1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay Up Daily with 2 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording not So Live from 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: our studios Podstream Studios in Times Square, Folks. I am 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: so excited to bring you an incredible conversation that I 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: had with the one and only Lucresha Braxton, who is 6 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: the brilliant mind behind Soul Sister Plants. She is a 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: digital strategist, a photographer, and somebody that is working to 8 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: build community in the digital space and in real life 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: through her account Soul Sister Plants. And what's extraordinary is 10 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: that in this conversation, Lacresha and I talk about the 11 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: way in which black creatives have been raw of their content, 12 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: how the TikTok strike of Black creatives symbolizes the fact 13 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: that we are tired, folks, are tired of giving their work, 14 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: giving their content, only to have culture vultures come and 15 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: take credit for it. And so we talk about what 16 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: it means to you both create community while protecting your work. 17 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: We talk about what it means to learn and grow 18 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: through the act of caring for plants, what it means 19 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: to build community right and break down the walls and 20 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: the barriers that capitalism creates in order for people to 21 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: connect with nature. Right, and so this conversation was one 22 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: of my faves of the week. I hope that you 23 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: enjoy it. Leave me some comments in the comment section. 24 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: They're greatly appreciate it, all right, folks, I am so 25 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: excited to welcome to wok a f daily for the 26 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: very first time, hopefully not the last time. Lucresha Braxton, 27 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: who is building a world she wants to live in. 28 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: An award winning photographer, digital marketing and content strategists, and 29 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: the creative and brilliant behind Soul System Plants on Instagram, 30 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: which is a community of over twenty thousand plant love 31 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: and folks like myself. I am included in that community. Lucresha, 32 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: I just want to start off with talking about again, 33 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: you know, community and there would desire to build community 34 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: around the work and the talents that you have what 35 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: created that for you. You are a photographer, you're in 36 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: digital content and we know I mean just recently there 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: were a whole bunch of black creatives that went on 38 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: strike on TikTok for the for the fact that their 39 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: content is being stolen and not recognized, and you know, 40 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: the digital space started out as being called a democratic 41 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: space right where everybody was going to have a platform 42 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: and a voice, but then it didn't evolve that way, 43 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: kind of like society. So I'm wondering about your initial 44 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: journey into your work, what you and what you saw 45 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: that made you say, you know what, I need to 46 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: build community as well. Oh yeah, So I started solsis 47 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: to Plants as a experiment. I was working a job 48 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: where they were telling me because the industry that I 49 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: was in, well, you don't understand this particular industry, and 50 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: because I'm going to protect the guilty, I won't say 51 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: what the industry is. I was like, what you know? 52 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, let me just show them 53 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: how you build community digitally, because they were so busy 54 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: with what We've got this great product and people should 55 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: just want because we've got a great product, and I'm like, 56 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: that's not how people deal with things online. So I 57 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: started solsis to plants. Just pick something that I enjoy, 58 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: which was plans, and said, well, let me show them. Well, 59 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: here's how you can experiment with different things. You can 60 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: do with posts. Well, if you do video, let's see 61 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: how people engage with it. If we do just an image, 62 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: Let's see what they do. How about an image and 63 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: a video? And because I've been in digital for so long, 64 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: I understand what happens when people lose engagement. Oh, it's 65 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: probably changed. Okay, Well what happens if I ignore the 66 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: algorithm and just do my own thing? And so I'm 67 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: just building this thing showing them Well, look, here's what 68 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: happened with this post, here's what happened with this one. 69 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Wasn't really paying the account a whole lot of attention. 70 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, I noticed, Oh, it's like 71 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: five hundred people following the account and there's like four 72 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: posts up. Didn't pay attention to it again for a 73 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: few more months. Where did fifteen hundred people come from? Well? 74 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: What would happen if I started paying the account attention 75 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: and engaging with people not just going and liking their posts, 76 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: but actually leaving and getting meaningful comments around what they 77 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: were doing. And then, as the pandemic descended on us 78 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: and everybody was locked down, people were really engaged on 79 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: social media. They needed to interact with somebody. Well, what 80 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: better way to do that than to go to live? 81 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: So I went live and created a show called Hella plants, 82 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: I have a ridiculous introduction, and out of respect for 83 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: your ears, I will not do the introduction. But I 84 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: created hell of Plants, and I talk with people who 85 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: have Hella plants about hell of Plants and anything that 86 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: comes up. It's an unscripted conversation, so we no one 87 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: ever knows what we're going to talk about. And I 88 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: am just one hundred and fifty nine thousand percent foolish. 