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And someone just randomly walked up my, you know, driveway once.
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They're like, hey, I was at Lowe's looking at a plant.
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And this person there was like, no, no, no.
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Like, here, go check out this like girl.
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And she literally just handed my address over.
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And next you know, she was like up in the driveway.
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Hi, everyone, and welcome to Highlight Her.
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Today's feature guest is Rosy Angel of Jardine Encantado in Southgate, Michigan.
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It's in the United States.
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I'm excited to learn more about her journey and how she found the bravery to launch her business and eventually expand to a mobile boutique.
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Let's get started and add her to the Highlight Her Circle of Season 3.
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Hi, Rosy.
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Hi, Jenny.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I'm really excited that you were able to join us today.
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Thank you so much.
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Before we dive into what brought you to where you are today, I do have a couple unique questions.
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First, what do you think is your superpower as an entrepreneur?
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I think my superpower is the ability to multitask between not just my business but my family, as well as my other job and just my overall uh social life.
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I like that.
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That's very important.
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And I like that you're getting more than just your job in there, that you are taking time for other things.
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That's really important.
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Another question I like to ask guests before we get into their story is have you recently had a moment where you thought this is why I do this?
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Um yes.
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So every year, right around Christmas time, I actually put together a toy drive for the students that are in my classroom for that year.
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Um, I've been able to kind of grow that program and turn it into also like a SAC drive and just fund different activities for the different students that I teach.
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Um, so I think that's one of like one of the things that I look forward to every year is the ability to give back to my community and give back to certain individuals or shelters or nonprofits through my business.
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Wow, that's fantastic.
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So you teach as well as run your business?
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Yes.
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So I recently actually left the classroom this year, but prior to that, I was um teaching kindergarten and I had been in school districts um in Detroit uh for about 10 years.
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Wow, that's amazing that you were able to teach.
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That's a big job that takes a lot of time during the day, but also outside of school and you were able to start a business.
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That's amazing.
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How did you do that?
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Um, so when it comes to the business, I actually launched it during COVID.
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And during that time, I feel like no, we all had a lot of uh free time per se.
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So it gave me the the opportunity to really um dive into this.
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And again, with us being, you know, at home and working from home, there was some flexibility with that.
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So it really gave me an opportunity to just kind of set the path for both of those things and not feel um, let's say, like overwhelmed or if I was falling short on one or the other.
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Okay.
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So while we're talking about that, why don't we go back to the beginning?
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What made you think, I want to start a plant business?
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So I've been around plants like my whole entire life.
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Um, my family, they're actually from a small town town in the state of Jalisco, and they actually cultivate agave, which agave is a plant that is used to make tequila.
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Um, and then aside from that, just a variety of different like crops.
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Um, like I said, we come from an agricultural family.
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So that's something that I grew up with my whole entire life.
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Like I mentioned before, it was during COVID time.
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I was on a succulent kick.
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I was obsessed with succulents.
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Succulents were honestly the one thing that I started just really connecting with and collecting.
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And right during that time, I decided that I was going to remodel my room.
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I'm not sure if this happened to you, but I feel like a lot of people were doing a lot of DIY projects around their house.
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So I decided that I was gonna make a couple arrangements, put them in my room, and you know, kind of see where that went.
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So I made some arrangements and I just posted them online just for the fun of it.
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And I ended up having a lot of people reach out, like, hey, you know, would you make me one?
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Like that's really pretty, this and that.
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And I'm gonna be completely honest with you, I didn't really think about like launching a business per se, but I had so many people reach out and ask, you know, if I could put something together with them.
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So I really sat down and I was just kind of going back and forth on whether or not, you know, that was a good idea.
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I'm like, I'm not sure how many people would be into that.
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Yeah, next to you know, I've thought up of a logo, came up with a business name, and it's been history since.
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That's exciting.
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What how did you come up with Enchanted Garden?
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That's what your business name means in Spanish, right?
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Yes.
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So I was really going back and forth on the name.
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Um, I was actually raised with my grandmother, and she was a um very important figure in my life.
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Um, she did pass away about eight years ago, and that day that I was just kind of tossing and turning, and I couldn't really think of a name or anything.
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And next thing you know, um on my playlist, her favorite song came on, which was Enchanted Flower in Spanish.
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So then that just kind of I don't know, I feel like that was just a sign, and I'm like, you know what, that's gonna turn into Enchanted Garden in honor of her.
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I like that.
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Oh it's it's really fun to hear those stories when business names or concepts come in honor of someone special to us.
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And you know, another thing is that I was again very undecisive on whether or not I wanted to do this.
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And it just so happened that there was like an estate sale, like kind of around like the corner from us.
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And me and my brother, we would just went to kind of like look around.
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This guy that was doing the estate sale, unfortunately, his wife had passed, and he was trying to get rid of like a lot of the stuff that was there.
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So he was gonna unfortunately move into like a senior home.
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Um, next thing you know, he came up to me with like a big box, and that box had like planters and ribbons.
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I mean, all these things.
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And he's like, Hey, you know, my wife used to be a florist.
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Do you know of anyone that could potentially use these things and you know do something with it?
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He's like, I'd hate to throw it away.
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So I don't know.
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Again, I took that as a sign, and like I said, it everything just kind of aligned for me.
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So um, for the first couple months, that's what I was working with, just the different supplies that you know he had given me that belonged to his wife.
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Wow.
