I’m an earthy, artsy landscape designer with degrees in ornamental horticulture and landscape architecture.  

I’ve worked for the National Park Service, an environmental communication firm, design-build firms, and 15 years ago I started my own landscape design business.  

My dad died a few years ago.  While I was at the hospital in his final days I started to redesign the green space that I used as my recharging place. It was just a patch of grass with a flagpole in the middle. I needed a place to connect with the earth, feel the sun on my face, and find my center. The design process started as a fun creative activity. I realized that, like me, many people could benefit from a restorative kind of landscape. Not just friends and family that visited, but hospital staff and patients as well.

I wanted to create a place inspired and uplifted. I wanted to create a place where you could restore and rejuvenate, a place where you could connect with the earth and allow that energy to rejuvenate your soul. This was the birth of “The Inspired Landscape.”  

In this episode, Karen and Laura discuss:

• Success Story of Laura
• Commit to Get Leads
  • Trust and believe in the universe. When you allow it to happen and you allow yourself to believe, those referrals will come. 
• Consult to Sell
  • Ask questions, you have to dig deeper and interpret what the customer does want. If their eyes light up and their voice escalates, you know you’re on the right track. 
• Connect to Build and Grow
  • Create content to teach others. Use your time more efficiently with the  20% that is unique, but sell the other 80% that is repetitive as a package. 
• Success Thinking, Activities and Vision
  • Find appreciation in all of the little things in life. 
• Sweet Spot of Success