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Hey, this is Summer rain Oaks, host of

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Bad Seeds. Our season just

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wrapped up, and if you want even more plant

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content, I wanted to recommend another

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podcast that I love. If

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you like plants and feeling good, you're

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going to love the Growing Joy with Plants

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podcast, hosted by my longtime

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plant friend Maria Faiella. Growing

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Joy with Plants explores the plant

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person connection and teaches you

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how to care for plants successfully

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and cultivate joy in your life by

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doing so. Maria and I

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go way back. I was actually one of her

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first guests on her podcast five years

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ago when it used to be called Bloom

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and Grow Radio.

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Now.

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If you don't know Maria, she is a plant killer

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turned happy plant lady with a contagious

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passion for houseplants, gardening, and nature.

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She also wrote the self help book Growing

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Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating

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Happiness Now. I love that she asks

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questions for the least informed listener,

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and she keeps it light, informative,

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and full of good vibes. Growing

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Joy with Plants has episodes ranging from how

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to stop killing succulents, to gardening

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how to tutorials, to understanding

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the science of why plants make us

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happy. She even has a mini series

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on how to grow mushrooms. No matter

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what type of plant lover you are, there's

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an episode for you. Click

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over to Growing Joy with Plants and subscribe

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and take a listen to the short trailer to get

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to know Maria better.

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The answer to a happier and calmer life

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might be simpler than you think house

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plants and gardening. Come

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learn how plant care can be your best tool

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for self care on the Growing Joy podcast,

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where we learn not only to care for plants

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successfully, but how to simply

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and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate

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more calm and joy in our lives. I'm

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Maria, your new best plant friend, author

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of Growing Joy, the plant lover's Guide to Cultivating

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Happiness, speaker, podcaster,

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and most importantly, and epic plant

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killer turned happy plant lady. I'm

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a self development addict who realized that, after

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spending thousands on yoga retreats, juice

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lenses, and self development, the most

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effective tool for building a joyful relationship

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with myself and finding calm that I thought

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was reserved for vacations on the beach was

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in my simple and beautiful hobby of caring

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for houseplants and growing tomatoes in my

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gardener. On the growing Joy podcast,

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I host conversations about how to optimize

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your plant care with topics like how to stop

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healing your succulents, how to care for hoya,

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and how do grow lights really even work. But

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in addition to that amazing plant care

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education, on the growing Joy podcast, we

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take it to the next level with conversations

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about wellness through the lens of plants with

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topics like herbalism, nature therapy,

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forest bathing, and more. No matter what type

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of plant parent you are or what type

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of nature based therapy that you're into, I

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bet we've got an episode for it. Come

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grossome joy with us with weekly episodes.

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The plant care is self care on

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crowing Joy the podcast