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Soul and Wit

190. 2023 Favorites Recap

Soul and Wit

Bailey Carver

Self-improvement, Simplicity, Personaldevelopment, Selfhelp, Happiness, Education, Mentalhealth, Minimalism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Courtney and Bailey for a recap of their favorite things from 2023. Favorites covered include planners, books, recipes, forgotten favorites, and more. This episode is a delightful listen at any time of the year.


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Episode Notes and Resources: 

31 Days of Gifts You So Deserve 2023

Episode 144: 2022 Favorites Recap


Bailey Favorites

Things I mentioned more than once this year

Golden Coil Planner

Giant Wall Planner

New Olive and June Press Ons they sent me 

Necessaire 


Books

Glossy Audiobook

Tom Lake by Ann Pachett

A Perfect Vintage 

Bailey’s Pango Books

Sweet Enough by Allison Roman 

The Guest by Emma Cline

Stone Cold Fox

The Writing Retreat 

Meet Me at the Lake

The Villa By Rachel Hawkins


Food

Recipes with beans 

Pizza nights on Sunday

Breakfast sandwich from Central 9th Market

Pepperoncini Kettle Chips

Coconut iced coffee pods 

Lobster Cobb Salad 

Milk Bar Batter Bites

Graza Olive Oil


Things that aren’t a favorite or forgotten favorites?

Scrub Daddy Screen Cleaner

Phone harness for skiing.

Vitamin D from Athletic Greens

Pocket App to save articles


Stand Outs

This Focaccia Recipe

New squiggly phone case

A Thing or Two with Claire and Erica

My Woof Pupsicle


Courtney Favorites

Things I mentioned more than once this year

Walking Pad

Notebooks from Appointed

Disco Balls


Books

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

The Guest by Emma Cline

Yellowface

Hello Beautiful

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Stash

The Covenant of Water


Food

This tomato soup


Things that aren’t a favorite or forgotten favorites?

My living well notebook

Getting back to in person speaking

Wearable Air Conditioner

Covering mosquito bites with pimple patches.


Stand Outs

Staying off Tiktok

Mymind.com Remember everything, organize nothing.

The Dream

This quote by Leonard Cohen: “If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick everyday.”


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Where you can find us:

Bailey: @beautifuldetour or www.beautifuldetour.com

Courtney: @bemorewithless or www.bemorewithless.com


Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Soul and Witt. I'm Courtney. And I'm Bailey. We are the mother-daughter duo here to make you laugh, grow, and feel more connected to your favorite things. Hi, Mom.

0:23.6

Hi, Bailey.

0:24.8

I am in a really good mood today.

0:27.3

I'm so glad.

0:29.4

I think it's two things.

0:31.8

Number one, the sun was gone for three days, and this was the first day the sun was out. Yes. And it was out right away.

0:40.3

I mean, it was streaming through immediately the windows before I was barely awake. It is like the joy that you get from daylight savings, which I had felt were taken away from me in the beginning because of the storm that came in. So I think the sunlight truly is helping,

0:55.1

which is such a good reminder to up vitamin D right now. Wow. I mean, look how the tables have

1:01.3

turned. I know. And then my other reason that I'm in such a good mood is I had my first Starbucks

1:08.9

holiday beverage in a holiday cup, too.

1:12.5

I can see why that would just set you up for success for the entire day.

1:16.2

We love sugar.

1:17.4

We love joy.

1:18.1

The person who gave it to me was on their best Starbucks elf energy, like asking me about my day,

1:26.0

was excited about the sun shining. It was just like a little

1:29.7

hallmarky for me. Okay. Well, that's what you deserve. A little hallmark moment.

1:36.2

It was nice. How are you navigating the darker afternoon evenings? Well, I did something that you also did.

1:45.3

And I put up my curtain lights that are like little twinkle lights that hang in your

1:49.7

curtain and they're on in the morning and then they're on at 4.30 p.m.

1:54.6

And that is what I'm doing.

1:56.6

It makes a big difference.

1:57.8

Yeah. I also think since I have two dogs, like I get outside no matter what, even if it's just a quick

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