Hello and welcome to the debut episode of How to Be Fine.

I'm Jolette Tegreenberg.

And I'm Kristen Meinser and we are so excited today because we are entering a new chapter

for this podcast feed.

That is right.

You might be here because you're subscribed to buy the book and you might be wondering

what is how to be fine.

Well, after living by self-help books for 10 seasons on By the Book, we're shifting

gears.

We are ending by the book and launching our new show How to Be Fine.

Today, right now, now don't worry.

All the old By the Book episodes stay on this feed so you can always hop into the archives

and listen to those episodes and we will probably reference them from time to time on

this show too.

Now since this is a big change, we want to tell you why we're launching our new show.

By the book launched six years ago and since then, we have lived by almost 100 self-help

books.

Oh my god, Jolette, that's so many books.

And it has been a wild joyful and yes, often challenging ride.

But we've been itching for a new project.

One where we can talk about a wider range of topics in the wellness space and the self-help

world, in the betterment universe and share all the self-help knowledge we've amassed

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