@Lisa Gessel I would love to work with more younger women, but the economic reality is that most are not property owners, so they are simply locked out of having private gardens. I would love to do more consultation with people who want to create collaborative community garden type spaces, but haven't quite figured out my entry there as most people in that demographic just want someone who can fully design something for them. What I do is teach people how to think about design so they can start doing this for themselves instead of depending on outside professionals who are much more expensive and keep the specific knowledge gatekept. Working class people cannot afford a $20,000+ full landscape remodel... But I can teach them to do the same thing for a fraction of the cost, if they're willing to do the work. Personality wise, I think I'm very open, empathetic, nonjudmental but discerning, and like to get attuned to people's specific realities. Most people tell me they perceive me as calm and wise, which I find interesting because I do usually have some underlying anxiety as I have perfectionist tendencies. I am an intuitive systems thinker, which I've learned most people are not, so I try to translate this need for systems and sustainable sequencing into a grammar they can understand and implement. The only time this becomes challenging is when the client has a dream that is far out sizing their capacity, and so they are struggling to hear that I'm not telling them their dream is bad, it's just the order of operations needs to be correctly sequenced so they don't end up burned out. Recently I've had some painful learning experiences where I've had to accept that some people are not actually ready for that kind of structure, because they just want a yes man who will cosign their dream without being realistic about it's implementation.