Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate, and thoughtful guests,

you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and

practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by

perfection. I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously. My goal is to

help you find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished

instead of overwhelmed.

Hello, friends.

I am really excited to bring this interview with Catherine Center, an incredible person and

talented writer, out of the locked archives.

She and I originally recorded this conversation five years ago.

We had just seen each other at a conference.

Her new book, How to Walk Away, had just come out.

And she has been top of mind because she has a new book called Hello Stranger Out.

And it's worth noting that there aren't many authors for whom I have read every single one of their novels,

and she is one of them.

But this conversation is about more than books.

It is about joy and optimism and the need to prioritize these things in life.

And I feel like we all need more of that. And in fact, on a recent

episode, I just was answering a listener question about quick mood boost. You can find that

mini edit in the catalog or the show notes for this episode. And I find every single one of

Catherine Center's novels, The Ultimate Mood Boost.

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