Daily Inspiration: Meet Emy Abrahams

Today we’d like to introduce you to Emy Abrahams.

Hi Emy , can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I always had house plants because my mom and aunts always had them, but during the pandemic I started to get more interested in them like so many other people. I learned to use a diamond-tipped drill bit to drill drainage holes in vintage teapots and vases to hold my beauties and started to sell them at garage sales in ’22. I got the courage to open a store the next year and lucked into a space two blocks from my home in thew Mt Washington business district. It’s been a really fun ride so far, everything I wanted the shop to be (affordable, an urban oasis, host local vendors, a third space, kid friendly, small event space, educational partner, and community participant) we have accomplished. This Mother’s Day was the busiest we had ever had and the number of times that I heard people say that The Potted Palm was their favorite shop filled my cup, because it’s my favorite, too.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I have lost some old and really good relationships in the last few years; it is really hard to wrap my head around my support network being gone at a time I need it most. I can’t tell if it is post-pandemic life changes, the current political and economic state, the rise in social media and decrease in conflict resolution and in-person communication, or if it really was that I was a wretched bitch that was awful enough that mothers and ride-or-die besties thought that their lives would be better without me in them. I am trying to work through it though; I have made probably 40 new and potentially really good relationships with great people and I am trying to be careful with them.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am best at relationship building and making people feel seen and understood. I did a strength test at a previous office job and had words to put with what I already kind of knew, which also gave me the idea that I could use that strength for myself instead of selling it at $17 an hour. I love people and fully engage with anyone I am talking to, which makes me very bad at relationships with people that I do not see regularly because I am terrible digital communication. I am creative and collaborative, I love to push others up and get excited about their accomplishments. I love creating a community of like-minded people!

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I don’t know anything about luck really. I have privilege? Is that lucky? Maybe I haven’t thought about it enough.

Pricing:

• Earrings $5
• 4 inch plant $10-15
• 6-inch plant $20-30
• Skirts $20
• Pots $15-18

Contact Info:

• Website: http://thepottedpalm.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepottedpalm23/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepottedpalm23/