Welcome to season two of Live Well anyway. I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa, and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life. Basically, life is

messy and here we learn to live well anyway. So join me on this journey as we figured out

together. And just to get us started, I will go first. And ladies, today I really am going first.

It is the first episode of season two, which is technically my seventh year

of podcasting, if you have been following me since The Cultivating the Lovely Days. It feels crazy

that it has been that long, first and foremost. Man, his life changed a lot in the past seven years,

but I am so thankful to be where I am right here. And, you know, last year we

rebranded the podcast as Live Well anyway. And I really wanted to take off with this. But hi,

there was a pandemic. And my children were home from school all the time. And it just felt hard.

And I had a lot of imposter syndrome and started thinking like well what do I have to say to

these people because I don't know what I'm doing and you know what I still don't know what I'm doing

but I do think that I have some things to offer and I've learned a few things especially from

the years leading up to the pandemic, where I really

had to figure out how to live well, even in the midst of a lot of uncertainty, and we still have a lot of

that. You know, I think a lot of us have the pandemic and. We have obviously a ton of other things

going on in the world besides the pandemic, but we also have

all of our own personal things that we're all dealing with and we've all probably been

dealing with for a long time. For me, it's a lot of stuff with my kids and being in and out

of court still four years later and all of that kind of craziness that can just feel like,

holy moly, this is a lot.

But as I have talked with many, many people, especially in the last few months, the thing that I

keep hearing resounding with everyone is that they are tired of just getting by. They're tired of

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