S4 Ep129: Summer Favorites with Chelle and MacKenzie
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week wraps up Season 4 of the Cultivating the Lovely podcast! And today MacKenzie has a fun conversation with her dear friend Chelle Bruzas about some of the things they’ve been loving this summer and how they are squeezing every last drop of goodness out of summer before it’s over. This episode is full of memories, book and show recommendations and simple things that are making Chelle and MacKenzie’s live a little better. So get yourself a glass of something cold, sit back and enjoy the chit-chat!
- Making summer memories together with their families at the lake and each other’s homes
- Keeping each other accountable to rest and recharge amidst a busy season
- Chelle’s favorite summer reads:
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Belgravia by Julian Fellows
- Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
- Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot
- The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith
- MacKenzie’s favorite summer reads:
- Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Do Less by Kate Northrup
- Start with Your People by Brian Dixson
- Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons
- When to Walk Away by Gary Thomas
- Chelle and MacKenzie’s summer watchlist:
- Chelle and MacKenzie’s simple summer meal solutions
- Favorite summer finds and hacks
- Australian Gold tinted SPF50 sunscreen
- MacKenzie’s upside down hair drying technique
- The CTL Morning Show is back in the Patreon community!
- Favorite summer listening:
- Extraordinary Magic by Ben Rector
- When the Battle Chooses You by Pastor Steven Furtick
- The Wally Show
- The Popcast
- The Big Boo Cast
- Fat Mascara podcast
- Hamilton soundtrack
- The Greatest Showman soundtrack
- A Star is Born soundtrack
You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!
Thanks to our sponsors-
Thanks to Plan to Eat for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. Visit PlanToEat.com/LOVELY to start your free 60-day trial instead of the normal 30-day trial.  Thanks to Policy Genius for sponsoring this episode of CTL. Go to PolicyGenius.com to find the right coverage for you and your family.  If you want more ways to interact with MacKenzie and other podcast listeners, get in on the daily CTL Morning Show, and ad-free episode audio, be sure to check out the Cultivating the Lovely Patreon community!Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | But we'd be looking at each other going, we are making memories. |
| 0:02.9 | Like, these kids are always going to remember this. |
| 0:05.3 | The best memories just seem like they happen to pop up in the middle of daily life. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:24.7 | You can find out more about the podcast at cultivating thelovely.com, |
| 0:28.7 | in our Yellowbrick Road membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:33.7 | and in our Facebook group. |
| 0:35.3 | I would also love to connect with you on Instagram, where you can find me at McKenzie |
| 0:39.5 | Kappa. |
| 0:40.2 | That's M-A-K-E-N-Z-I-E-K-O-P-P-A. |
| 0:45.5 | Ladies, it is the last week of season four of the podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | Can you believe we've made it through a whole other year? |
| 0:53.4 | It's just been amazing to see the |
| 0:55.1 | community that has grown up around this podcast and all of the ways that you ladies reach out to |
| 1:00.5 | me. I love interacting with you. And for this episode, I wanted to bring on one of my real |
| 1:05.0 | life friends again, Shell Bruises, who's actually going to be on the show a few times throughout |
| 1:09.4 | this season talking about different |
| 1:11.1 | things but we just wanted to do like a breakdown of summer a fun episode where we're talking |
| 1:15.2 | about our favorite things and what we think about summer and how this year is gone so that's |
| 1:19.7 | sort of what this episode is about but I just wanted to send you a big thank you I wanted to tell |
| 1:24.8 | all of you who listen to this show faithfully and tell your friends |
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