The Don't Buy Her Flowers Podcast
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The Don't Buy Her Flowers Podcast
Steph Douglas - Founder and CEO of Don’t Buy Her Flowers - chats frankly with a guest about LIFE and staring down the ‘rush hour’ that many of us feel we’re living in. The day to day overwhelm, juggling careers, relationships and families, parenthood, not looking like a dog’s dinner, the expectation...
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Redefining Masculinity with Elliott Rae
In this powerful conversation, Steph is joined by Elliott Rae, speaker, podcaster, writer and social changemaker, to explore how masculinity is being...
Teenagers and Midlife, The Perfect Storm with Lorraine Candy
Parenting teenagers and navigating midlife can feel like a perfect storm. One moment you’re managing eye-rolls and slammed doors, the next you’re ques...
Marriage, Equality & The Mental Load - A Candid Chat with Steph & Doug
Steph sits down with her husband of 17 years, Mark (Doug) Douglas, for an unfiltered and often hilarious deep dive into marriage, equality at home, an...
Motherhood, Comedy & Wrinkles: Ageing Disgracefully with Genevieve Turley
Steph sits down with the hilarious and incredibly talented makeup artist Genevieve Turley. Known for her candid takes on beauty, motherhood, and life...
Festivals and Family with Rob & Josie da Bank
Steph chats with Rob and Josie da Bank about what it’s like to run a festival with your partner, and how they make it work alongside having four child...
How To Make It Fair with Eve Rodsky
Feel like you do everything at home, or at least more than is your fair share? This one’s for you. Steph speaks with Eve Rodsky - Harvard-grad lawyer,...
Being a Mad Woman with Bryony Gordon
Steph talks with author, journalist and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon about her new book Mad Woman, an account of her life and challenges ove...
Anxiety with Dr Kirren Schnack
Steph talks with Dr Kirren Schnack, Clinical Psychologist and author of Ten Times Calmer, a book with tools to help beat anxiety.
The co...
Mums’ Night Out with Louise Boyce, Gill Sims and Clara Batten at Henley Literary Festival
Recorded Live at the Henley Literary Festival, Steph interviews Louise Boyce AKA Mama Still Got It, Gill Sims and Clara Batten live from a Town Hall f...
How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life with Dr Karen Gurney
Ahead of the release of her new book, Clinical Psychologist Dr Karen Gurney returns to the DBHF podcast after her previous episode about sex in long t...
Midlife Wisdom, Careers and Parenthood with Fi Glover and Jane Garvey
Steph chats with broadcast LEGENDS Fi Glover and Jane Garvey about their move after thirty years (each!) from the BBC to Times Radio, where they host...
How to Be Sad with Helen Russell (re-release)
In this episode we're looking back at a brilliant episode with Helen from January 2022...
Steph talks with bestselling author, journalist and sp...
Navigating the early months of motherhood with comedian Kelly Convey
Steph chats with brilliant comedian Kelly Convey about motherhood; it’s all very fresh for Kelly as she has had two babies with a fifteen month gap, h...
Why we’re all Overwhelmed and how to get through it, with Brigid Schulte
Steph talks with writer and speaker Brigid Schulte about Overwhelm, where it comes from and what we can do to rally against it. Brigid brilliantly use...
Business Special: how brain surgery led to Scamp & Dude, with Jo Tutchener Sharp
Jo Tutchener Sharp, Founder and CEO, tells Steph about how life-changing brain surgery led to her hugely successful purpose-led fashion brand Scamp &...
Burnout in the rush hour with Psychotherapist Siobhán Murray
Psychotherapist Siobhán Murray talks with Steph about Burnout. Originally coined in the 1970s to describe an occupational phenomenon, recent decades h...
Biz Ep: Turning a food blog into a business with Sarah Rossi AKA Taming Twins
Sarah Rossi and Steph talk about how Sarah’s online profile, where she’s known as ‘Taming Twins’, has rocketed in the last 12 months. She talks with S...
Business special: Business, leading and burnout with Alex Depledge, MBE
Steph chats with businesswoman Alex Depledge for a Business Special episode of the podcast.
Alex is undoubtedly a brilliant entrepreneur...
New To Mum Hood? Illiyin Morrison and Sophie McCartney talk us through it
Steph speaks with Illiyin Morrison and Sophie McCartney (AKA Tired and Tested) about those early days and months of motherhood, as part of the Lost Fo...
