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Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. You can find out more about the podcast at cultivating thelovely.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.

Today's episode was so much fun for me to prepare for because unlike most of the episodes I do,

where I'm reading a lot

of nonfiction books which are great but they're nonfiction this time I actually got to read

some fiction to prepare for my interview with Kimberly Stewart it was so refreshing and so much

fun to read her chick flick romantic comedy kind of book. It was exactly what I needed at the end of the

summer, but I think that her books would be a great read any time of the year. I can't wait to get

my hands on some more of her work because it just helped me kind of get lost for a while and it was

so enjoyable. And even more fun really was getting to chat with her. She was so genuine and so kind-hearted. I loved being

able to do this interview with her. It really felt like we were just sitting down, getting to know

each other over coffee, and I hope you guys will really enjoy getting to listen in on this conversation.

But first, I did want to mention, if you haven't checked it out already, the same page podcast that we launched

last week is live and raring. It has just taken off. We are so excited by the reception. And if you

haven't checked it out yet, then we want to make sure that you get over there and you hear how much

fun we're all having. Just go to the same pagepodcast.com for more of the details, but you can also

find us on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. We would love to have you subscribe and get in there

and see what all the goodness is about. All right, ladies, without further ado, here is my interview

with Kimberly Stewart. Welcome, Kimberly. Thank you so much, Mackenzie. It's great to be here. I am so excited to have you

because I just finished your book Heartland last week and I ate it up. It was like the perfect end of

summer read. Oh, I'm so glad. Thank you. That's a huge compliment. Oh, it was so fun and just like

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