What is Hello Happy?
Our
Story
Hello Happy is a retail company that was created in 2022 by Kevin and Audrey Fuller (a husband and wife team). It started out as a clothing company (Hello Happy Apparel) and has branched off to include kitchen hand towels (Hello Happy Towels).
There's Always More to the Story...
Okay that was the extremely short, to the point version. You want the long version? I would too. In 2022, Kevin was in medical school. Yep med school haha. We were looking for a way to bring in money (aren't we all). Kevin has always wanted to own his own business (plus he's way more money-savvy than I am hehe), I have always wanted to bring my designs to a physical product, and so Hello Happy LLC was born. We started with T-shirts, a heat press, and a cutting machine, all within our tiny 1200sq ft townhome in Rexburg, ID. Our bedroom was full of inventory boxes and a huge press, while the kitchen counter held the cutting machine and my desktop. We made things work. And it was successful!
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We put Hello Happy Apparel on pause when I got pregnant with our last baby. I knew my limits haha. Sad to have to do, but it was the right thing.
...so where did Hello Happy Towels come from? Great question. Kevin was about 4 months away from graduating medical school, had done the grueling bookwork years and the rotations, but something felt off. It's one of those things that's hard to understand unless you've been there, and we know we sound insane. We probably are. When we started medical school, we had 3 kids and were in our 30s. Not your usual. But we were hopeful and motivated, and it felt right. Fast forward and going into residency with 80+ hour weeks and missing our older kids prime school years just seemed...not right. We wanted to take back our family time, and focus on building something we could control more. More meaningful moments with each other.
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Kevin and I went for a drive one very rainy afternoon, up the canyon, and talked about sooo many ideas for how to move forward. We felt stuck. It's a rotten yucky place to be, and we didn't want to stay there. I made a comment about hand towels, and Kevin said: "Well can we put your designs on those?" and Hello Happy Towels was born!
