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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 43 | Michelle Riley: The Plant Whisperer Who Kept Her Scar

Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 43 | Michelle Riley: The Plant Whisperer Who Kept Her Scar

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As a second grader, Michelle Riley turned down plastic surgery for the scar across her face. Her reason: the scar would show her who people really are. That same instinct for seeing past the surface now powers 30 years of healing landscape design and nature-inspired jewelry across Northeast Ohio and beyond. Michelle is a horticulturist, landscape designer, and founder of All About You Signature Landscape and Design Inc. Her story moves through childhood trauma, a father's abuse, her mother's mental health crises, and a gut feeling at age nine that helped police stop a predator stalking neighborhood children. Told to quit the band to stay popular, she kept the band. Two weeks before her high school graduation, her father suffered a major stroke, and Michelle set college aside to become a caregiver. Years later, she filled a legal pad with every interest she had, crossed one off each morning, and landed on horticulture. She enrolled at Kent State with a single $350 credit hour, won grants and scholarships that paid her entire way, and became the only student in her botany professor's career to earn an A.What you'll hear: ~Why she started as an $8.10 an hour laborer before drawing a single design ~ Helping grow a landscape company from $300,000 to over $1 million and winning the Cascade Business Capital Award during the housing collapse ~ The burnout moment that told her "This job's gonna kill me" ~ Launching her own design and consult business in the middle of the recession ~ Her first garden seminar with one attendee, and growing to rooms of 500 ~ Designing with homeowners through grief, trauma, and emotional stories ~ Robert the rhododendron, misfit plants, and becoming the "plant whisperer" ~ Creating Where's Buddy? with her automated mower to find joy after losing her mother during the COVID lockdown ~ How jewelry making helped calm her nervous system after trauma ~ Career advice for plant lovers: master gardener programs, Intro to Horticulture, arboriculture, turf management, and floriculture About Michelle Riley: Horticulturist and landscape concierge with 30+ years designing gardens, estates, and commercial landscapes across Northeast Ohio. Certified through the National Association of Landscape Professionals as one of only two women among 110 certified professionals in Ohio at the time. Ohio Landscape Association member and founder of NEOhioGarden.com. Designed the plant material for the largest heritage garden in Cleveland Heights, with projects in Chicago, New York, Washington, California, the UK, and Kelleys Island. Seven and a half year garden columnist for Joy of Medina County Magazine, creator of Plant Shorts and Where's Buddy?, and jewelry artist behind the Etsy shop Stoned on Nature.Connect with Michelle:Website: https://neohiogarden.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-riley-6520b027FB: https://www.facebook.com/mrhorticulturistYoutube: @MichelleRileyHorticulturistConnect with Rich:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin: @richwrightunltdFacebook: @richwrightunltdInstagram: @richwrightunltdFB: @theartrecInstagram: @theartrecArtist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi...⁠.Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.artrecshop.com⁠⁠Join Podmatch: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre..⁠⁠.Dyslexia Classes: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠⁠⁠#ArtistRecoveryPodcast #MichelleRiley #RichWright #Horticulturist #Horticulture #LandscapeDesign #LandscapeDesigner #HealingGardens #PlantWhisperer #MisfitPlants #GardenDesign #NortheastOhio #WomenInHorticulture #WomenInLandscaping #ChildhoodTrauma #Resilience #TraumaHealing #Intuition #TrustYourGut #Caregiver #Burnout #CreativeBurnout #CareerPivot #KentState #MasterGardener #SmallBusinessOwner #Entrepreneur #GriefAndHealing #JewelryArtist #NatureJewelry #WheresBuddy #RoboticMower #CreativeRecovery #HealingThroughNature Support the showAlways remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich WrightFollow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.comJoin the Community: https://www,artrecroom.comListen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.comConnect:InstagramFacebookXTikTokLinkedin
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