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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I

interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any

advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Meredith Monday Schwartz to

Before Breakfast. Meredith is the CEO of Here Comes the Guide, a wedding website, and is one of the

brains behind the currently reading podcast. So Meredith, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you. I've

been reading your books forever and I love talking to you. Oh, I'm so excited that we can have

this conversation. So tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Well, as you said, I wear a couple of different hats.

So I am CEO of Here Comes the Guide.

We are 44 all women.

And so we are creating a company that we want to see more of in the world.

And we happen to be in the wedding space.

So I'm very, very busy there.

And then also I do currently reading, which is a podcast about books and reading. My partner, Katie Cobb and I have been doing that for eight seasons now. I had to stop and double check myself. We've been doing it for eight seasons now. And we just, it's the most fun to be able to talk about the books that we're currently reading, whether we like them, didn't like them, spicy opinions welcome. We just have a good time. So it's a lot to balance, but it's all things that are really meaningful to me. I love that. I love that. It's good to be busy in life with things that we enjoy. So I wanted to start with, here comes the guide, because you guys kind of came on my

radar many years ago. I know that you had transitioned to being a mostly remote company

prior to the pandemic. Now, a lot of people discovered that as a situation they had to in 2020,

but you guys had done that before that. So what led to that?

And how did that come about? So I have been at, Here Comes the Guide, actually, since I was 24 years old.

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