263 - Erin Benzakein: Meet the Flower Farmer Who Landed Her Own Reality Show
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With a booming flower business, three best-selling books, and a reality show on the Magnolia Network, Erin Benzakein gets honest about the road to becoming an "overnight success."
https://www.marieforleo.com/blog/erin-benzakein
Don't lose heart if you're not good yet, just keep getting back up. ~ Erin Benzakein, Floret Flower Farm via @MarieForleo
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| 0:00.0 | the flowers are different. Just keep going. Just keep going. So I just kept getting back up and |
| 0:06.0 | after every failure, which there are thousands of them and just kind of like dusted off the like |
| 0:12.2 | embarrassment and just got back up and kept going. We were coming up on 15 years. So I heard you |
| 0:18.1 | say before like there is no such thing as an overnight success. It's usually like a decade in |
| 0:22.6 | the making at least. It is so much hard work and you just keep basically you just got to get |
| 0:29.6 | okay with like sucking and failing, right? You're just you're so bad for so long. You just got |
| 0:35.3 | to keep going. So don't lose heart if you're not good yet. Just keep getting back up. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey, it's Marie Forleo and welcome to another episode of MarieTV and the Marie Forleo podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | And I got to tell you I am so excited about my guest today. Oh my goodness. So first of all, |
| 0:55.9 | she's a force of nature. Second of all, she's got a new show on the Magnolia Network and I saw |
| 1:01.7 | the first episode and it's amazing. Third of all, she is a B school grad. If you have ever wondered, |
| 1:07.6 | if you have what it takes to take your somewhat impossible dream and make it real, you are going to |
| 1:13.4 | love today's show. Erin Benzacane is the founder of Fluorit Farms and is one of the nation's |
| 1:18.9 | leading farmer florists. She's the author of three books. Fluorit Farms Cut Flower Garden, |
| 1:24.7 | which won the American Horticultural Society's book award. The New York Times best seller, |
| 1:30.0 | Fluorit Farms a year in flowers and most recently discovering Dalias. She's received the Martha |
| 1:36.4 | Stewart American made award for floral and event design and has been featured across countless |
| 1:41.3 | books, magazines and websites. Growing Fluorit, a series from the Magnolia Network is streaming now |
| 1:47.2 | on Discovery Plus. Oh my goodness. Erin, thank you so much for making time to be here. I have to say |
| 1:53.0 | I have your books in front of me. Oh my goodness. They are so gorgeous. Like I'm losing my mind and I |
| 2:00.2 | have to tell you our entire team is like obsessed. We've been obsessed with you for years. This |
| 2:07.7 | morning I watched the first episode of your show on the Magnolia Network and I was literally like |
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