This is Cultivated Good Life, episode 147.

I am here with Ashley Lemieux.

Hey everybody, I'm Becky Higgins and with me is my friend and co-host Becky Proudfit.

Hello, hello, hello, and we are thrilled that we get to have Ashley Lemieux in this episode

and to share her with you guys. She is a phenomenal human being, a very talented writer, author,

just has her new book is out now. I am here. Can I just say one of my most favorite things?

Yep. About the podcast is we get sent advanced copies of books, so we get to read them early.

I was so, so, so excited to get this book and to dive in and it did not disappoint.

No, it did not disappoint at all and it's really cool is now that it is out after we had read it

and after we had recorded it with Ashley, it's really fun to see Ashley share in her stories,

people's excitement and receiving the book and reading it and we're just so proud of her,

so excited. Something I had to share with you back. You're going to love this, you ready?

Okay. So, you know, speaking of Ashley and speaking of really wonderful women that we get to

associate with, we have a couple of friends who are fellow podcasters Rachel Nielsen and Miranda

Anderson that each have their own podcast. Yes. And I saw Rachel share recently about something

about this little cactus that Miranda had and I was like, oh, I haven't listened to Rachel's

podcast in a while. I am definitely feeling prompted. I'm going to listen to that episode.

So, I listened to this episode recently. We will link to it in the show notes because now I'm

sharing about it. But Rachel shares and sorry, Rachel and Miranda talk about this little $2

cactus that Miranda had purchased at Costco. You know what I'm talking about? So, she got this $2

cactus at not Costco at IKEA and it just wasn't growing, it wasn't really flourishing and it kind

of dawned on her to put it in a bigger pot and long story short, the cactus like exploded,

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