Hello, good morning and welcome back or welcome to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan, or

Alana. And today's episode is with the creator of Activations, Mimi Bouchard. I had the honor and

pleasure of interviewing Mimi for Morning Ray and getting to have a lovely

conversation with her all about activations and how it has really transformed her life and the way

she sees herself and being able to show up as her higher best version of her. I'm really excited to bring her on. But until then,

let's just do our little intro. Let's catch up. It's been a minute. I didn't upload an episode

last week. I was in Kingston with my boyfriend's family for the Jewish New Year,

celebrating that and celebrating my mom's birthday. And there was just so much going on. So I didn't have a minute to record an episode

or edit it to upload it. But as you guys know, making it a goal to upload at least twice a month

at minimum, hopefully the four times a month. So thank you so much for

giving me a little bit of grace and wiggle room here. But let's discuss some of our current

faves. I am back in my reading era. I wasn't really reading and I caught myself doom scrolling quite a bit.

And so I decided I'm going to break this habit. I spoke a little bit about this on TikTok ironically,

but I find the best way to break a bad habit or a habit you're not super proud of or want to keep

doing is to replace it with a better habit, one that you want

to replace it with. And so every single time I feel myself reaching for my phone, going on

Instagram or TikTok or social media, or just like opening apps, like my Gmail or anything

for the sake of opening and then closing them and just like being mindless on my phone

not using it intentionally i put it down and i've been keeping my kindle now glued at my hip i'm

currently reading the art of thinking clearly i had been reading a lot of fiction books and i hadn't read

a nonfiction book consistently or finished one in a hot second.

So I downloaded the art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelly and I'm about 20% in. I started this a

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