Welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning

adjacent. And I am your host, Sarah Hart Unger. Today is a different kind of episode. I did promise

you an interview episode every month. And for January,

I wanted to bring on someone who had a really cohesive system, but with none of it on paper.

Since I do so much of my planning on paper, not all of it, mind you, but a lot of it. And sometimes

I get pushback about that. I wanted to offer another perspective. And I realized that someone that I actually

am kind of become real life friends with who I met through the blogging world, we text all the

time. She was right under my nose doing all of this elaborate planning in Google sheets,

in Google everything. That's not even correct. She's going to correct me because she's going to

describe this in detail. But welcome Kay Lopez to the podcast. Do you want to introduce yourself a little bit?

Yeah. Hi, Sarah. Thank you so much for having me. I am a huge, huge fan of yours, as you know, and

very honored to call you a real life friend now. Yeah, I am a mom to two boys. I have two teenagers. They're 14 and 15. And I work full time

from home as a nurse data analyst for a transplant program. And I'm pretty busy and definitely

need to use planning tools, a lot of which I have learned from you and otherwise. I've always

kind of been into that

sort of thing, but really over the past five years have kind of honed in my systems a little bit.

And really have leaned into the digital world, I'd say in the last two years, probably.

Yeah, so let's start with that. And by the way, yes, Kay has a ton going on. She has two

kids in multiple sports, plus her in high school. There's just a lot to coordinate. And then

her own full-time job is obviously a lot in and of itself. So we'll talk a little bit about,

you know, work and life integration and whether she does that or not. But first, can you tell us,

like, yeah, you mentioned that things have

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