You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former next door

neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in,

have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey friend. And happy new year, everyone. Today we'll be talking

about our intentions for 2021 and how we hope

to make the most of the year this year more than ever it feels good to turn the page to a new year

although at the same time there are also hard things we necessarily have to carry over to the new

year since we're still in a pandemic.

So my first question, to set the stage, how have you approached imagining and planning for

2021? I think we talked about this at the end of last year that it just felt hard. Like this is

usually one of our favorite things to do and it just felt hard to reflect and or be in a space to like,

these are my takeaways because it's just, we're still so in it. But so I did feel like I

needed a little extra help and like guided walk through this this year. So I actually really

loved reflecting on Laura Tremaine's 10 questions for the end of the year from the 10 Things to

Tell You podcast. And I actually brought them with me up to a cabin where we stayed for New

years and Jeremiah and I spent like a night after the kids went to bed. Just talking about,

you know, through those questions, for example, some of them were like, who were your people

this year or what was your

biggest surprise of the year? Things like that and just helped you kind of, I just felt like I needed a

framework. So that really helped, um, something else. There was a couple other podcast episodes. One I know for

sure it was Kendra Adachi's. Yes. Lazy Genius podcast episode on that topic.

That just helped me get in the head space.

Like it's okay to feel all these conflicting emotions about the end of the year in the

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