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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Summer rain Oaks, host of Bad Seeds.

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Speaker 1: Our season just wrapped up, and if you want even

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Speaker 1: more plant content, I wanted to recommend another podcast that

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Speaker 1: I love. If you like plants and feeling good, you're

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Speaker 1: going to love the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, hosted

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Speaker 1: by my longtime plant friend Maria Faiella. Growing Joy with

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Speaker 1: Plants explores the plant person connection and teaches you how

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Speaker 1: to care for plants successfully and cultivate joy in your

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Speaker 1: life by doing so. Maria and I go way back.

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Speaker 1: I was actually one of her first guests on her

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Speaker 1: podcast five years ago when it used to be called

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Speaker 1: Bloom and Grow Radio.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know Maria, she is a plant killer

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Speaker 1: turned happy plant lady with a contagious passion for houseplants, gardening,

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Speaker 1: and nature. She also wrote the self help book Growing Joy,

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Speaker 1: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness Now. I love

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Speaker 1: that she asks questions for the least informed listener, and

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Speaker 1: she keeps it light, informative, and full of good vibes.

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Speaker 1: Growing Joy with Plants has episodes ranging from how to

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Speaker 1: stop killing succulents, to gardening how to tutorials, to understanding

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Speaker 1: the science of why plants make us happy. She even

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Speaker 1: has a mini series on how to grow mushrooms. No

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Speaker 1: matter what type of plant lover you are, there's an

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Speaker 1: episode for you. Click over to Growing Joy with Plants

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Speaker 1: and subscribe and take a listen to the short trailer

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Speaker 1: to get to know Maria better.

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Speaker 2: The answer to a happier and calmer life might be

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Speaker 2: simpler than you think house plants and gardening. Come learn

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Speaker 2: how plant care can be your best tool for self

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Speaker 2: care on the Growing Joy podcast, where we learn not

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Speaker 2: only to care for plants successfully, but how to simply

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Speaker 2: and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more calm

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Speaker 2: and joy in our lives. I'm Maria, your new best

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Speaker 2: plant friend, author of Growing Joy, the plant lover's Guide

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Speaker 2: to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, and epic

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Speaker 2: plant killer turned happy plant lady. I'm a self development

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Speaker 2: addict who realized that, after spending thousands on yoga retreats,

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Speaker 2: juice lenses, and self development, the most effective tool for

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Speaker 2: building a joyful relationship with myself and finding calm that

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Speaker 2: I thought was reserved for vacations on the beach was

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Speaker 2: in my simple and beautiful hobby of caring for houseplants

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Speaker 2: and growing tomatoes in my gardener. On the growing Joy podcast,

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Speaker 2: I host conversations about how to optimize your plant care

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Speaker 2: with topics like how to stop healing your succulents, how

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Speaker 2: to care for hoya, and how do grow lights really

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Speaker 2: even work. But in addition to that amazing plant care education,

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Speaker 2: on the growing Joy podcast, we take it to the

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Speaker 2: next level with conversations about wellness through the lens of

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Speaker 2: plants with topics like herbalism, nature therapy, forest bathing, and more.

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Speaker 2: No matter what type of plant parent you are or

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Speaker 2: what type of nature based therapy that you're into, I

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Speaker 2: bet we've got an episode for it. Come grossome joy

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Speaker 2: with us with weekly episodes. The plant care is self

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Speaker 2: care on crowing Joy the podcast