#112: Career, Constipation, and the Company She had to Build with Holly Brooke

About this episode

Holly Brooke shares her journey from a career in the beauty industry to founding We Are Regular, a brand addressing chronic constipation in women.

My guest today is Holly Brooke, a founder who spent years building a career at the sharp end of the beauty and wellness industry - from the Hut Group to talent management in Australia, from Gleam Futures to running operations at Caroline Hirons' Skin Rocks from its earliest days. She had a front row seat to what it takes to build a founder-led brand that people genuinely trust, and she learned lessons that most people only read about in business books. But the business Holly eventually started wasn't born in a boardroom. It was born from twenty years of chronic constipation, a drawer full of unhelpful medical advice, a pill box containing thirty different supplements, and one colonic that changed everything. We Are Regular is Holly's answer to a problem that affects twice as many women as men and that almost nobody talks about openly. In this conversation, we get into all of it - the career journey, the burnout, the moment she realised she needed to stop searching for a solution and start building one, the nine-month search for the right manufacturer, and what she's learned about building a brand in a category people are embarrassed to discuss. This one is honest, funny, and full…

People in this episode

Host: Nicky Denson-Elliott

Guest: Holly Brooke

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• wellness
• chronic health issues
• brand building
• women's health
• career journey

Keywords

• chronic constipation
• women's health
• entrepreneurship
• brand building
• wellness
• career journey
• Holly Brooke

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: We Are Regular, Hut Group, Gleam Futures, Caroline Hirons' Skin Rocks

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