Hello friends, welcome. As usual, so fun having you along. Today I'm

chatting with my friend Emily Lay, who you might know as an author, she

comes an incredible planner company called Simplified, and we're

going to be chatting about a very very interesting character from Connecticut.

So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the

Sharon Says So podcast. I am here today with my friend Emily Lay. It is so fun to have you.

Hi, thank you for having me. This is, seriously, I've been looking forward to this for

weeks. Oh, I just love your company. I love everything you do. do tell people if people are not already

familiar with simplified tell people what you do yes well I am the founder of a

brand called simplified and we make planners and organizational tools and

pretty office things for very busy women. I'm also a mom to a lot of kids. I have an

11-year-old and two 7- seven year olds and I'm an author so I write books too and a

podcast I don't know there's a lot of things you have a lot yes you are like like me

you have a lot of irons in the fire like many entrepreneurs yes yes if like dogs dogs children

podcasts well books whales yeah just all the things.

Yes, there's just a, you know, like once you find something

that's fun to do, then all of these other opportunities

present themselves, you're like, that would be fun.

I would like to write a children's book.

And you actually have a really great children's book coming out very soon.

We'll talk about that in a minute.

Most of your other books are geared for older audiences, geared for adults, etc.

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