How Our Community Grows Joy #GrowingJoyBook
Channel: Growing Joy with Maria
Date: 2022-06-28

Plant friends, the most awaited day is here: it's Growing Joy's Pub Day! To celebrate Growing Joy hitting the bookstores and to give thanks to the wonderful community behind Bloom and Grow, I've asked community members to share with us how plants help them grow joy. This episode is a wonderful reminder of what plants can do for us: from helping us learn about the world around us, to rediscovering our inner child, to guiding our healing may it be a spiritual, mental, or emotional, to building a community of like-minded plant people, and many more. Enjoy!

[01:12] Pub Day is here!
[02:03] What Growing Joy is about
[03:06] The irony behind Growing Joy
[03:41] How a community made Growing Joy possible
[06:24] An excerpt from Growing Joy’s chapter ‘Practice Kindness’
[08:04] How plants help us connect with ourselves and with other people - Jane
[09:27] How plants bring calmness and remind us it’s okay to take things slow - Christy
[10:28] How plants remind us of the special bonds we have with people - Meredith
[11:02] A little fun fact about the humble beginnings of Bloom and Grow
[13:01] How plants bring us joy while traveling - Aaron
[14:01] How plants help us accept failure as part of our growth - Toni
[15:02] How plants encourage us to learn something new every day - Marc, Marie & Miles
[16:30] How plants help us grow joy by learning, sharing and giving - Samantha
[19:17] Cultivating your curiosity with plants, beyond Growing Joy
[20:07] How plants help us heal physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and more - Nancy, Pamela & Willow
[26:06] How growing flowers helps grow joy - Michael
[26:42] How growing your own food brings joy - Jodi
[27:49] How taking care of lithops grow joy - Jamie
[29:03] How plants give us a sense of purpose - Tina
[30:35] How plants reignite our passion and help us pursue careers that we love - Roos, Chloe, Ami, Rachael, Renee & Bailey
[36:58] How plants build a community that grows joy - Nicki & Steven
[38:48] Maria shares tips on building a community and enjoying activities together
[40:01] How plants help us reconnect with ourselves - Marcia, Karen, Otis, Darlene, Amy, Kamili & Connor
[47:02] Maria’s goal behind writing Growing Joy
[47:40] The introduction of Growing Joy: A Plant Lover’s Guide to Cultivating Happiness (And Plants)
[51:29] Words of gratitude from Maria and where to get your copy of Growing Joy

Featured plant friends:
Jane Ouding - @flowerland_jane 
Christy Leitch - @teaandfronds 
Meredith Fages Proskin
Aaron Albano - @aaronjalbano 
Toni Leitgab - @tonilaviece22 
Marc Crick - @arcanebotany 
Marie Scwab - @schwaberry 
Miles
Samantha Leung - @hemleva 
Nancy Nowick-Kauk - @plantyogamama 
Pam Garnett - @its_pam_ela
Willow Star Wright - @hanginwithplants 
Michael Beck - @coloradobeck 
Jodi Bunting - @simpletraditionsfarm 
Jamie Johnson - @minnesotamesembs
Tina Gustafson - @elevatedgardeningaz 
Roos Kocken - @plantwithroos 
Chloe Tsudama
Ami Polite - @politegardens
Rachael Cohen - @infinitesucculent
Renee Molina - @kreativegardens 
Colah B Tawkin - @blackinthegarden
Bailey Bunting - @botanicalbails 
Nicki - @plantpotsnwhatnots 
Steven Thyken - @hausplantdaddy 
Marcia Castro-Rosenberg - @rootingforyoulv 
Karen Pinkoski - @karenpinkoski 
Otis Schroeder - @otisfittraining 
Darlene Zavala - @darlinggreenthings  
Amy Lefavour - @amikinskywalker42 
Kamili Bell Hill - @plantblerd   
Connor Raehsler - @craehsler 

Order Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants): https://read.macmillan.com/lp/growing-joy/

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