As a student midwife, Remy Tucker worked with vulnerable new mothers and saw women forced to make impossible choices around basic essentials, including period products. She was eventually told that if she wanted to survive in the profession, she might need to switch off the part of herself that cared so deeply. She couldn't. Years later, that same instinct helped spark ON THE HOUSE, a business built around a radical question: what if period products could be free? In this episode, Remy shares how she turned a social problem into a for-profit business model, why doing good and making money don't have to be opposing ideas, and how that aligns a company designed to create impact at scale.

On today’s episode, you’ll learn:

• How Remy turned an experience from her midwifery career into the problem she eventually built ON THE HOUSE to tackle.
• How an advertising-funded model can make period products free to the people who need them while still creating a commercially viable business.
• What she calls “outcome debt”, and why taking a shortcut in a startup can mean paying for it later with interest.
• How to work out whether the thing you've been told is a weakness might actually be one of your greatest advantages as a founder.

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HOST: Lisa Lie 

GUEST: Remy Tucker, On The House

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Courtney Ammenhauser

SENIOR CREATIVE PRODUCER: Thom Lion

ASSISTANT PRODUCER: Sasha Tannock

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.