This business has pushed me to new levels within myself, to a place where I finally feel like I’ve found out who I am. I arrived back to flowers, back to the thing I have loved most, and I have been blessed so far to be noticed by friends, and friends of friends, even a few famous people I have been able to provide plant service and expertise to corporate companies, been commissioned to lead and design on landscaping projects, the sky is the limit. My flowers are like my paints and my hands are the brush. I am so passionate about the beauty in the way we can present nature as an art form, one that will hopefully and full-heartedly bring joy to someone else. I had worked other jobs, many in fact, since leaving Yaya’s, and I always felt like I had one-foot in the door working at a flower shop, or helping out friends with their floral needs. I quit my high earning job, and took a leap of faith, that ultimately, I would find what I was looking for. I was great at my job, but as my third year was approaching, I couldn’t see myself day in and day out commuting, and coming home late with this unsatisfying feeling like I was missing out on life. I had begun university, and was going to school for a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Real Estate & Law at Cal Poly Pomona, and shortly after graduation, I had my first experience of working post college, when I was hired within the healthcare industry at twenty-three working for Kaiser Permanente. I always found myself working for a flower shop, or in some relation, a company related to business. I worked in a real estate office, accounting, and a mortgage company, but the thing that drew me, always, was flowers. I had started school, and still worked, only this time for different businesses. I found different jobs here and there over the years following after the shop was sold to a new owner who brought with them their own employees, I had to move on. In business, that trait has served me well, and there are times when I feel like I’m back in the flower shop with Yaya, accomplishing something I’ve never done before. I still am like that, influenced by that lesson, I always get involved with a job or a task, I always find myself wanting to learn how, or the best way to get a job done. Having my boss empower me to do things, as a teen, really influenced me in a positive way. As things progressed, I learned so much by watching Yaya and then by doing it. I was so thankful, especially since I really didn’t know much about flowers at that time. She must have seen something in me that day. We chatted for a bit, and by the time we ended, she had hired me on the spot. I remember I walked in January 2nd, 2006 and asked the manager, Yaya, for an opportunity to work for her. My first job was working in a flower shop around the corner from my home when I was 17. I started Artemis Floral Designs in April of 2020. From the corporate world to the floral world is the best way I would describe myself.
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