Hi, everyone and welcome to Bout on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today is our January Three Things episode.

Olivia, I don't know that I've ever come to a Three Things episode with more robust notes than I have today. I don't know if that's for better or for worse, but I have, I have things. Wow, I'm looking forward to

hearing about them. But before we get to them, what's your high? Well, ironically, I have so many

notes on things and I don't, I don't have a specific high, which I feel like is a rarity. I feel like I

always come with a specific high. And I feel

really good. It's not that things are bad. I just, I don't have anything specific. It's been kind of

like a boring, calm start to the year in my personal life. I'm reading a lot of books, watching TV, working on my copy edits.

I don't know.

There's nothing bad.

I feel really good, but I couldn't think of anything specific to point to.

Well, that sounds good.

I feel like you're about to have a really busy time.

So just enjoy the chill weeks then.

Yeah, sitting in the calm before the storm of moving. What about you? What was your high this week?

My high is that Jake and I and two of our best friends went on a very, a sort of impulsive, sort of work-related, sort of relaxation-related trip to Hatteras

in the Outer Banks.

And I had had this idea of going there to do an interview for Little Pod.

And it was not really the most practical idea to travel for, you know, 11 hours each way by car in the three weeks

before my book comes out. But then I thought, I really want to do this interview. And I think

I need a moment to like reset, recharge, to just stare at the ocean and like really remind myself

of what's actually important to me

before I go through this really hectic process of putting a book out into the world and going on

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