#199: Get Planty with Dusty Hegge

Aug 19, 2019, 10:00 AM

Have you ever made the connection between the growth of a plant and the growth in your faith? Have you ever encountered a communicative plant? If you’re a plant lover, buckle in! If you aren’t YET, you're going to learn about totipotent nodes. I mean, that's just going to happen. But you're also going to hear a beautiful story about rising up through the soil in a broken home, battling depression/anxiety and flourishing. You see what I did there?

Dusty Hegee is a coffee-obsessed houseplant educator, wife and mother living in the Pacific Northwest. She can’t help but see the incredible parallels between plant growth and the way God brings us through seasons in our lives. It is her goal is to equip people with the tools needed to navigate those seasons WELL, keep their houseplants alive, and learn to enjoy the growth process along the way.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
  • how and why Dusty decided to make houseplant education her career

  • Dusty’s houseplant recommendations for the plant challenged - Golden Pothos and the Snake plant

  • simplifying potted plants

  • different types of plant propagation and how they work

  • Dusty’s journey with anxiety and depression and what’s been helping her cope

  • the traumatic birth story of Dusty’s first child and what she’s learned about God in the process of healing

LINKS MENTIONED:

Get Planty waitlist

CONNECT WITH DUSTY:

website | instagram

CONNECT WITH EMILY:

website | instagram | facebook | patreon

EPISODE SPONSORS:

Third Love: get 15% off your first order when you visit thirdlove.com/swp

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