Botanical Brouhaha Podcast

Amy McGee, Natalie Gill

Booking Overview

A business interview podcast focused on floral entrepreneurship, featuring working florists, flower-shop owners, growers, educators, and floral-industry vendors who share practical operating experience. Credible pitches would include florist-founders, floral educators, flower growers, retail flower-shop operators, and specialists in floral business systems or staffing; booking difficulty is low because guests are typically accessible industry professionals rather than major public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 187

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 39.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

botanicalbrouhaha@gmail.com

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Host

Amy McGee - Founder of Botanical Brouhaha and an established relationship builder within the floral design, flower-growing, and floral-business community.

Natalie Gill - Owner of Native Poppy, a floral business, and co-host of the Botanical Brouhaha Podcast.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Working florist-founders, flower-shop owners, farmer florists, floral educators, flower growers, floral-industry vendors, and experienced operators with practical business lessons or a distinctive growth story.

Required Achievements:

Built or scaled a floral design, flower-shop, wedding-floral, or flower-growing business, Opened or expanded a retail flower shop or wholesale floral company, Developed practical expertise in staffing, operations, marketing, pricing, logistics, or floral-business education

Recent Guest Discussions

Semia Dunne - Scaling A Wholesale Flower Business, Team Retention, Destination Weddings, Planner Relationships, Wholesale Pricing, And Floral-business Growth.

Shelley O'Neill - Transitioning Into Floristry, Opening A Retail Flower Shop, And Using Floral-business Resources And Community Support.

Alex Vaughan - Building A Flower Shop, Moving From Wedding Florals To Retail And Corporate Events, Staffing, Leadership, Logistics, And Business Pivots.

Erica Gamble - Operational Leadership, Staffing, Profitability, And Facilitating Education For Wedding And Event Flower Businesses.

Sophie Felts - Building A Wedding-floral Company, Profitability, Sustainable Staffing, Business Leadership, And Supporting Other Floral Entrepreneurs.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Floral Design, Flower Shops, Flower Farming

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Botanical Brouhaha Podcast

Ep. 153: Semia Dunne: The Floral Reserve's Newest Chapter

September 18, 2026

We're back with Semia Dunn who first joined us on the BB podcast back in Episode 35, sharing how she bought a flower shop at 22 and later launched Flowers by Semia (which was later rebranded as SEMIA) and then The Floral Reserve, a wholesale flower company (built by a florist, for florists!). In this catch-up episode, Semia returns to reflect on what's changed and what hasn't. She talks candidly about growing her team, breaking into destination weddings, building a new e-commerce system for t...

Ep. 152: What Actually Happens Inside Bloom Trust Co. (with Shelley O'Neill)

September 10, 2026

In this episode, we sat down with Bloom Trust Co and Circle member Shelley O'Neill, a former fourth-grade teacher turned florist who recently added a retail shop called Oyster Flower Co. to her existing wedding flower business in Annapolis, Maryland! Shelley walks us through what pulled her into CIRCLE (we talk more about that in the episode), what's kept her in Bloom Trust Co. for three years running, and together we break down exactly what's inside: the resource library, Office Hours, meetu...

Ep. 151: Alex Vaughan Bet Everything on FLWR Shop: Part 2

August 17, 2026

In part two (Ep. 151) with Alex Vaughan of FLWR Shop in Nashville, Tennessee we dig into the real, tactical side of her decision to step away from wedding florals. Alex opens up about the politics and power dynamics of working with luxury wedding planners, the financial reality of pivoting to retail and corporate events, and how she and her husband Quinn split the business responsibilities between them. She also gets specific about staffing, delivery logistics, website headaches, and what it ...

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