#awinewith Shannon Blackbourn, Founder of Panacea Landscapes

https://www.panacealandscapes.com/

In this episode we talked about...

*Leaving school at 16 for a landscaping apprenticeship, then falling in love with learning - 12 more years of study across horticulture, landscaping and landscape design.

*Starting Panacea Landscapes four years ago with no money and no borrowed money - just her husband's tools, a family car with a trailer, and one little contract.

*Learning business completely from scratch: pays, super, insurance- including the day $12,000 of unpaid super appeared, and the wizard bookkeeper who answers the phone on a Wednesday night.

*Why hiring a landscaping coach was the investment that transformed her pricing, her profits and even her website (his review: "who built your website? Because it's terrible").

*Growing the Canberra way- do the best job on every single job, take the small losses to leave things right, and let word of mouth and referrals do the rest.

*Building a team of six (including her best friend) and figuring out each step only when she got to it- because if you knew all the problems up front, you'd never start.

*The bigger dream: therapeutic horticulture, starting with volunteering to garden with the kids at her children's school.

*Her advice: remember what your passion is, and when you think it's over or you're going to give up- if you really want it, push on, and it'll all workout.

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