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Welcome back, everyone. I am so excited because Alexis is here in Wonderland today.

Alexis is a lawyer turned self-help writer, speaker, and entrepreneur.

She's been called the self-help voice of her generation, and she's the co-founder

of a national initiative that's an amazing event called Elevate. And I'm so excited to talk with her

today. She is at work on her first book and contributes her personal essays to publications

including Cosmopolitan, Forbes,

and she blogs for the Huffington Post, Hello Giggles, and more. She's just super cool. She's

a cast member of the upcoming Oprah Winfrey Network television show One, and she regularly

appears on NPR. She's just an awesome lady. So

thank you so much for stopping by the Wellness Wonderland, Alexis. Thank you so much for having me,

Katie. This is going to be super fun. So I have lots I want to talk with you about. So let's jump right

in and start by zooming the lens back and chatting about

your journey a little bit. So I mentioned in your bio that you studied law and you were a lawyer,

but where did you become interested in self-help and make the transition to becoming an entrepreneur?

Yeah, good question. So like many, I went to law school as a default. After college, I really didn't

know quite what I wanted to do with myself. And a professor had said to me, well, go to law

school. You can do anything with a law degree. And so I did. And I practiced, I knew pretty early

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