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Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely, the podcast for real moms who are seeking Jesus, trying to live their roles well, and working to add a little bit more loveliness to their life, even in just the little moments.

I'm your host, Mackenzie Monroe from bold turquoise.com and Cultivating the Lovely.com. And today I have back with me one of my lovely co-hosts, Leah Bowden, but along with her, we have a special guest, Andy Gould. Now, as you'll hear in the episode, I got to meet Andy. Actually, before I really knew much about her online, when I went to Wild and Free last fall in Nashville. And it was so fun to get to meet her in person and see kind of what her personality was like and then get to invite her to come on the show and have her and Leah seriously

school me on nature study. You guys are going to love this episode. They went so deep. I feel like we could

have them on every month all year long talking about nature study because these ladies

are the ones to go to with all the brilliant ideas for making it real and making it work with

your families. So if you want to be encouraged, even if you're not a homeschool mom, to be thinking

about how you can be incorporating nature study into your lifestyle, really, and your family

culture, then please check out this episode with

Leah and Andy and myself and I hope you really enjoy it.

Welcome Leah and Andy. Hi. Hi. I'm so excited to have you both on the show. You

guys all know Leah's now an old staple on the show.

She's out there all the time. But you guys might not be familiar with Andy. I actually had the

pleasure of meeting her in Nashville this past fall, which doesn't really happen as a first

introduction very often. No. When it's social media online, you don't meet in person the first time.

Yeah. And I had friends who knew of you. And I remember hearing them talk about your Instagram stuff and

everything. But I, other than that, I was like, oh, putting two and two together, that that's who you were.

And so I was really excited to get to meet you though and really see your personality because I

think if I had just seen your pretty pictures, I wouldn't have realized how fun you are.

Just for the few minutes I had with you. She's so fun. Yeah. So I was so excited to have the two of you

on the show talking about nature study today because yeah I'll get to that in a minute but our favorite

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