Did you see? My new book Embrace Your Almost is officially out in the world, and I can't believe it's available to you.

Anywhere Books are sold, you can grab it from Amazon or Target or Burns and Noble or Books and Millions.

There's some special editions out there too. Target has an exclusive edition, Burns and Noble and Books and Millions both have signed editions.

And you can also get it at local independent bookstores. Anywhere Books are sold, you should be able to find it.

So if you are walking through a season of Unmet Expectations or Disappointment or Broken Dreams or Waiting or Uncertainty, this book will bless your life.

If you are not in one of those seasons, but you're just not entirely sure what's next for you, this book will bless your life.

And if you have a loved one or a friend or a sister who's walking through a season like that, who's dealing with Unmet Expectations or Broken Dreams or Uncertainty or Waiting, this book will be such a great gift for her or something to pass on to her.

So if that sounds like something you need or something a loved one in your life needs, grab a copy.

Grab a copy from Amazon, grab a copy from Burns and Noble, from Target, from Anywhere Books or Sold.

I cannot wait to hear what you think and I cannot wait to not only get this message in your hands, but also for you to pass on this message and share it because I believe it's more than a message, it's a movement.

So as you listen, as you go about your day, I would love for you to put it in order, grab a copy and start reading as soon as it arrives at your door.

Hey there and welcome to the first episode in this series that we are kind of inserting into the podcast.

Our regular scheduled programming is put on pause for a handful of weeks.

We'll come back to it. Don't worry. All the wellness stuff and the digital living stuff is all going to come back.

But I want to take a pause here and use this as an opportunity to really dive into Unmet Expectations and navigating those well.

The new book that I just released is called Embrace You're Almost and it's really meant to be like a survival guide through Unmet Expectations in life.

Whether those Unmet Expectations are really huge disruptions or kind of like long seasons of waiting or maybe smaller things that still disrupt your everyday life or just kind of feel like it inconvenience, whether that's getting diagnosed with something that maybe isn't like debilitating, but now you've got to do some work or see some doctors and it's kind of throwing off your plants for the season.

You thought you'd be traveling the globe or you'd be advancing in your career, but instead you've had to slow down because you've got to kind of take care of that or maybe it's something in your work or maybe it's a relationship in your life that is just kind of been this tension or this pain point and it's made it really difficult to enjoy the good things in your life because it just feels like this distraction or this frustration in the back of your mind.

Whether that's with a friend or a parent or a loved one of another, you know, different type of relationship, maybe that's the spouse or a significant other.

Whatever that may be, Unmet Expectations can take a lot of different shapes for all of us in different seasons and I think it's important to dig into how do we make the most of life even when it doesn't look how we'd like.

Even when there's something that feels off, even when there's something that feels disappointing, even when there's something that feels like it's out of reach, even when there's something that feels like I just can't figure this out, you know, so that's what we're going to dig into and in this episode specifically, I want to talk about the word success because I don't mean success just in the sense of like, you know, career success.

I just mean like a successful life and I think it's important to really explore this topic kind of foundationally and this is why this is chapter one of the book.

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