EUTHABAG is now a Certified Women-Owned Business!
EUTHABAG is now a Certified Women-Owned Business!
Fresh off the press: EUTHABAG has become a certified Women-Owned Business!
The team couldn’t be happier about this certification and what it means for women all over the world! This is a defining moment for women in business and Euthabag on the global stage who now have the opportunity to step up to the plate and model what it’s like to be a company that comprises not only a female CEO, but a team that is 90% women, with one man in the chicken coop!
The certification is provided by We Connect International which is an organization that helps drive money into the hands of women business owners by enabling them to compete in the global marketplace. Globally, women face major challenges as entrepreneurs such as limited access to financial accounts and credit. This certification will help Euthabag be seen on the global stage to help improve dignity for our pets and pet parents as well as help other women succeed in business. Celine Leheurteux, DVM says “it makes me proud to be part of a network that connects human beings that have gone through similar challenges.”
Euthabag contributes to progressing women in business
Celine Leheurteux, DVM and CEO of Euthabag, uses her platform to talk about issues close to her heart and the hearts of pet parents. Leading not only her family and her business, but the veterinary industry at large.
Celine Leheurteux explains that one of her top struggles is balancing her responsibilities as a mother who is leading her family as well as a CEO who is leading her business. “Building a business is challenging enough, doing it at the same time as raising a family is an extreme sport! The main challenge is always struggling for prioritizing both babies! You build a bigger team, get more credit, and even more people rely on you being an entrepreneur so it is easy to put your family second”. She goes on to say “challenges get bigger as you grow as an entrepreneur, and oxygen gets scarcer as you go higher! It can be so lonely at the top!”
Balancing family and business is certainly a major challenge, and it’s because of this understanding and her own personal experience that Celine made a point to create Euthabag with her team close to her heart. She wanted to create a working environment where everyone can have a real work-family-life balance, which she believes is one of the key components in helping fight compassion fatigue, a common ailment that health practitioners in veterinary medicine face.
Freedom of schedule, prioritizing family, along with remote work is one of the biggest benefits that Euthabag team members share.
For example, one of their team members had the opportunity to attend a trade show, but she didn’t want to leave her baby at home. Without question, Celine encouraged her to bring her baby along for the show! Women in business travelling with their toddler is just another example of the trademark of warmth that the Euthabag enterprise encompasses.
This isn’t the first time the company has put kids first. Back when Celine started in 2016, her mother and her friend agreed to watch a team member’s child while they went to a trade show. She made the arrangement on behalf of her team so they wouldn’t have to worry about accommodations for them. Add to that, children are no strangers to team meetings! Often popping on screen while their mom is holding a meeting.
Most of the team’s schedule revolves around the schedule of their children, working in the evening so they can be with their kids during the day.
Family always comes first. Period.
Work life balance. Photo credit: Celine Leheurteux
Empathy is a core value of the Euthabag team, not only for women and children, but pets as well. The majority of the team work in the veterinary field as well as animal rescues and have a first-hand understanding of the compassion involved in animal care. The team goes above and beyond for their clients, talking with pet parents to help them and their pets from general questions to end-of-life consultations. They used to send body bags directly to pet parents before they had an online store set up.
Women having the freedom to live their life and not have to choose between work and family is central to the company’s success.
Celine Leheurteux, DVM, proudly holding her patent for the Euthabag design.
Euthabag contributes to charities and helping the environment
Because Euthabag sticks so closely to their core values, they share their profit with charities like the Susan Komen Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, Freedom Service Dogs, NOMV, and others, and by doing so, create an environment for which the team can directly see the benefits that their work goes toward, creating meaning and intention behind their actions. This allows for more women to be center stage when talking about best business practices. Compassion, kindness, understanding, and generosity are ingredients for success in business, and Euthabag shows how this is done.
”Women are prone to empathy and helping others protect the environment.” Celine says. And she really walks the talk, she’s even planted more than 20,000 trees in Quebec and Costa Rica. When you support Euthabag, you are also supporting environmental initiatives! You can read more about Celine’s work with the environment here.
Celine educating her team on the types of tree and plant species she has on her property in Quebec.
Departing with Dignity
Celine and the Euthabag team couldn’t be more excited to be a certified member of the Women-Owned business community and to lead and help others flourish in their own endeavors! Euthabag is a proud supporter and advocate for closing the gender gap in business initiatives by having a team that is 90% women, inspiring others to take the leap into business, and setting an example for just how much women in business can accomplish, kids and pets in tow! This certification serves to propel them onto the global stage where they can help other women business owners and entrepreneurs.
Importantly, this will allow their message, and the heart of the company, to be known worldwide: depart with dignity!
A dignified and ecological way to say goodbye to your companion, Euthabag. Credit: Joelle Couture