From Girl Scouts to Landscape Entrepreneur: Loriena Harrington's, Owner of Beautiful Blooms Landscape's Story

Summary - In this episode of the Ag 45 Soul Aligned Strategy Podcast, hosted by Katherine Breuss, Loriena Harrington shares her entrepreneurial journey, starting from her early experiences with the Girl Scouts to founding Beautiful Blooms Landscape & Design. Loriena emphasizes the importance of soul alignment, family values, and aligning with other successful individuals who share similar values. She discusses the significance of intuition and personal experiences in guiding business decisions, highlighting how aligning one's business with personal values can lead to more fulfilling and successful outcomes. 

 

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[00:00:52] Katherine Breuss: welcome Loriena Harrington, , on the Soul Aligned Podcast. Really thank you very much for taking the time to,  meet with me and then share your story to everyone who's listening. , And to that. I would love if you could,  introduce yourself and share what you wanna share about you and your business to everyone that's listening.

[00:01:22] Loriena Harrington: Sure. Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Um, the. The story that I can tell about being an entrepreneur is that it didn't happen two or three years ago. It happened in my childhood and I give a lot of credit to the Girl Scouts of America,  for how I. Gained my first entrepreneurial experience, and that is through their Girl Scout cookie sale.

You know, I was the, the little brownie out there going door to door as soon as I got off the bus because the cookie order sheets were handed to us at school and I wanted to be the first around my neighborhood to get that market share. I had no idea it was called market share at that time, but that's what I was doing.

And the confidence grows as you knock on doors and talk to strangers and. Many years later,  in my twenties when I was starting Beautiful Blooms Landscape, which is my company,  I employed that same,  marketing,  Genius of the Girl Scouts. So I went door to door knocking on, on people's doors in a brand new neighborhood that didn't have a blade of grass and sold landscape design services.

I was qualified, I had my degree in horticulture and I had experience as a designer,  that I had picked up through school, and then I needed customers  I printed flyers and I went door to door, and that's how it all got started. But between selling the first boxes of Girl Scout cookies and knocking on that first door as a business owner,  officially a business owner.

Um, there was a lot of experience that I got,  starting at age 12, working at a golf course local to me,  on their ground staff, and I fell in love with meticulously maintained landscapes. Um, went to school to study turf and horticulture and landscape design at the University of Minnesota, and that gave me the educational background for.

The trade that I was entering, but it didn't necessarily prepare me to be a business owner. Um, that's where I made up the rules as I went along. Um, I did not ever work for a landscape business, but I had worked at golf courses,  but I had never worked for a landscape business before, but yet I started one on.

Sorry, go ahead.

[00:03:51] Katherine Breuss: That's cool. No, that's  normally you hear people, they've worked with someone for a few years first and they learn, but you  you jumped

[00:04:01] Loriena Harrington: in. I did. Um, going,  another childhood memory that I have of my entrepreneurial spirit was, it was probably 12 or 13 years old, and I remember.

This vivid memory of me kneeling at my bed, scribbling in a notebook, if I mowed the neighbor's lawns. 'cause I did have a small mowing route in my neighborhood. If I, and I was maxed out, I had five lawns that I would mow. But if I wanted to mow more, I would have to maybe have a friend help me.

If I got paid $15 to mow the lawn, maybe I could give $10 to a friend. And again, I didn't know the words, but Right. Like you're making profit, you're, and I have the notebook still, but I don't have those pages. I wish I had the pages of where I was scribbling out that math before the Excel spreadsheets were even in existence,

Um, but that's a real early entrepreneurial memory that I have