Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. Everyone likes to tell me how toxic candles are. Like I can't post about a candle without being like, you would act like I'm spraying like gasoline in my home with the messages I get about candles. And respectfully, like, I just need you guys to just like let me have that. Like let me have my candle. I'm so sorry.

If you don't want to light them in your home, that's fine.

If candles are what takes me out, like that's what takes me out.

And Liz, your mom time off starts now.

Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with Kelly.

And Kate.

Co-host alert. Okay. Y'all, Kelly was like, hey, can you please help me? You know, Liz doesn't have child care. And I was like, Kelly, I have been waiting for this moment. Because you're on here as a guest. But I've been waiting my whole life for this. And I would have the pressures on because like when you're a guest, like, you know, you can kind of sit back relax.

Like it's up to me to ask the questions, keep the conversation going. We're equally responsible for keeping the conversation going. I don't have questions prepared for you. Like this is not, this is not necessarily a walk in the park. Yes. And really, like, I can't believe you said yes because the biggest thing that's changed since the last time we've talked is now you're in New York Times bestselling author. And like, I just couldn't believe you just, like, had a slot available. Like, don't you have, like, bestselling author things to be doing today? Like, that's just crazy. So, you're so grateful. You made the time. You would think, but actually you become a best-selling author,

and then you still, like, wake up and make your children's lunches and just clean your house

and do your laundry and all the things. So the book's been out now almost a month, almost a month.

Yeah. And I find it fascinating how I'm not tired of the content. Thanks.

Like, it's just, it's just like, it was, it was the pre-you were writing it. It was the pre-order.

It was the podcast. Now it's out. Now it's the book tour. Like, you're just keeping it so

fun and fresh. Are you enjoying author life? I am. This part is very fun.

Like, I'm really, really trying to soak it up. It almost reminds me of like when they're,

when you have your first baby and everyone is so excited and everyone wants the news. And then,

you know, no offense, but it's like, by the time you have your fourth they're like hey just text me like let me know yeah like they're not coming to the

hospital um I feel like this is my first and I'm just so like it's just never going to be this

exciting again like even if I were to write another book or do another book tour, like it just won't be this like excitement around the first one.

And so I'm really, really trying to soak it in as best I can while also being like equally

very tired during the process. I mean, everyone, I mean, I know a lot of people of my personal life who have now got

their hands on the book. Everyone's loving it. Is there? And if you haven't got it, you need to go order it. Because right now, it's instant gratification. Because you can probably just, like, get the audiobook right away. You could get the Kindle version right away. Or you can get on a day and a half on Amazon. So if you couldn't stomach the idea of like doing a pre-order,

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