89 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: I also wanted to create a space, a safe space 90 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: for black women. So when I started really paying the 91 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: account attention, I made sure and I primarily follow black women. 92 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: What I also primarily follow black women or people in 93 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: the LGBTQIA plus community. And I wanted to give voice 94 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: to people who felt like they were marginalized not listened to. 95 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: And then I started really learning about what was going 96 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: on in the plant industry, how people were taking advantage 97 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: of black creator's content, and all of a sudden, You're 98 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 1: seeing this video and I'm like, well, she did that video, 99 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: she just did and so, and then also noticing people 100 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: purchasing these rare you can't see me air quoting rare 101 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: plants and selling them to people who just had their 102 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: fifty sixty dollars, and they really saw him. Wanted that 103 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: plant and a tie constellation, which is a monstera that 104 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: looks like it's got something wrong with it, with white 105 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: and green leaves. It's a beautiful I've seen that slant. 106 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: It is stunning, stunning, but I refused to pay three 107 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: to five hundred dollars. Now I'm going to refuse. And 108 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: so you have people selling what is called a wet stick. 109 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: It's basically a cutting from a branch with a node 110 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: on it, which is this round bump, and selling that 111 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: to people for two three hundred dollars in hopes, in 112 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: hopes that you may get a plant from it, no guarantee, 113 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: and I'm like, why are y'all buying that? I went 114 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: on a whole rant for about an hour and called 115 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: people out. I said, stop this, it's a plant number one, 116 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: number two. Why are you allowing people to rip you off? 117 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: There's no guarantee, I says, plants, so it's a possibility 118 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: you could die if you get past. You don't know 119 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: who you're gonna get it from, and you're wasting all 120 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: of this money. But then I was calling out all 121 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: the people in these exclusive groups, which were primarily white, 122 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: where they were selling rare plants back and forth to 123 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: each other, showing them off and oh, you wish you 124 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: had this, And then we had cost of Farm come 125 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: out with a whole bunch of tie constellations selling them 126 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: for seventy eighty dollars at certain big box stores and 127 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: changing the game. They can be completely change in the 128 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: game with these rare plants that are out there. But 129 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that community was built around 130 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: people who felt like they weren't listening to So I 131 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: would go and just talk to anyone that strikes my 132 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: interests and invite them to come on Hell Plants, and 133 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: we would just act straight food talking about plants. We've 134 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: dragged all the astrological signs around plants, We've talked about 135 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: some of any all and everything. But I felt it 136 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: was really necessary to have community built around everyone should 137 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: own a plant if they want to. Why do you 138 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: think that there was sucked? I mean because it sounds 139 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: to me like this upscale, black market type of exclusivity 140 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: around something that isn't supposed to be about that right, 141 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: Like there is not supposed to be some type of 142 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: velvet rope weight list in order to start to love nature, 143 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: connect with plants, connects growing, and just you know, why 144 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: do you think that that? I mean, it happens in 145 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: every industry, right, but why do you think that you 146 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: started to see that within the plant community as you 147 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: were building your own community? Like, what do you think 148 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: started that? Is it? Just like I want to be seen? 149 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: So it's it's driven by social media, It's driven by 150 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: the clicks. Capitalism. It all goes back to capitalism. If 151 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: somebody can make some money and they can find a sucker, 152 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: they'll do it. And if you allow yourself to be 153 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: sucked in because you want to jump on what's trendy, 154 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 1: then you'll get sucked in. You've got people who have 155 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: dropped hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars on plants. It's 156 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: because they don't really know how to care of it. 157 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: You're buying plants that are tropical, and I tell most 158 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: people that most plants came from some brainforests, some tropical location. 159 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: And you bring it into your conditioned air home and 160 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: you set it up. You're taking pictures for the Graham. 161 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 1: You can get it because everybody wants to be liked. 162 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: And you've now seen two, three, four hundred dollars die, 163 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: You're not going to ever recoup that money. And this 164 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: gate keeping is what I call it in the plant community. 