her Flowers in 2014, leaving a job in model and advertising, to supply a extra private and considerate present initially for brand new mums; the concept got here from receiving eight well-meant bouquets after having her first baby that Steph noticed had been ‘another thing to care for when you’re doing extra caring than you’ve ever accomplished in your life.’ The firm now gives present containers for all events, with ‘personal and thoughtful’ remaining key, as 70% of shoppers choose to create utterly bespoke present containers.
Steph and the group leveraged big progress with the Pandemic, as shoppers wished to achieve out with considerate presents for family members. At its peak the corporate noticed a rise of as much as 600% from pre-lockdown gross sales, enabling them to scale in addition to enhance partnerships and donations with Stand Up To Cancer, Home-Start UK and Baby Loss Charity Teddy’s Wish.
Steph additionally writes and talks truthfully about motherhood, relationships, enterprise and juggling on this ‘rush hour’ of life many people appear to be in. She began the Don’t Buy Her Flowers podcast final yr with visitors together with Jessie Ware, Annie MacManus and Kate Lawler.
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