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So I know a very special story about your first plant sale day.
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Can you walk us through from choosing a name, getting those supplies, and how you decided what you would do with your plant business and your first days with your first plant sale?
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Yeah.
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So I again just didn't really know how to like go about anything.
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I feel like during that time there weren't too many like pop-ups, or that concept was still kind of like new.
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Um, so then my mom, which she still helps me a lot behind the scenes, um, we decided to throw like a yard sale, but specifically with plants.
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So we literally just kind of took over like my mom's driveway.
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We set up tables, um, we set up just like different furniture.
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And, you know, I started just doing a lot of like promoting through like marketplace, um, through my social media.
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It was really interesting because I started, I want to say it was that first time that I had one.
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There was literally a line like wrapped around like the block.
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And it was crazy.
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And it was funny because I would say, like, hey, you know, we're not open until 12, but mind you, I mean, it was just a driveway.
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Like, it's not like there was like a door or anything.
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But people would respect that.
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Like, they wouldn't like walk up or anything, and we'd have people like in a line just waiting to like shop, you know, our driveway.
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So then from there, um, I had the opportunity to connect in with like other local growers.
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And I want to say, one of the first couple times that um, you know, we had the specifically like succulent sale, um, we would have like over a thousand succulents to pick from.
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Um, and then from there it just started slowly like branching out into like cactus and you know, like houseplants.
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And now we carry um like leaf shine and soil mix and planters and just a variety of things now.
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But it did just originally start with um the succulents.
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I remember I think I found you when you were doing succulents and you had them in you were promoting these cute little animal planters.
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And so that was my first experience with you.
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And it's been fun to watch you grow from your beginning.
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Hey, you can pick this up at in Southgate at my place.
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To now you have something very special to offer your customers.
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Do you want to tell our audience how that started?
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Yes.
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So last year I actually launched um Southeast Michigan's first mobile plant shop on wheels.
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Um, so after I finally got my foot in the door and I started doing pop-ups, um, I started noticing a lot of these walk-in um like mobile boutiques.
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A lot of them offered like clothes.
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And my older brother, who also has a food truck, he was the one that kind of just put it in my ear.
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He's like, Have you ever thought about just doing something like this, but you know, relevant to plants?
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And I don't know, sometimes I feel like I kind of cut myself short at times, and I'll think like, Oh, yeah, that's a great idea, but I never really like act on it.
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So um, it took us about a year to find a trailer.
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Things just kind of kept, you know, falling through the cracks and it wasn't working out.
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And we finally purchased a trailer right around my birthday, and this was two years ago.
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And we purchased it and it just kind of sat on the property for about a year.
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And then after that, you know, I, you know what, I need to start doing something with it now.
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Um, between my dad, my brother, my husband, I mean, literally everyone around me.
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Um, we gutted the whole thing out and we built the whole entire thing like from scratch.
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Like I said, it's a mobile walk-in plant shop.
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And aside from the plants, I do carry a variety of other things that are actually stocked by other businesses.
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Um, so I have someone, for example, that she does a lot of like the 3D printed items, or I have people that have like jewelry in there, just a bunch of different again plant themed stuff.
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But they're all um, they all come from different small businesses, which is something that I love being able to have a lot of us under the same under the same room.
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Thank you.
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And they're all local.
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Yes, for the most part, they are all local.
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That's great.
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So, audience, if you're local and you ever get a chance to go see her trailer, it is beautiful.
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And when she sets up, she has plants on the inside and on the outside, and you get a chance to walk around in the boutique that has come to you.
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So if you ever get a chance to look, go follow her page and see where she's holding events.
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You also started something kind of like a plant movement downriver in southeast Michigan.
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How did you get brave enough to do that?
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So I actually love hosting different things, I love organizing things.
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I know that when me and you first talked about being on the podcast, I told you how nervous I was about just kind of talking.
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So I find that kind of ironic that I'm like, I don't like the talking part, but I was like, I do like to organize and I do like to bring people together, just like in a different way.
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So a couple years ago, again, I had done a plant-themed event, and there wasn't really events like that, like in the downriver area.
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So I first started off doing plant swaps.
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Started doing plant swaps at Noemi Studios, which is also in Southgate.
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And we had people driving like about two hours away to come to these plant swaps.
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So they were completely free to be a charge, and people would share cuttings with each other.
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You know, they were able to kind of connect with like fellow people, especially with some of the plants that are a bit more on like the rare side, they can get really expensive.
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So just giving people the opportunity to trade amongst them and just really, really build those connections was something that I was looking forward to.
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So at one of the last plant swamps that I had put together, someone had actually asked me, like, hey, have you ever thought about hosting the pop-up event, but for us to sell?
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And that kind of set me down a rabbit hole.
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I'm like, that would be something really cool to bring, you know, to the community.
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So we hosted the very first one last year that was at Allen Park.
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We took over a park and we had just about 40 vendors.
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So, um, yes, we had vendors that showed up from different parts of the state.
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Um, we had our local butterfly group, we had a beekeeper on site, and again, it was just something that I really wanted to just put together like for the community and just something different, and again, uh potentially build those like connections amongst people, and that it was so popular that it became an annual thing, right?
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Yes.
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So this year we actually relocated and we moved into Sheridan Center, which is inside of Heritage Park.
