You're listening to the A Beautiful Mess Podcast. Today we're talking about some

of the non-fiction books that have changed our lives., a new segment that is all about sharing strong, possibly unnecessary opinions.

I was so excited about this episode, so when Emma told me she wanted to do a self-help book episode. I was like, oh no, oh God, like what do I do?

But I actually had so much fun picking which books I was going to talk about and I actually like had some that I wanted to share.

Yes, and so I saw your outline because Elsie and I were trying to make sure that we aren't like putting the same book or something, you know.

So we have emailed ahead and I love that yours, Elsie, are really diverse.

Like the subject matter is pretty different.

So I really like that.

It made me feel like, oh man, all of mine are like kind of similar.

I really need to branch out and read about some different things.

Oh, well I can't wait to hear what yours are.

I feel like mine are, they don't necessarily like fit into the self-help

category but they helped me a lot so I think they do they're just they are

different than you might think but so so a little bit of the idea

behind why I wanted to do this episode

was all of the people I look up to and like

podcasts that I listen to.

I would love it if they did this episode because I just know that they're all also people like I love to listen to stuff like

All sorts of things, but one I'll mention is Rachel Hollis who does the RISE podcast I think

she is a bad bitch and awesome and I know that she is constantly working on herself her

and her husband are both like that and I know that they have lots of things in

their life you know and that she has shared a lot of those but I just thought oh that's

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