Steph Douglas on marriage, body image and pulling up the drawbridge

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Steph Douglas is the founder of thoughtful gift company Don't Buy Her Flowers and a mum of 3. She's passionate about mums looking after themselves and taking life slowly. She recently wrote a blog called 'pulling up the drawbridge' that went viral, discussing how differently she's handled the postpartum period with her third baby. In this episode we discuss: - How she started her business - The transition from 2 to 3 children - Pulling up the drawbridge - How her marriage has changed since having children - Body image and her overcoming with an eating disorder in her 20's Find Steph at @steph_dontbuyherflowers www.dontbuyherflowers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Motherkind podcast with me,
1:19.1	your host, Zoe Blaskey, where each week I chat about all things motherhood and well-being.
1:25.7	This week I have got someone who I'm sure a lot of you will know. Her name is
1:29.9	Steph Douglas and she runs an incredible business called Don't Buy Her Flowers, which is a
1:36.4	thoughtful gift company and it originally started for new mums. So Steph and I chat about how she
1:43.2	started the business. What it's like running a
1:46.1	business and being an entrepreneur with a family and she's just had her third child, so she's
1:52.1	definitely got a lot on her plate. So we talk about that, how she stays sane and manages it all.
1:57.6	I wanted to start a business. I was realizing that my old job was going to be really tricky,
2:01.8	but starting a business felt like such a massive leap. I had no retail experience. My background
2:06.5	brand marketing, so I can sell something, but I wouldn't now have to get my thing to sell in the
2:11.9	first place. And I set myself a challenge, which was to start a blog. We also really get into marriage, what it's like to be married, how to keep the communication
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