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I was definitely nervous about making the big move since that place was a lot bigger than the one that we had previously used, but it was just in a great location, and you know, they had ample parking and the bathroom, and everything was just so convenient about it.
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But we did end up moving that over.
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We had a little bit over 50 vendors, but this time we had vendors that actually joined us from Ohio, Indiana, um, and Michigan.
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So, you know, without even planning it, it turned more into like a Midwestern like plant show this summer that we hosted a couple weeks ago.
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We actually ended up having 900 attendees.
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So, and despite the rain, so we had a horrible we had a horrible storm that hit us that that day.
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But you know, I was really, really glad to see that people like really showed up.
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I had a lot of the vendors that sold out.
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I was very, very pleased with that.
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So a lot of my uh vendors that are participating with me, they asked if we could put together a fall show.
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I was really hesitant on that, but I caved in.
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So we are having another one September 20th, and that'll be our first fall edition.
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We'll kind of see how that works out.
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If not, we'll just you know continue with it just being an annual thing.
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Same location, yes, same location.
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Um, it's gonna be on a Sunday from 11 a.m.
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to 4 p.m.
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So, listeners, if you're in the southeast Michigan area, Indiana, Ohio, anywhere in Michigan, and you want to drive over to Taylor, this event is just next week.
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So make sure that you come look up Jardine and Cantado on Facebook and find more details.
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Is there usually a fee for the event?
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Nope, it's completely free of charge, and that's something that I hope to continue aside from like the vendors.
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We do have other activities on site as well as the plant swap, which is completely free to participate in also.
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Rosy, I'm so proud of you.
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Look at you, you started with your your yard and your driveway.
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We are thinking little plant sale, but people were lined up around the street corner.
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That tells you there was a demand, right?
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Yes, I'm gonna have to actually look for some of these pictures and send them to you.
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But I remember one time I was in the garage just kind of tending to the plants because to be honest, um, I had taken over my parents' garage and I kind of had like my racks of plants in there.
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And someone just randomly walked up my you know driveway once.
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They're like, hey, I was at Lowe's looking at a plant.
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And this person there was like, no, no, no, like here, go check out this like girl.
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And she literally just handed my address over, and next you know, she was like in my driveway.
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So I thought that was, you know, just something that was kind of funny that I'm like, oh, okay, like here you go, help yourself, you know.
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So word of mouth has definitely been, you know, my biggest friend in in all of this.
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I love that.
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And I think even though you're a little nervous about public speaking, you are very good at connecting in person and making people feel comfortable and welcoming them, talking with them.
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And I think that that's another superpower of yours.
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And I think that's why your boutique has grown.
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One of the reasons.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate that.
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Have you run into any particular challenges where you thought you weren't maybe the boutique wasn't the right idea, or you weren't sure if you could continue this format, or maybe Jardine and Cantato needed to wait a little bit.
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Did you run into any of those kind of challenges?
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So, yes, I'm actually currently kind of um dealing with that as we speak.
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You know, the whole concept of being mobile, again, I feel like it's just an experience um for people more than anything, you know, comparing that to like my 10 by 10 like booths under my tent.
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But then you do run into when it comes to signing up for different events, that they may charge more given your setup.
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So then sometimes I'm really torn, you know, because I'm like, well, I put so much time and effort into being completely mobile, but then you look into other other all these other events, and now like you have to pay like twice as much.
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And if I'm being honest with you, sometimes I mean I fit the same amount of product within like my 10 by 10 booths versus the trailer, you know.
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So that has just been one of the downsides of what to do in that case, and then sometimes um, you know, it's not so much that my trailer is like very big, but as soon as I put the like the door down for people to walk in, that's what eats up most of my space.
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So again, given that like extra space that I need, sometimes, you know, the fee does go up $150, $200, depending on you know where I'm looking to set up with.
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So that has just definitely been something that I've had to kind of like navigate with, but honestly, it's been great, like having it, because aside from using it as like the mobile uh plant shop, you know, I'm able to transport things with it and it makes everything very convenient.
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So, regardless, if I'm not able to actually use that as a setup, it's definitely came in handy in other ways.
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Nice.
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Now I know you have a daughter.
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Does she enjoy helping you with your plant shop?
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I think so.
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She gets really excited.
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If you ever look at my plants and they have the prices on backwards, that's more than likely her.
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Um, I do let her be as hands-on as possible with everything.
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Um, when we were planting, uh sorry, painting the trailer, she actually helped me paint the cabinets too.
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And there's again just the a lot of different things in there that aren't perfect, but I left them as is because again, she did help with with a lot of it.
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And I don't know, I feel like it's really important to, you know, instill those values in her too.
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Um, so she knows, you know, when I'm outside, she's like, Oh, is it tend to work with the plants?
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I'm like, it is, and then she'll go and run and grab like her little bucket and you know, try to help as much as she can.
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And she's only three, but she understands, you know.
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So not too long ago, we had gone uh out of state for a show.
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And I mean, it was a pretty long weekend, and she was working with us that whole weekend.
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And she right away said, I know what I'm gonna do with the money that you're gonna give me.
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Because I do try to give her a little something, you know, try to get her in the habit of like, okay, well, we're working and you're gonna get something.
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And I was like, What do you want?
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She's like, I want a pinana for my birthday.
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So that's what she's been saying, saving up for, you know.
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So I told her, I was like, okay, like you save up for it, and yeah, she'll anytime she gets a dollar or something, she puts it in her piggy bank.
