I really believe that we change the world by being fully alive in our everyday life.

Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. You can find out more about the podcast at Cultivating the Lovely.com, in our Yellowbrick Road membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, and in our Facebook group. I would also love to connect with you on Instagram, where you can find me

at McKenzie Kappa. That's M-A-K-E-N-Z-I-E-K-O-P-P-A.

You guys, I have so many fun and exciting things to be sharing with you this week, but let's start

right out of the gate with who I have on the show, Mandy Ariado.

She is the CEO of Mops and she recently wrote the book, Have More Fun.

I loved this book.

It is hilarious, which rightfully it should be.

It's called Have More Fun.

You will have so much fun reading it.

It's a really quick read.

It's got a lot of great fun stories in it, but really great

practical advice and why having fun is so important to our lives. So I think that you are really

going to enjoy her book and this episode. But there are so many other things that I want to

share with you too. First of all, this one kind of has to do with everything else. I'm going to tell you

afterward, but I found a house. I am actually going to be moving very soon. I can't believe

it's actually happening after a year and a half. My kids and I will finally have our own home.

It is very overwhelming for me to be taking on and starting from scratch,

but I am so grateful to finally be making this next step. I think it's going to make a really

big difference for me and my kids. So with that in mind, it has really re-inspired me to be able

to, I feel like, offer a lot more in our Patreon community. For the past year

and a half, it's been a little bit hard for me to feel like I have really much of anything to

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