Let's Add Some Joy with Maria Failla
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Maria is here to help us grow joy in our homes and gardens. She's a plant parent with loads of personality and great tips.
You'll enjoy this episode even if you don't know your Aspidistra from a Dieffenbachia. Maria is full of personality and she gets us so excited to grab up some new plants for our homes and gardens.
Kelly was recently a guest on Maria's podcast and you can listen HERE
Check out Maria's website Growing Joy with Maria
Listen to her podcast Growing Joy
Find Maria on IG as Growing Joy with Maria
Take Maria's plant personality quiz HERE
Get Maria's fantastic book HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Because we can all use a little extra joy. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, everybody. I am Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:17.1 | Today, we have a very special guest for you that's going to bring joy to you and your home. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, you know, we're always telling you to add plants to your home, not just for that pop a green, |
| 0:28.8 | but for the organic feel that it brings, the life that brings to the room, even some height, |
| 0:35.3 | if you go with a fairly large plant. |
| 0:37.4 | But the soul that plants are |
| 0:39.6 | going to bring to your home is going to do so much to create a wonderful environment. And today, |
| 0:46.0 | we have the perfect guest to help you learn how to enhance not only your home, but your life |
| 0:52.3 | with plants. It's Maria Fyella from Growing Joy with Maria. |
| 0:57.6 | Maria, welcome to decorating tips and tricks. Thank you. I love that intro. I love it. The soul. |
| 1:04.5 | You hit the nail on the head. Plants are about soul for sure. So Maria, you have an interesting |
| 1:09.8 | background. Actually, we both do, right? |
| 1:12.8 | I was an attorney. I don't even know if you knew that before I became an interior designer and |
| 1:16.8 | garden designer. And you were a Broadway performer before you became this avid plant person. So tell us |
| 1:25.2 | a little bit about that part of your life and how you transitioned |
| 1:30.0 | to this empire that you've created all about plants and how to care for them, but also how they |
| 1:36.9 | care for you. Yeah, you know, it's so funny. I love that we both have this experience of like a |
| 1:42.4 | complete career pivot. I used to live in 500 square feet in New York City. My husband and I fled for the hills in the pandemic. And now we live on five acres in the western Catskills in upstate New York. And we were driving home. He picked me up from the airport. We were driving home. There was snow. We live really rural now. Like we don't have a mailbox. We don't have a |
| 2:02.7 | We got to go to the dump to take our garbage out. We've got to like go get our mail at the post office. |
| 2:08.2 | And I just had this moment where I just looked at him and I was like, what are we doing? |
| 2:15.1 | I've got some of those moments. Yes. I. I mean, never been happier, but like sometimes |
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