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So I love being able to have that opportunity to just kind of instill that in her and you know, have her know at a young age, like you know, that we need to work hard for things and you know, saving money is key too.
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Yes, and I love that at such a young age, she knows what she's going to do with that money.
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That's so cool.
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So her piano, did you say she wants to get a piano?
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Oh, a pinata.
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Oh for her birthday?
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Okay, yes, got it.
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When is her birthday?
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August 13th.
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Oh so it's coming up.
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So you got little Miss Entrepreneur there.
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I wonder that will be interesting to see how that unfolds as she gets older.
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See if she wants to start her own business of any kind.
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Yep.
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My um family, we actually come from you know, different businessmen.
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My dad used to own a restaurant, and he always hoped that I would just kind of continue in his footsteps and you know, open up a restaurant, you know, with myself.
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But I'm like, this isn't something that I really want to do.
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And now that I've, you know, still in in, you know, have my own business but in a different route, he just kind of finds that interesting.
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You know, he's like, Oh, well, you're still an entrepreneur, just not what I had expected, or you know, wanted, quote unquote.
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But it is your family still in Mexico?
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Um, not right now, so they kind of go back and forth.
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Okay.
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Is there anything exciting coming down the road for you?
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Something you're looking forward to for with your business?
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So the month of July is usually my busiest month of the whole year.
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So this month I will be back at the Windot Street Fair, which I love being there.
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And then I also have Book Fest that is the Detroit Festival of Books that takes place in Eastern Market.
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So those are probably my two biggest things that I'm looking forward to right now.
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And like I said, just kind of finishing off the rest of the the year.
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I do have a couple more months before I, you know, kind of pause for the winter time.
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I was wondering if you take a break over the winter.
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So I actually, this is something new that I'm doing this year.
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Um, I'm actually taking the month of August off.
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Um, we will be having family coming in from Mexico.
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So I'll be taking that time off.
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And again, just being able to celebrate my daughter's birthday too, kind of going back to what we had previously, you know, mentioned about trying to really allow myself to enjoy other things aside from from my business.
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And that's something that, you know, I'm I definitely want to implement this year, giving allowing myself to have a break.
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Sometimes it does get a bit like exhausting just doing things like weekly.
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So I'll be taking off August, and then after that, I will resume.
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I'm pretty busy during the fall with the different Halloween events, and then after that, I usually have an event like in about November, usually off uh December and then January.
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All right.
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Well, it's time for our lightning round.
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Are you ready?
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Coffee or tea?
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Tea.
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Early bird or night owl?
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Probably night owl.
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Is there one tool or app that helps you run your business?
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I definitely swear by Canva.
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Is there a favorite way you have to unwind after a busy day?
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If there's something good to watch on Netflix, I'll just pop a bag of popcorn and get in my pajamas and watch some Netflix.
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And do you have a female entrepreneur?
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That you'd like to highlight, yes.
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I would like to highlight my friend Sandra from Noemi Studios.
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She's located in Southgate, and that's usually where um I host all of my different workshops and then just do different pop-ups.
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And she houses a variety of um different female artists and entrepreneurs.
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So shout out to her.
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Nice.
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So, Rosy, if someone else wanted to start their own business, what is one piece of advice that you would give them?
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I would definitely say patience is key.
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Um, I know there is lots of times where I'm like, well, I'm not sure, you know, where exactly I'm headed with it, but keep being persistent with it, participate in just different community events, different pop-ups.
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I think that's the best way um to really get your name out there and your product out there and just having a chance to just connect with different people that way.
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Have you done a lot of events with other businesses, kind of like community events that get multiple businesses seen?
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Yes.
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Um, so going back to when I had uh mentioned um Sandra, um, she hosts different events all the time and she highlights different businesses.
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So I've been able to like work with her, and then alongside, she usually has like six to ten other um businesses on site.
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But again, those there's people that sometimes will host things like right around back to school events, and then they'll do like fundraising and things like that.
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So that's something that I really look forward to being able to participate in events like that.
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And then like just kind of brings the community together and just gives you an opportunity to network as well.
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Yes, I think that networking is big.
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I've run into you at Brooks Book and um LaVie en Rose Boutique as well.
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And I think that's one thing I've noticed about you is that you do network with a lot of different business owners.
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Yes.
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Um, those are actually the two main places that I've uh popped up um when it comes to wine at.
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I actually I want to say that I've been with Brooks Books for about three years now.
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Um invited me for her first anniversary, and then from there, like I said, I'd I pop up at least like twice, like twice a year.
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And she puts on like these great events.
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And thank you again for mentioning Love Yen.
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I've also think I've been there twice um recently.
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That was my second time there, but I love being able to do that, and I think it's like important also to just kind of help each other out, you know, whenever possible.
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I know that right now things are kind of tough with like small businesses, especially people that are in at like brick and mortar.
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So, you know, any opportunity that you have to bring maybe new people in, and and again, it just helps both of us.
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You know, you I might be able to bring people in that have never been into that boutique or that bookstore or vice versa.
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But it's just a great way to just really connect with others.
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I like that.
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Looking out for each other as small business owners.
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Yes.
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Well, audience, remember you can follow Rosy and Jardine Encantado on Facebook and Instagram.
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I'll be sure to put those in the show notes.
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Rosy, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Thank you, Jenny, for having me.
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I really appreciate your time and conversation.
