"I Quit My Corporate Job in JANUARY as a Single Mom of 3" | Mama's Got Willow and Oak Custom Planters

In January 2023 — the dead of winter, the wrong season for a gardening business, with no other income and three daughters depending on her — Mari Guadagno quit her 25-year corporate sales job at Xerox and went all-in on her container design business.Her daughters' first reaction? "Mom, it's January. How are you going to pay the mortgage?"Mari panicked. Until the angels answered.In this episode, Mari — a single mom of three girls and the founder of Willow and Oak Custom Planters — walks Brittany through the moment she realized her hobby was a real business, the COVID pivot that gave her permission to dream again, the text message that arrived in the exact moment she was second-guessing the biggest decision of her life, and the marketing strategy that built her business from zero to thriving in 4 years with almost zero online ads.This is the conversation for the mama who has been at a corporate job too long, the single mom who has been told she can't "play small," and every woman wondering if it's too late to start something. Mari is proof it isn't.Plus: why friends saying "you should get paid for this" is the universe trying to tell you something, why service-based local businesses are an underrated path to entrepreneurship, and how Mari is teaching her three girls what it really means to bet on yourself.For every mama who has been waiting for the "right time" to leap. 💛Find Mari: @willowandoakcustomplanters on Instagram | willowandoakcustomplanters.comFb grouphttps://www.facebook.com/share/g/1FVmxXpM3J/ The Money Hungry Mama Guide — coming Sept 8, 2026https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/money-hungry-mama-brittany-plumeri/1148503744Instagram: @themoneyhungrymama