Hello friends, welcome as always so excited that you're here and I'm so excited to share my conversation with the one and only Jenna

Kutcher today. Jenna is actually a neighbor of mine. Did you know that? We both live in the woods of Northern Minnesota and she has a new book out called How Are You Really?

And I just think you're going to get so much out of this conversation. So let's step in. I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.

Thank you so much for coming Jenna. Thank you for having me. I am a huge fan. My team is obsessed with you and so I feel like I get the gold star of the day forgetting to sit with you on this conversation. So thanks for having me. Gold star for Jenna.

It is weird that we both live in the same city not that far away from each other because where we live is relatively remote corner of the globe in Northern Minnesota.

150 miles from a whole foods or a trade or Joe's.

You grew up here so did I and we both moved away came back. Yes. What is it about living in Northern Minnesota that you love? It's not the beautiful spring. It's not the mud. No, oh my gosh. I know. So I was gone for 12 years and I was five hours south in Wisconsin.

And so it's not like I I went to the city, but it was really interesting. I never thought I would come back. I was always one of those people who was like, no, I love home for what it is, but I'll never go back. And it was really our fertility journey and recognizing that while we had a support system, there's nothing like family.

And people I was asked us like, why do you live there? And I'm like, yeah, like having family and proximity is everything. And it's funny too because where the city has changed so much. I mean so much in the last decade. And so I feel like when I came home, it wasn't coming back. It was like almost getting to know what Duluth is now.

And that has been a really fun journey with my husband, who's from Wisconsin, who's like, why do we live in the tundra? Oh, wait, your family.

Minnesota, North and Minnesota has a lot of unique things to offer. People tend to think we dogs led around to Antarctic research stations around.

That's the only that it's just it's Parkas 247 and to be fair, it is cold much this year.

But it's also just an incredibly unique community on the shores of the largest lake in the world. And it's a unique place to live. It really is very unique. It's beautiful. The people here are very interesting and cool.

I love it here.

I do too. You know what, Sharon, I was recently on a flight you'll die about this. But you know when they're emptying a flight and they're like for anyone that has a quick layover can everyone else just stay seated and usually it's just like a cluster.

Well, we were on a Minnesota flight. Literally everyone sat down, cheered on the passengers. You got this. You can make your layover. And I was like, and this is why I love Minnesota.

Yes, yes, do you get picked on for your accent because I feel like over the years of podcasting I've shed a lot of words, but every once in a while they'll slip through and people will be like, yep, there she is.

Oh, you want to get on there on that boat, do you?

I'll tell you there's nothing funny here. Of course in a high school classroom, there's nothing funny here than just turning on a full-throwed Minnesota accent and be like, hey, you better be in your seats before I count to one.

That is very funny to them. It ends up being extremely useful to me.

You utilize it as a gift. That's right. It's a gift to me that I learned to speak like my grandmother, who was always like, oh, for cute. So cute.

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