We’re Growing: How Embracing Life and Mental Health Challenges Can Positively Affect a Business with Callie, my Business Coach

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

I have been hard at work over the past years to grow my business and bring you better content and experience. We want to thank you for being a part of our journey and sharing your love for plants with us. This 2023, we are so excited to announce that we are rebranding into Growing Joy With Maria! In this episode, I’m joined by my friend and business coach, Callie England, to share with you the behind-the-scenes of my business, life, mental health challenges, the lessons I have learned, and why I’m rebranding.

In this episode, we learn:

[01:46] We are growing: Bloom & Grow is rebranding!
[03:02] Here's what's upcoming!
[04:13] Exploring wellness through the lens of plants
[05:32] Growing Joy with Maria: Keep Blooming and Growing Joy!
[06:48] Meet Maria’s business coach and friend, Callie England
[09:44] Maria and Callie's friendship history
[11:03] How Callie went from WallyGrow to coaching creative entrepreneurs
[11:47] Callie’s battle with cancer
[13:25] Maria and Callie’s first phone call – and the beginning of everything
[14:26] What makes entrepreneurship lonely?
[15:38] Women empowerment in business
[18:21] Bloom & Grow’s evolution from a passion project to a full-time career
[20:49] Securing sponsorships for your business
[22:19] Getting recognized in a plant shop!
[23:57] Getting through the pandemic as an entrepreneur
[26:22] Maria's concern about monetizing Bloom & Grow
[28:14] What Maria learned from working with ad agencies
[30:27] Keeping business and brand reputation in balance
[34:17] Maria's mental health journey through Bloom & Grow
[38:37] Healing your mind through plant care
[45:10] Authenticity and toxic positivity
[47:13] What can we expect from Growing Joy in 2023?
[52:10] Callie's creative process behind Growing Joy's rebranding
[54:12] The drawback of doing many things all at once
[54:42] Knowing when to say “No”
[57:18] How to get in touch with Callie!
[1:00:20] Sneak peek of the next Growing Joy With Maria’s episodes!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, let's let's do this. Are you nervous? Are you nervous to be interviewed?
0:05.0	I'm being a guest on my own show. This feels so weird, but I'm so excited to
0:10.4	really like let everyone listening in who's you know we have
0:14.0	listeners who have been with me from day one in 2017 you know I was recording on
0:19.9	garage band the first 10 episodes sound like I'm in like a tin can. The audio, I can almost not
0:25.8	listen to those episodes because the audio is so bad. But you know we have some people who have
0:30.1	really been with me along the journey so I pass it off to you.
0:34.0	Blue mangrove radio.
0:38.0	All right, Plant Friends, Welcome back to the podcast. Happy end of 2022. I hope you've had beautifully
0:47.8	planty weeks. I hope your holidays have been great. I'm like nervous, weirdly emotional as I as I record this intro for you we're
0:56.1	closing out the end of year with a very unique episode as you've heard in the
1:01.5	intro I am passing the mic to my friend and business coach
1:04.9	Cali England to interview me about the last few years of turning Bloom and grow into a
1:11.1	business. Some mental health struggles I've been growing through,
1:14.9	using plants to grow through them and a lot of just behind the scenes of what the
1:19.2	heck's been going on in the last two years, the ups and downs and making sense of a lot of stuff
1:24.7	that you've heard on the podcast. There's no plan care education in this
1:29.1	episode. This episode is for you OG listeners or you newer listeners that have been along for the ride,
1:35.5	along for the journey with me as we have bloomed and grown over the last five years.
1:41.5	And maybe you're curious about what you know like I said
1:44.8	what's been going on you've probably noticed a lot of changes you've noticed
1:48.6	ads you've noticed expansion of the business in the two years that I've had to kind of become a full-time
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