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Audience, thank you for listening today.
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If you'd like to know what we discuss after the episode ends, head on over to my After the Highlight collection on Patreon.
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And someone just randomly walked up my, you know, driveway once.
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They're like, hey, I was at Lowe's looking at a plant.
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And this person there was like, no, no, no.
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Like, here, go check out this like girl.
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And she literally just handed my address over.
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And next you know, she was like up in the driveway.
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Hi, everyone, and welcome to Highlight Her.
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Today's feature guest is Rosy Angel of Jardine Encantado in Southgate, Michigan.
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It's in the United States.
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I'm excited to learn more about her journey and how she found the bravery to launch her business and eventually expand to a mobile boutique.
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Let's get started and add her to the Highlight Her Circle of Season 3.
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Hi, Rosy.
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Hi, Jenny.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I'm really excited that you were able to join us today.
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Thank you so much.
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Before we dive into what brought you to where you are today, I do have a couple unique questions.
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First, what do you think is your superpower as an entrepreneur?
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I think my superpower is the ability to multitask between not just my business but my family, as well as my other job and just my overall uh social life.
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I like that.
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That's very important.
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And I like that you're getting more than just your job in there, that you are taking time for other things.
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That's really important.
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Another question I like to ask guests before we get into their story is have you recently had a moment where you thought this is why I do this?
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Um yes.
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So every year, right around Christmas time, I actually put together a toy drive for the students that are in my classroom for that year.
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Um, I've been able to kind of grow that program and turn it into also like a SAC drive and just fund different activities for the different students that I teach.
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Um, so I think that's one of like one of the things that I look forward to every year is the ability to give back to my community and give back to certain individuals or shelters or nonprofits through my business.
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Wow, that's fantastic.
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So you teach as well as run your business?
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Yes.
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So I recently actually left the classroom this year, but prior to that, I was um teaching kindergarten and I had been in school districts um in Detroit uh for about 10 years.
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Wow, that's amazing that you were able to teach.
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That's a big job that takes a lot of time during the day, but also outside of school and you were able to start a business.
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That's amazing.
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How did you do that?
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Um, so when it comes to the business, I actually launched it during COVID.
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And during that time, I feel like no, we all had a lot of uh free time per se.
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So it gave me the the opportunity to really um dive into this.
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And again, with us being, you know, at home and working from home, there was some flexibility with that.
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So it really gave me an opportunity to just kind of set the path for both of those things and not feel um, let's say, like overwhelmed or if I was falling short on one or the other.
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Okay.
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So while we're talking about that, why don't we go back to the beginning?
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What made you think, I want to start a plant business?
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So I've been around plants like my whole entire life.
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Um, my family, they're actually from a small town town in the state of Jalisco, and they actually cultivate agave, which agave is a plant that is used to make tequila.
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Um, and then aside from that, just a variety of different like crops.
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Um, like I said, we come from an agricultural family.
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So that's something that I grew up with my whole entire life.
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Like I mentioned before, it was during COVID time.
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I was on a succulent kick.
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I was obsessed with succulents.
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Succulents were honestly the one thing that I started just really connecting with and collecting.
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And right during that time, I decided that I was going to remodel my room.
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I'm not sure if this happened to you, but I feel like a lot of people were doing a lot of DIY projects around their house.
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So I decided that I was gonna make a couple arrangements, put them in my room, and you know, kind of see where that went.
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So I made some arrangements and I just posted them online just for the fun of it.
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And I ended up having a lot of people reach out, like, hey, you know, would you make me one?
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Like that's really pretty, this and that.
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And I'm gonna be completely honest with you, I didn't really think about like launching a business per se, but I had so many people reach out and ask, you know, if I could put something together with them.
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So I really sat down and I was just kind of going back and forth on whether or not, you know, that was a good idea.
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I'm like, I'm not sure how many people would be into that.
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Yeah, next to you know, I've thought up of a logo, came up with a business name, and it's been history since.
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That's exciting.
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What how did you come up with Enchanted Garden?
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That's what your business name means in Spanish, right?
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Yes.
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So I was really going back and forth on the name.
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Um, I was actually raised with my grandmother, and she was a um very important figure in my life.
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Um, she did pass away about eight years ago, and that day that I was just kind of tossing and turning, and I couldn't really think of a name or anything.
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And next thing you know, um on my playlist, her favorite song came on, which was Enchanted Flower in Spanish.
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So then that just kind of I don't know, I feel like that was just a sign, and I'm like, you know what, that's gonna turn into Enchanted Garden in honor of her.
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I like that.
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Oh it's it's really fun to hear those stories when business names or concepts come in honor of someone special to us.
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And you know, another thing is that I was again very undecisive on whether or not I wanted to do this.
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And it just so happened that there was like an estate sale, like kind of around like the corner from us.
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And me and my brother, we would just went to kind of like look around.
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This guy that was doing the estate sale, unfortunately, his wife had passed, and he was trying to get rid of like a lot of the stuff that was there.
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So he was gonna unfortunately move into like a senior home.
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Um, next thing you know, he came up to me with like a big box, and that box had like planters and ribbons.
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I mean, all these things.
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And he's like, Hey, you know, my wife used to be a florist.
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Do you know of anyone that could potentially use these things and you know do something with it?
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He's like, I'd hate to throw it away.
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So I don't know.
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Again, I took that as a sign, and like I said, it everything just kind of aligned for me.
