You're listening to episode 50 brought to you by Songfinch. For 10% off your own custom song, go to

songfinch.com and use the code, all caps, Lovely. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely with me, McKenzie Monroe from bold turquoise.com and

cultivating the lovely.com and Jody McKenna from the original title, JodyMcKennanah.com.

Yes. Formerly Grinola Mom For God and all kinds of things. So if you've been around in the blogosphere for a while,

then you've probably heard of Jody from way back when. Yes, it was one of the original.

Yes. And she's been on the podcast before. And this is Jody's first official co-hosting episode.

Super excited.

I'm so excited.

If you want to hear more of the backstory of why Jody decided to come on as a co-host,

you can go back and listen to our Christmas episode.

But for this episode, we are going to be talking all about reading in 2018. I had the really clever title I thought of reading in the new year. Like I wanted to sound like ringing in the new year, but I'm not sure that goes across. I got it.

I think it's good. Thank you. It's good. Okay. So I want to do a little bit of like talking about what we read in 2017 and our

favorites and that stuff but then talk about moving into 2018 what we're reading what you're

hoping to read and then maybe giving people some guidance if they're having trouble figuring out how to

set reading goals and stuff.

Sure thing.

It's exciting.

I know.

It's fun.

Reading is one of my favorite things.

And we've talked about it a few times on the show.

I just, I love this topic.

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