Business Special: March Muses founders Alison Burton and Natalie Duvall
Each month, the DBHF podcast will speak with founders for a business episode, to find out how they’re doing it.
The strapline for Alison...
Lost for Words; Cancer with Emma Campbell and Leanne Pero
Continuing the Lost For Words series, Steph speaks with Leanne Pero and Emma Campbell about Cancer. Both women have been diagnosed with breast cancer...
Baby Loss: with ‘The Other Mothers’ Caro, Elle and Jen
For the second episode of this Lost For Words series, Steph spoke with podcast hosts The Other Mothers AKA Caro Tasker, Elle Wright and Jen Reid, thre...
Grief: You Are Not Alone with Cariad Lloyd
This series of the Don’t Buy Her Flowers podcast is about those events that can leave people Lost For Words, kicking off with Cariad Lloyd talking abo...
Sex, Relationships & Motherhood: What have we learned? With Zoe Blaskey
Zoe Blaskey from The Motherkind Podcast joins with Steph and the Don’t Buy Her Flowers podcast for this end of year special! Steph and Zoe have each c...
Bums, Mums and 2022 with Laura Belbin and Victoria Emes
Steph chats with Laura Belbin AKA Knee Deep in Life and Victoria Emes, two brilliant comedians who separately have taken social media by storm, leadin...
Opening and closing a retail business with Beth Huett
After studying Design at London College of Fashion, Beth Huett opened her clothes shop Dolly Rock in St Margarets in 2011. Beth talks with Steph about...
Remembering Your Why with Yvonne Telford
Yvonne Telford is the founder of clothing brand Kemi Telford, which she started in 2017 with £60 and some tote bags. Yvonne tells Steph about her foun...
How to survive in hospitality with James O’Hara
Steph spoke with James O’Hara about his life in hospitality as a serial business owner - the challenges, the peaks, managing a team and the lessons Ja...
The business of running a charity with Emma Cantrell
Emma Cantrell is the CEO of Children’s Charity First Days. Emma explains why she started the charity in 2013 when her two children were very small, in...
Knowing your product with Abi Selby from Spabreaks.com
Abi Selby founded Spabreaks.com in 2008, a spa booking service working with more than 700 spa destinations in the UK and a team of 65. Abi’s aim was t...
Navigating your relationship after a baby with Zara Arshad
Steph speaks with Psychotherapist Zara Arshad about what is really going on for couples after a baby arrives – the common feelings of anger, disappoin...
Laura Danger – That Darn Chat on saving your relationship
Laura Danger AKA That Darn Chat has amassed a massive 350k+ followers on TikTok and an Instagram account growing by thousands every week, creating vid...
Dating, Double Standards and Demanding More with Aileen Barratt
Aileen Barratt is the woman behind the hugely popular Instagram account Tinder Translators, where she translates the awful bios in dating apps to expl...
Navigating mum minds with Anna Mathur
Anna Mathur is a Psychotherapist, mum of three and best-selling author of three books all aimed at helping women manage anxiety, self-esteem and calm...
Vibrators, the 80s and 'summer bodies' with Natalie Lee
Natalie Lee AKA Style Me Sunday talks with Steph about her mission to ‘free’ people from shame when it comes to our bodies, sex and fitting in, and an...
Penis Beakers and PG Tits with Sarah Turner
Steph chats with Sunday Times Bestselling author Sarah Turner AKA The Unmumsy Mum. From launching a blog in 2013 after having her first baby and feeli...
Fatherhood and Goat’s Testicles with Matt Coyne
Matt Coyne, AKA Man Vs Baby, has made a career writing and talking about being a dad (after a stint as ‘the worst graphic designer in Yorkshire’ among...
Fatherhood and Food with Jimi Famurewa
As part of the Don’t Buy Her Flowers fatherhood series, Steph speaks with food critic and journalist Jimi Famurewa about the role of men in parenting,...
Jonathan Kirkby on Surrogacy and being a gay dad
Steph speaks with gay dad, husband and business owner Jonathan Kirkby about surrogacy and fatherhood in the lead up to Father’s Day.
J...
This is How Your Marriage Ends with Matt Fray
Steph talks with Matthew Fray, a relationship coach and author of ‘This is How your Marriage Ends: A hopeful approach to saving relationships ’. After...