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So um, for the first couple months, that's what I was working with, just the different supplies that you know he had given me that belonged to his wife.
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Wow.
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So I know a very special story about your first plant sale day.
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Can you walk us through from choosing a name, getting those supplies, and how you decided what you would do with your plant business and your first days with your first plant sale?
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Yeah.
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So I again just didn't really know how to like go about anything.
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I feel like during that time there weren't too many like pop-ups, or that concept was still kind of like new.
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Um, so then my mom, which she still helps me a lot behind the scenes, um, we decided to throw like a yard sale, but specifically with plants.
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So we literally just kind of took over like my mom's driveway.
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We set up tables, um, we set up just like different furniture.
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And, you know, I started just doing a lot of like promoting through like marketplace, um, through my social media.
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It was really interesting because I started, I want to say it was that first time that I had one.
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There was literally a line like wrapped around like the block.
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And it was crazy.
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And it was funny because I would say, like, hey, you know, we're not open until 12, but mind you, I mean, it was just a driveway.
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Like, it's not like there was like a door or anything.
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But people would respect that.
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Like, they wouldn't like walk up or anything, and we'd have people like in a line just waiting to like shop, you know, our driveway.
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So then from there, um, I had the opportunity to connect in with like other local growers.
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And I want to say, one of the first couple times that um, you know, we had the specifically like succulent sale, um, we would have like over a thousand succulents to pick from.
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Um, and then from there it just started slowly like branching out into like cactus and you know, like houseplants.
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And now we carry um like leaf shine and soil mix and planters and just a variety of things now.
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But it did just originally start with um the succulents.
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I remember I think I found you when you were doing succulents and you had them in you were promoting these cute little animal planters.
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And so that was my first experience with you.
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And it's been fun to watch you grow from your beginning.
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Hey, you can pick this up at in Southgate at my place.
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To now you have something very special to offer your customers.
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Do you want to tell our audience how that started?
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Yes.
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So last year I actually launched um Southeast Michigan's first mobile plant shop on wheels.
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Um, so after I finally got my foot in the door and I started doing pop-ups, um, I started noticing a lot of these walk-in um like mobile boutiques.
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A lot of them offered like clothes.
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And my older brother, who also has a food truck, he was the one that kind of just put it in my ear.
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He's like, Have you ever thought about just doing something like this, but you know, relevant to plants?
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And I don't know, sometimes I feel like I kind of cut myself short at times, and I'll think like, Oh, yeah, that's a great idea, but I never really like act on it.
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So um, it took us about a year to find a trailer.
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Things just kind of kept, you know, falling through the cracks and it wasn't working out.
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And we finally purchased a trailer right around my birthday, and this was two years ago.
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And we purchased it and it just kind of sat on the property for about a year.
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And then after that, you know, I, you know what, I need to start doing something with it now.
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Um, between my dad, my brother, my husband, I mean, literally everyone around me.
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Um, we gutted the whole thing out and we built the whole entire thing like from scratch.
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Like I said, it's a mobile walk-in plant shop.
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And aside from the plants, I do carry a variety of other things that are actually stocked by other businesses.
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Um, so I have someone, for example, that she does a lot of like the 3D printed items, or I have people that have like jewelry in there, just a bunch of different again plant themed stuff.
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But they're all um, they all come from different small businesses, which is something that I love being able to have a lot of us under the same under the same room.
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Thank you.
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And they're all local.
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Yes, for the most part, they are all local.
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That's great.
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So, audience, if you're local and you ever get a chance to go see her trailer, it is beautiful.
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And when she sets up, she has plants on the inside and on the outside, and you get a chance to walk around in the boutique that has come to you.
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So if you ever get a chance to look, go follow her page and see where she's holding events.
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You also started something kind of like a plant movement downriver in southeast Michigan.
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How did you get brave enough to do that?
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So I actually love hosting different things, I love organizing things.
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I know that when me and you first talked about being on the podcast, I told you how nervous I was about just kind of talking.
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So I find that kind of ironic that I'm like, I don't like the talking part, but I was like, I do like to organize and I do like to bring people together, just like in a different way.
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So a couple years ago, again, I had done a plant-themed event, and there wasn't really events like that, like in the downriver area.
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So I first started off doing plant swaps.
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Started doing plant swaps at Noemi Studios, which is also in Southgate.
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And we had people driving like about two hours away to come to these plant swaps.
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So they were completely free to be a charge, and people would share cuttings with each other.
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You know, they were able to kind of connect with like fellow people, especially with some of the plants that are a bit more on like the rare side, they can get really expensive.
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So just giving people the opportunity to trade amongst them and just really, really build those connections was something that I was looking forward to.
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So at one of the last plant swamps that I had put together, someone had actually asked me, like, hey, have you ever thought about hosting the pop-up event, but for us to sell?
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And that kind of set me down a rabbit hole.
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I'm like, that would be something really cool to bring, you know, to the community.
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So we hosted the very first one last year that was at Allen Park.
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We took over a park and we had just about 40 vendors.
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So, um, yes, we had vendors that showed up from different parts of the state.
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Um, we had our local butterfly group, we had a beekeeper on site, and again, it was just something that I really wanted to just put together like for the community and just something different, and again, uh potentially build those like connections amongst people, and that it was so popular that it became an annual thing, right?
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Yes.
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So this year we actually relocated and we moved into Sheridan Center, which is inside of Heritage Park.
