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What's up, what's up, what's up, and welcome to Sad us a school. My name is Chris

Gellipho. Episode 1538 for you here. Welcome as well to our Throwback Thursday segment.

Every week we take a look at someone whose story has evolved considerably since we first

feature them. And last week we heard from a Toronto plant influencer, a plant influencer.

I love what that guy's doing. He offers corporate workshops over Zoom, teaching people far

and wide about the art of terrariums. Today in our latest feature we will hear from

Hollis Smith Hughes, a Pacific Northwest resident. We first featured her way back on Episode

740, I believe it was, which seems like a lifetime ago. Hollis sells these beautiful,

decorative, throw blankets. And these blankets, if I recall correctly in the original episode,

I talked about how they evoked an image, a sense of adventure in nostalgia. She started

the business after traveling overseas with her family for I think something like a year.

So she came back and she was like, well, I want to carry forward these values of adventure,

seeing the world, but I also want to create a physical product. So she set out to learn

all about how does one design and create, manufacture, ship, fulfill, all that kind of stuff,

decorative, throw blankets. So they're really beautiful and businesses going quite well

as you're going to hear. She's got a bit of a pandemic success story as we have heard

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