1KHO 135: Finding Courage and Connection Through Cut Flowers | Deanna Kitchen, The Growing Kindness Project

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In a world where we are facing a pandemic of loneliness, it can be easy to feel disconnected from those around us. However, according to Deanna Kitchen, the founder of the Growing Kindness Project, there is a simple yet powerful way to connect with others: through the gift of homegrown flowers. In this episode, Deanna shared her insights on the capacity flowers have to connect with people and how they can be a cure for loneliness. She emphasized that growing and sharing flowers is a simple act of kindness that can have a large impact. Deanna's project is all about making it easy for people to grow and share flowers. It's as simple as planting some flowers, cutting them, and giving them to someone who needs a little extra kindness. She believes that if you have a little bit of dirt and a big heart, you have what it takes to make a difference. During the podcast, Deanna also shared her passion for cut flowers and how they have helped her find courage and connection. She believes that there is nothing quite like the feeling of having flowers in your hand and the joy of giving them to someone else. If you're interested in learning more about the Growing Kindness Project and how you can get involved, be sure to listen to this episode. You'll come away with a renewed appreciation for the power of flowers and the simple acts of kindness that can make a big difference in the lives of those around us. Learn more about The Growing Kindness Project here >> https://www.growingkindnessproject.org/ and on Instagram at @growingkindnessproject Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Eurech. I'm the
0:07.9	founder of 1000 Hours Outside and we are going to be talking about the
0:11.6	coolest thing today.
0:13.4	Deanna Kitchen from the Growing Kindness Project is here.
0:17.6	Welcome.
0:18.8	Hello, it's such an honor to get to be here today.
0:21.4	I'm so excited. You are doing the coolest things and
0:25.1	I love that our messages really align about how simple things can make a large impact and so
0:31.7	can you tell people what you're doing what the Growing Kindness Project is?
0:37.0	Yes, so the Growing Kindness Project at its very simplest is that we are helping people to grow kindness in their lives and in their communities all across the world.
0:50.0	And we're doing that with this really simple tool that we all can have access to and that is
0:57.0	planting a few seeds in our yards and flower seeds and growing those in love and care and then using those as
1:06.0	catalysts to reach out in our communities and make connections. It has been a
1:10.1	really interesting journey for me personally but this capacity that Flowers have
1:15.0	to connect with people and to open doors and soften hearts
1:19.0	is really, really powerful and beautiful and simple and we have just discovered that in this age that we're
1:28.8	living in and we're so digitally saturated and we're so feeling so disconnected. I read the other day that
1:37.3	we're living in a pandemic of loneliness and flowers are a really simple care for that to give us this tool to be able to reach out and foster meaningful connections.
1:48.5	And so what we're doing as an organization is encouraging and supporting and teaching people how to grow
1:57.4	cut flowers so that they can have this tool accessible to them and then supporting them
2:01.8	and sharing them on in using that as the
2:04.9	catalyst for connection in their communities. Wow it is very powerful
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