#7 Dorothée - Happiness Therapist
Dorothée, 43 years old
Co-director and co-creator of My Little Day
Confined to Boulogne-Billancourt
✔️ Your IG account to follow:
✔️ Your personal “escape” favorite of the moment:
The same as in real life 😉: work, reading, yoga and meditation.
✔️ 1 podcast to listen to:
The rabbi's cat on France Culture.
My Little Day is an online store of products to decorate and host parties for children, but also adults! We designed this project as a service provided, we have put everything in place to guide parents in preparing for birthdays. The blog which is full of ideas was created at the same time as the online store.
The first big step in our brand was to go from idea to realization! Then to understand that we had a brand because My Little Day was initially only a boutique, and to launch our own collections.
And now our new big challenge is to implement sustainable disposables. We are working hard on the subject and we hope to be able to offer interesting things in 2021. If we are still here.
When the lockdown was announced, we first got together and organized remote working for the entire team. Then we asked ourselves what we could do? What was our role? Our values ? Our mission ? We decided to focus on what we do best: helping to organize a child's birthday with family or remotely. One thing led to another and we covered Easter and the holidays!
We are both focused on the present and the future.
The present is a lot of writing to help parents (like us), laying bare our values and continuing what was in progress. Afterwards, it's about continuing to do what we did before confinement: we're overhauling and improving our machine which was mishandled last year and we're continuing to source and prepare for our ecological transition.
My mantra would be: Just do it and Breathe!!
In these circumstances, if I had to give advice to other entrepreneurs it would be to trust yourself, listen to yourself, take the time to meditate on what all this means for yourself and in general.
This crisis poses a multitude of existential questions to humanity and its functioning. The essence of important things emerges, it is about redefining the meaning of our actions, of our companies, in every sense of the word.
At My Little Day we don't really reinvent ourselves, but we took the opportunity to get rid of the superfluous and get to the heart of our mission.
My Mister k mantra would be: Never give up. My first instinct when leaving confinement will be to go to the office and find my lover!
Feather: Dorothée Monestier