our story
Meet Drea Williams
Aloha Plant Life was founded by Drea as a way to spread the joy that plants have brought her in her own life to others, all while supporting a worthy cause.
"I believe everyone is capable of having a 'green thumb', so let me help you find yours while having some fun along the way."
— Drea Williams
Aloha Plant Life all started with a new house, empty flowerbeds, and a turbulent end to an almost 15-year-long relationship. In an effort to distract herself during the hardest days of her divorce, Drea threw herself into landscaping the bare flowerbeds at her new house, and from there she continued on to greening up the interior of her home with numerous plants. Yet it didn’t just stop at buying plants and bringing them home. As always, Drea dove 100% into learning everything there was to learn about plants.
During this time, she was also trying to figure out what her new life was going to look like moving forward. “All I really knew at the time was that tending to and learning about plants was the biggest thing bringing joy back into my life. So I started thinking to myself, ‘How can I bring the joy and help that plants have provided me to others?’. The next thing I knew, I was propagating plants and selling them to benefit a local non-profit organization, starting a YouTube channel dedicated to all things plants, and developing my own plant-related products to manufacture and sell.”
Since that time, Drea has turned her passion for plants into a full-time business, and to this day still donates a portion of all plant sales to the same local non-profit organization that she originally did: My Possibilities.
about the cause: My Possibilities
Aloha Plant Life donates a portion of every houseplant sold to the non-profit organization My Possibilities. My Possibilities is the first full-day, full-year continuing education and job placement program in North Texas, aimed to give adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities the chance at a higher education and an opportunity to let their untapped possibilities shine. They call their students HIPsters: Hugely Important People. My Possibilities believes that everyone has something to offer and their program is designed to let their HIPsters discover their own talents and find a way to share them with others.