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Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely, the podcast where moms talk about real stuff and try to follow Jesus.

I'm your hostess McKenzie Monroe from bold turquoise.com and Cultivating the Lovely.com.

And ladies, we have a super fun episode today because I am finally introducing and having on all three of my brand new co-hosts in the same episode.

So I've got kind of back-to-back interviews.

It's a longer episode, but it's so much fun because I get to ask all of them why they

decided to become a part of the show in 2018 and what they do for the holidays.

And it's extra fun because one of our co-hosts is from England.

So it was so fun to hear the differences or maybe more of the similarities of what their

Christmas is like there compared to here and all sorts of other fun stuff.

I hope you guys really enjoy the show.

And since it's such a long one one let's just dive right in with my

three new co-hosts lea bowden jody mckenna and aaron odom all right lea you're here you're a

co-host and i am so excited i am excited too here we are i know we're kind of we're kind of

friends in real life now, McKenzie, because

we got to hug and hang out in Nashville. So like I've seen you more than one day. Like two days

in a row. I've actually seen you in the flesh. You have. So yeah, we are no longer just distant

acquaintances. And I got to say, out of everyone

that I've met online, I think I probably thought actually meeting you in person was probably

fairly far-fetched because you're in England, but you were there in Nashville. I know.

And it was so far-fetched that I was in Nashville also. I mean, that was a real long shot. Well, that I went anywhere. I never go anywhere. Well, how great is that? I mean, it was amazing. It was so great to meet you. It was so good to just. And like, you recognized me and I recognize, like, it was like, oh, yes, we know each other.

I loved that.

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