Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

My friend Fran in England is so awesome. She chose Let It Be Easy as a book club pick last year or the year before. I can't remember now.

And it's so funny, I was listening to her in her private book club podcast

recently, and she said something that I used to do that I want to do again. I used to do this as a kid. I

think it was a form of escapism for me, a way of feeling powerful, a way of, frankly, feeling a little happier and having fun and having

a good time no matter what was going on in the world around me. And my friends, it's simply this.

It is to pretend. Just pretend. So my friend Fran said something along the lines of, if she's got to

clean her kitchen, she'll pause some music, if she's got to clean her kitchen,

she'll put on some music, pretend she's a barmaid or a bartender, as we say in the US, and clean it up. Like, you know, she's working at a cool place and it's the end of the night. Sometimes whenever I'm meeting my husband or cooking for my husband, I'll pretend he's like a sexy stranger that I'm preparing a meal for, or that I'm

flirting with a man at the bar, and it just makes it dialed up and sexy and fun. And maybe you

have to run some errands today, and you've got to go to the vet, you've got to go to Zara to

return stuff, you've got to go to UPS. What if you pretend that a camera crew is following

you, following you around, like, you know, a day in the life of for your documentary one day?

Our imagination is the least utilized tool, the least utilized asset that we possess.

In fact, even just getting ready to shoot some videos today,

when I was putting makeup in the morning, I'm not meeting anybody, I'm just going to be at home

today and probably working out later. I thought, oh, what if I'm getting ready for something

really exciting? What if I was getting ready to go to tea with the queen? How would I be feeling

today? Or tea with Kate Middleton. What would I be doing?

Let me do my makeup, not just as a chore, something to get through. But how do I do it? Feeling good,

pretending almost is for something else, for something even more fun. Kids do this, don't they? Ever been to a tea

party with a kid? You get a croissant, you get a hot tea, you get a cake, you get a sausage roll, you get a sandwich. And obviously there's no food. There might be a plastic croissant, but yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, right? I used to pretend that I had a cafe. I used to pretend that I was a receptionist. When did that stop? The stuff that we have to do

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