45. Plants Make People Happy: Interview with Eliza Blank, Founder and CEO of The Sill

Soul and Wit

Bailey Carver

Self-improvement, Simplicity, Personaldevelopment, Selfhelp, Happiness, Education, Mentalhealth, Minimalism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Courtney and Bailey chat with Eliza Blank, Founder & CEO at The Sill, a digitally native direct-to-consumer houseplant brand on a mission to modernize the garden center experience. Eliza shares where she got the idea to start the Sill, her favorite plant and her husband’s plant tattoo. Learn about the biggest mistake people make with plants and the easiest plant to start with for plant newbies.

Favorite Things:

Bailey

Tru Fru

Schitts Creek

Courtney:

Creating quarterly playlists on Spotify

The Simplicity Space (jump on the waiting list)

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Resources mentioned on the show:

The Sill

Eliza’s favorite plant

The best plant for beginners

Plant workshops

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soul and Witt.
0:03.9	I'm Courtney.
0:05.0	And I'm Bailey.
0:05.9	We are the mother-daughter duo here to make you laugh, grow, and feel more connected to your favorite things.
0:25.8	Hi, Mom. Hi, Bailey. Hi, Bailey. How's your day?
0:33.5	Day is good. Yeah. Very good. I am so excited about this episode. I know we normally talk first,
0:39.3	but there's so much goodness in today's episode that I think people are really going to appreciate.
0:42.8	Yeah, this is someone that I've been wanting to talk to for a while.
0:47.1	But before we dive in, why don't we do favorite things?
0:48.0	Sounds good.
0:49.0	You start.
0:55.1	Okay, so the first favorite thing, I don't know if everybody will be able to get this where they live,
1:08.0	but if you are able to, you need to get it. It's called True Fru, T-R-U-F-R-U. And these are frozen raspberries that are covered in chocolate and filled with chocolate. And they're delicious.
1:18.3	They're actually a local company I found out, but they're in like all our regular grocery
1:22.4	stores here. So they're local to Utah? Do you think they're outside of the state? I don't know. Okay. I didn't do a lot of
1:31.7	research about them. I just found out that their headquarters are based here, which is cool. Um, they're delicious.
1:39.1	It's like my favorite afternoon snack right now. I just have like four little raspberries. Um, they do call them like
1:46.9	nature's fruit though, which I don't fully understand because it's definitely chocolate.
1:52.8	Well, also fruit is from nature. Yeah. That's weird. Okay. But they're delicious. And I think everyone
1:59.4	should try one. I've like forced people that live near me to go and get a bag and try it.
2:05.0	And they also agree and have an addiction as well.
2:09.5	Can we talk about the time you asked me to get true fru for you?
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