Hey y'all, happy Thursday. This is a bonus episode that I am beside myself to release. I sat down

with author Christy Nelson. She wrote the book Wake Up Grateful that I am utterly in love with.

I've gifted it so many times to my friends, family, and community, and I literally cannot wait

to be on virtual stage with her next week. We're going to be talking about all things grateful

living and there's a 50% off coupon code in this episode for you. I would love if you joined us

for the Wisdom 2.0 conference. It's a stunning event and I hope to see you there. Take a care and

enjoy this bonus episode with Christy Nelson of Wake Up Grateful. Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for

living. The Hey Girl podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind. Hey girl. Hey girl.

Hey girl. Hey girl. Join us as we journey through sharing together.

Hey girl. Hey girl. Hi, Christy. How are you today? I am just divinely aligned with this opportunity

and so happy to be with you. This is just, have an on earth right now. Oh my gosh. I feel the same

way. I mean, I've told you this already like Wake Up Grateful is just stunning collection of work

and I cannot wait to talk to you about it. But before we get started, please let the Hey girl listeners

know who you are and what you do. Well, I'm so many things to so many people in so many ways. Let's see.

So I live in Western mass, Christy Nelson, just turned 61 years old, feeling fabulous way

better than I was at 40. By the way, just was telling somebody that and I'm the executive director

of a network for grateful living and our website is gratefulness.org and we're all about being

grateful. So that's my work in the world. I'm just a, I'm really feeling so much gratitude today

just for this moment for the sunshine. Any little thing that I can be. So I want to start off with

how you opened your book and we're going to flow and talk about self-care and also talk about

gratitude and gratefulness and how they are different because that blew me away when I read that

new book. But you opened up the book talking about your journey with cancer and how that really

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