I Get To Be A Mom
One of the hardest things about running a company has to be the constant feeling of wishing I could do more, both as a leader and as a parent. We all want to do fun things with our kids when they are on summer break. We also want the best for the staff and for … Read more
Hiding that diaper?
A mom recently introduced me to a friend as the owner of a cloth diaper company. The friend said, “You probably won’t like me then. I used disposables.” Lets get this out of the way. I make a great product line. It fits. It absorbs well. It’s easy to use. It’s flexible. It can work … Read more
How do you do it all?
I can’t even count how many times people have asked me this question. How do you do it all? There are many assumptions built into that questions. ”All” gets defined differently by different people. Some assume that I have an organic garden that I farm myself, chickens in the backyard in a coop, homeschooled children, … Read more
Babies At Work. #ceomom
I’ve spent the last few weeks wrestling with people who believe business leadership is barely a place for a woman, and even less so for a mother with a newborn. It’s unfamiliar territory for most because our culture has practically required that women become masculine in order to be successful. Books about successful businesswomen practically … Read more
More taxes on cloth diapers?
My blog is written through the lens of a businesswoman intent on building a healthy company. We believe in offering a valuable product with a strong consumer economic impact, growing the workforce, and modeling social responsibility through sustainable, replicable,and creative giving initiatives. After reading this post, some of my readers jumped to the appalling conclusion that … Read more
Cloth Diaper Trash Talk?
We frequently engage in new projects that require fun, new names. I’ve covered walls with brainstorming ideas, searched odd dictionaries, turned to Scrabble cheater websites, thesauruses… any tool is fair game when you’re trying to find something fun. As we research, we’ve also learned the importance of using tools like Google and Urban Dictionary to … Read more
What’s next for Cotton Babies.
I got very quiet on the blog almost a year ago after we found out we were expecting our fourth child. Pregnancy and me aren’t close friends, for good reasons. I get grumpy – to the point where my Facebook posts go viral because people think my lovely perspective on life is entertaining (see image … Read more
When was the last time someone told you “that’s impossible”?
Almost every day, I’m surprised again by someone willing to believe that a completely solvable situation is impossible to work through. The mountain is too high. The project is too big. The problem is too complex. They don’t know how, and they don’t want to learn. They’d rather sit there and talk to me about … Read more
Cloth Diaper Warranty Fraud is on the Rise
I’ve known for years that we were seeing occasional instances of warranty fraud coming into our returns department. Recently though, we have started seeing an increasing pattern of this behavior that we finally decided to mentioned publicly, both for the benefit of consumers who may not know that this behavior is illegal and for the … Read more
Share The Love: The New Cloth Diaper Bank
Together with my team at the office, I have been working on getting a Cloth Diaper Bank off the ground for months now… it’s taken time to get everything off the ground and operational, but last week, we did our first official Share The Love™ diaper distribution to families here in St. Louis. Share The … Read more
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