Do Not Disturb · A podcast about motherhood
Amelia Christie-Miller:
A company with room for motherhood
The Bold Bean Co founder on paying herself properly, handing work over and making a business fit around motherhood.
The Do Not Disturb edit
Three things to take with you.
Three ideas from the conversation, in our words.
Do
Protect the work only you can do, and delegate the rest.
Not
Underpay yourself while spending founder time on tasks somebody else could own.
Disturb
The assumption that flexibility and maternity leave hold a business back.
What is a founder’s time actually worth?
Amelia talks about building Bold Bean Co and learning that doing everything herself was costing the business. She describes outsourcing tasks, recognising where her time matters most and paying herself a proper salary.
Motherhood brought those decisions into sharper focus. She and Simona discuss maternity leave, flexibility and what needs to change when a company can no longer depend on one person doing it all.
What comes up
- Founder pay and delegation
- Maternity leave in your own business
- Keeping ambition while changing how you work
Meet Amelia
Amelia Christie-Miller is the founder of Bold Bean Co and the author of Full of Beans.
The guest’s bookshelf
Read Amelia’s work
Full of Beans
A Bold Bean Co cookbook built around simple, inventive recipes that put beans at the centre of the plate.
Explore the book →Further reading
Amelia’s published essay on maternity leave and building a stronger company sits alongside the conversation’s themes of delegation, ambition and founder identity.
Taking time off to have a baby made my company better · The Times →Keep the conversation going
Sabrina Sarl ↗
For the boundaries that make a flexible career possible.
Natalie Chassay ↗
For another founder whose ambition grew through motherhood.
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