Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 101 episode of the simple sophisticated. I hope you had a wonderful

weekend. It was a weekend of a little bit of work, a little bit of

work on the garden, a little bit of relaxing, a little bit more work, and it was well as weekends where it wasn't grand and

and something that I anticipated being wonderful but it was actually quite

Fantastic isn't that the way though when we least expect it or when we

don't expect it? Amazing things happen. Just goes to show. There's fantastic things that

can happen in the every day.

All right, today's episode, episode 101, is all about growth.

And we're going to talk about how it is a choice, it is a choice to grow to change to improve. And I'm going to

outline 12 characteristics of what growth looks like when we choose to become a grown up rather than just be an adult.

And before I get to that though, and I'll talk about the differences between an adult and a grown up here in a minute.

Before we get to that, I am really excited to share with you this week's Petit Plazier.

It is something that I discovered in a book I was reading.

Been around nine years and I've just found it, but it is the fantastic addition to a list of Frank of

all finds that I'm always wanting to share with you guys.

So whether you are someone who is a Frankophile, someone who's trying to learn a language,

or someone who just likes to take walks, that'll make more sense when I talk about it.

Trust me, tune in to today's Pateer, which will occur at the end of today's

episode. But back to the topic of growth, it is a choice, and I'm going to break it down into 12 ways you can choose growth. Let's get

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