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I was definitely nervous about making the big move since that place was a lot bigger than the one that we had previously used, but it was just in a great location, and you know, they had ample parking and the bathroom, and everything was just so convenient about it.
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But we did end up moving that over.
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We had a little bit over 50 vendors, but this time we had vendors that actually joined us from Ohio, Indiana, um, and Michigan.
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So, you know, without even planning it, it turned more into like a Midwestern like plant show this summer that we hosted a couple weeks ago.
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We actually ended up having 900 attendees.
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So, and despite the rain, so we had a horrible we had a horrible storm that hit us that that day.
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But you know, I was really, really glad to see that people like really showed up.
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I had a lot of the vendors that sold out.
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I was very, very pleased with that.
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So a lot of my uh vendors that are participating with me, they asked if we could put together a fall show.
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I was really hesitant on that, but I caved in.
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So we are having another one September 20th, and that'll be our first fall edition.
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We'll kind of see how that works out.
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If not, we'll just you know continue with it just being an annual thing.
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Same location, yes, same location.
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Um, it's gonna be on a Sunday from 11 a.m.
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to 4 p.m.
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So, listeners, if you're in the southeast Michigan area, Indiana, Ohio, anywhere in Michigan, and you want to drive over to Taylor, this event is just next week.
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So make sure that you come look up Jardine and Cantado on Facebook and find more details.
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Is there usually a fee for the event?
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Nope, it's completely free of charge, and that's something that I hope to continue aside from like the vendors.
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We do have other activities on site as well as the plant swap, which is completely free to participate in also.
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Rosy, I'm so proud of you.
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Look at you, you started with your your yard and your driveway.
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We are thinking little plant sale, but people were lined up around the street corner.
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That tells you there was a demand, right?
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Yes, I'm gonna have to actually look for some of these pictures and send them to you.
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But I remember one time I was in the garage just kind of tending to the plants because to be honest, um, I had taken over my parents' garage and I kind of had like my racks of plants in there.
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And someone just randomly walked up my you know driveway once.
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They're like, hey, I was at Lowe's looking at a plant.
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And this person there was like, no, no, no, like here, go check out this like girl.
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And she literally just handed my address over, and next you know, she was like in my driveway.
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So I thought that was, you know, just something that was kind of funny that I'm like, oh, okay, like here you go, help yourself, you know.
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So word of mouth has definitely been, you know, my biggest friend in in all of this.
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I love that.
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And I think even though you're a little nervous about public speaking, you are very good at connecting in person and making people feel comfortable and welcoming them, talking with them.
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And I think that that's another superpower of yours.
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And I think that's why your boutique has grown.
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One of the reasons.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate that.
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Have you run into any particular challenges where you thought you weren't maybe the boutique wasn't the right idea, or you weren't sure if you could continue this format, or maybe Jardine and Cantato needed to wait a little bit.
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Did you run into any of those kind of challenges?
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So, yes, I'm actually currently kind of um dealing with that as we speak.
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You know, the whole concept of being mobile, again, I feel like it's just an experience um for people more than anything, you know, comparing that to like my 10 by 10 like booths under my tent.
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But then you do run into when it comes to signing up for different events, that they may charge more given your setup.
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So then sometimes I'm really torn, you know, because I'm like, well, I put so much time and effort into being completely mobile, but then you look into other other all these other events, and now like you have to pay like twice as much.
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And if I'm being honest with you, sometimes I mean I fit the same amount of product within like my 10 by 10 booths versus the trailer, you know.
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So that has just been one of the downsides of what to do in that case, and then sometimes um, you know, it's not so much that my trailer is like very big, but as soon as I put the like the door down for people to walk in, that's what eats up most of my space.
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So again, given that like extra space that I need, sometimes, you know, the fee does go up $150, $200, depending on you know where I'm looking to set up with.
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So that has just definitely been something that I've had to kind of like navigate with, but honestly, it's been great, like having it, because aside from using it as like the mobile uh plant shop, you know, I'm able to transport things with it and it makes everything very convenient.
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So, regardless, if I'm not able to actually use that as a setup, it's definitely came in handy in other ways.
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Nice.
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Now I know you have a daughter.
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Does she enjoy helping you with your plant shop?
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I think so.
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She gets really excited.
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If you ever look at my plants and they have the prices on backwards, that's more than likely her.
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Um, I do let her be as hands-on as possible with everything.
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Um, when we were planting, uh sorry, painting the trailer, she actually helped me paint the cabinets too.
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And there's again just the a lot of different things in there that aren't perfect, but I left them as is because again, she did help with with a lot of it.
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And I don't know, I feel like it's really important to, you know, instill those values in her too.
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Um, so she knows, you know, when I'm outside, she's like, Oh, is it tend to work with the plants?
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I'm like, it is, and then she'll go and run and grab like her little bucket and you know, try to help as much as she can.
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And she's only three, but she understands, you know.
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So not too long ago, we had gone uh out of state for a show.
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And I mean, it was a pretty long weekend, and she was working with us that whole weekend.
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And she right away said, I know what I'm gonna do with the money that you're gonna give me.
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Because I do try to give her a little something, you know, try to get her in the habit of like, okay, well, we're working and you're gonna get something.
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And I was like, What do you want?
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She's like, I want a pinana for my birthday.
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So that's what she's been saying, saving up for, you know.
