Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and this is Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This episode of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books has been sponsored by Nini's Treats, N-E-N-E-S treats, N-N-E-S treats.com,

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I'm thrilled to be here today with Beth Rickenatti, MD, who is a physician who built her medical

practice around bringing wellness into everyday life, especially for busy women juggling work,

children, and their relationships. I don't know anyone like that. Beth is the author of Braided,

A Journey of a Thousand Hollis, which is a memoir slash cookbook about her own quest for

wellness. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in art history, Beth earned

her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University of Medicine. She trained in New York

City at Columbia Presbyterian, Columbia Center for Women's Health and the Women's Health

Center at the Cleveland Clinic.

She currently lives in Santa Monica right by here with her husband and children where she brings

wellness to women wherever she goes. Her website is housecalls for wellness.com.

Her book is available for purchase on Amazon and wherever you find books. So welcome back.

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here this morning. Thanks for doing the double podcast and filming. This is a new little hybrid experiment,

so thank you. Absolutely. Taking part while our Hala is raising in the backyard, which is so fun to

have made it with you this morning. So in the introduction of

braided, you tell readers that you've been baking Allah almost every Friday for 10 years,

and in the book you answer the question why right away. And you say, because countless demands

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