165 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: It's just gatekeeping of who's allowed to be cool. Well, 166 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: well we're the cool ones because well only we own 167 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: this particular planner. I'm the cool ones. So I started 168 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: hosting plant swaps locally and I felt, and I still feel, 169 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: I have a plant period. I have some what's considered 170 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: rare plants. I'm just sitting there and watching those plants 171 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: grow and at some point I will Someone sent me 172 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: she was so kind to do this. I have been asked, 173 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: oh what plant would you want to? Oh, pink princess philodendron, 174 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: which is a plant that has green, beautiful, stunning plants, 175 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: stunning plant and it's A woman sent me a DM 176 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: and said, I will to send you a clipping. How 177 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: much do you want for it? She said, no, I 178 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: just want to send you the clipping, and she sends 179 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: me this node on it and the leaf was still 180 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: on it. But I could tell the leaf had been 181 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: stressed in travel because it came in the water. And 182 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: that leaf I put it in some I let it 183 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: propagating some water. Then I put it in some dirty 184 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: It did nothing for six and a half months, nothing, nothing, 185 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: didn't I just didn't do anything. And then one day 186 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: I see this leaf pop up, a little bit of 187 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: pink on it and a little bit of green. I 188 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: was completely underwhelmed. Now it's got about five leaves on it, 189 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: but it's it's slow growing. It I look at so 190 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: slow growing. I will just say, I have one in 191 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 1: my bedroom window that I bought, like, I don't know, 192 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: maybe eight months ago, and I had, you know, I 193 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: have like a range of you know, of plants, and 194 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: this one. I was just like, oh, it's pink pink lady, 195 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: this is what I call her. Yes, And I was 196 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: just like, why are your sisters growing at a faster 197 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: rate than What the hell is wrong with you? And 198 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, do you do we need to talk, like 199 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: are we troubled? Are we going through like our adolescence? 200 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: What is happening? Yes? Yes, And just recently just started 201 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: poking out like two two nodes that are like growing, 202 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: that are growing out, but they grow out, I swear 203 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: to God, like half a half a millimeter a week. 204 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: See just doing nothing. So I'll sit there and I mean, 205 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: just shocking me because I have to straightforward. When I 206 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: see a new leaf on a plant, I'm like, girl, 207 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: is that I do you? Oh? I see you? Oh 208 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: we showing out? Now? Are we showing? Look at it? 209 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: Did you tell your sisters? Look at me? Look at 210 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: look at me? About to pop this leaf out? That 211 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: three months? But I'm gonna be fine when I pop out. 212 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: I can't stand that damn plant, just just sitting there 213 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: with her five little leaves and then she just popped 214 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: out a new one, and I'm sitting there just just searching, Like, so, 215 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: how much pink are you going on? You? I said 216 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: him deeply on ndwhelmed. I'm deeply underwhelmed. But I was 217 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: never gonna pay three hundred dollars for you. But there 218 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: are people paying for a full size, paying three to 219 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: five dollars for this plant. In fact, somebody tried to 220 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: sell me one and I was like, oh, how much 221 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: is the plant? Oh? Three hundred dollars. It's like, bitch, 222 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: you can keep that. No, are you out of your mind? 223 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: Are you out of your mind? And so I tell people, no, 224 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: make you some connections. This is what community is all about. 225 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: To take a clipping off of a plant and give 226 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: it to somebody. Give it to somebody. In fact, I 227 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: tell people all the time, why don't you give it? 228 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: Today is a great day for you to give a 229 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 1: black woman a plant. Buy a black woman a plant, 230 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: show her some appreciation since we're out here saving the 231 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: world from themselves. Buy a plant. And at the same 232 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,239 Speaker 1: time I tell people also forth an effort to include 233 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: people in things instead of it being this whole exclusive thing, 234 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: which is why I host these plant swaps. Plants will 235 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: pop up that I have never seen before at a 236 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: plant swap with somebody like, oh, I've got like six 237 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: of these at my house. I have three hundred plants. 238 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: I just collect stuff. I'm purging my collection and they 239 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: bring fifty plants to a plant swap. And what I've 240 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: found and what's so interesting, because I've had enough of 241 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: them now I had easily about ten of them over 242 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: the past year and a half, is the black people 243 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: will ask, oh, it's free, yeah, just take it. Why 244 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: do I have a plant to give? I said, you 245 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: don't have to. It's not just come and share a plant. 246 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: Take a plant. It's just take a plant. Otherwise they 247 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: come home with me, take a plant. And it's just 248 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: seen people who don't have the means black and white, 249 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: brown doesn't make a difference. It's just saying, oh, I 250 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: would have never thought I would have been able to 251 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: get a piece of this. Oh, this is great. And 252 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: then also for them building community off of that, realizing 253 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: that some of these some piece people don't even know 254 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: who your neighbors are. But if I put a plant 255 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: swap together, here come people. Oh you live down the street. 256 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: Didn't even know that, And people are making friends at 257 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: a plant swap. So I realized that plants could bring 258 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: people together. It could also just help to foster quality 259 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: community that it makes people feel connected and if you 260 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: feel like you're introverted, you can still talk about a plant. 261 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: That is it for today's Woke app Daily Podcast. To 262 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: hear more from today's show, support me on Patreon at 263 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: patreon dot com Slash Woke AF Power to the people 264 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 265 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.