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So I told her, I was like, okay, like you save up for it, and yeah, she'll anytime she gets a dollar or something, she puts it in her piggy bank.
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So I love being able to have that opportunity to just kind of instill that in her and you know, have her know at a young age, like you know, that we need to work hard for things and you know, saving money is key too.
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Yes, and I love that at such a young age, she knows what she's going to do with that money.
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That's so cool.
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So her piano, did you say she wants to get a piano?
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Oh, a pinata.
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Oh for her birthday?
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Okay, yes, got it.
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When is her birthday?
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August 13th.
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Oh so it's coming up.
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So you got little Miss Entrepreneur there.
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I wonder that will be interesting to see how that unfolds as she gets older.
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See if she wants to start her own business of any kind.
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Yep.
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My um family, we actually come from you know, different businessmen.
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My dad used to own a restaurant, and he always hoped that I would just kind of continue in his footsteps and you know, open up a restaurant, you know, with myself.
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But I'm like, this isn't something that I really want to do.
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And now that I've, you know, still in in, you know, have my own business but in a different route, he just kind of finds that interesting.
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You know, he's like, Oh, well, you're still an entrepreneur, just not what I had expected, or you know, wanted, quote unquote.
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But it is your family still in Mexico?
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Um, not right now, so they kind of go back and forth.
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Okay.
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Is there anything exciting coming down the road for you?
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Something you're looking forward to for with your business?
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So the month of July is usually my busiest month of the whole year.
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So this month I will be back at the Windot Street Fair, which I love being there.
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And then I also have Book Fest that is the Detroit Festival of Books that takes place in Eastern Market.
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So those are probably my two biggest things that I'm looking forward to right now.
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And like I said, just kind of finishing off the rest of the the year.
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I do have a couple more months before I, you know, kind of pause for the winter time.
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I was wondering if you take a break over the winter.
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So I actually, this is something new that I'm doing this year.
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Um, I'm actually taking the month of August off.
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Um, we will be having family coming in from Mexico.
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So I'll be taking that time off.
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And again, just being able to celebrate my daughter's birthday too, kind of going back to what we had previously, you know, mentioned about trying to really allow myself to enjoy other things aside from from my business.
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And that's something that, you know, I'm I definitely want to implement this year, giving allowing myself to have a break.
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Sometimes it does get a bit like exhausting just doing things like weekly.
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So I'll be taking off August, and then after that, I will resume.
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I'm pretty busy during the fall with the different Halloween events, and then after that, I usually have an event like in about November, usually off uh December and then January.
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All right.
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Well, it's time for our lightning round.
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Are you ready?
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Coffee or tea?
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Tea.
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Early bird or night owl?
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Probably night owl.
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Is there one tool or app that helps you run your business?
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I definitely swear by Canva.
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Is there a favorite way you have to unwind after a busy day?
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If there's something good to watch on Netflix, I'll just pop a bag of popcorn and get in my pajamas and watch some Netflix.
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And do you have a female entrepreneur?
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That you'd like to highlight, yes.
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I would like to highlight my friend Sandra from Noemi Studios.
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She's located in Southgate, and that's usually where um I host all of my different workshops and then just do different pop-ups.
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And she houses a variety of um different female artists and entrepreneurs.
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So shout out to her.
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Nice.
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So, Rosy, if someone else wanted to start their own business, what is one piece of advice that you would give them?
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I would definitely say patience is key.
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Um, I know there is lots of times where I'm like, well, I'm not sure, you know, where exactly I'm headed with it, but keep being persistent with it, participate in just different community events, different pop-ups.
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I think that's the best way um to really get your name out there and your product out there and just having a chance to just connect with different people that way.
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Have you done a lot of events with other businesses, kind of like community events that get multiple businesses seen?
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Yes.
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Um, so going back to when I had uh mentioned um Sandra, um, she hosts different events all the time and she highlights different businesses.
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So I've been able to like work with her, and then alongside, she usually has like six to ten other um businesses on site.
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But again, those there's people that sometimes will host things like right around back to school events, and then they'll do like fundraising and things like that.
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So that's something that I really look forward to being able to participate in events like that.
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And then like just kind of brings the community together and just gives you an opportunity to network as well.
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Yes, I think that networking is big.
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I've run into you at Brooks Book and um LaVie en Rose Boutique as well.
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And I think that's one thing I've noticed about you is that you do network with a lot of different business owners.
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Yes.
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Um, those are actually the two main places that I've uh popped up um when it comes to wine at.
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I actually I want to say that I've been with Brooks Books for about three years now.
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Um invited me for her first anniversary, and then from there, like I said, I'd I pop up at least like twice, like twice a year.
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And she puts on like these great events.
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And thank you again for mentioning Love Yen.
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I've also think I've been there twice um recently.
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That was my second time there, but I love being able to do that, and I think it's like important also to just kind of help each other out, you know, whenever possible.
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I know that right now things are kind of tough with like small businesses, especially people that are in at like brick and mortar.
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So, you know, any opportunity that you have to bring maybe new people in, and and again, it just helps both of us.
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You know, you I might be able to bring people in that have never been into that boutique or that bookstore or vice versa.
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But it's just a great way to just really connect with others.
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I like that.
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Looking out for each other as small business owners.
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Yes.
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Rosy, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Thank you, Jenny, for having me.
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I really appreciate your time and conversation.
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Audience, thank you for listening today.
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